About : standard furniture essex white
Title : standard furniture essex white
standard furniture essex white
hi everybody! tom langland here with rvtexasyall.com. and behind the camera is stacie langland. [stacie: hey y'all!] we're here at camping world of katy it's oni-10. sorry for the road noise. we thought we'd come out here because theycalled us and let us know they have a brand new 2017 thor tuscany xte 40dx [ ax ]. theyjust recently got it in. it's a diesel pusher by thor.
the xte model is next to the top for the thordiesel pushers. just the tuscany is the top of the line. then the xte is the next down. this is a non-tag axle so this is their shorterof their xte. it's about from the name it's about a 40 footeri guess non-tag axle. so we thought we'd show you around the outsideright now and then we'll swap and stacie will show you the inside. come on around. well real quick, on the front it's all ledlighting and stuff on the front.
so great lighting. up here you have big huge side mirrors andintegrated in the mirrors are the cameras down the side. so when you put the turn signal on you'reseeing down the side where you're going which is nice. so you can see if there's any cars down theside before you change lanes. very nice. the there's a fuel fill on here so this coachhas i'm pretty sure dual fuel fills on each side. you can fill.
and then all these bays here this is a bigstorage bay which doesn't go through. but other than this you'll see that theseothers are pass-through storage. so and this one has if i knew how to do it...there we go. comes out they give you a couple of extratiles that go on the inside. [stacie: it's really big] yeah it is big. and then the bay next to it you can see itfrom here i'm not going to open that door. but it's a pass-through. it just doesn't have a shelf on it. so that gives you they do one without theshelf because it gives you a little more capacity
because obviously the shelf takes up someroom. okay also on the slide here is a nice tv outdoortv. it's a sony so nice brand. also all this is kind of high right now becausethey the air is in the suspension. when they leveled this coach here for us theydidn't let the air out of the suspension so it's sitting up quite a bit higher than itnormally will at a campground. you normally will let the air out of yoursuspension and then level the coach. so if you'll see the coach next to us herethis is what they did there so it's a lot lower.
you can see. another feature i wanted to show you thati didn't show you it does have an awning over the door and it's a lighted awning which isreal nice. you can bring that awning out and it's lighted. also it's a lighted led lighted awning onthe outside but what's neat about this awning here on the tuscany xte is it's on the slideitself. it's not on the coach so you get the fulldistance of the awning. your slide won't take up 20% of your shadearea. so that's good that's a fantastic feature.
another thing i like about this one is thetv is dead center of this awning. so that will help you so the sun won't effectyou watching your tv. on those football days when the game startsat 12 you might be in trouble about that sun in your tv but not with that awning like that. i guess this is your fresh water fill righthere. take that off you can fill up your fresh watertank. back here towards the back of the coach isyour chassis batteries. so they're easy to maintain. they're right there.
these are heavy duty doors by the way too. they shut well. they're thick. back here you have your inverter for the inside. you have an inverter because you have a residential refrigerator and stuff on the inside. so you'll have house batteries. on the back this is powered by a cummins diesel360 horsepower so pretty good size motor for a 40 foot diesel. and i'm not positive about the towing capacity.
i'm guessing it's probably about a 10,000pound hitch but i'm not sure. it may be 15,000. so that's that. as we come around to the other side righthere is where your electric power is. another very nice feature it has a surge protectorin there. so it's a built in surge protector. and it looks like you have room in there thatif you wanted to add your own electric cord reel you probably could. but it doesn't have one that comes with it.
oh i saw something else. there's your house batteries in here. and they come with a system that you onlyhave to fill they're all kind of interconnected if you can see so you only have to fill onearea to put water in it because they are maintenance those are maintenance needed batteries. here's your def fill. all diesel pushers now i think after the year2007 require def and that's where you fill that. you only have to fill it about once every4 or 5 fill-ups on the coach normally.
in here's where all your hookups pretty muchare. this is where you'll dump your grey and blacktanks. you actually have a propane shutoff here whichi haven't seen on any other coach. that's kind of nice. water pump on and off out here. that's nice to have out here in case you aren'tat a place where you have hookups but you want to get your outside shower going andyou don't have normal hookups. so you turn your water pump on so you canget access to the water. you have good access to your water filtrationsystem on the outside.
and obviously you have a black tank flushright here. this is where you can put antifreeze and stufffor winterizing. again your black and grey tank flush downthere and i'm trying to see where your water comes in here. i guess it is right here. that's where your city water does come inhere. okay. so they're just saying when you winterizeit that's where you go through there. but this is where you would hookup to yourcity water right there.
and that tells you whether you're using yourtanks or your city water. all of these are again the pass-through. you'll see the one here how much more roomyou have. there's your dirt devil right there whichis the vacuum cleaner for the inside which is awesome. we have that on our palazzo and it's verynice. [stacie: we added it when we bought the palazzo]we added it. that's right it wasn't standard. and again this and you can bring this slideout tray this way like i did the other way.
it goes both ways. so that's a storage bay again. and then right here is just you know justsome of your fuses and stuff. i don't know [stacie: hydraulics] yep. and your what's interesting is i don't knowif stacie can get it but on this coach the propane tank must be somewhere under therebecause here's the propane fill. and it's not in either of these bays and sothis is where you can fill up your propane tank right here. so the tank must be under the coach somewhere.
so at least it doesn't take up your storagespace. [stacie: this is a totally different kindof slide than what we have] yeah the slides are different. they're hydraulic. they've gone to all hydraulic slides now andthen this is your other fuel on the other side. and the tires are michelin tires which arethose are top of the line tires. of course on these big heavy diesel pushersit's nice to have the best. so and they are they're hydraulic jacks [hemeant hydraulic slides] they went to the hydraulic
i think in 2016 it may have been 2015 butof course the year after we bought it. but we've had no problems with ours. ours have been fine. so that kind of concludes the outside portionand now we'll switch and stacie will show you the inside. hey y'all now we're going to go inside this2017 thor palazzo xte [she meant to say thor tuscany xte]. again it is the 40 ax model. one thing i would point out this door is prettyheavy duty and you do have 2 locks on it including what really works like a standard deadboltlock instead of a traditional rv lock which and you do have the screen door which youcan separate and just if it's a nice day and
you want to leave your door open and get somebreezes in you've got the screens to keep the bugs out which is nice. so come on in let me show you the inside. okay so now we're coming inside the thor tuscanyxte and one thing i want to show you. you can probably still hear the road noisebehind me because we are right on interstate 10 just west of houston and it is a saturday. although it's always busy. but when i close this door all that road noisegoes away. so it's pretty impressive.
this coach obviously has a good deal of insulationto keep the traffic noise and just the general campground noise out so you can have a nicerelaxing stay inside. you've also got all of your switches here. you can turn on all of your lights, you kitchenlights, living lights, cargo lights on the bottom outside. you can run your awnings, your awning lights. everything from right here. and you can also where i'm standing rightnow in this stairwell this is typical for your larger diesel pushers where they've gota front entry and it's right here at the passenger
seat. so when you're in camping mode and you'reusing the stairs its open like this. but when you're driving you don't want yourpassenger to have dangling legs so with the push of a button there's actually a coverthat slides across right here and goes to the door to make this a flush floor whichis nice. now we'll come up here. the front shades here are motorized. you've got 2 shades. the one you can see here the black one isactually a solar shade.
that helps to keep the heat out during thesummer. and then you've got a white one behind itwhich is similar to what you see on the sides here. and those are privacy shades to keep you obviouslyprivate. in the front here this is your screen foryour gps as well as your cameras on the exterior so as you're driving you can see what's aroundyou. you've also got your radio functions and everythingthrough that. you've got your typical diesel pusher controlsin the front including your leveling jacks and your allison transmission controls.
this is on a freightliner chassis. these 2 seats also in the front will turnaround so when you're parked and camping it gives you an additional seating area. and the passenger seat it looks like has areclining feature so you can put your feet up which is nice. the driver seat does not. you've got various controls and storage upin the front here. you also have map lights for your passengeras well as cup holders obviously. up in here is where blu-ray control, yourwinegard control for your satellite dish those types of things are.
and then as you come in you'll see you haveopposing slides so it gives you a lot of space here in the middle. it really feels roomy. on this side you've got recliners with cupholders. and you've got a little bit of storage inhere for your remote controls and things like they do have seat belts on them so someonecould sit here and ride. and they're very easy you don't have to manhandlethem to get them to come out into the reclining position. and they're pretty comfy. on this side this bed would be a jack-knifecouch it appears that would fold out into a bed.
you've got good windows on the non-campingside. you've also got a good you know a nice decentwindow on this side. all these windows do open. they're the kind of windows like what we havein our coach which i really like because they open at an angle. so if you have your windows open and it startsto rain it's really no big deal. we've had that happen to us before. the rain just rolls off. it does not come in.
you've got good storage up above. these are huge. this is actually one big cabinet up here. you've got your kitchen area. there's a sponge drawer and then look at thesize of these drawers. this is kind of crazy. you could fit a ton of things in these kitchendrawers. your sink is a 2-sided sink. these are very light and easy to move andactually there's a place to store them right underneath.
[tom: solid surface countertops] solid surfaceall of this is solid surface. you've got more storage up in here. and what i like is they do have adjustableshelves in here and the shelf does have a lip on it. so it really gives you a lot more flexibilityon how you use this cabinet. and things aren't just going to fall out asyou're traveling down the road which is nice. and they close really nice. down below you've got additional storage. and then when you come over here this is awhirlpool microwave convection oven.
it is residential size. then you've got a propane 3-burner cooktopright here. it's an atwood. and then this is kind of nice. underneath they've given you drawers whichslide out. so easy storage easy access. you don't have to try to dig around underneaththere. coming back here you've got a whirlpool refrigeratorwith ice and water in the door. and this easy latch.
on ours right now our refrigerator we havea little screw we screw in to make sure the doors don't open as we're driving down theroad. it works fine but it's a little bit of a pain. this is super simple. you come back here you're driving you wantsomething to drink or something. you just flip that switch. and look how big this refrigerator is. i mean and i will tell you right now todayis hot this feels really good. but it's a huge refrigerator and freezer.
before we leave this area i'll show you thisother side. you've got another tv or a tv right here. you've got a tv right here which it's a sonywhich is nice but it really doesn't make much sense because you except for maybe your captainschairs turned around you really don't have anything facing this. so you see this in a lot of rvs but i don'treally understand it. nonetheless you've got a tv right here. you've got your dining room here. this does pull out and it comes with 2 additionalchairs.
so if you wanted to sit 2 more people youcould. one thing is is the slide on this this hasa fairly decent size slide but it's flush. you don't step up into the slide. it's even with the floor of the coach whichis nice. you have a big work space here, more windowsand a bunch of storage between down low and the uppers. and then above your this is what i reallywanted to show you above your couch here which turns into sleeping you have a big windowbut you also have a televator. which is your main tv on a rise basically.
it comes out when you need it. so you've got a brain system right here. thor has added this for 2017. and you can actually operate your entire coachfrom here. you can see your fresh, grey, black and gaspropane gas levels. you can work your water heater. you can turn on your lights, off your lights,your slides, your vents, everything, your ac units, all from right here. and one of those things that you can operateeven your cargo lights down below is your
tv. you can say tv lift up and your large tv rises. so then you've got your large tv when you'reready to watch it. and when you don't want to watch it when youwant the view and when you're ready to travel just lower it back down. that makes a lot more sense to have a tv herewhen you've got your recliners on this side looking directly at it. and also your passenger seat if it's turnedaround would have a good view of it as well. another thing i want to point out is the exceptfor right over here underneath the dinette
there is no carpet in this unit. everything is tile so it makes it really easyto clean. and then your heating ducts are not in thefloor. they're up on the side so you're not goingto have dirt falling down into your heating ducts which is nice. this is a 50amp coach. you've got one ac unit right here. it's ducted so you've got the ducts throughoutthe coach. and then if you come back to the back on theway we'll show you this is a bath and a half
unit. so here's your half bath. you do have some storage in here and you'vegot a little bit of storage down below. these are the fancy push button toilets. you've got your pantry right here which isnice. everything is very easy to access. you don't have to dig around in the back ofa cabinet. there are 2 of these. you can carry quite a bit of stuff and easilyaccess it.
and then coming back into the master bedroomyou've got some closet space here with some drawers. and also this is an adjustable shelf thatyou can take out and move down. you can hang things here if you like. you've got additional buttons for your generatorstart, ceiling lights, bedding lights things like that, master lights right here on thiswall. and then a bunch of storage down below. and these drawers even though they're in theslide they're decent size. especially the ones on the bottom.
you can really fit a lot of clothes in thatwhich is nice. so many of these once you get into the slidesthe drawers are tiny. but this one they've used it well. this is another sony tv back here in the bedroom. it flips up for additional storage. and it's also got a dvd player back in here. you've got another ac unit right up here inthe bedroom. and i will say you know you can hear the acsbut they're not extremely loud like they are in our 2014 the palazzo the acs can be prettyloud.
this one you don't hear it near as much whichis nice. the bed comes up super easy. i don't even know why i used 2 hands on that. and you have some additional storage downunder the bed. it is on the hydraulics. and it is a denver mattress. so pretty comfy. looks like a king size bed. you've got speakers up above the bed as welladditional storage for linens and things like that.
you do have some side tables on each sideespecially on this side. and then you've got some storage some skinnystorage down under here. but on each side you also have usb plugs forplugging in your cell phone and your mobile devices. now another thing i want to point out aboutthis particular unit that we noticed right away there is no step up on the side of thebed or to get into the master bathroom. the entire floor back to front is level whichis nice. especially if you're clumsy like me. in the master bath you've got a sink areasingle sink area with storage underneath. you've got another fancy push button toilet.
and you've got a large closet area. i should say there's 3 fans in this unit andthey are all fantastic fans which is nice. you've got push button fuses back in herewhich is great instead of the little disposable ones. quite a bit of storage this is also whereyou'll find your connections to the vacuum cleaner and the extra seats for the diningroom. and then back here you've got a stackablewhirlpool washer and dryer. now i will tell you we have a stackable washerand dryer in our 2014 palazzo. and when we got it i thought eh it's niceto have just in case.
we have actually used it a lot. it's nice to have. so and i like that this is right here it'sin the master bathroom. it's not in the way of anything. it's not in the hallway. it's not over the toilet. it's a really good placement right by thecloset which is nice. and then you've got your shower. i will say i'm a little disappointed in thislatch right here.
it seems like it could be a little bit moresubstantial. but the shower itself is roomy enough. you have some little shelves for things andi'm about 5'6" and a half 5'6" 5'7" somewhere in there and it is above my head. so for the average person i think most folkswould probably fit. and then i guess the last thing i would pointout is you do have some night lights down on the floor. there's one here and there's also one in thehalf-bath which is nice for the night. and then you've got wooden doors that separatethe master bath and the bedroom and then the
bedroom from the rest of the unit. they slide really smooth and nice and lockinto place for traveling. so i think that's it. feels like well i'm not sure [tom: they'reled lights] are they led lights? [tom: yes] okay so led lights throughout whichis nice. it saves you on power. so that's it for this edition rv tours fromrvtexasyall.com. thanks for joining us. i hope you enjoyed this tour of the 2017 thortuscany xte. [trailer begins] thanks for watching
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see you next time] bye!