Video Tour of Volkswagen Rialta RV
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- This video was taken on our 1st Anniversary of living full time in the Rialta, in April of 2013. We ended up living in the Rialta full time for over 3 years, blogging about our experience at www.DonNiemyer.com, traveling in it to 45 states, and ultimately were inspired to create the world's first Tiny House Coffee Shop, which is now open in Colorado Springs. See more information on that at www.StoryCoffeeCompany.com. We now live in a 1 bedroom apartment only 3 blocks away from our coffee shop and, sadly, our little Rialta is no longer with us. We loved it so much, though, and assume we will get another one at some point. Enjoy the tour!
One of the better (if not the best) RV video tours. It goes to show how important a little bit of editing is. Cutting out all the umms and ahhs and goof ups! An efficient look at your lifestyle. Very impressed with how much electricity you don't use.
Thanks for sharing.
Excellent video - I learned a lot from it Thank you taking time to share your experiences.
I have learned in life to never say never. Love ur video.....enjoy ur family time....it becomes fleeting as everyone grows up.
Hello,
first of all, Congratulations on the one year milestone!
I also want to thank you all for your sharing of y our experience in the Rialta.
I have been searching on the internet for one to buy, ( or a Safari Trek).
So when I found you and your doing a great job of showing us how to do it right, I knew that if a 4 person family could do it then I know I can do it with just me :-)
Now I am on the look out for a Rialta.....
Thanks again,
Dwight
Thanks for the excellent video tour. I have the 98 Rialta with the same floorplan. Use for camping only. Love it.
Great video! Saw another one and they didn’t show how the bathroom converts. Changed my opinion to the positive to see the extra space.
This is the best tour of a campervan I've seen on utube.I couldn't believe just 13 dollar's a month on propane.stay safe and be lucky in your crazy country,pp UK.
Excellent video of your Rialta RV. Thanks for the tour. Really appreciate your creative use of space.
Thank you for showing me this tour it is very informative! 👌
awesome video, beautiful family.
Thank you Don for your excellent presentation.
Great tour. I really enjoyed the detailed explanations of everything. Plus all your things were so neat and orderly!
excellent video.
Thanks, very helpful, we have been looking at Rialta's and were wondering some of the things you explained for us.
Great video! Thanks so much for showing us everything!
Thank you for this informative video. Your girls are lucky to have such adventuress, intuitive parents. Wish your family the best of luck.
Great video.
Love the idea of the magnetic strips & especially removing the air conditioning unit exchanging it 4 a sky-lite!
Very smart : )
It's 2018 I would love to see how your family is doing 5 years later~
We have to get water by using a hose through an outdoor faucet. Sometimes at a friend's house or at any place with potable water. The Rialta gets about 18 mpg on the highway (ours is the 6 cylinder - some only have 5 cylinders). We don't use a composting toilet, but just dump our black tank in a dump station at an RV park.
Hey, thanks for showing off your home. I happened to see a Rialta on the road today while driving through the Appalachian Mtns. and just had to look it up when I got home - that is how I found you. I love how much space is dedicated to windows and your skylight idea makes it even brighter...something I won't give up. Thanks! Hope you are still traveling in it. If not, please post about that decision.
Great video. Thanks so much for sharing
Great Video.!! .. Great Set Up.. . Minimal is the way to go.!!
Thank you very much for your video. We are impressed by your solutions, ideas and your perseverance> Very impressed by Your Family.
Wishing you success.
Nice job
well done. great inspiration. thanks for the tour!
Thanks for sharing,
Phenomenal Video ... I would never think you could have a family of 4 living in such tiny quarters (without going nuts). You must be in moderate climates where you don't experience extremes of heat where you'd roast in there ... or, like tonight on the East Coast (NJ), it's 17 degrees. I had a VW Vanagon years ago. It was the largest camper VW produced. 4 cylinders .. with a strong wind behind you, you could almost whimper along in the slow lanes ... Loved it.
Really enjoyed your explanation ... Heard about Rialtas, mostly that they were expensive. Didn't know there was a VW chassis beneath it. ... Again, thanks.
I will be getting an RV soon i hope, but I can't wait to be a minimalist!
I just stumbled upon this while looking up Rialta as I didn't know what it was haha and was glad to learn it's a type of Arab and as the owner of a Jetta I like how the Rialtas are designed and how life can be enjoyed on the road in them. Great video and thanks! If you got more road trip videos I'll def watch them too. I Really enjoyed! I might try the life on the road one day too
Nice tour!!
cool. Thank you.
BTW - you are an excellent speaker.
I finally bit the bullet and ordered my 2002 Rialta QD the other day. I'm sorry I procrastinated so long. It will be ready in a few months!
you have a great life! thanks for sharing.
Thank you. Excellent demonstration
Awesome way of living.
Good thing your short!. I had one given to me. I'm 6'5 and the roof is 6'. I cut the top off and raised it up.
Where did you have the roof cut off? I' 6'4". You still have your Rialta?
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It is 2021. Do you still have it? Your girls are teens so I doubt it. Bet they look back and remember all the fun they had in nature.
Awesome looking Rialta RV. I'd buy one myself if I had someone to share in the experience. 🙂
Love your Volkswagen Rialta RV and your video. I told my husband that I would love to live in an RV instead of this apartment, our rent is too too high for a 2 bedroom $1,550 in the Bronx N.Y. anyways wishing you the best lots of luck and GOD bless. :-)
I have been in mine for a year and a half .its the most well engineered vehicle I have owned ( for its purpose ) . I have gotten great fuel mileage from 17-20 mpg ( best was 22.63 mpg round trip of 350 miles) Keep in mind I am retired and don't get in a hurry. it drives like a mini-van and parks easily. I would not take $10,000 profit on it .
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Very nice video. Thank you.
Thank you for thé tour i just bought a rialta and i wasn’t able to figure out how to make thé second bed :)
Me too. Tyvmm
I love my Rialta too! I have the same floor plan as well. The only thing I do not like about it, is not the size, but the carrying capacity. Do you think so too?
I love the minimalist aspect. I try my best to live that way as well. I want to be a full time RV'er someday. Probably not going to have a family with me, maybe a wife but that'd be about it so a Rialta would be a great amount of space for two. What does your family do for income? Also, do you pull a vehicle behind your RV or is your Rialta all that you have?
During the time we've lived in the Rialta we've had a couple different businesses. My wife is a doula, for awhile we owned a coffee shop (before we left Portland) and now we do coffee consulting. And we don't pull anything behind us.
so sweet!
thank you so much
thank you so much
this is what I needed to no.
Thank you.
Nevermind I just got to that point in video. Thanks
Thanks for posting the video Niemyer. Is it hard to get maintenance done, this being a VW and all?
Awesome!
Great video, thanks. Im looking at buying a rialta here in the UK. Im six foot two! How do you think Il cope?
Recommend a fuse at battery for that inverter! Other than that, love it!
Good video! thanks. Only comment is that it doesn't matter the gauge of the cables to the inverter if the final wires are only 10 gauge . Better to put lug connectors on the heavy cables and attach directly . No solar panels?
You put 1000 potential amps of power into 1 gauge wire un-fused under your sleeping girls. Instant fire that cannot be put out once it shorts out against the chassis ground. Please change those wires to a fused or breaker lead off of the deep cycle batteries now. Wow.
And the heavy gauge wire should be connected to the inverter, not spliced to a 16 gauge wire.
When I saw that, I was kind of surprised. I mean, he did say he didn’t know much.
@@KingBorris I wasn't trying to flame the guy. However safety is not negotiable. Rather have some people mad at me than someone die I a horrible way.
it gets about 18 mpg on the highway, but we do have the 6 cylinder (older ones only have 5 cylinders)
Great video!! Do you have a website of your travels or more videos??
just seen your video thanks. noted you have not put out any recently. how r u and your family making out? update please. R u still out there?
Spray with white vinegar fo odors. nice setup.
very good job i have a lesharo- an older model, thanks
Lovely looking Volkswagen Rialta motorhome. Do you still have it today?
2013 toy guys were doing it....
Any updates?
Hi ! I have a 2001 Volkswagen Rialta everything is in great condition. Was running great now has a shifting problem. Any Ideas?
Thank you for this informative video. It was very helpful. I've wanted to buy a Rialta for some time, but I am just afraid of finding a lemon. Do you have a reliable source that could put me in the Rialta QD? Thank you. Brenda
I'm considering one of these. Just found some RV land for sale in PA. The land only has electric no water. How do you get water? Do you use a composting toilet?
what kind of fuel milage does it get . Ya do you have a website if not post more you tube videos of your travels
How have you and the family been doing in the RV?
You were doing it almost a decade ago... Any updates???
After the last few months I bet you wish you still had it. Especially since you will probably need to start living in one again soon.
Have you thought of solar panels to help run your electricity?
How do you live out of this and work for a living?
we have to fill up with water at an outdoor faucet with a hose
2019. Where are you now video?
very impressive presentation. I have six children and all the trappings of an excessive american lifestyle. huge house with wasted space. Too many cars etc. This seems appealing at times.
How are your children receiving their education?
Just fyi, those do not look like AGM batteries. Non-AGM batteries are hazardous to your health due to fumes and are not supposed to be kept in the interior. Nonetheless, thanks for the video; we enjoyed watching it.
Why?
how is the fuel mpg?
We get about 18 unless we're climbing a lot of mountains.
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Show us on a rainy cold morning, where's all your stuff ?
Don't travel to SE USA in the Summer without A/C. Phew
Your right u would die without ac!
I have been looking at used Rialtas. Some have around 100,000 miles. Do you feel like a Rialta will last up to 200,000 miles?
***** Thanks for the information. Do you think the 2002-2005's motor would be more maintenance free or was your Riaitas on of the RV's with then newer engine?
I bought my 2005 Rialta in December 2004 and have almost 180,000 miles on it and it still runs great!
YOU LOOK LIKE RUSSELL CROWE.
nice, but I assume privacy is out the window.
I love Rialtas! I just can't figure out why they're so damn expensive!! smdh Sh#t, one can't even find a used 1995 for under 15 grand!!! Ridiculous
I just bought one from an elderly fella 93 years old and never had children, he’s sick and on his last days, and he sold me his 1997 Rialta model 22FD standard with a single full size corner bed. With under 58,000 miles for only $3,000.
we do! it's rialtacoffeetour-dot-wordpress-dot-com
No A/C ever?? Yikes
hi
im a big guy i was raised in cairns Queensland Australia,
i fine folks like me who were raised in the heat and poor i.e no air-con, you adapt
i find those who were raised in with the luxuriantly of air con do every adjust to the heat,
it is some you will over come,
actually as kids we used to go out to the air port to make cash, and we also have high humidity so watch asthmatics come out and all die was funny,
the human condition can survive with little, every thing else is gravy
Rialtas are way over priced and they are not the great, a lot of mechanical problems and not cheap to fixed, no easy to find parts too, and most of Rialtas out there for sale need a lot of attention and owners still wants full price like that thing was made of gold. Same thing with those toyotas motorhomes, over priced! It doesn't make sense, and now that the mercedes sprinters motorhomes starting to get older we will see older sprinter for 20k or so that will make the rialtas drop to nothing, cause sprinters are waaaay much better.
+raph salh I think most RVs are the way you describe, at least the ones that are 10 years old, or more, like these are. I'm glad that not everyone wants a Rialta - there's only so many around.