Coleman 47L Extreme Wheeled Cooler

My objective in purchasing this was to keep goods frozen whilst driving from Victoria to Sth Australia, with various stops along the way, that ended up being for 12 hours. I packed ice in a good thick layer on the bottom, then chicken products (frozen, hormone and anti-biotic free chicken tenders and chicken schnitzels, that I couldn't find available in SA), then ice, then more chicken, then ice, then more chicken then ice and so on with ice on the top. By the time I arrived home in SA all of these items were still frozen and I was able to get them straight into the freezer. I think the trick to not just keeping things cold, but to keeping them frozen is the packing of the ice, not enough ice and things won't stay frozen. The next day more than 24hours after the original packing, most of the ice was still ice, with only a little thawing of the ice occurring. I will add that I also purchased another larger Coleman wheeled cooler and in it I had frozen gluten free arancini, packets and packets of non farmed salmon and non farmed salmon burgers, nitrite free bacon and so on. I was careful to pack it well with lots of ice layers in-between the food. The arancini arrived still frozen as was the bacon. The salmon however had thawed out, but it was kept very very cold for the 12 hours. Fortunately thawed salmon can be re-frozen so I didn't lose any food. I originally had wanted to purchase a car freezer that plugs into the car, but on viewing them they were exceptionally heavy, pricey, with no wheels or supports to lift in and out of the car and actually not much storage area given the motor takes up a lot of it, to me they weren't value for money, although they would present a lot less headache about keeping stuff frozen. For me I made exactly the right purchase. As a disability pensioner with no muscles I was able to fairly easily manage the wheeled cooler and get it in and out of the car when empty and packed it whilst in the car and unpacked it from the car. So other than not keeping salmon frozen, which says more about the light texture of salmon than the cooler I think, this is a great buy for the purpose, as is the larger size one.