Travel trailer security - keep it or stuff from being stolen

theoldwizard1 wrote:
Don't leave expensive things (cameras, laptops, etc) out, even inside your RV. The best place is locked in the trunk of your vehicle unless maybe it is going to be sitting in the 90+F sun all day long.

How many trucks have trunks?

Don't leave expensive things (cameras, laptops, etc) out, even inside your RV. The best place is locked in the trunk of your vehicle unless maybe it is going to be sitting in the 90+F sun all day long.

Yeah, but it wouldn’t take but once to make a bad dent in a nice trip.

NPS campgrounds often have no one at the guard station. Often there is no guard station. There might be a volunteer host. boondocking, of course no hosts. Trailer in the sno-park campground for 48 hours, but everyone gone all day skiing and snowshoeing, there is nobody watching out over the rigs.

I’ve had my car broken into once and house broken into twice (in my life). Not often, but enough to feel the pain.

I’ll get a hitch lock to start. If nothing else makes my trailer a less desirable target than yours! Doubt I’ll do the heavy duty chain and lock for routine camping but might look into it for boondocking in the forest or while skiing.

Thanks all

It's pretty encouraging that we're on the 3rd page of this thread and people are posting that they have never (for them the most part) have had a problem with theft.

Makes me feel pretty good.

If it makes you feel better you can get a real chain and a real padlock and chain your tires together. This would force them to either have a serious cutting torch or an extra set of tires and a jack to remove the chained together tires.

And no, I’m not talking about a chain that you get at tractor supply type store or an inexpensive lock. These chains and locks can’t be cut by bolt cutters and you can’t pick this lock.

Here is a link to the video

Video

Thanks!

Jeremiah

I set up and lock my stinky slinky to my trailer. Any thief in their right mind does not want to mess with a stinky slinky.

This is the proper way to secure a trailer. :B

If the area is that sketchy my wheels keep a rollin'.

If I leave the trailer for any length of time or the area is sketchy, I chain two wheels together with bolts. I have a metal strap with hasp and padlock that I am going to be installing on the entry door. The strap will be through-bolted into the door frame and reinforced on the bolt mounting locations, inside. For a thief to enter, he will need to cut either the lock, the hasp, or the heads off the bolts. Not many are going to go through all this to steal my trailer. There are many newer rigs that are better targets. Locks and chains are to keep semi-honest people, honest.

drsteve wrote:
To steal yout TT the thieves first have to get past the campground office, which usually requires either a vehicle pass showing you're camped there, or telling the person in the booth who you're there to visit. Then they have to select their target, unhook it from utilities, raise the jacks, put the awning and slide room in, hitch up, and go. They are doing this in daylight, in front of other campers, hoping the entire time that the owner doesn't return.

I don't worry about it...

This. A thousand times this.

I have a fifth wheel and only lock my king pin if I'm dropping the camper while it's closed up. At a storage lot or whatnot.

If I'm setup for camping at a campground, there's way too much work for a casual thief to fully break camp in order to steal my rig.

Now if I were boondocking away from everyone, then I might reconsider. As of yet, we haven't done that. (sad face)

Otherwise, we lock the doors to the camper's inside and that's about it. Typically my storage hatches and outdoor kitchen are generally unlocked. Same with my truck (and no lie- there are often keys inside of it).

And we fulltime. So in campgrounds/RV parks 365-ish days a year.

I use a hitch lock at home and in a campground. I lock the door and stoarge bin doors. I carry insurance. Never had anything stolen in a campground or while boondocking but I did have the battery stolen while parked in the driveway at home. I added a second battery and installed battery locks. Never another problem.