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long weekend story
« on: February 04, 2012, 03:59:05 PM »
So let me lay it out for you all.................
Its Wednesday night before Australia Day its pooring rain when i get home from work. We had grand intentions of heading to knorrit flat for the 4 day weekend. After pushing the camper into the garage so that i could pack it in the dry, I get most things in there that we need to go away, i grab my 240 adapter for my Vitafrego free (yep weird name but uses Danfor compressor) plug in the fridge to get it cold so we can pack it, and as quick as i plug it in .....Nothing happens ...........hhhmmm ok i think to myself, maybe the 240v adapter has gone bung. So i carry the fridge out in the pooring rain to the car to plug it directly into 12v and guess what still nothing. OK my attention is diverted by a phone call to possibly change destinations because of the weather near knorrit. I pull the side cover off the fridge to see if there is a fuse that has popped.................... NOPE !!!!!! by this time its 10:30pm i think to myself my parents have a 60l i could borrow but its not easy to get to, they would be in bed by now and we are leaving at 6am. So I'm stuck i don't have an Sky i only have my fridge and thought well i cant go for 4 days with out even an Sky, so we pulled the pin on going away for the weekend. The whole point of us going to knorrit was that we would only be a short hop from Dempsey where i wanted to have a look at a new hard floor Desert Edge (Dempsey was the only dealer in NSW that had one). So come Friday 27/1/12 at 9am i ring the dealer at Kempsey and they say yes we are open till 5pm today. I check a cheap motel to put us up for one night .......found it right across the road from the dealer ........ OK jump in the car and drive all the way to Kempsey for a look, after looking and finding they are great camper we only have to come up with the CASH. sorry for being long winded about this all but once home and on the Monday after work i was able to find a GREAT FRIDGE GUY ............his company name is Alternate Gas Refrigeration 20/14 Holbeche Road Arndell Park NSW.9672 1664  :cup: :cup: :cup: 
This guy pulled my fridge appart and tested it when he put it back together it worked fine !!!!!!
He spent 1.5 hrs doing all of this and charged me NOTHING ZERO ZILCH
He is a registered Dometic and Engel Repairer  and a nice guy to boot !!!!
64 EH(premier sedan)gone but will never be forgotten, 64VAN(windowless panel van),
2008 Nisan Navara, leisure matters ranger hard floor

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Re: long weekend story
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2012, 05:26:59 PM »
Mate,
Some times things don't work out how we plan them, but as that saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining, not that we see that at the time.
Thanks for sharing you tale.
Hope your next trip is a better one,
Happy & safe travels.
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Re: long weekend story
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2012, 11:32:15 AM »
cheers Haris,

i hope that any one else in western sydney will use this guy if your fridge needs repairs, he is a great operator.   
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Re: long weekend story
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2012, 01:41:10 PM »
Yep he does great work.  Fixed my waeco just before xmas

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Re: long weekend story
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2012, 02:34:27 PM »
yes a freind of mine had some work done on the fridge in his caravann not just portable fridges and highley recomends him