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Been thinking of how to best secure the doors when my wife and I are out wild camping.

How do you guys keep the doors secured from the inside? Was thinking of the chain type locks you get on house doors but wondered if there is something a little less odd out there you recommend?

nothing will stop a determined thief, they can just smash a window, if it makes you feel better chain/strap the two cab inside door handles together and a cable bike lock between cab door and slider, not much you can do with tailgate.

oh do ypu mean while ypu are sleeping?

itchyfeet wrote:nothing will stop a determined thief, they can just smash a window, if it makes you feel better chain/strap the two cab inside door handles together and a cable bike lock between cab door and slider, not much you can do with tailgate.

My main worry is if I am steaming drunk after a night out and some thief quietly breaks in. Smashing windows should wake me after however many beers

I was thinking something like this:



If I can stop it rattling when driving it might be a good method?

cheap small ratchet strap between both door handles in cab

wire up an alarm to the door switch?

if you are that bladdered you probably won't even remembef to lock the door.

Don't worry about it. Just lock the doors & go to sleep, you'll be fine.

I'd be more inclined to review my camping spots if you think there's a chance of someone breaking in while you're asleep.
One of the advantages of parking on-site is security, or at least the feeling of security.
As Paul said, nothing will stop a determined thief, but you can limit your chances of encountering one.
A large dog might help too.

Simple! As above Get a dog.

Just a thought but why not worry about someone forcing the windows to ? Just stay somewhere nice


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We very rarely stay at campsites much preferring to wild camp. In over 20 yrs of doing this We've never had a single worrying experience. I travelled the US where I wild camped just about every night for a year and any didn't have any problems whatsoever. Even in southern Texas along the Rio Grande/Mexican border I was fine. Italy, Croatia, Spain, France, Germany, all fine. I don't know where you plan to wild camp but you really have very little to worry about. Relax!

a1winchester wrote:Simple! As above Get a dog.

+2 get a dog

Or don't get steaming drunk, just pleasantly pished.
less chance of tripping over the hypothetical guard dog that way too.

I always find conversations like this rather amusing when you consider the thousands of hardy souls camping in tents, your van is a fortress in comparison.
If you really must then most good alarms allow internal ultrasonics to be de-activated whilst sleeping, just means fitting switches to the tailgate and sliding door for the alarm to go off with the openers. Pretty much the setup I have on mine but I've long since stopped bothering with the sleep mode (if you want to call it that) de-activation.

Martin