ARB Appliances

I have 2 of these ARB 35l fridge freezers. They have been excellent. Both used in trucks or a camper van as a freezer and working hard over rough… Read more

roads. They are very quite with no vibration at night while sleeping. They will not work using the cigarette lighter plug. It will work while driving and the voltage is higher but once stopped and the battery voltage drops to 12.5v the voltage at the fridge is down to 11,5 and it shuts off to protect the compressor. I have them hard wired with 6mm wire and anderson plugs straight to battery and they work great. I am mainly writing this review because of all the bad reviews from people saying there fridge turns off after an hour. I had a Engel 29lt fridge for 24 years before these 2. It worked great but the noise and vibration from the swing compressor was very annoying. Also you cant sit on the lid whereas you can with a ARB

Purchased in Jan 2016 for $900.

Disappointing – Very disappointing fridge. Twice in 3 years the unit has failed and lost all its gas and stopped cooling. The ARB classic fridge which I had previously was a much better unit.