Motorhome stolen of my drive!

Or as pampam suggested a paper spray/tear gas/fire extinguishant etc, operated via solenoid activated via mobile signal.
 
Mate of mine has Yale home alarm and fitted a pir in his van.

Anyone opens up the van the house alarm goes off.


I think one off the best non start cheap instal is cut into the Earth cable from the ignition and fit a hidden switch.
Fit it well down the cable so can’t be seen.

You can also move the obd port to a hidden place and put an obd port with cable from a scrapyard in its place.
 
A spring loaded barbed projectile central in the drivers seat :ello:
 
I hope you hear something soon. My neighbour had her horse box stolen. The thieves cut through hedges and crossed fields to steal it. They physically carried it to a low loader. A few weeks later someone spotted it on eBay, so the owner posed as @ buyer and went and retrieved it from a well known horse rider!! It was damaged but has been repaired and is as good as new now. She had a lot of security on it before hand! There’s more now!
 
A Motorhome gets nicked and we get posts about installing alarms, growlers whatever they are, trackers, take bits off the engine, security posts, clutch claws and lord knows what next.

I know someone who had more security than soft Mick it’s like Fort Knox, it’s takes him about 2 hours just to get the van driveable by the time he’s removed everything from the Motorhome and taken down 2 posts and chains from the gate. his wife says it spoils the spontaneity of using the van, it’s like an obsession with security she says and if he’s that bothered get rid of it and they’ll have different holidays, I fully agree with her.
But he’s not had his van nicked.

I want to finish work, Chuck some stuff in the van and drive away.

All we have is an incredibly vicious dog a proper growler, I agree with everyone who says if they want your van they’ll have it and don’t worry one iota.

She’ll rip your arm off🤣. The size of a pair of rolled up socks.

Best wishes to the OP, it’s just a bit of metal and no one was physically harmed.



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Nedge68 said:
No - you have just been badly treated by some toe rag who wanted what you had. I really hope you get it back undamaged.
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Hi
if this helps
we has a caravan stolen out of the garage. They smashed the garage door to take it.
twin wheel. We didnt have it insured. from up north. it had a tracker, the police told us not to go and get it. It was on a gypsy site. The tracker company wouldn’t go in. It was within 15miles of home.
two years later i got a call from the police, the caravan was just outside London. They had taken it
in a raid. We had to go and collect it. We had to pay for its storage and retrieval.
we brought it home and cleaned it up. We sold it for far less than its value owing to whay state t was in.
It doesn’t end there. Next thing we had the police. It seems they had changed the serial number.
we was being arrested. I rang the manufacturer and he confirmed the hidden serial number to the police. Then i rang London police who couldn’t ring the local police, but sent me an email confirming that their serial number had been changed.

so as you can see you dont win
our caravan now has the postcode on the roof in hiviz colours as well as other markings
so that it is seen on motorways and roads and not forgotton
im so sorry for you, it upsetting and stressful. GOOD LUCK
 
I had a 4x4 taken off the drive. They had to navigate it round a car parked behind it with only inches to get past it but they managed, as it was parked just near the bedroom window they must have pushed it as it sounded like a tank when it started up. If they want it they will find away of getting it so don’t beat yourself up about not having security. Hope it all works out for you.
 
Have had 4 excavators stolen when I had my construction company, 3 had Trackers fitted and none were found.
A copper admitted that they only had 1 car in the area fitted with the equipment to track stolen stuff!!

One of the Trackers was cellular but again never found.

Mate had a couple stolen from his yard tracker’s found just down the road thrown in the bush.
 
Like everyone on here it’s the thing we dread most, motorhomes are our passion and it’s a way of life.
Sorry Dorwyn, sincerely hope you have a good result either recovery or insurance.
 
sounds like the thieves may have used a magnetic stick-on tracker so they could track you without being seen following you home,they may have possibly had the opportunity to attach it from your stop at the layby or even on the tunnel terminal. we hope you get it back.
 
Every time I see this at the top of the new list I think yes they have found it .on opening I'm disappointed keep your chin up Dorwyn

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Dorwyn said:
Fiat Ducato Autotrail Tribute pvc, silver, WU16HCA from Wells, Somerset. Just arrived back from France, was taken overnight, some one was watching. Silver with wavy stripes along side. Please lookout for it.
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Sorry to hear this, I have put it on a number of motorhome groups, here's hoping you get it back soon.
 
gwyntaxi said:
Sorry to hear this, I have put it on a number of motorhome groups, here's hoping you get it back soon.
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Thank you so much, the more it is posted the better. Here's a another pic that was taken last week it's a bit more representative. It's quite distinctive, in your face almost. Someone must have noticed it on its journey from here.
 

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We will be touring in your area so will keep our eyes open. Although yours might be on cloned plates now.

I had the VIN number security marked by grit blasting on all my windows (glass and plastic) as a deterrent. Or, you can have the registration instead. All for £25. Done at home. Only takes a few minutes. Very polite mobile operative / agent.

SECURE-IT 07846 437647 or secureituk@sky.com
 
That is is the sort of van i look for on ebay (if we decide to buy a van again ) so i shall keep my eye out , the thing is some other poor unsuspecting personnmight buy it and it not actually beling to them .... so eventually lots of people get shafted(scuse my french)
 
Dorwyn said:
Thank you so much, the more it is posted the better. Here's a another pic that was taken last week it's a bit more representative. It's quite distinctive, in your face almost. Someone must have noticed it on its journey from here.
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Hi, sorry to hear about the theft of your beautiful motorhome, I can’t print on here what I think of the scum who did this🤬🤬
Anyhow, am I right in thinking it has a tracker and have you heard anything? The reason I’m asking is that so many on here that have call centre trackers would be a bit perturbed if they hadn’t heard anything from the tracker people!!
Me, I have the Vanbitz growler and non starter (I’ve had them on all my vans) and I sleep soundly at night knowing it will be there in the morning. My tracker is in MY control, I can turn the van on or off as and when I want and nobody can Nick it when it’s turned off. I don’t wait by the phone waiting for the nice people at the call centre ringing me to tell me it’s being burnt out 10 miles away or at the local ***** site!
if you’re in any doubt how difficult it is to bypass this system here’s a photo of a van that has the non starter system.
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THEY NEVER GOT THE VAN, and the nice people at meta came and put it all back together! Pic Courtesy of SmithsInFrance

Vanbitz all the way!! and the back up is second to none👍
 
Two Owl Ones said:
sounds like the thieves may have used a magnetic stick-on tracker so they could track you without being seen following you home,they may have possibly had the opportunity to attach it from your stop at the layby or even on the tunnel terminal. we hope you get it back.
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That's what I was thinking, it was only on the drive max 12 hours. How did they know it was there at that time? It must have been targeted. Plus the equipment needed to break in. You bet they had new plates with them. The police said the automatic number plate readers would be pinging allover the place. Not with false plates. I watched a low loader pickup a car right outside here. It hoisted the car and drove off in a very few minutes. You could easily get a low loader up my drive in the dead of night. I was zonked out!
 
Also, oddly, I stopped on the A303 on the way home from the tunnel, and I saw what I am convinced was the neighbour's van from the campsite the night before, driving by. It was such an unusual make and model. You start to think all sorts of things, but in retrospect what are the chances of that? Am I paranoid? Probably.
 
gus-lopez said:
Do they ask how many keys it came with when you bought it? No? Then how can they after,? Mine came with 1 remote. I now have 4 sets.

Really needs to be the locking type.


When in the UK I use every.
Obd lock is always on ,
Clutch claw,
Steering lock
Double locking external deadlocks on cab doors,
B pillar to cab doors internal 12mm stainless bolts. Rear door and side door have external dead locks. Rear doors have internal top and bottom shoot bolts .
Side door has upper internal
" anti,-peel" bars.
Tracker
Drivers door is the only door with any type of key operated lock but cannot be opened until internal door bolts are removed from inside the rear of van.
Van is always deadlocked access is only possible through side door using remote.
Alarm.
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Have u ever thought of taking the engine out at night
 

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