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no the fridge never runs from the battery its self it needs the grey socket plugged in to run, you could modify plus to make it work but you could damage something doing it,

could you not either move you grey socket on the car, or make a short extension so you can make the grey lead fit around the stabiliser,

cooling your fridge down at home on the electric is the best thing to do as it gets the fridge down to a lower temp and alot faster than 12v does.

you could always get it down to temp then put some ice blocks into the fridge with the food to keep the temp down when towing.

mike

Personally I'd leave the stabiliser off and run the fridge via the grey plug from the car. I've owned 2 x Sprites of similar age, they are lightweight and very well balanced vans - if loaded correctly and driven sensibly, you don't need a stabiliser. But that's just me, I don't like stabilisers.

On the other hand, if you feel happier using the stabiliser, cooling the fridge down on EHU or gas before you travel (don't forget to turn off the gas when you hitch up) and filling it with cold food and maybe a frozen bottle of milk or juice, everything will still be nice and cold when you arrive on site - unless you're travelling a very very long way.

My old Shogun didn't have a grey socket and we never had a problem with the fridge getting warm in between sites - once we left North Wales at 10 am and arrived on site in Norn Iron a good 12 or 13 hours later and everything in the fridge was fine.

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If you took the present plate off and reversed it so that the sockets were on the oposite side, would that not clear the stabliser?

Okay, this would mean rewiring both sockets but it is only time consuming not difficult.

thank you all for your replies will relay them to the hubby and he can sort it this week.

Monica