Hi all,
Following my recent thread, # 82006
The Engel upright 90 freestanding arrived and
well, I was kind of dissapointed.
The 'Engel quality' I had been led to believe, was not there.
Plastic door catch, thats just flimsy. The hinge itself is loose on the door connection and moves. The door itself did not close properly and I had to adjust the catches/hinges so the door closed square and correct. One of these 4 screws had a washer, 3 did not. One screw already had a ‘dodgy’ thread and screw head before I attempted to move it.
The freezer door does not latch and fell off first time I opened it, had to prise apart the fridge sides to make it fit again. Flimsy plastic sides, no wonder the freezer door fell out of the 2 latches for holding it on.
There are 3 long open screw threads coming down about 1cm inside the freezer compartment. Looks like where there are mounts to hold the freezer compartment up. 2 on the top, one on the bottom. Sharp and easy top catch the hand or foods.
The shelves are flimsy and dont fit properly, for a transportable fridge, surely looks like they will rattle and move about when under way.
There is a soft 'blue-tack' type of substance just covering up where the cooling tube and obviously the thermostat cables go into the back of the fridge. It was not even sticking to the casing, I moulded it back around where it looks like it should be.
The 2x 12v bare cables are only 5cm long out of the casing and will be impossible to connect these to anything decent.
The changeable door trim panel was coming away from the bottom of the fridge, and when I tried to 'clip' the bottom piece back in place as its obvious, I noticed it wasnt going to clip into place since the moulding was simply falling out of where it had to clip into.
The casing flexes and has a weak feel to it when lifting from the sides.
I noticed the fridge is made in Malaysia, and
well, it just has a cheap and nasty feel about it.
This is brand new fridge, packed and freighted brand new, with a good packing, yet upon opening....was severly dissapointed. For a $1000 fridge....
After my Dad having an old school engel (chest type) for many years and a recent one bought about 10 years ago still going strong after 2 of my folks caravan trips round oz and many side trips, I have my doubts that this one will last.
My faith in Engel and loyalty to Engel, .....
well its just been bleep tered.
Thinking I should have bought the Weaco CR upright model.....
Engel no more !