james6546 · Sep 30, 2014

3extruckers said:
Dometic fridges are quite good too, and no where near as expensive as ARB and the likes.
I'm replacing the one we took with a Dometic, bit more space in it for more beer

How do you stop the beer from moving about going round corners? What kind of domestic fridge are you looking at?

3extruckers · Sep 30, 2014

It's dometic, that's the make, not domestic.
dometic fridge

james6546 · Sep 30, 2014

3extruckers said:
It's dometic, that's the make, not domestic.
dometic fridge

Haha, ah ok.

I have been looking at some waeco ones on ebay, they look ok and a hell of a lot cheaper than ARB.

WAECO MOBICOOL W35 35L THERMOELECTRIC 12V/240 VOLT COOLER COOLBOX CAR FRIDGE NEW | eBay

mikescuba · Sep 30, 2014

james6546 said:
Found a not stupid money one on here.

ARB FRIDGE 35L £480.00 - ARB - Fridge Freezers Flatdog UK

I think ARB ones are good, but don't quote me on that.

I'm keeping my freestyle alloys, mostly cause I can't afford to change them. Should I take one spare or two?

Hi, I think we all had only one spare each, Ken might have had another spare tire without the wheel if I remember correctly. I'm sure he will chirp up if I'm wrong. The guys in the 90 had I think three punctures and they were the only ones that ran with inner tubes. I had a major blow out on the motorway on the way to the port. But my tires were on there last legs. I intended to change them once I got back. They were the only punctures we had. Ken's new BF's were showing serious shredding on the tread which I didn't think much of. I had old Trac Edge. Most of the others ran on Grabber AT2's which stood up very well. I have since bought a set. Cool box does need a bit of looking into. I had a cheep electric Halfords type one. I threw mine on the fire when I got back. It was useless. Ken had a good one which I think was the only one that seem to work in that heat. I believe he paid quite a lot of money for it.

mikescuba · Sep 30, 2014

MrNasty said:
I'm going to ditch the lift kit idea, and just replace everything with quality components leaving it standard height. Picked my new truck up today, so I will start assessing it over the weekend, I am going to get some Cooper Discoverer SST jobbies on black steel modulars this week though and ditch the Boost alloys.
Had a brief look about for a fridge, and they are either £800 or £150 heating and cooler types, any suggestions where to look other than eBay?

Pic's please.

james6546 · Sep 30, 2014

mikescuba said:
Hi, I think we all had only one spare each, Ken might have had another spare tire without the wheel if I remember correctly. I'm sure he will chirp up if I'm wrong. The guys in the 90 had I think three punctures and they were the only ones that ran with inner tubes. I had a major blow out on the motorway on the way to the port. But my tires were on there last legs. I intended to change them once I got back. They were the only punctures we had. Ken's new BF's were showing serious shredding on the tread which I didn't think much of. I had old Trac Edge. Most of the others ran on Grabber AT2's which stood up very well. I have since bought a set. Cool box does need a bit of looking into. I had a cheep electric Halfords type one. I threw mine on the fire when I got back. It was useless. Ken had a good one which I think was the only one that seem to work in that heat. I believe he paid quite a lot of money for it.

I have 3x BFG ATs and one Grabber AT2. I bought another BFG to replace the grabber last week but I think it has too much tread so will have to go on as the spare.

mikescuba · Sep 30, 2014

james6546 said:
Ha, sounds great!

That storage looks really good. Mine will be slightly different tho, as I need my 90 the rest of the year to put the dog in, so was thinking of making some full height shelves at each side, then something removable in the load bay area.

I can see it in my head better than I can explain it...

How much water storage did people take?

I over killed on the water. I took two 35 lt plastic containers which got wrecked on the second day. My idea was that was for washing etc. And I took 60 x 2 liter bottles of Evian for drinking and cooking. I brought back about 12 bottles I think. I also took 108 bottles of beer, I surprisingly came back with a few of them. Beer is not so nice when it's not chilled.

mikescuba · Sep 30, 2014

SpaceDawg said:
Whats wrong with a onsie? They really work when its cold ;-)

So it seems like we will get 5 for 2016 which is good.

I'm up for 2016 with the waggs. I can't wait that long though so I am trying for 2015 also. I still have the spare room reserved for you for the 20th December.

OLDUN · Sep 30, 2014

I did pay a lot of money for the fridge Mike but it came with a 110 thrown in. James - the one you are looking at takes down the temp 20 degrees so if its 44 does that mean the cool box only goes to 24. I do have a second spare but that's only to hold my spare towrope!!. I must admit I would not want to be without a proper fridge linked to a second battery topped up by a solar panel.

mikescuba · Sep 30, 2014

3extruckers said:
It's dometic, that's the make, not domestic.
dometic fridge

Just had a look at then on ebay. Seem quiet good. Have you bought one?

james6546 · Sep 30, 2014

OLDUN said:
I did pay a lot of money for the fridge Mike but it came with a 110 thrown in. James - the one you are looking at takes down the temp 20 degrees so if its 44 does that mean the cool box only goes to 24. I do have a second spare but that's only to hold my spare towrope!!. I must admit I would not want to be without a proper fridge linked to a second battery topped up by a solar panel.

Ahh, ok. Thanks for the info. That would be no use then!

I probably won't be able to afford one until early next year anyway, got to finish rebuilding my 90 before I can buy leisure bits.

mikescuba · Sep 30, 2014

With these Cool Boxes I think you will find the ones that run with compressors are the ones that chill right down. The others only chill as Oldun mentioned to about 18/20 C below ambient temperature. The ones with compressors are normally around the £600 mark.

Just seen this on ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WAECO-COO...140122125356&rk=1&rkt=6&sd=360446176657&rt=nc

MrNasty · Sep 30, 2014

Had the Cooper Discoverers fitted today and I bought two spares also, are those Dometic fridges any good then? As those are the ones I've seen on eBay before
Meet my new truck

200tdi ayre · Sep 30, 2014

Splash outnon a proper waeco or engel reverse compressor fridge they last forever and are amazing don't bugger about with cheap fridges in the desert

james6546 · Oct 1, 2014

MrNasty said:
Had the Cooper Discoverers fitted today and I bought two spares also, are those Dometic fridges any good then? As those are the ones I've seen on eBay before
Meet my new truck

Wow, shiny! Looks pretty badass.

I'm keeping my eye out for another freestyle, though not sure where I would put it.

mikescuba · Oct 1, 2014

MrNasty said:
Had the Cooper Discoverers fitted today and I bought two spares also, are those Dometic fridges any good then? As those are the ones I've seen on eBay before
Meet my new truck

Looks very nice. will look even better when covered in Sahara dust and sand.

james6546 · Oct 1, 2014

mikescuba said:
Looks very nice. will look even better when covered in Sahara dust and sand.

Yeah, it does need getting dirty!

OLDUN · Oct 1, 2014

Very nice MrNasty - a good sandstorm will soon take the shine off it.

3extruckers · Oct 1, 2014

Just like Spacedawg's motor

mikescuba · Oct 1, 2014

DSC_6614 by MichaelWills.fr, on Flickr. Must not forget to do the underneath also.

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