Maximum 200 kg for the top bed; heard today during a very interesting day full of explanations about the california t6 and in particular the t6.1. Turns out that the t6.1 is a nice evolution of the t6 and, as we know, is completely different in terms of electronics
The differences were shown, but also where exactly things went 'wrong' with the first delivered t6.1s and also why (Volkswagen does not train the sellers and mechanics as before; now it is like: “this is the new model and that's it”). Control lights and incorrect diagnoses (in the beginning mainly software, but this should already be solved), oil fluid warnings (with the t6.1 the oil should not be higher than just in the middle between min and max, not more while with the t6 this was ok).
Of course the ‘heat immediately’ issues and what went wrong… mainly due to understandable, lack of knowledge because the system does work, but it is better to stay off it and use the heat continuously, they said there
You can use it e.g. to create direct heat when getting up, but do not keep pushing if it cuts out after a short time. It is best to drive afterwards because then the ‘counter of the number of times pushing’ will reach zero again and you can use the function again a few times (again up to the maximum number of minutes and I thought this is 180 minutes all together). Try to go over that maximum and the system goes into safety and is disrupted. Sometimes taking a ride helps to reset but most of the time it doesn't and you have to try to reset via fuses or pull out the blue cable in the fuse box on the steering wheel. This cable is difficult to handle. And now comes an example of the knowledge of CC Amersfoort in the Netherlands: they cut away a piece of plastic so that you can access this blue cable. Because of the cover everything looks clean
Then click the cable back on after a minute and you should have restarted the electronic system.
Also to manually lower the electronic-hydraulic roof, they remove a piece of plastic from the T6.1 under the piece that you have to remove, to get to the flat screw easier.
A few more facts: if you want to open the manual roof, do not mount anything on the roof because it won’t stay open. With the ocean: maximum roof load of 50 kg.
The car battery: connect from for example a jump starter the minus (black cable) to an engine mount (mass) but not at the minus pin on the battery or you will have damage (and meanwhile your Cali will no longer drive).
Also: how to get your spare wheel from under your cali and what to use.
Or about the battery and especially the household batteries (the rear two): these are charged while driving, but no longer as with the calis without start-stop because from then on the dynamo only charges a little from time to time but switches otherwise off and therefore does not charge your household batteries enough while driving. Every generation had to save more fuel to meet the emission standards, but this is a consequence of that. How to solve: the t6.1 with his nice but somewhat overly complicated control panel, has the function ‘maximum charging’. Push it and the fuel-saving shutdown system of the alternator (also the start-stop function) is disabled.
So I think it was very interesting; they gave a PowerPoint presentation and then explained everything next to several calis. We were a group of Belgian enthousiasts and the day was organised by a fbgroup. I know it is a bit of a long reaction for the max weight of the upper bed but I wanted to write this down. Many will know some of this but all I have written now was new to me and I liked getting the info and hopefully some of this is helpful to others.
Greeting
Calibusje
It looks and feels great!
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