Van Security Thread

[Dan]

After seeing this on the plumbing forum I thought it's wise for us to share van security tips, and van models to avoid (this is Mk7 Transit - has no top runner on the door which apparently allows you to stand on the door and simply bend it in a few seconds).

Alarms, dead locks, chains on the inside attaching to bulkheads, CCTV covering the drive, etc etc

 

[Spud]

I got slam dead locks fitted on mine after several vans on the site I was working on got their locks popped out by tool thieves , lucky mine wasn't one of them but I thought it would be wise to change them

 

[Dan]

If anybody is local to Staffordshire, cheshire, shropshire, this guy is a friend of mine from the pub.

Stoke-on-Trent Locksmith - Dan Topping

Very good guy, mention "Dan the forum guy with the Amarok" and he'll know who you mean and sort you a good price out.

 

[White Room]

Those dead lock are expensive....but so having your tools nicked.

 

[Dan]

When you come to sell your van though, the guy buying it knows it hasn't been broken into etc, so you stand out a bit above the others with the same van.

Just chatting to some of the others in the arms on the other forums, and some have lost 10's of thousands it seems. Sparks with their testing equipment and plumbers with the thermal imaging equipment etc. Shocking. I think if you have an expensive saw in the back and a bad back from pulling it in and out every night, it's worth a few hundred quid for that.

Perhaps just deadlock the front and side, then chain the back, or something. Worth considering though.

 

[Spud]

My van locks were around 250 supplied and fitted

 

[White Room]

My van locks were around 250 supplied and fitted

Was that all doors Gary ?

 

[mma]

No back doors jokes please...

 

[Spud]

No Mark just the back and side loading doors , my van has a steel bulk head and the slam locks have a special security key if you shut the keys in the back you can't get in so I am very careful with them

 

[White Room]

No Mark just the back and side loading doors , my van has a steel bulk head and the slam locks have a special security key if you shut the keys in the back you can't get in so I am very careful with them

Still good price though.

 

[One Day]

Heck, it must be tough down south!

 

[lizzardtong]

You can put as many locks as you want. It wont stop crafty fu@#ers. Senn feew week ago on Facebook. Locksmiths van broke in to. They cut open the roof with tinsnips. Stole over 15k of tools. Didnt touch doors.

 

[Dan]

You can put as many locks as you want. It wont stop crafty fu@#ers. Senn feew week ago on Facebook. Locksmiths van broke in to. They cut open the roof with tinsnips. Stole over 15k of tools. Didnt touch doors.

That's a bold move!

You need to just make it as hard as possible. It'd deter the smack-heads. Those who did that van I bet were a league or two under the London Jewel Heist type affair. You wont stop them. Even when they're in their 60's lol They do it as a hobby.