Originally Posted by
Wheel_Motion
CommuterRun with you being in FL it may not get cold enough to make the plastic brittle , but here in the mountains of NC. and els were in the Mid-West, Northern parts of the USA, do you think that the plastic would hold up if cold to crash ? Is the plastic like ABS plastic ?
I can tell you that I used these boxes last winter here in Cleveland and I had no problems with brittle plastic (or any other such problems.)
I had some metal straps fail from corrosion and stress from carrying a heavy 12 volt 10 amp hour battery, but the box itself performed flawlessly. Hopefully my experience testifies to their toughness. No worries whatsoever about wet clothes or lunch. Salt stains wiped clean. No worries about salt-stained cloth panniers that *might* be waterproof.
These boxes are waterproof. I read one boater's review that they withstood submersion. May we never have that concern!