The bimobil demountable System

Enjoy the freedom of driving around without the habitation cabin! Keep the perfect overnight spot reserved by safely leaving the habitation cabin and going off on your excursions with the pickup alone. Use the pickup as a second car at home, with or without a hard or soft-top as a transport vehicle. The bimobil demountable system makes the vehicle incredibly versatile – change it
quickly and use it as a motorhome, a car or a van as and whenever you like.

bimobil cabins are mounted directly onto the chassis instead of slotting into the load-bed, giving you:

• Utilisation of the full cabin width at floor level. More living space, more storage space, and access from the sides – both for the storage lockers and for the entrance door, which allows the popular rear opening tailgate (see picture page 10 – optional on layouts with the rear seating group).

• The possibility of putting a hatch or passage between the driver cab and the living area, which would otherwise be blocked by the loadbed wall.

• Easier mounting and demounting of the cabin, because the vehicle does not have to be centred and straightened perfectly to slide the cabin between the pickup load-bed walls.

• Much lower centre of gravity and therefore much better road holding characteristics provides a smoother ride, because the heavier equipment such as water tanks, gas bottles, refrigerator and cargo are placed at chassis level and not above the load-bed side walls.

• Safe and rigid fixing of the cabin to the vehicle chassis, provides excellent road holding and handling.

• Not having the load-bed weight with the habitation cabin gives you a higher payload.

The original vehicle load-bed is removed from the pickup, but can be fitted with a demountable frame, so that the motorhome can be converted back to a fullyfledged pickup at any time. A small crane (available as an accessory) can be used to facilitate mounting and demounting the load-bed. Hard or soft tops fitted to the load-bed do not normally have to be removed when mounting or demounting.

Mounting and demounting the cabin can be done easily even by one person alone. A team of two will take 15-20 minutes and with practice this can be achieved in around 10 minutes! To demount, just undo the four bolts that hold the cabin onto the chassis, unplug the electrical hook-up and raise the cabin by winding down the integral jacks on each corner of the cabin until the vehicle can be driven out from underneath. The habitation cabin can then be lowered to a comfortable height for habitation. The jacks are sturdy and maintenance-free, and the cabin is designed to be lived in while standing on the jacks.
Remounting the cabin is the same in reverse order. The self-centring rail system on the demountable frame means that the vehicle does not have to be manoeuvred into position too precisely for correct alignment of the fixing bolts. The open chassis contains moving parts and would be dangerous if left exposed, so the Bimobil demountable chassis is fitted with an aluminium flat bed with lights and number plate mounting so that the vehicle can be used on the road legally without the cabin or the vehicle load-bed fitted.

The demountable system can also be fitted to other types of body than the load-bed, converting the pickup to a specialised work/trade vehicle if desired.

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Mounting and de-mounting in general

Mounting and demounting the cabin can be done easily even by one person alone. A team of two will take 15-20 minutes and with practice this can be achieved in around 10 minutes!

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Demounting the cabin

To demount, just undo the four bolts that hold the cabin onto the chassis, unplug the electrical hook-up and raise the cabin by winding down the integral jacks on each corner of the cabin until the vehicle can be driven out from underneath. The habitation cabin can then be lowered to a comfortable height for habitation. The jacks are sturdy and maintenance-free, and the cabin is designed to be lived in while standing on the jacks.

Mounting the cabin

Remounting the cabin is the same in reverse order. The self-centring rail system on the demountable frame means that the vehicle does not have to be manoeuvred into position too precisely for correct alignment of the fixing bolts.