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Tried to find a little more info about these but their website is either down or permanently gone AWOL. Has anyone any experience of these coolboxes as they seem too cheap to be true compared to your Coleman/Campingaz coolboxes.

Thanks

Nigel

Hope this helps.  It's a Which? report.

You can power these cool boxes from your car's cigarette lighter, but most are pretty useless - we can recommend only one of the five models we tested.

Gio'Style Trippy Electrobox

The Gio'Style Trippy Electrobox £30, from Wilkinson and Asda, stands head and shoulders above the others.

In fact, it's the only cool box we tested that managed to lower its temperature to beneath 5°C. When unplugged, it takes a pretty impressive ten and a half hours to reach 10°C (though it did take just an hour to reach the 5°C mark). Capacity is limited, so it's better suited to a couple picnicking than a big family outing.

If you can't get your hands on the Trippy, but you're set on a powered box, then the Gio'Style Freddy £40, from Robert Dyas, might do. It can cool to about 6°C and, unplugged, takes three and a half hours to warm up to 10°C. But treat it with care - in our tests, it suffered from a snapped handle and four dented corners.