awdinut

These units have a low voltage cut-out relay to prevent running the battery too low to start the car. My fridge shuts down about 5 min after I shut the car off and that seems way too soon. How long will yours run on the battery?

Also,after a 2 hour trip with the dial at coldest setting a thermometer in the fridge only got down to 50 degrees. Outside temp was 80. What temp do the rest of you get?

gezuvor

It's not meant to store meat, just to keep drinks, medications and other items cool during transportation. We have retrofitted a few of them and 50° is actually better than the manufacturer specs them at.

Can't help on the battery run time issue; haven't run into that.

awdinut

Actually it should be able to store meat...the factory spec is that it will cool to -10C at 25C ambient temp. That's below freezing at about 75F ambient temp. Ambient temp (the temp in my trunk) was 100F the day I could only get 50F at constant run ("Snowflake" on dial). A Peltier effect coolercan get to 60F under the same conditions...the $1600 price should buy more than 10 degrees.

gezuvor

I called the OEM that builds the VW factory unit and they gave me the information that I forwarded. I assumed they built the same item for both brands...