Buying a Waeco

**Utemad** · 20th December 2009, 10:03 PM

Another Waeco thing that annoys me (while I'm on a roll) is the 'best mates' warranty they had when I bought mine. Meant you got a loan fridge when yours was in for repairs. The three times mine was in for repairs I never got a loaner. Didn't have one available they would say. Not even in a different size.

**Shamo** · 20th December 2009, 10:17 PM

Would you reccommend i went with evakool? They are the same price ($1199) as the waeco in the 50L and have a 5 year warranty. Does anyone know how long the waeco warranty is?

Shamo

**LandyAndy** · 20th December 2009, 10:23 PM

ENGEL
Pay the extra and enjoy.
I have an 80lt living in the back of my D2.
Andrew

**101RRS** · 20th December 2009, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by Shamo

Would you reccommend i went with evakool? They are the same price ($1199) as the waeco in the 50L and have a 5 year warranty. Does anyone know how long the waeco warranty is?

Shamo

Cheaper if you know where to look
55L FRIDGE FREEZER EVAKOOL FRIDGE MATE 12V PORTABLE CAR - eBay Portable Fridges, Food Storage, Camping, Hiking, Sport. (end time 07-Jan-10 00:34:43 AEDST)

**Shamo** · 20th December 2009, 10:39 PM

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

ENGEL
Pay the extra and enjoy.
I have an 80lt living in the back of my D2.
Andrew

How have you fitted the 80L in the D2? i have a slide that is only 700mm long and 400mm wide...

Originally Posted by garrycol

Cheaper if you know where to look
55L FRIDGE FREEZER EVAKOOL FRIDGE MATE 12V PORTABLE CAR - eBay Portable Fridges, Food Storage, Camping, Hiking, Sport. (end time 07-Jan-10 00:34:43 AEDST)

Been all over ebay mate, that one wont fit on my slide

Thanks for that though

Shamo

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 21st December 2009, 06:41 AM

I've had an engel now for 5 years and it has been excellent and problem free.

The way I look at it is if you have a fridge failure in the middle of no where you could go hungry, and that would mess with your holiday. IMHO that's worth paying the few $$ more for.

**Rosco** · 21st December 2009, 07:04 AM

I've had a 60l jobby for 5+ yrs which, apart from changing the useless original socket to something decent, has been totally trouble free. They are a bit dicky about voltage drop, but once I sorted that it has been faultless. In short, based on my experience I would buy another. No doubt Engels are very good, as to whether they are good enough for all the extra dosh ... well that's another matter.

**Bushie** · 21st December 2009, 07:11 AM

Mate, I would just buy which ever one you feel comfortable with. None of them are faultless, and the trouble with asking for opinions is just that, opinions !!

All these threads inevitably turn into the Toyota/Nissan, Canon/Nikon Engel/Waeco debate and become meaningless.

Martyn

**weeds** · 21st December 2009, 07:55 AM

what bushie said...........go an engel

**Ranga** · 21st December 2009, 08:29 AM

I just bought a Bushman (www.bushman.com.au). I'm yet to have any experience in using it, except after turning it on yesterday via 240V it cooled down to -5 in about 30 minutes. I'm going to try freezing some ice tonight and see how it goes.

I like the different configs you get with them, as they come with 2 different size lids, 3 baskets and a collar to enlarge it another 10L (and a bag). All this for $1150 (retail, I got it a bit cheaper) worked out to be good value IMO.

If I didn't get that I would have bought the new ARB one.

Interest point was I had narrowed my choice down to the Bushman or ARB before I saw the 4WD Action magazine comparison, which gave the ARB "Best Overall" and the Bushman "Best Value"!

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