fridge noise

As in Bonidoon?? ie "The Castle"

Mark

One in the same.

Better to save for a fridge.

I have the 40 litre Waeco compressor fridge and have slept with it about 6 ft away with no drama at all. Cuts in and out with no clicking. You just hear the motor start as a distant whirrrrrrr.

Helps if you have had a couple of sleeping tablets from inside the fridge first though!!! All depends if you are a light sleeper.

Cheers
Muddy 'doe

Yes, that's the price you pay for choosing an engel fridge :-)
Seriously, I have 15yo engel in the troopie and it also was loud. Have discovered when the condenser fins are pressed in a certain way the vibrations were much reduced, there's a piece of rubber stuck in there now. The rubber mountings of the motor also may have worn, worth a checking.
I also fitted a quiet small computer fan to extract the hot air better, my old engel did not have a fan. It seems to run a little shorter now.

I would not even bother with the hot/cold boxes, you really get what you pay for with these 'essential' toys.
Klaus

Our Engels are quiet enough. No clicking just humming.

I'll be travelling all over Australia to introduce my daughter to this wonderful country.
I will have a Toyota Camry Station Wagon.
So I was sort of thinking it would be a good investment. Or can ice boxes work just as well with ice in them?
TIA
Vicki

I don't know how much time you have vickkian but it's a big country and takes a long time to see it all. If I may say one thing so special, don't rush it or you'll miss the best parts.

Also, there are a lot of places it would not be wise to go in the Camry - good car - but not made for desert and remote travel. BTW if you just have highway tyres fitted now, think about upgrading them to AT's (all terrain), they will give you a better chance of survival on the dirt roards.

I'm still not sure if you are all going to be sleeping in the back with the fridge or camping out. As I see it something will have to go outside unless you're really small people. There are so many options that it's hard to give a clear answer, like, what are you going to cook for dinners? does it need to be kept cold ? or will you eat in towns and just keep milk cold for the corn flakes? You really need to think the processes through given the limited space you have and how everything will pack in. People do it like you are doing it so don't be put off, just be organised.

We all started with little tents and eskys, we just got better at it as we learnt what suited our needs. Good luck and safe driving.

What I meant to say is that from now til whenever, hopefully a very long time, like around 10 years or more, I will be taking my daughter on adventures around the whole of Australia, during school hols., of course...lol...as what else is more important to do during school hols., than learning and experiencing your own country IRL.
I've actually been lucky enough to see all of Australia, except for NT and the North of WA. My Parent's introduced me to most of it years ago.
I know what you're trying to say about a non-RV, but more than 20 years ago when My Parent's and I and 3 other families went to Innamincka we were the only ones who took a 1984 model Ford Falcon GL Station Wagon, 2 other families were in their own utes, and 1 other in a 4-wheel drive, and we were the only family who made it the whole way up there and back with absolutely no probs, everybody else had flat tyres, or fell in a huge ditch, you see it's the driver, not the car, my Father and I drive the same, cautiously, and take it easy. We also did the Simpson desert on that trek too! I know for a fact that Innamincka is classified as remote, and so is the Simpson...sorry, but until you've tried it, don't knock it...lol...we could've taken our ute, but like Dad said, why not do it in comfort...lol! 20 years ago the roads were all dirt and pretty bad too, like the road to Cairns for example, was dirt track...lol...now it's a major highway, and a lot of the other roads up North are sealed too, so we can go anywhere...lol! Thanku for the advice on the tyres.
I'm going to ask my Parent's what they did, as I tell you, we camped real bush...lol...we had no loo, no shower, no fridge, nothing. We used to have a swim in the Coopers...lol...during Sept., and that was freezing! I loved it though, I still remember all the yellow crested cockatoos, they were everywhere in pairs, in every eucalypt, it was amazing. The Simpson is so red, it's an unbelievable site. I remember all of it. We would've gone to Birdsville, but the track had recently had bad rain, so we opted out...lol! I'll probably stick with an ice box, and see how we go. But thanks for your advice.
Kind regards
Vicki
P.S. my Dad now has the best car to go anywhere in, the latest edition Subaru Liberty, talk about swish, that would get you anywhere in Australia, nothing can beat the best AWD company in the world...lol! I told them to leave it to me when they're not allowed to drive anymore...lol!

Well Vicki you sound as though you have had a wonderful time with your folks and now you have all that experience to draw on, so I'm not sure why you asked the question in the first place.
However when you get to go to all of these remote places in the Camry, just before you start out, ask yourself one question, "What if..........?" then put in the blank space all of the things that just might go wrong, then answer the question as to "how you would deal with it?" .
One example, your 180km away from the nearest homestead and bogged to the axle on the side of a sand hill in the desert. Foreget the mobile phone, it wont work.
If you were really smart you wouldn't be there in the first instance because both you and your kid can perish out there. Others have before you because they "thought" it would be OK.
Do you want a list of the things that can, and do, go wrong ? It happens to the experts.

Choose your path wisely, it can be an expensive adventure if you get it wrong.