We are Tim and Karen, sold the house bought a motor home, travelling and hiking as much as we can. Subscribe to see our new content with our Baile Motorhome, yep she is Less a Y hence the name x
glad to see your motorhome is back. I know that sticker on the windscreen and it is Copart. It is called a lot number, the yellow chalk on the glass was written by the person who received it in the yard and most likely were the ones who would have taken the photos of it when it came in. I use to work at a Copart many years ago and I can tell you now that those places are full of thieves and some unsavoury people. The amount of items stolen not just from vehicles going back to customers but vehicles that were even being crushed due to flood damage or arson. The workers would rummage through peoples vehicles to see if they had left money in them or anything they wanted. I got the sack due to constantly trying to tell the manager that the workers were not doing there job properly and that I was trained to be professional and respect the rules on site. of course following the rules and doing my job to earn a wage didn't keep my job. Health and safety was non existent and I was always telling management that they needed to open there eyes and see the things that were going on within the company. They got sick of hearing it so they lied to me and said they had to lay me off due to no work. people will always crash cars, burn them, steal them and that means that these places will always have work. I was absolutely appalled at that company because they always denied taking personal items and sometimes the customers would kick off at the office staff and the look on the office staff's faces was blank. if a vehicle goes to Copart, make sure to take ALL YOUR items out of it, even the stereo unit because you will never see it again. anyway, it is nice to see your home from home is back up and running :)
Another great way to protect your Motorhome buy a decent motor bike chain have your front seats facing the living area, feed the chain through the bars on the bottom of the back of the seats chain them together stops the seat turning round just another deterrent
@andyhorne2654 we have a kryptonite bike lock on the drivers seat impossible to turn it back around to drive it, I could also use our other bike lock to do both seats
Hi. Great video and lots of interesting hacks but please please please, uncoil your electric hookup cable under your motorhome as it’s a common cause of fire in a motorhome as it acts like a heating element when you’re putting current through it and it melts and catches fire right under your motorhome 😧
So sorry for your bad experience, can't put on here what I would like see done to them! Must be heartbreaking! First vid I've seen of you and don't want to say I enjoyed! But have subscribed.❤
So sorry guys I'm defo gonna get a gps thanks for the link we have a Peugeot boxer as well can u tell me what the glass covering u going to get pls James
We have a fully charged old mobile phone with a data sim card hidden our camper with Google location enabled . We keep it fully charged and can easily check location using Find Device app. Thankfully we have never had to use it but it gives some peace of mind.
My van was in expensive secure storage when it was broken into for a shopping list of Autotrail parts including the big sunroof, internal doors, a drawer and window blind cassette, all sorts. The site were worse than useless at helping, refused cctv to me and the police. Insurance paid out eventually after they and I were not able to get it restored. Turns out this was one of many similar problems at this gold standard site.
So sorry to hear your bad news! We have a Tracker similar to yours that sends a Text message! With a Map of where the Van is! We have a Wheel Clamp outside which is visible! The Steering Lock is ok but kinda useless if you have Screen covers on it can't be seen! We also have VIN Chip which Forensically marks the Van in many places that the Police can Scan it! for £85 well worth it!
Hi Karen and Tim, Less Y on Tour - sorry to hear your Motorhome was stolen and about all the subsequent difficulties you’ve had to contend with! Unbelievable! Some great security ideas here. Can we just check which GPS tracker you have installed … the link is for a WINNES Model TK915 - Amazon quoting £69.99. Do you pay a subscription on the SIM card for this? Cheers
Hi Thanks for the message, yep that's the tracker I bought, and yes I use a smarty sim card in it needs to be a mini sim not a micro one, costs me about £10 per month and with smarty you can pay by the month so if not using for a few months then you don't need to pay. Regards Tim and Karen
The main point is why are we having to spend all this money on keeping are hard earned vans safe? These scumbags should be jailed on first offence and made to pay for the damage they cause. Rant over!
OMG I hope not, I would have thought it impossible to get a fork lift under a Bailey 79 4i due to the low profile, there are skirts all the way around which are lower than the chassis 😮
Why did the vehicle go to co-part ?did you accept the insurance offer of a payout ? If not your van should have gone into storage at a recovery company. Co-part is a company that auctions off crashed, stolen or damaged vehicles on behalf of the insurance companies once they have agreed with the owner. If you where having the vehicle back it should have never have gone there. Co-part do not store vehicles. They auction them.
My insurance company use co part as their insurance assessors, I was told that's how it works. So van was picked up from the recovery yard by co part, to be assessed. They used the term full loss quite a bit, I knew she wouldn't be. They also struggled to get their heads round it was a motorhome, not a Peugeot Boxer ! After they said yes its repairable, they also asked if I wanted to sell it lol
bear lock ....... left you a link to watch so you get a better idear of the bear lock..... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UUzeX_YLHN0.html
Great advice, we have the same motorhome in the 94/t version. Can I also recommend HEO safe cab deadlocks. Purpose built for your van and very neat. Will stop your cab doors opening.
Install some spy cameras inside, take only one fuse out with you when ever leaving the camping car, by doing this, the vehicle will never start😅 , if I am wrong, ask an automotive electrician. A little investment, but put a starlink Internet antenna,in a hide out place which will give immediate positioning of the vehicle. Thank God you got your vehicle back This is the most important. If I was you, I needed to left it unattended, I should take out the air for the front wheel , knowing I have an air compressor onboard.
LITLOK X3 or Hiplok D1000 will take a few disc from an Angle grinder to remove (over 4 I believe). The lock you have now will be less than 30 seconds. Definitely not an hour. Still everything you have all together is a good upgrade in security. If you want to really go for it. There is an alarm that when triggered fills the vehicle completely with smoke in about 5 seconds making it impossible to carry on and from memory it can be reused several times. I would think carefully about using the building rated security film on the windows, and maybe stick to ones designed for vehicles only because in an accident it could seriously hamper aid.
@@snowshepherdstrolls4901No, it must contain Barronium to get those kind of results and that puts the price up. Serious bikers will tell you that. They need locks that resist angle grinders and the D1000 was the first mass produced game changer. Kryptonite is a strong lock and will be a pain for someone wanting to steal who doesn't have an angle grinder but no way would it take more than one disc or more than a minute. But I can't see someone trying it with all you have now. The only thing you could add now is a simple hidden switch that cuts the fuel pump. That way in the event they bring an angle grinder it won't be going anywhere. That would definitely take the wind out of their enthusiasm
So sorry to hear about your theft. So pleased you’ve got her back though. I’ve have almost exactly the same van as you A Bailey Autograph 79-6 and have put two trackers and an alarm on it as well as a Clutch Claw, a steering wheel lock and I lock the drivers seat in the reverse position. I would also recommend running a strap between both handles on the front door as that way they can’t open the front doors easily if they pick the lock (although in your case they smashed the window so could have cut the strap). I would also recommend getting some LockMout window locks as the locks on the Bailey windows don’t have a click button to unlock them and it’s easy to slip a screwdriver through the rubber surround and push the locks up. I’ve also fitted a Catloc to the catalytic converter as they are targets for thieves on vans and motorhomes as well. All you can do is make it as hard to steal as possible and hope they move on to an easier target.
The link to my tracker is in the description, the kryptonite lock was from halfords its an evolution gold standard one, it has short arms so it locks through and blocks the seat rotation
Transit and Sprinter variants are 9 of the top ten most stolen. For years Ducatos weren't stolen but the thieves appear to be getting past the immobilisers now.
These where amateurs when they stole our van the got in to van in 10 second had it running in and out of yard in 30 seconds it took them longer to cut lock of security gate not going to tell you on here how they did it for obvious reasons but no damage was done we only recovered it because they could not find the tracker
