No Generator Compartment Lock

All of the motorhome and both of the toy haulers I have owned have had locks on the generator doors. The only that have not had locks are the propane access doors. They cannot be locked for safety reasons.

Mine has no locks, probably for the many reasons noted earlier.

Our oldie but goodie has a lock

Here is one better. I have 6"x6" locking fuel doors on each side of the coach. Yup, the standard CH251 key. HOWEVER, the fuel doors are mounted on a bay door. Yup, the bay door does NOT have a lock as this bay also has the propane tank.

The only time I've heard of an onboard genset being removed was at a storage lot where the thieves had access to some type of forklift, and were able to unbolt and drop generators at night.

You can get security bolts, but there is a good chance, the thief would just trash the thing out of spite.

Mowermech:
These two suppliers offer latches for Fleetwood
RV designer latches

JR products

darsben1 wrote:
I have never seen a lock on a Jenny door

same here. it's not like they can just lift it out like a honda 2000. it would be much easier to pop the door lock with a crowbar than to wrestle a built in gen set out.
bumpy

I rarely lock my basement doors. Mainly because the latches are just cheap plastic, and they break very easily just closing the doors! I tried to find metal latches to replace them, but no joy. A moderately strong thief could put gloves on, grab the lower edge of the door, and yank on it hard enough to break the latches.
I have three or four of those junky things to replace when the weather warms up. Since an exact replacement is not available, that means modifying the doors to fit the new latches. I don't want to have to do that any more often than necessary! I would rather lose some of the "stuff" that I carry around than have to do expensive door and/or body repairs.

The generator door on our rig which is a toyhauler same as the OP has a lock on it although it's the same lock used on our basement storage doors and would only take a few seconds to defeat. Toyhaulers will inevitably have gas fueled onboard generators since they have onboard fuel stations for their toys, they are hard enough to just perform basic maintenance let alone a thief willing to spend that much time and effort to steal one while RVing.

Our generator door locks but hey, if they can get that heavy generator out of that compartment, they are really determined.