John & Angela wrote:
frankdamp wrote:
My other concern is with forces resulting from driving maneuvers causing the doors to pop open. RV-specific fridges have locking latches to prevent this, but residential fridges don't. I'd be reluctant not to have some form of positive lock on the doors, and it would need some form of modification to a residential unit to provide it.
We had the Dometic fridge in our 11-year old rig fail last season. After a lot of analysis, we decided to go with a replacement from the same manufacturer.
The opening door problem is easily solved by a piece of Velcro around the door handles.
This is a valid concern. If handles don't allow use of Velcro around the handles, we have seen a metal clip used to hold side-by-side doors in place. The other issue are the glass shelves with no restrain bars on the front. We will use the no-slip mats on the shelves when we get our next coach.
