Combination lock on a slam latch?
My Prime Time Crusader has slam latches with a key lock. With 4 of us running around the trailer helping with arrival/departure, etc, I'm always asking for the keys which drives me nuts. I see t...
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Kohai I follow where you are coming from. There is nothing wrong with wanting to keep your stuff secure. But you can tell from the feed back many/most RV'ers are not overly concerned about security.
I think we all lock our cars and keep the garage door closed at home. However when camping we still lock our cars, but most develop a different mentality.
Campers/RV'ers would not pack up our possessions and families and travel for hours to there destinations if it were not safe and theft free.
If CG were inherently not safe and theft were a regular occurrence, camping would lose its luster real quick.
People simply would not go through all the trouble to arrive at a CG and have there stuff stolen.
Part of the freedom of RV'ing involves leaving the problems of the world behind.
In some ways that may be naive idea,nevertheless all campers are there to relax and enjoy themselves without worrying about their camping gear or possessions.
Since everyone at the CG is in the same vulnerable position of not being able to really lock there RV's. As mentioned above RV's are just to flimsy to be locked. Campers tend to watch out for each other when it comes to theft.
That doesn't mean theft is non existent. However most theft I have read of occurs when items are left out overnight or the RV is in storage.
Chairs, coolers bikes etc. maybe taken by some low life if left out .
However, someone actually breaking into an occupied/in use RV at a CG is just rare. With that in mind most experienced RV'ers don't spend a lot of time locking things up.
Lastly beside a few tools or maybe a genset, most RV compartments don't contain a lot of high demand valuables. Chairs,grills,hoses,flashlights etc. Don't bring a lot on the black market. Even expensive things like macerators,hitches and satellite dishes are not big black market items.
In the end lock things up if it gives you peace of mind, sounds like that will be easier than changing your routine or retraining your brain.
Once things are batten down nice and tight.Unwind have a beverage and enjoy your camping.
I think we all lock our cars and keep the garage door closed at home. However when camping we still lock our cars, but most develop a different mentality.
Campers/RV'ers would not pack up our possessions and families and travel for hours to there destinations if it were not safe and theft free.
If CG were inherently not safe and theft were a regular occurrence, camping would lose its luster real quick.
People simply would not go through all the trouble to arrive at a CG and have there stuff stolen.
Part of the freedom of RV'ing involves leaving the problems of the world behind.
In some ways that may be naive idea,nevertheless all campers are there to relax and enjoy themselves without worrying about their camping gear or possessions.
Since everyone at the CG is in the same vulnerable position of not being able to really lock there RV's. As mentioned above RV's are just to flimsy to be locked. Campers tend to watch out for each other when it comes to theft.
That doesn't mean theft is non existent. However most theft I have read of occurs when items are left out overnight or the RV is in storage.
Chairs, coolers bikes etc. maybe taken by some low life if left out .
However, someone actually breaking into an occupied/in use RV at a CG is just rare. With that in mind most experienced RV'ers don't spend a lot of time locking things up.
Lastly beside a few tools or maybe a genset, most RV compartments don't contain a lot of high demand valuables. Chairs,grills,hoses,flashlights etc. Don't bring a lot on the black market. Even expensive things like macerators,hitches and satellite dishes are not big black market items.
In the end lock things up if it gives you peace of mind, sounds like that will be easier than changing your routine or retraining your brain.
Once things are batten down nice and tight.Unwind have a beverage and enjoy your camping.
