Bush Boy Fridge Fault

Help needed - all you electronics wizz's out there, hopefully someone has had a similar experience or an easy fix for my fridge problem. The culprit is a 55l Bushboy fridge, about 10 yo made in Melb with Danfoss Compressor etc. Worked like a breeze for about 8 years, (great fridge by the way) then started blowing fuse in vehicle to dual battery line. Works fine on 240v inverter (240v to 12v), works fine on a 12v battery pack. Put it in a vehicle, any vehicle, I've tried half a dozen different vehicles and it will blow the fuse in the dual battery line. Ok, so I put a bigger fuse in the line, then it blows the fuse in the fridge. Took it back to the bloke in Melbourne who builds them, tells me it is a fault in the Compressor / Electronics and would need to be replaced at a cost of about $1000. Took it to an 4x4 Service Agent, who tinkered with it for a couple of weeks, replaced some electronic gizmos, tested it for about a week running in their factory, shook it, vibrated it, basically nearly run it upside down, worked like a beauty, put it in one of their vehicles and it had blown the fuse within 5 minutes. They scratched their heads, gave me back the fridge and since then it has worked like a dream off 240v Power source. By the way I have since bought a 40l Engel, but it frustrates the hell out of me knowing it works fine on anything, but in a vehicle....
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