Possl Campster User manual

Instruction manual
Campster - 12/20-0 - PSL-MJ21-00EN
© 2020 Pössl Freizeit und Sport GmbH, Ainring
Instructi on manual
Congratulations
We congratulate you on your new Campster and would like to thank you for choosing a quality product from
PÖSSL.
With a Campster from PÖSSL you always have the right travelling companion for every trip: Whether for a city
trip, a short excursion or your family holidays. The high quality standard and the large variability furthermore
enthral. Many useful details prove to be extremely practical when on the road making your holiday even more
relaxed.
Each PÖSSL vehicle is manufactured with great care and the quality is closely checked. This ensures that our
products have a long service life.
This instruction manual deals primarily with the aspect of living in your Campster. It will give you all important
information and tips so that you can enjoy all technical advantages of your Campster to the full. We have also
included a chapter on maintenance - and thus on the conservation of value.
In addition, you will find the documents on the base vehicle and the various built-in appliances.
For maintenance work or whenever you need some help, please always get in touch with your CAMPSTER
dealer. They know your caravan best of all and will meet all your requests fast and reliably.
We wish you a lot of fun with your Campster, a relaxing holiday and safe driving at all times.

Campster - 12/20-0 - PSL-MJ21-00EN
Instruction manual

Contents
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1Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1 Vehicle document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2 Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3 Inspection plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.4 Inspection records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.5 Inspection certificates for electrical ins-
pection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2 Environmental tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3 Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.1 Fire prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.1.1 Avoidance of fire risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.1.2 Fire-fighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.1.3 In case of fire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.2 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.3 Road safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.4 Towing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.5 Gas system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.5.1 General information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.5.2 Gas bottle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.6 Electrical system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.7 Water system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4 Before the journey . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.1 Payload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.1.1 Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.1.2 Calculating the payload. . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.1.3 Loading the vehicle correctly. . . . . . . . 19
4.1.4 Roof load. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.2 Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.3 Road safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5 During the journey . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.1 Driving the Campster . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.2 Driving speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.3 Seat belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.3.1 Using the seat belt correctly . . . . . . . . 23
5.4 Driver's seat and front
passenger's seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.5 Seating arrangement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.6 Operation of heater and cooker . . . . . 25
6 Setting up the Campster . . . . . 26
6.1 Handbrake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6.2 230 V connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6.3 Coolers (special equipment) . . . . . . . . 26
7Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
7.1 Flap for 230 V connection, square . . . 27
7.2 Ventilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
7.3 Heating and cooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7.4 Sliding door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7.5 Rotating the seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7.6 Bench seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
7.6.1 Converting the bench seat to the sleeping
position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.6.2 Converting the bench seat to the travelling
position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.6.3 Positioning the seats variably . . . . . . . 34
7.6.4 Possible seating arrangements . . . . . . 36
7.7 Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
7.7.1 Suspension table with fold-out leg . . . . 37
7.7.2 Suspension table with telescopic leg (opti-
onal). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
7.8 LED lighting strips under the bed. . . . . 39
7.9 Pop-up roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
7.9.1 Opening the pop-up roof . . . . . . . . . . . 40
7.9.2 Using the sleeping area . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
7.9.3 Mounting the falling-out protection. . . . 42
7.9.4 Panorama function in the pop-up roof . 42
7.9.5 Closing the pop-up roof . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
7.10 Kitchen unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
7.10.1 Removing and installing the
kitchen unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
7.10.2 Removing and installing the
kitchen unit mount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
7.11 Using the kitchen unit outdoors . . . . . . 46
7.11.1 Outdoor package 1
(special equipment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
7.11.2 Outdoor package 2
(special equipment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
8 Gas system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
8.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
8.2 Gas bottle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
8.3 Establishing the gas connection . . . . . 50
8.4 Changing gas bottles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
8.5 Gas isolator tap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
8.6 Automatic gas isolator tap . . . . . . . . . . 52
8.7 Remote gas switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
9 Electrical system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
9.1 General safety instructions . . . . . . . . . 54
9.2 12 V power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
9.2.1 Living area battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
9.3 Transformer/rectifier (EBL 119) . . . . . . 57
9.3.1 Battery cut-off switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
9.3.2 Battery selector switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
9.3.3 Battery monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
9.3.4 Charging the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
9.4 Panel LT 104 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
9.4.1 Read battery voltage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
9.4.2 Battery alarm for the living area battery60
9.4.3 12 V main switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
9.4.4 12 V indicator lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
9.4.5 230 V indicator lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
9.5 230 V power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
9.5.1 230 V connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
9.6 Fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
9.6.1 Main fuses 12 V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
9.6.2 12 V fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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9.6.3 230 V fuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
9.6.4 Fuse of remote gas switch. . . . . . . . . . 65
10 Appliances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
10.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
10.2 Diesel independent vehicle heater (spe-
cial equipment). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
10.3 Diesel independent vehicle heater opera-
ting panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
10.4 Gas cooker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
10.5 Coolers (optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
11 Sanitary fittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
11.1 Water supply, general . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
11.2 Water canister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
11.3 Waste water canister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
11.4 Water system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
12 Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
12.1 External care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
12.1.1 Washing with a high-pressure cleaner. 74
12.1.2 Washing the vehicle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
12.2 Interior care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
12.3 Instructions for care of the pop-up roof 75
12.4 Winter care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
12.4.1 Winter operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
12.5 Lay-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
12.5.1 Temporary lay-up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
12.5.2 Winter lay-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
12.5.3 Starting up the vehicle after a temporary
lay-up or after lay-up over winter . . . . 79
13 Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
13.1 Official inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
13.2 Inspection work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
13.3 Maintenance work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
13.3.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
13.3.2 Maintenance work at the pop-up roof . 80
13.4 Replacing LED lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
13.5 Spare parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
13.6 Vehicle identification plate . . . . . . . . . . 82
13.7 Warning and information stickers. . . . . 82
13.8 Changing tyres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
14 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
14.1 Electrical system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
14.2 Gas system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
14.3 Cooker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

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1Records
1.1 Vehicle document
We reserve the right to alter the construction, equipment and the scope of deli-
very. Special equipment is also listed that is not included in the standard scope
of delivery. The descriptions and illustrations in this brochure do not relate to
a particular version. For all details, only the respective equipment list is valid.
1.2 Warranty
1. The legal guarantee and product warranty rights apply for the vehicle.
2. It is advisable to present the vehicle for inspection by a CAMPSTER dealer
at the end of the first year in order to assert any warranty claims that may
arise. The presentation should take place 2months at the latest after the
anniversary of the initial registration (or delivery).
As proof that the inspection has been completed, the inspection has to be
confirmed on the corresponding page in this operating manual by a stamp,
the date and the signature of the respective CAMPSTER dealer.
3. The costs of the inspection are to be paid by the vehicle owner.
Vehicle data
Model:
Car manufacturer/type of engine:
Serial number:
Initial registration:
Purchased from company:
Key number:
Chassis number:
Customer address
Surname, Christian name:
Street, no.:
Postal code, town:
E-mail:
Dealer's stamp and signature

Records
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1.3 Inspection plan
We reserve the right to modify the inspection plan.
Pos. Component Activity Interval
1Fault current protection switch Function check with
every connection to the
230 V supply
Semi-annu-
ally
2Joints, hinges Lubricate Annually
3Cooler 1 and 2, heater, coo-
ker, lighting, storage flap and
door closures, seat belts
Function check Annually
4Pop-up roof Function check, water
ingress test
Annually
5Cushion Visual check Annually
6Sealing rubbers and joints Check for damage Annually
7Water supply Water ingress test Annually
8Hot-air system Function check, clean
fan wheel if necessary
Annually
9 Electrical system Function check Annually
10 Gas system Official gas inspection Every two ye-
ars

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1.4 Inspection records
Should it be determined during an inspection that additional work is necessary,
then the carrying out of this work is dependent on the customer commissioning
this to be done. Please also adhere to the service intervals stipulated by the
manufacturers of the individual equipment. Information is included in the
service documents enclosed.
Delivery
Date:
Signature and stamp of the CAMPSTER dealer:
1st year
Date:
Signature and stamp of the CAMPSTER dealer:
No defects found
Found defects:

Records
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1.5 Inspection certificates for electrical inspection
The entire 230 V system must be checked every three years by a qualified
electrician in accordance with VDE 0100.
3rd year
Date:
Qualified electrician's signature and stamp:
Entire 230 V system checked:
No defects found
Found defects:
6th year
Date:
Qualified electrician's signature and stamp:
Entire 230 V system checked:
No defects found
Found defects:

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2Introduction
Please read this instruction manual completely before
using the vehicle for the first time!
Always keep this instruction manual in the vehicle. Also inform all other users
of the safety regulations.
This instruction manual contains sections which describe model-
specific equipment or special equipment. These sections are not
specially marked. It may be that your vehicle has not been fitted with this
special equipment. In some cases, the actual equipment of your vehicle
may therefore be different from that shown in some illustrations and
descriptions.
However, your vehicle may be fitted with other special equipment not
described in this instruction manual.
Special equipment is described when an explanation is required.
Adhere to the instruction manuals which are separately enclosed.
Should the vehicle be subjected to damage due to a failure to follow the
instructions in this instruction manual, then the warranty claim is deemed
invalid.
Our vehicles are subjected to continuous development. Please understand
that we reserve the right to alter the form, equipment and technology.
Therefore, no claims can be made against the manufacturer as a result of the
contents of this instruction manual. The equipment which was known and
included at the time of going to press is described.
The reprinting, translation and copying, including extracts is not permitted
without prior written authorisation from the manufacturer.
The non-observance of this symbol can lead to personal injury.
The non-observance of this symbol can lead to damage being caused to,
or inside the vehicle.
This symbol indicates recommendations or special aspects.
This symbol indicates actions which lead to environmental awareness.
The details "right", "left", "front" and "rear" always refer to the vehicle in
direction of travel.
All dimensions and weight details are "approximate".

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2.1 General
The vehicle is constructed in accordance with the latest technology and the
recognised safety regulations. Nevertheless, personal injury may result and
the vehicle may be damaged if the safety instructions in this instruction manual
are not followed.
Depending on the configuration, the first-aid kit and hazard warning triangle
are not included as standard. Equip the vehicle with a first-aid kit and hazard
warning triangle before using it for the first time.
Only use the vehicle in a technically impeccable condition. Follow the
instructions in the instruction manual.
Malfunctions which impair the safety of persons or the vehicle should be
immediately remedied by qualified personnel. To avoid further damages,
observe the duty to avert, minimise or mitigate loss for the user during faults.
Have the vehicle's braking and gas systems inspected and repaired by an
authorised specialist workshop only.
Alterations to the body are only to be carried out with the authorisation of the
manufacturer.
The vehicle is designed for the exclusive transport of persons. Luggage and
accessories may only be transported up to the maximum permissible gross
weight.
Observe the test and inspection periods stipulated by the manufacturer.