40L Fridge centre of middle row seats

**Aussie Jeepster** · 20th April 2018, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by shamirj

attached is the pic with changes installed
needed to remove 6 bolts with funny head (not allen head but multiple angled head) came out easily enough very heavy though, thought the seat might of been lighter. waeco 40L installed, perfect fit really, sits flush with the seats and at a good height, can access fridge from all 4 seats (i tried accessing), much easier to use on the run, important to me was the view of the rear - fridge does not impede by view anymore so wrapped. no drop slide needed (extra cost and weight) and no more runners to slide out the back either. in a fixed position with eyelets i had using existing seat holes. we hardly use the back seats much anymore anyway at most one other person. cheers

How is the height of the fridge when you put the seat backs down?
Does it fluke it, and they are all the same height, or are the seat backs a little lower or higher?

**Redback** · 20th April 2018, 12:19 PM

Exactly where ours was for our Kimberley trip.

Baz.

**shamirj** · 20th April 2018, 02:00 PM

pretty flat with seat back down, see pics

**ndrew** · 21st April 2018, 02:10 PM

We're off to the Flinders shortly; your post inspired me to do the same. It usually sits on top of the drawers in the back, which is so high you can't fully open the lid (enough to reach in for a beer, but that's about it). One day I'll shell out for a drop slide, but that wasn't going to be in time for this trip. The Speaker of the House had made noises about difficult access, so I took the middle seat out this afternoon.

Not a difficult job by any stretch, but you'd want to have a half-decent sized wrench to loosen the bolts. They're M10 T45 or 47 by the looks. Came out without too much worry. I happened to have some spare Rhino-Rack eye bolts lying around which also have an M10 thread – screwed them straight into the factory holes and dropped the fridge in. 1000 times more convenient!

Photos show how the 40L Engel it sits in the Discovery 3 (a good 200mm above seat height) and a close-up of the M10 eye bolts attached to the floor. I'm pretty happy with it. Thanks for the tip!

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**Aussie Jeepster** · 22nd April 2018, 05:32 PM

Mine went in today - took about an hour.
Fits like a glove and WAY lighter than the seat I took out.
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Ean Austral · 22nd April 2018, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by Aussie Jeepster

Mine went in today - took about an hour.
Fits like a glove and WAY lighter than the seat I took out.
fridge 2.jpg fridge 1.jpg

looks good.. the storage things on the back of the front seats - are they MSA ? if not do you have a link to where you got them .

Cheers Ean

**Aussie Jeepster** · 22nd April 2018, 07:20 PM

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

looks good.. the storage things on the back of the front seats - are they MSA ? if not do you have a link to where you got them .

Cheers Ean

I picked up 2 of them when I was in the US in Feb.

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**GregMilner** · 5th March 2019, 07:31 PM

Seems like the middle row centre fridge idea is a thing...just did it this afternoon, easy as (after buying the required Torx socket set from Bunnings).
much easier access to the fridge, moves weight forward, easy access from the front seats. All good...just replace the M10 seat bolts with M10 eye bolts for tie-down straps and job done. 30 minutes all up.

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**Eric SDV6SE** · 5th March 2019, 11:19 PM

Great idea, we still use our 2nd row and 3rd row seats, but I love the practicality of having the fridge there. Do you need to mount a flat base or does the fridge just land on the floor pan?

Also I’m assuming the 12v socket in the centre console is now the power source?

Ive got a 65l fridge / freezer (Ironman 4x4 with danfoss compressor) not sure if that would fit, I’ll have to take some measurements and see.

**Turtle60** · 5th March 2019, 11:22 PM

We placed a waeco cfx38 in there that comes with a base Mount so makes it pretty sturdy. The only drama we found in all this is powering it up. I ran a “power all the time” merit plug in the the back off the second battery. Works well. if this is your primary source of refrigerstion along then with the constant opening and closing of doors and subsequent waking up of the disco could be A battery issue if you only have the one battery. In saying that the the disco will shut down after two minutes So while the battery is preserved your fridge will shut down.

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