Pro's and Con's of Driver side door?
We are soon to move from a class C to a class A. We recently had an experience with our class C where the entry door mechanism broke making it impossible to gain entry through the coach door. We had t...
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Dutch_12078 wrote:Chris F wrote:
A driver's door may be a convenient exit point, but I'm wondering if it might also be a convenient entry point. Do these doors have a deadbolt lock, or can anyone with a slim jim open them?
I don't know about all models with a driver's door of course, but my coach has a Tri-Mark lock arrangement that would be very difficult, if not impossible, to open with a slim jim. It does not have a conventional automotive style latch system.
In ours (98 PaceArrow on Chev chassis), it's much easier to enter from the drivers door than it is through the curbside entrance. It has a Tri-mark lock (no idea if that's good or bad) but a few years my wife locked the keys inside the moho and it took AAA about 5 minutes to make a gap at the top of the door with an inflatable wedge and then he was able to unlock the door (can't remember if he pushed the tumbler somehow or if he fished out the keys through the window). He did say that if he had to go through the dealbolt on the entry, he would have had to drill it out (although that didn't sound like it would be that hard or time consuming either - just a bigger job to fix after).
