eddie
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We were in an Aire in 2001 and some kind person (s) forced the Fiat door lock. They then opened the door, which triggered the alarm making him flee and woke us up.
That made us change the spec of the alarm adding external LED warning Lights and have automotive quality alarm warning decals manufacturered, to be applied by the door locks and handles.
The logic being that if the thief ran away when the alarm was triggered then he wouldn't have risked trying to break in, if he had realised that the motorhome was alarmed. Also, I wouldn't have to bugger around and have the expense of a new Fiat lock and handle to secure half way through France.
The rationale was that once on an Aire with the blinds closed, nobody on the outside could see that the alarm was on, so we needed to ensure that a potential thief could clearly see that the Motorhome was alarmed even when the blinds and curtains were drawn.
If nothing else, if there are ten Motorhomes in a Aire and one appears to be alarmed, and nine don't appear to be alarmed, it is unlikely that the alarmed Motorhome will be chosen.
I post recently about our trip to St Tropez, in the post I described how we spent the night in an Aire with two other vehicles. Our best mates in their Motorhome well alarmed with our Growler system, and their daughter with her husband and two little children in a car/caravan combination. The caravan was no alarmed, the door lock was removed and the caravan was carefully ransacked, the car keys taken, car duely unlocked and rifled and more amazingly relocked and the keys put back in the caravan.
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Does this put me off Aires? Not at all, think of the ten's of thousands of vehicles staying on Aires every night and the small percentage of incidents. The crimes you do read about are people creeping around surreptitiously at night, spontaneous chancers, who tend to bugger off at the slightest confrontation.
That made us change the spec of the alarm adding external LED warning Lights and have automotive quality alarm warning decals manufacturered, to be applied by the door locks and handles.
The logic being that if the thief ran away when the alarm was triggered then he wouldn't have risked trying to break in, if he had realised that the motorhome was alarmed. Also, I wouldn't have to bugger around and have the expense of a new Fiat lock and handle to secure half way through France.
The rationale was that once on an Aire with the blinds closed, nobody on the outside could see that the alarm was on, so we needed to ensure that a potential thief could clearly see that the Motorhome was alarmed even when the blinds and curtains were drawn.
If nothing else, if there are ten Motorhomes in a Aire and one appears to be alarmed, and nine don't appear to be alarmed, it is unlikely that the alarmed Motorhome will be chosen.
I post recently about our trip to St Tropez, in the post I described how we spent the night in an Aire with two other vehicles. Our best mates in their Motorhome well alarmed with our Growler system, and their daughter with her husband and two little children in a car/caravan combination. The caravan was no alarmed, the door lock was removed and the caravan was carefully ransacked, the car keys taken, car duely unlocked and rifled and more amazingly relocked and the keys put back in the caravan.
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Does this put me off Aires? Not at all, think of the ten's of thousands of vehicles staying on Aires every night and the small percentage of incidents. The crimes you do read about are people creeping around surreptitiously at night, spontaneous chancers, who tend to bugger off at the slightest confrontation.
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