What do you do to secure your RV while in storage?

[5 Happy Campers]

I too use a pin lock for my 5er. It is stored in a security gated facility with a camera and lighting next to my unit. The on-sight staff has made comments to my wife about how often I have visited. I will take this as a positive sign, but I too have insurance. I have also considered using a wheel lock for some added security.

[Lee Bode]

ETrailer recommends the following for AUH users:

https://www.etrailer.com/question-85888.html

[CWSWine]

Some of these guys are professional crooks that specialize in stealing RVs. They are pulled a to farm location and put on back 40 and used for migrate worker temp housing. The local police said that they are rarely recovered and if they are they are trashed. He also said the main targets are pull behind RVs.

[TheSpareTire]

As they say, if someone wants to steal your trailer they will. It is all about everything you can do to make it more difficult to do.

Long term storage:

* Pull my battery, if in a rig with a big battery bay remove all the interconnected cables between the batteries.
* Enable the battery disconnect if you have one and if key'ed take the key with you.
* Pull the emergency brake disconnect
* BOLT coupler pin lock.
* Proven Industries coupler lock NOTE: The aluminum puck lock is garbage, I drilled the core in seconds. I use Cobra puck lock with Abloy Sentry cylinder t-handle core. It's a universal puck lock so you can put in any t-handle core that you wish. Medico and Abloy make extremely highly resistant locks to picking and drilling.
* I have X-Chock's to lock the wheels which have a spot for a lock to go through. For that I use a pair of BOLT coupler pin lock.
* I also have two wheel boots that I have used in the past. I had two one for each axle but I currently use them for other trailers.

GPS tracker could be useful to add, however know it does have a service cost if you want to track in realtime and you will need a power source. Many of the GPS trackers I have seen have a limited 30/60 day lifetime.

[Cate&Rob]

If you really wanted to make sure the thing stayed where you parked it, you could put it on four of these $40 hydraulic/axle stands . . . and take the wheels home .

Rob

[RamGunner]

Around here they would block it up with wood or concrete stolen from another site, and then steal the hydraulic jacks.

The best you can do is make yours harder to get into or steal than the one next to it. Anything that makes it require more time / noise to steal than your neighbor units gives you the advantage.

[TheSpareTire]

If you really wanted to make sure the thing stayed where you parked it, you could put it on four of these $40 hydraulic/axle stands . . . and take the wheels home .
Rob

Around here we had some trailers stolen with a boot on the axle. They went under the trailer and unbolted the axle.

The more steps a thief has to go through hopefully make it the less likely someone will steal your rig.

My personal favorite video of trailer theft is this one, how bold do you have to be -
https://youtu.be/WMQk91zW27g

[Ed and Cathy K]

I use a PullRite Super Glide with a capture plate on the pin box. It would be worth having a ticket to watch some dummy steal it, with a standard 5th wheel hitch. The first turn would be quite interesting. I have one of these also. https://www.amazon.com/Master-Lock-2...70_&dpSrc=srch

[Neil...AKA...Neil]

Thanks everyone. Great ideas. I'm picking the trailer up in a week. It's one of the few truly "New" things we've ever purchased so Mamma's a little worried about parking it in the big scary RV storage lot. We can park it in the driveway for a couple days but our HOA limits that to 72 hrs.

[DaveMatthewsBand]

I'm going to put a lowjack in mine, hide it underneath somewhere or in a wall.

: )