AO Coolers Carbon Series Cooler Bag - Black - 30 Qts

Video Transcript for Review of AO Coolers Coolers - Carbon Series Cooler Bag Black 36 Cans - AC88FR

Hi, everybody, Andy here with etrailer.com, and today we're gonna take a look at this AO Coolers Carbon Series Cooler Bag in black. This durable travel cooler will keep your drinks and snacks cold on your next outdoor adventure. This is designed to hold up to 36 12 ounce cans and 18 pounds of ice, and it will maintain that ice, rather, for up to 24 hours at 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Now, this cooler has a wide mouth opening as you can see there, and that's going to make this very easy to load and locate items inside of your cooler bag. And this flexible one piece TPU liner is leakproof, and actually AO Coolers does guarantee that this cooler will never leak or sweat. Now, I do wanna point out that if you have the zipper closed and you happen to turn this upside down, water can come through the zipper.

But in regards to the actual TPU liner, this liner's not going to leak. It's going to do a great job of resisting punctures, and then they guarantee that this bag is not going to sweat on the outside. So, I would actually recommend that when you're done using this and you have everything emptied out, to go ahead and pull that lining inside out, let it air dry before you store it, so it's not musty inside or anything like that. This also features a 3/4 inch thick polyurethane high density closed cell foam all throughout the bag, in between the outside and the inside. That's going to prevent air from entering into this cooler bag.

And like I said, it's all throughout this bag, and it feels very thick, very substantial. So it's gonna do a great job of keeping your items inside nice and cold. Now, the way that this is designed to be used is you are just simply gonna fill up your bag with ice, beverages, food, whatever else you need in there, and then you're just going to then zip it closed. By the way, this is a YKK zipper with two pulls, so it's a very durable zipper. And so once you have this zipped shut, then you're going to begin pulling down on the corners, on the top here.

So I'm gonna go ahead and start with this one. Just pull down one of the top corners here, and then go ahead and buckle it together, just like that. And I'm gonna go ahead and do that here for our other side. And, obviously, this is going to work a little bit better when you actually have something in here. So again, pull the corner down, buckle it like that.

And as you can see, that changes the shape of our cooler bag to more of a cube design. And so, like I said, if you have something in here, your drinks and things like that, these sides are going to be puffed out a little bit more. But this is going to be nice and more compact for carrying and actually putting it in your vehicle, or boat, or something like that. So it's going to be this nice, convenient cube shape. And I also wanted to point out that we have a zipper pocket here on the front that's going to allow you to put items in there, such as maybe like paper plates, silverware, or plastic ware and napkins. So it's a nice convenient pocket there. You could also throw in your shoulder strap if you want to when you are not using it, so very convenient. Now, this exterior, I'm very surprised by it. It's very durable, very strong, very impressed with it. This is a vinyl coated fabric with this carbon fiber imprint, which is widely used in both RV and marine industries. So this will match perfectly the interior of many boats and side by sides. The webbed handles are durable, and they're going to do a great job of giving you the ability to easily carry this. We have a hook and loop enclosure here that's going to keep these two handles together, making it all the more easier to carry. And then I mentioned the shoulder strap, so let me pull this around here. And this is going to give you the ability to carry this hands free. So it's got some, a little pad there. So just put that on my shoulder there to give you an idea of what this looks like. The strap is fully adjustable, and then it's also very easy to detach if you don't need to use it with these little, each end of the strap has a clip, so that's going to be very easy to remove. The strap won't get tangled, because it's on a swivel here. Now while we're here, I did wanna point out that this bag does have four attachment points, two on each end here. And so not only is this good for your shoulder strap, but these are great tie down hooks or tie down points. You can run some bungee cords through here, or some rope, and you can secure this in your boat, or on the back of your truck, and you're not gonna have to worry about this moving around all over the place, or maybe even flying out of your boat. So that's a nice feature that this cooler bag incorporates. Now this is going to fold down for easy storage. So like I said, once you have it emptied and dried out and it's ready to store, this is going to be, even though it's durable, it's very flexible so you can just fold it down, or collapse it in on itself, and it's not gonna take up a whole lot of space when you are ready to store it. Now, just giving you some overall dimensions to give you an idea of the size, with nothing in this, and the way that it sits right now, it sits right at around 21 inches or so wide at the widest point. And the overall height is about 12 inches, and the overall length is about 10 inches. And again, this has a volume of 30 quarts. And again, this is gonna be able to hold up to 36 12 ounce cans and 18 pounds of ice. And when this is empty, it weighs about a little over four pounds, so it's relatively light. So I'm a big fan of this cooler bag. I'm really impressed with the build quality, and if this meets the specs that you are looking for, I think this is going to be a great cooler bag for you to consider. And if this size isn't what you're looking for, maybe you're looking for a bag that's bigger, or a cooler bag that's smaller, we do have those options available as well. Virtually, everything's the same except the size, depending on if you want to go larger or smaller. So you can check out those other options here at etrailer.com. But, that's going to conclude our look today. I do hope that it was helpful for you. Again, my name is Andy. Thank you for joining me.