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    Quote Originally Posted by TerryO View Post
    Hi Andrew,

    We have had a 60 litre Evakool Travelmate for three years, excellent fridge and uses bugger all power. Evakool direct have good deals on them at the moment, only $599 for a 47 litre model including free postage, you can buy two Evakools with cases for less than the price of one Engel.

    Products - Evakool


    Cheers,
    Terry
    thats a pretty good deal..........

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    Hi Andrew,
    We have an Engel 40ltr with a twozone on top of it. The twozone (not endorsed by Engel I believe) keeps our salads in good shape while the drinks are ice cold in the bottom of the fridge. We have had this setup for years now & can't fault it and it fits in the back of the D3 with no worries.
    Hope this helps.

    Cheers,
    Glenn.

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    Engel works!

    Andrew,

    We have had our 40L Engel for just on 10 years and it basically sits in my wifes car all the time (other than for trips away) where it is used for our shopping trips to our regional centre. Curse living out of town!

    It has never missed a beat and can be expanded as others have pointed out by adding a twozone. Do I think it much better than the other brands? I really cannot tell! Is it reliable? Absolutley. Would I buy the same brand again? Yep!

    Lindsay

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ashes View Post
    Wait for a great deal. No need to pay full retail. Eg. Wait for a 20% off day or a show special.
    Keep an eye out on Anaconda specials (which are extremely frequent). You can get 20% off most fridges quite frequently, and it includes Engel at certain times as well.

    Case in point: From 21-25th November it is 25% off storewide for members (join on the spot for free) but in that case does not include Engel.

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    Hey Andrew,

    I use the Evakool fibreglass 60 lt. Products - Evakool# $1300 roughly
    Had it for about 2 years and it's permanantly in the car and on every day.
    Has the ability to have one section frozen and the other refrigerated, comes with 2 baskets and a divider as standard.

    Mine survived an 80kph roll over with a carton of stubbies in it, the strap that was holding it down snapped, so a few scratches but it was still running and hasn't missed a beat since.

    Cheers.

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    I have one of the original evacool 60ltr fridges. Originally fitted with a magnetic drive compressor which they changed to the Danfoss in 2001. It is permanently running, has never stopped. Only issue was with the 240V/24v/12v power supplies. Had a few fail (all replaced no issue). Now run it on 24V if on mains, since then no failures of the external power supply. I have been happy with their service and product.

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    My Waeco has been running 24/7 for 3 years with no problems.
    It does get unplugged for two weeks once a year.
    One thing I looked at when buying the fridge, is how much power it is drawing from the battery.
    You may want to consider this.

    Cheers, Craig

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    +1 for Evakool 60L.

    We bought a factory second Evakool, which came with cover + mains power, for around $500 a couple of years ago and it hasn't missed a beat. As mentioned below, it has a very low current draw (not that that matters much when you've got a fantastic Traxide set-up!).

    Cheers ,
    Rick

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    +1 for Bushman, never had a problem with it and option to increase and decrease size depending on trip is great

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    Just took delivery of my Bushman and I have to say first impressions are great, very well built feels exceptionally solid and the versatility of the collars and different sized lids that come with it make it brilliant value and so flexible. The power cables and plugs all look very solid and high quality, Plugged it in to 240v and it cools down really fast, down to 0 in less than an hour, very easy controls etc.

    Only things I can complain about is that the cover looks a little cheaply made and it has two cable ties on the back designed to hold the cable against the side of the unit, but these are a little flimsy and poorly attached, however these are pretty minor. The cover is just for protection of the paint etc, it isn't an insulator as this fridge doesn't need it, it is well insulated already and the Cale ties aren't really necessary either.

    After looking at all the Engels and Weacos and ARB I am extremely happy with what you get with the Bushman for the price.
    Happy.

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