Westie Berlin fridge replacement

I've just recently found and now bought a compressor fridge that fits in the original space in a Westie Berlin. It is the Mestic MCC35 (35ltr). I got it from MGDonline for £330 delivered.

The cupboard will need a small amount of fettling to maximise the opening of the fridge, but the unit itself fits in the original cupboard space, width and height wise. The depth (330mm) is also fine but the opening motion of the fridge unit makes it wider but it can be accommodated with some small changes to the Westie lid metalwork and a few other bits. I'll post some more pictures when I'm done.

Edit, should have added
Energy Consumption DC: 0.65 kWh/24h.
Rated input power DC: 45w.

...and I'm really chuffed

 

Nice one Chris. Will that sit inside a decor panel? I cant recall coz it's been a while since I looked but the long fridge panel perhaps forms some sort of stand off support for the bed?
Can't remember, but that looks cool...

 

I hope to adapt the existing cupboard to make it as close to original as possible.

 

Brilliant. It's a bit of a Grail thing tbh. I like the fact that we can get ice off the condenser on the OG fridge but it does hammer a constant 8 amps per hour out of the battery so is only a moving or hook-up option. Although we do use it if there are enough sun beans whilst we are static.
Hence using the Dometic CFX35 as an everyday.
To have a compressor fridge in that space that's not a custom box/remote compressor option would be literally...cool

 

Thinking outside the box Chris, could you break the lid, spin the fridge 180 and hinge the 'broken' lid to a lift up panel like the original?
@Chrisd

 

That's very outside the broken box! I'll have a look at the hinges tomorrow. Not sure why I'd have to spin 180...box opens the same way as lid, just separately.

 

You wouldn't, just curious coz I'd like the controls on the left for my ocd

 

OCD. Ordinary Chap's Deficiency

 

Indeed. The controls would line up nicely with the propex panel that is in roughly the old ash tray position and allow space for one of our spares stashes between the galley unit and the fridge box...you'd probably have to see it to get what I mean
Just quite excited you've found a fridge for that space...weirdo...lol

 

After a lot of fettling the fridge is in and working I had to change the original position of the side wall (the one with the air vent at the bottom) to enable the fridge to fit depth wise and still open as the opening the lid adds 20mm to the total depth reuired. I also made the side wall taller so that the hinge of the bed does not hit the metal trim now that the side wall is closer to the bed.....mm to spare, but I'm happy.

 

Great idea!


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I removed the old one and installed this at the same place. Ice cold beers!

 

The best solution if you don't want to remake cabinets. A much bigger fridge box can be custom crested to fill the space. Some of these marine kits have a remote compressor that can be sited up to 1.5m away from the box. Nice work

 

Another thread discussion reminded me I had not added the final photos here. So to finish off my part, here are some photos of the final layout...purist look away now! The height of the new box around my fridge is there to allow the fridge door to open, as otherwise the back hinged strip for the Westfalia flap would stop the fridge opening. I also swapped the Westie flaps around so the vented one is above the fridge and altered the metal frame to take into account the width of the new fridge.