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safe and secure
Your caravan is a valuable asset, and like any valuable asset you should be fully aware of the measures you should be taking to make sure it remains safe and secure. It is important to remember that your caravan is vulnerable wherever it is, not just when away when on holiday, but also when parked up at home on the drive. Not only when left unattended for a long period of time, but even if you are only stopping briefly in a service station or layby.
It is very important that you take the correct precautions to protect it. Below is a list of suggestions that together can markedly reduce your chances of becoming a victim of theft.
- Be sure to fit an Approved Security Device or wheel clamps, alarms and hitchlocks. And use them whenever you can.
- On older caravans, padlock your gas cylinders to fixing clamps so they can't be stolen. On newer models make sure you keep gas compartments locked. Gas cylinders are an inviting target to a thief.
- Make sure if you choose a storage site that is both secure, and meets your insurers definition of a Secure Location. It is not just about price, you may find trying to save a few pounds is false economy if your caravan is stolen.
- Even if it's just for a few minutes, always, always close and lock doors and windows when you leave your caravan. Thieves really don't need long to clean out a caravan, and their job is made a lot easier if they don't have to force their way in.
- Fit a special deadlock to the caravan door, and be sure that you use it. This will stop thieves just smashing a window and turning the door handle to gain entry.
- Remove all personal belongings, documents and contents when the caravan is not in use. Leave the cupboard doors and curtains open, so it is obvious to any potential thief that there is nothing worth stealing.
- Whilst in storage, be sure to remove soft furnishings. These are often stolen to order, especially on older caravans.
- Get a unique number - for instance your CRIS number - etched on to all of your windows. A thief will be less likely to steal a caravan if they have to replace all the windows so as to avoid suspicion.
- Put an easily recognisable sticker or a mark in a hidden place. This will help you to identify your caravan if it is stolen.
- Get a time switch. If it's unoccupied after dark then having lights on in a caravan will make it look occupied, and will help to deter an opportunist thief.
- You will probably find that jewellery is not covered in your insurance, so make sure you don't leave any in the caravan.
- Make sure you don't leave your CRIS documents, or any documentation relating to its purchase in your caravan. You will need these to help prove your ownership of a caravan in the event it is stolen.
- This is a Do-It-Yourself idea. Buy a personal alarm and some strong fishing line. Tie the fishing line to the pin which activates the alarm. Attach the alarm securely to the underside of the caravan, and the other end of the line to something else secure. If the caravan is moved then the pin is pulled out the would be thief, and you, will be alerted by the ear-splitting alarm