Thread: Defender Fridge Installation Idea

Have a look at Drifta, they do standard storage solutions for the rear of Defenders as well as custom setups.

Two questions -
1. Do you really need a fridge that large? You don't need to have all your beer loaded at once - as you remove one, you replace it with a 'warm' one.
2. Have you considered mounting it on the other side, next to the Gull wing shelving. With your design you would need a clear space beside to slide it sideways before coming out through the door. With it mounted on the LHS you would only need to slide it out through the door.

As roger says...you will need to either keep the area in the centre clear to allow the fridge to slide into the centre or have to unpack the car to get the fridge out.

I would go a second gull wing for access.....

75 is a big fridge although in saying that I upgraded to a 40L (for five) to a 60L for the two of us access through a gull wing.

With Waeco your stuck with the lid opening from the one spot.......another option is evakool as you can pick where the hinges for the lid are mounted giving you four options which may assist when accessing a large fridge through the rear door.

Oh, cannot help on a slide running in to directions apart from mounting one slide on top of another.

My CF80 Waeco is mounted on the left hand side of the floor as you open the door (on a home made slide, you couldn't buy a slide big enough 14 yrs ago). I have a storage box on the right hand side of the fridge which is half the height of the fridge, where I carry 2 x 105 amp/hr batteries wired in parallel to run the fridge. The storage box also holds 12v lighting, spares, wet shoes, scan tool and a heap of other crud that rarely get used. Over the last 5 years, it has worked well for us.
Cheers Ian

Can you pivot a standard fridge slide at the front end, so that you swing the back end around to line up with the door, then slide the fridge out?

Cheers,
Mick.

techni-ice gets pretty awesome mileage in a good esky. Can usually get 3-4 days out of it in a dune brand plastic esky.

I mounted my 40L engel just inside the rear door over the passenger wheelarch, on false floor. Tucks in there pretty neat and lid still lifts to get to everything (fold down rear step helps my wife).

Be wary of complex sliding mechanisms, a friend bought an obscenely expensive drop-down one for his prado. The constant rattling from it drove him up the wall. He sold it and got a simple regular one and just deals with it being a bit high.

good luck!

Originally Posted by Xtreme

Two questions -
1. Do you really need a fridge that large? You don't need to have all your beer loaded at once - as you remove one, you replace it with a 'warm' one.

Correct! Top up the fridge in the morning and chill down on the days drive. or buy export - tastes the same hot or cold...