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burgerman:
 Hi all,

Looking for a portable fridge to take on a UK 2-3 day camping (and off roading  ;) ) trip.
Only two of us in the car but need to consider space/size (as wife takes toooo many clothes). Also needs to hold 2ltr bottle of Diet Coke... again to keep swmbo happy!

Think I've got it down to these two unless you have any further suggestions under

Range Rover Blues:
They are both coolboxs, not fridges.  Neither will be able to chill anyting that isn't already cold and will struggle to keep it cold.  If the engine isn't running yo've no chance.

You'll find that caravan fridges are mains/gas/12volt but on 12 volt will no cool unless they have been run on gas or mains first and even then they pull 8 amps out of the towcar, modern ones use so much current thye need their own earth pin in the multiplug (rated at 16 amps).

Saffy:
My parents insist on buying those absorption "fridge" for camping - don't think they have got 6 months out of even one with

Disco Matt:
I bought a mains/12v coolbox from Aldi a couple of months ago, seems ok. I pre-chill it on the mains overnight then it should cope with being fed from my second battery during the day. For

BigA:
I have a Halfords one that i brought a couple of years back. It does the job when camping (has frozen milk over night) not as good as a proper 3 way fridge, but it takes up less room then our 3 way, and runs OK  from the cigy socket. As has been said, worth running on the mains overnight first to get it cool to start. I have also added lighter sockets to the boot of the disco now, form a second battery, so that it will allways be on.

Andy

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