Fiat Cab Door Security ☹️

colinm said:
If it's the report on OAL, the people had a dog which started barking, but the thief still managed to grab some stuff they had inadvertently left out before legging it.
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Stuff left in the cab, any stuff, will go when scumbags break into the cab in the dead of night.
 
REC said:
We fitted extra security locks to all doors on our previous (stealth, panel) van after an attempted break in ( we were in the van, they legged it when interior lights came on and I sat up and shouted!) Think they thought it was a commercial van. Cost about £400 for extra locks to all doors but had to not use the side one when in the van as only locked externally. Made us feel safer though.
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Us too. (y)
Also a good visual deterrent.
 

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a few years back a friend of ours woke up to what she thought was her husband sitting in the passenger seat then realised he was snoring away next to her the guy ran when she screamed , he had the seat belts wrapped around the arm rests but they’d cut through the seat belt that was the hardest thing to make good , the theif had broken into 4 other vans nearby on the campsite when he legged it he left behind his adapted socket with a steel pin which he inserted in the lock and ratcheted the pins aside ,
 
r4dent said:
I suggest you get a base ball and keep it in the van.

A baseball bat without a ball is clearly a weapon (even if you only intend to use it in self defense) and having it in the van indicates intent to use.
Should you use it you could face serious charges.

However, if you have a ball as well you can claim that you practice when you are on a suitable site and the bat was the first thing that you grabbed in panic..
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My Dad was a woodwork teacher and when us children left home he converted one of the bedrooms into a wood work room.
Woke up in the middle of the night hearing an intruder down stairs.
Popped is head into the work room on his way downstairs and it was only half way down that he realised he had picked up a joinery axe.
Fortunately for both him and the intruder, his noise scared him off.
 
domandcarole said:
My Dad was a woodwork teacher and when us children left home he converted one of the bedrooms into a wood work room.
Woke up in the middle of the night hearing an intruder down stairs.
Popped is head into the work room on his way downstairs and it was only half way down that he realised he had picked up a joinery axe.
Fortunately for both him and the intruder, his noise scared him off.
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I do hope you haven't inherited that tendency.

Motorhomers can be a little nervous about people wandering around campsites brandishing an axe. 😐
 
I've read of more break-ins through the door handle approach, the only thing Fiat missed out on was a security sticker under the handle reading:
'In Emergency open HERE'
Also of seatbelts entangled around the door being cut.
 
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