Jaypatrol

We have finally had our fridge in the caravan replaced.
For those who were not aware, when we went away to Portland and then onto Cohuna & Albury at Christmastime, we discovered that our fridge in the van wasn’t coping with the heat temperatures in these places.
On further investigation, we also discovered that Jayco had installed a “SN” rated fridge to our new Heritage Caravan.
The rating is on the specification plate, normally inside the door. Your refrigerator specification plate would have one of the ratings below.
There is a rating in place for fridges and the majority of imported fridges are rated. The CEN (old DIN) standard has the following ratings
Climate class N: room temperatures +16°C to +32°C
Climate class SN: room temperatures +10°C to +32°C
Climate class ST: room tempretures +14°C to +36°C
Climate class T: room temperatures +18°C to +43°C
So as you can see by this table, that the SN rated fridge would be uselesss for us whilst we are travelling up north and over in the West.

So after many phone calls to both Jayco and Dometic (manifacturer of fridge) and doing a bit of websearchng to back up what we were trying to tell them, Jayco have realised there is a big problem fitting this climate class refridgerator to their caravans.
They have also swapped the original fridge for a brand new “T” climate class refridgerator, free of charge.

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