A week of kids football and one sore back with the Igloo Polar 120 quart

Six days of pitch side duty across a week of kids' football tournements, four families sharing drinks and me as the mug with the estate car, and the Igloo Polar hard cooler, the 120 quart one, has also done one trip to the tip carrying the old chest it replaced. On money it's the top of the ordinary chests, above the Coleman Xtreme I also own and roughly half a Yeti Tundra of similar size, with the party bar version on the same listing at a different shape entirely. Big kit gets the same test here as small kit, load it with children and see what bends.

120 quarts is enormous, 188 cans on the box, and in practice it's four families' drinks, a lot of ice, the half time oranges and the coach's sandwiches with the lid still closing, and full this cooler is a two adult lift that put my back out on day three, so the tie down slots on the corners got used to strap it into the boot rather than carry it.

Ice went in Saturday morning, two 2 kg bags, and there was still a slush layer on Wednesday with the lid opened maybe forty times a day by children, which is legit better than the Coleman managed under the same abuse, four days against three, and the box says five, so as usual take a day off whatever the box says.

The lid is a single flat slab with two snap latches that need a proper push, the hinges are plastic like every chest at this price, and one already has a hairline mark from a kid using the open lid as a lean, and the drain plug takes a hose, no drips so far. Empty it's a one person carry, akward rather than heavy, and it takes most of the boot of an estate, which the pushchair had opinions about.

Hosing it out needs a tipping angle you have to plan, because the inside has a lip near the drain that holds a puddle, and the lid collects grass in the seam. Igloo sell replacement latches and hinges, which for a box this big I checked before buying, since a chest that can't close is def landfill. Its 4.6 from about 11,700 ratings with 1,000 a month is spread across the Polar and the party bar shape on one listing, so read the ones that mention the size you're buying; the moans I'd repeat are the weight when loaded and the latches, and the one I'd add is that the lid isn't a seat, it flexes under an adult and the kids treat it as a bench anyway, which is the noise that carries through the house when it's parked in the hall. Beside the Coleman the Igloo cooler is colder for longer and worse to move, beside a Yeti it's half the money and half the lifespan on the hinges, I'd guess.

If your Polar is a few summers old, has the lid warped from being sat on, and does it still seal along the back edge?