Trailer Door Locks
I have read a lot about how many keys will fit the standard trailer door lock. 2 questions: (1) Can the door locks be re-keyed like they do with padlocks? (2) If I buy a new lock will there be few...
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Bumpyroad wrote:
that's exactly how my home locks work. I can exit with them locked and close the door behind me, locking myself out.
bumpy
Not really.
Your home lock has a turn button in the middle of the knob so the person to exit after you can unlock the door and not be locked out. Your trailer door does not have a turn button for the paddle lock. The paddle lock can only be locked and unlocked with a key. There is no way to unlock it from the inside. You can open it from the inside but you can't unlock it. At least none I've ever seen have one. Maybe you have something custom and not the standard RV locks like the rest of us.
Some paddle locks were made so they could not even be opened from the inside if someone locked it with the key from the outside. That could trap folks in the RV with no way to open the door. That's why there was a recall of those locks.
