keeping cabinet doors closed when traveling

Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, Amazon, etc... Child-proof latches.

I carry a bunch of these short elastic bungee cords to use through the door handles or knobs etc.. If only one door knob is used then you can add a tie point on the door frame to tie it off too.



Roy Ken

Google "cabinet door catches", You should be able to find something that will help. Amazon has quite a selection.

I use shock cord custom cut for those cabinets I know have a habit of opening ... those that don't I just leave 'em as is. A series of 4 pics starts here. Works like a charm, have never had one of these cabinet doors inadvertently open, ever, regardless of how rough the roads have been. :B

It wad an almost empty cabinet, with just the tank chemicals inside.

The windows were the plastic cabinet windows that slid open.

I'm thinking of installing a little rod to keep stuff from rolling against the door. The biggest door is warped, I tried adjusting the latch but it might be beyond help. Maybe like a half knob I could turn to keep the cabinet latched. Have almost 3000 miles planned im not picking up everything every time I stop

one mine over the stove/sink that are hinged on the outer edge I just use an industrial strength twistem on the two handles.
bumpy

with the right latches adjusted properly the cabinets and doors should not open. Ours never have in 10 years.

In my many years of rough-road RVing at slow reasonable speeds, I have still had every cabinet in the camper do a self-eject at one time or another. That includes the refrigerator.

#1 packing rule: Prevention. Do not allow anything to get a run at the door. Most of my cabinets have baskets or boxes inside them now and that helps to keep things in place.

I added a complete second set of latches, so now each door has two.

I carry a roll of blue masking tape, the kind that does not damage finishes. It will help to hold a door shut until you can fix things properly.

I suppose that tape could also hold windows shut temporarily. But don't your windows have latches? You are not driving with windows partially open, are you?

Mine fly open on the roads in Alaska. Those damned per-ma frost heaves are brutal. I use bungee cords to lock them together. Still need to drive very slowly though. I would think the roads down here would need no such entrapment. I too have never had a door fly open unless of course I hit a pot hole at a high rate of speed.

Might be a problem of what is loaded into the cabinets and shifting while rockin and rollin along the highway. I do not recall that we have ever had a cabinet come open in the last 20 years and 6 trailers.