80 lt waeco

Bundy

You might be lucky. I have a 90 lt Waeco in the GU. Slide mounted on top of outback drawers and I cant get my cargo barrier in. Misses by about 2 inches or so if I recall.

Perhaps you should consider how you will power the 80L Waeco when stopped. 84A in 24 hour period according to Waeco power specs. That is one hell of a lot of juice per day if away from powered site.

OK, here's how you check. The 80 is 455mm high plus allow another 45 or so for the fridge slide. You take a square, run it along the drawers until it hits the cargo barrier at a height of 500.

Measure from this point to the rear of the drawers. The 80 is 940 long with the handles or 790 without. I don't think you've got a hope in hell with the handles on, but without, maybe.

Cheers,

Jim.

Gday bundy yep no worrys the 80 lt waeco fittted no worrys in my gq draws fitted outback roller draws fitted no cargo barrier but quite sure it was no worrys anyhow
its now alittle tight in the gu but still fits ok
current draw is an issue but ive found if you cool it down on 240v before ya go and turn it down at night ive not had an issue
Cheers barney

Hi buddy boy
i have a GQ and an 80 litre waeco. Mine fits long ways in the back with room to open the lid just. I don't have draws but i can get it in and open the lid all the way. I have a dual battery and i run it as a fridge freezer and have never flattened the battery yet. But i drive every day so it recharges.
cheers
patrolman

I have a CF80 that I run in my 80 series with a supercharge alrounder 105A/hr aux battery...

I don't know where the power usage figures come from on these posts because mine uses nowhere near that amount of current draw.. maybe if it was running 24/7 without cycling it would draw that much juice but I can easily run mine for 3 days without any dramas and without running the engine to recharge the battery.. mind you I normally do run the engine for about 30 mins a day at least to put a quick charge to the battery anyway.... never had any real dramas with doing that..

As for will it fit.. as the GQ has barn style doors the fridge on top of the side by side drawers will fit and when it slides out the lid will clear the roof ok.. only problem is that you will need a step ladder to see into the thing... I built my draws on top of each other on one side and the fridge down lower on the other.. works a treat!

What a lot of people don't realise, and it doesn't apply to your car, is that when you have the GXL cruiser style doors that open upwards the lid of your fridge will not open fully.. that in itself may not pose that much of a problem other that having to fill the fridge one item at a time rather than filling the basket first and then putting the entire basket in the fridge.. what the main problem is that you can't get the basket out at all for cleaning etc.

A little forward planning goes a long way.. sounds like you are on the right track.

I ran my 80ltr waeco on a recent trip to DHI and never took it out of my vehicle for the whole time and never had any issues. I turned the temp right down each night (otherwies it would freeze) and carnked it to full each day. I had removed one of the fridge freezer dividers as I find the fridge side very inefficient with both fitted. I am running 3 batteries (1 x 80amp, 1 x 100amp, 1 x 35amp) and drove the vehicle most days probably with an hour or 3 running time each day at low speeds. The batteries certainly got low but I don't recall any time where the beer was cold or the fridge stopped.