Car Fridges or cooler boxes

[kwack]

Going to be driving to Franmce later on this year and was wonderign whetehr anyone has experience good or bad on the above.

My son has a dairy allergy and as such we need to take Soya products that require refrigeration, so thought that something like the above would be a good idea?

Kwack

[Blue_Thunder]

A friend of mine had one in an M5. Was a bit of gimmick to be honest as it wasn't all that cold. If it was your only option, i would suggest looking at one of the more modern units.

Can you not get 'UHT' type versions of Soya products?

[xyber]

A decent coolbox full of ice packs is better. Maybe even freeze the milk before you put it in the coolbox. Should be fine.

I'm a courier and often have Salmon from Scotland that they send on 24hr delivery. It's just packed in a polystyrene box with icepacks and stays cold for over 24hrs

so frozen milk and icepacks in a proper coolbox will be pretty good

[kwack]

cheers guys will take look around -are those electric cooler boxes any good

[PaulF]

I'm interested in this thread as I'm driving to West Africa and wanted something to keep some beers cool. Do these electric units actually work like a fridge with a compressor and freon gas or do they just blow ambient cool are over the contents. I took one of the latter to Le Mans one year and it was useless.

[xyber]

You can get 12v fridge freezers that work like a domestic one, but are the size of a cool box. Search eBay for WAECO, normally refurbed and graded ones on there, about £250 though, but they are good.

Edit- this sort of thing http://www.completeoutdoors.co.uk/Waeco ... ge-Freezer

[PaulF]

xyber I checked your link, wow minus 18 degrees, I wanted chilled beers, this will be beer flavoured lollies.

[Sims]

You can get 12v fridge freezers that work like a domestic one, but are the size of a cool box. Search eBay for WAECO, normally refurbed and graded ones on there, about £250 though, but they are good.

Edit- this sort of thing http://www.completeoutdoors.co.uk/Waeco ... ge-Freezer

Excellent recommendation. Good quality stuff.

[gottanS]

I have one of those portable AC/DC powered fridge/warmer thingys, they're fine so long as you plug it with plenty of time. They don't get cool particularly quickly but can get to 20deg colder than the external air. Would suggest getting the pipework fitted for the glove box cooler as a better alternative.

[xyber]

dont forget they cool 'X' degrees below ambient temperature so -18 deg would be when sat in a nice cool place, not a warm car