Keys

Rosie and David

Rosie and David

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I have a growing number of keys with my motorhome, Ignition, Habitation and locker keys and now with alarm fob and tracker fob which are all duplicated. I have to remember to take my tracker fob separately from my bunch of keys. I often travel alone so what do others do with all these keys and especially the duplicate set. You can't leave them in the van, so all my pockets are full when I go out for a walk or shopping. Oh and not forgetting my electric bike keys and locks! We often see discussions about motorhomes being overloaded, what about people!
 
Get a man bag. :ROFLMAO:
You could change the lock barrels so they are all keyed the same, I only have 2 keys & alarm fob. One key for ignition & one key that does all the doors & lockers. E-bike keys I leave in the van unless on the bike.
 
It always pays to have a spare set hidden away around the outside of the van just in case. of course it needs to be safe and away from the elements.
suggested places have been inside the fridge vents, behind wing mirror valances, within tow bar , ect ect
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Got a man bag, but my MH does not have central locking, but habitation door and lockers are all one key. I feel like a jailer.

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I have one hidden and all other spares in a safe in the van. I carry the plipper, fuel cap key, and one that fits everything else, on one key ring. The safe is electronic.
 
tonyidle said:
I have one hidden and all other spares in a safe in the van. I carry the plipper, fuel cap key, and one that fits everything else, on one key ring. The safe is electronic.
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I love that word.. It's made me giggle.. 'plipper'.... Never heard it before. :LOL:
 
I have one of these hidden inside my van
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Rosie and David
Hi you are almost our neighbours! We live in Colyton.

re your keys, one very useful suggestion I would like to make to you and other “funsters” is that any spare keys duplicate you have, is to keep a set some where under the van. You can buy magnetic boxes to put the keys under the van , I also strap them on. It’s a very long story but we got locked out of the van by mistake and it was a hell of a job to get back in. Now that I have keys under the van IF it ever again we will have no problem.

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kelv
kelv said:
I have one of these hidden inside my van
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I know they have to get in your van and find the keysafe, but these ones are a waste of time. I know to my cost as we had one with the front door key in it in our unlocked porch. Just before Christmas, we had gone out and had been seen going out. Shortly after we left, a car pulled up right outside our house and 4 people got out (seen on our cctv). They tipped our cctv cameras up (we live in a bungalow) and came to the porch. We believe they tried ringing the doorbell, and when there was no answer, opened the porch door, jammed a screwdriver into the keysafe and broke the front away and used our spare key to open the front door.

Our alarm went off, and despite them smashing the panel, keypad and front bell trying to silence it, the rear bell continued to ring and alerted my neighbour. Fortunately nothing was taken, only the alarm needed to be replaced

Cheers

Trevor

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It is well hidden and just somewhere to leave my house keys and a spare ignition key.
spare hab door key is located somewhere else.
 
I only carry one; my combined ignition/cab door key. The other two sets (fuel cap, lockers, hab door) are tucked away in a drawer or under clothing, in a saucepan, or the fridge, under a seat etc. nothing too secret.
Probably different for full-timers but there's nothing of value left in my m/h except a bottle or two of St Emilion - no T.V., phone, computery stuff, jewellery........Rolex watches............
If they pinch the entire vehicle it's insured. I don't 'cherish' it and I can get another one. Highly inconvenient maybe but I'm retired, in no rush and enjoy a challenge and surprises. Worse things happen at sea (been there during 20+ years with my cruising yacht).

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you dont even need to hide an entire key. just conceal a plain flat key cut to open the hab door. if you remove most of the head of the key, it makes it very small and easy to hide. placed against a flat surface and covered with duct tape, it is hard to find by touch. you need to know where to look for it, and there are plenty of options on the average motorhome
 
Thought I read somewhere if you’re vehicle is stolen and you can’t produce 2 sets of keys your insurance is not valid could have got it wrong though.
 
I also read somewhere that if your van is stolen and keys were inside you are deemed to be negligent, but as Big1 suggested there are plenty of places to hide things. I went away last year and hid some spare cash so well I couldn't find it until I came back and emptied it. I like the idea of behind fridge vents. Next time I will have a look underneath for a magnet friendly place.
 
poppycamper said:
How secure is this forum????? Have we all just revealed all our secrets to any riff raff who may be reading this.
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I'm sure I haven't, I over winter on a mates bit of ground where there are about 20-30 vans and caravans in storage, I got a call from my mate a while back saying one of the people who stores their caravan there had reported smelling burning and he thought it was coming from my van, I told my mate where the spare key was hidden, he rang back about 10-15 mins later saying he couldn't find the key. I had to stay on the phone and talk him through it.

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we have one of these hanging under the chassis
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TheBig1 said:
you dont even need to hide an entire key. just conceal a plain flat key cut to open the hab door. if you remove most of the head of the key, it makes it very small and easy to hide. placed against a flat surface and covered with duct tape, it is hard to find by touch. you need to know where to look for it, and there are plenty of options on the average motorhome
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i can vouch for the hard to find i did that with mine and three years later we were locked out took me a hour to find where i had taped it
 
on a previous van I hid the cut down door key on the inside of the wall behind the fridge. You couldn't see it with the fridge vent off at all. Just feel for the edge of a piece of tape with a fingernail and peel it off with the key attached. I passed the info onto the buyer when I sold the van
 
Oki doki... except we all very well hidden... BUT we all admitting that somewhere on most motorhomes there is a hidden key.. Come on all you bad guys lets see if we can find it. Ps my van is very big/small and is white/green/red/blue and it's registration number is xxxxxxx. Telling you bad guys nowt.
 
poppycamper said:
Oki doki... except we all very well hidden... BUT we all admitting that somewhere on most motorhomes there is a hidden key.. Come on all you bad guys lets see if we can find it. Ps my van is very big/small and is white/green/red/blue and it's registration number is xxxxxxx. Telling you bad guys nowt.
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don't worry about the bad guys, they really are not bothered if you hide a key. A motorhome window can be opened in seconds without tools

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Treeeev said:
kelv


I know they have to get in your van and find the keysafe, but these ones are a waste of time. I know to my cost as we had one with the front door key in it in our unlocked porch. Just before Christmas, we had gone out and had been seen going out. Shortly after we left, a car pulled up right outside our house and 4 people got out (seen on our cctv). They tipped our cctv cameras up (we live in a bungalow) and came to the porch. We believe they tried ringing the doorbell, and when there was no answer, opened the porch door, jammed a screwdriver into the keysafe and broke the front away and used our spare key to open the front door.

Our alarm went off, and despite them smashing the panel, keypad and front bell trying to silence it, the rear bell continued to ring and alerted my neighbour. Fortunately nothing was taken, only the alarm needed to be replaced

Cheers

Trevor

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Not much point in a key safe in your van if you loose your keys and can't get in.BUSBY.
 
PLEASE DONT KEEP YOUR SPARE KEYS IN THE VAN EVEN IF HIDDEN. SEE MY POST ABOVE IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY GET LOCKED OUT, HOW DO YOU GET IN?

colyboy
 
never carried a spare set of keys with me in any vehicle i have ever been away in.....not even considered it :confused:

i can get in my motorhome in under 5 minutes anyway because the nice people at heki put the hinge pins on the outside of the rooflight
 
If you're on a campsite or anywhere civilised where theft-risk is low and you've decided not to use your double-security locks or alarm/immobiliser, you only need one key to get into the van (ignition/driver's door key). You don't need to carry keys for your gas or garage lockers or your Thatcham alarm remote if you're going to the pool or the bar. You may as well leave these in the van. It's not as if anyone could start the engine with them).

I suppose the question could be - is it easier to lose one solitary key or a big bunch ? I suppose you could keep the one key on a chain around your neck.

When we're away the wife keeps a spare key in her purse. We try to make sure we don't keep our keys in the same place. If we all go to the pool we usually are surrounded by other campers and feel our belonging are relatively safe.
 
PLEASE TAKE A SPARE KEY WITH YOU (see our
post above) we didn’t and we were locked out for over six hours. The Belguim couple who helped us has had his spare key fixed for four years some where under his van and has never used it! We did not have a Spare key and needed it, we now have a spare strapped under the van and he we hope we will not need it ever again.

Colyboy

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