General Panel Transport - Freezer lorry

[FR85]

Hi All,

I posted this in body shop but I don't think that area gets much attention.

A mate of mine is driving a freezer truck down to Italy from Ireland next week and has offered to collect a set of doors off a Fiat 500f. He has a backload of Pizzas (but of course!) And we were wondering if they'd be safe sitting at minus numbers for the return journey. I know these things lived in the Alps for years where it can be chilly but it might be too intense.
Extreme heat can ruin a panel, can extreme cold do the same?

Gavin

 

[porta]

Hi All,

I posted this in body shop but I don't think that area gets much attention.

A mate of mine is driving a freezer truck down to Italy from Ireland next week and has offered to collect a set of doors off a Fiat 500f. He has a backload of Pizzas (but of course!) And we were wondering if they'd be safe sitting at minus numbers for the return journey. I know these things lived in the Alps for years where it can be chilly but it might be too intense.
Extreme heat can ruin a panel, can extreme cold do the same?

Gavin

If it’s ‘dry’ air then should be fine…but shouldn’t be subjected to rapid temperature changes

 

[FR85]

If it’s ‘dry’ air then should be fine…but shouldn’t be subjected to rapid temperature changes

I'm not too sure how they work, some moisture doesn't phase me as the doors are in paint and I'd dry them in the sitting room at the stove.....if herself is in a good mood!

 

[porta]

There are basically three types, chiller, cold store and freezer trucks, but the cold store/freezer are usually the same just able to operate over a greater temperature range. They are usually dry-air heat exchangers used for food stuffs and, yes really, cadaver repatriation (the private mortuary I worked for had mainly ordinary vans marked up as ‘private ambulance’ but we had one van that was a freezer/cold store able to operate from 2 to -10)

 

[FR85]

Thanks for help Porta! Turns out this trip he was bringing back up machinery on a low loader so it worked a treat.

Doors arrived and I'm chuffed with them, near perfect condition, little hole of rust on the inner lower frame where they all go but that is it. Both doors with glass home to Ireland €450+a case of beer. Complete with glass, chrome, mirrors with some fogged grey light lenses and unlike the reproduction doors they are 99% sure to fit.
Had horrific grief with a reproduction 600 door and I ended up going down this same route years ago.

Thanks for all the help!

Gav