Practical Caravan

HOW TO… PROTECT YOUR CAR KEYS & FIT A TRACKER

IT’S A SAD REFLECTION of society these days that we are constantly obliged to protect our possessions against thieves.

It’s become something of an arms race, too – just when the manufacturers think they’ve solved a problem with technology, along comes another criminal who’s found the means of defeating that particular technology! And so it continues.

It’s fair to say that traditionally, caravans haven’t been the trickiest things to steal: window catches can almost seem to be made of jelly, door locks don’t always feel secure, and so on. Unfortunately, until manufacturers do something about that, we’re stuck with it and there’s not a lot that we can do about break-ins.

One reassurance, though, is that when caravans are in storage (see p92), there’s not usually much of high value left inside. Of more importance is doing all you can

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