Whether you’re wild camping in the Scottish Highlands, parked up at a French aire, or leaving your motorhome on the drive while you’re away, security is something every owner thinks about. Few actually prepare for properly.
That’s why we’ve published The Motorhome Security Handbook, a practical guide written specifically for the UK motorhome community.
MotorhomeFun subscribers can download it free.
Prefer not to subscribe or want a print/Kindle copy? It’s also available on Amazon.
➡️ Subscribers: Can Download From the Member’s Area
➡️ Non-subscribers: Buy on Amazon
What you’ll get from it
- Reduce the chance of theft and scams without turning your van into a fortress
- Build simple routines that prevent the most common problems
- Understand what security measures actually work (and what’s just expensive theatre)
- Improve personal awareness without paranoia
- Protect keys, valuables, digital devices, and your home while you’re away
Who wrote The Motorhome Security Handbook?
The handbook was written by James Brown, a retired security consultant with decades of professional experience in personal security.
James founded MotorhomeFun in 2007 and has been an active motorhomer for almost 40 years This isn’t theory. It’s practical guidance from someone living the lifestyle.
It also draws on nearly two decades of MotorhomeFun member experience: real-world lessons, mistakes, near-misses, and the things people wish they’d done differently.
What’s inside?
This isn’t about living in fear. It’s about understanding how problems actually start, then quietly preventing most of them.
Motorhome Security
A layered approach covering door and window weaknesses, alarms, trackers, immobilisers, and physical deterrents, plus how to separate what matters from what’s just expensive theatre.
Key security
The overlooked vulnerability that ruins trips fast, with simple key-management systems (including a hard-learned ferry lesson).
Personal security
Cooper’s Colour Codes and how to stay aware without becoming suspicious of everyone.
On the road
Service stations, breakdown safety, threat assessment, and why traffic is a bigger danger than criminals.
Scams and street awareness
Common European cons, distraction thefts, and the warning signs that something isn’t right.
Solo travellers and vulnerable groups
Realistic security advice that accounts for different needs, margins, and response speeds.
Environmental threats
Wind, flooding, heat/cold, carbon monoxide, and the risks that cause more damage than crime.
Digital security
Wi-Fi, sat navs, trackers, dashcams, and how to reduce your online footprint.
Securing your home
Leaving checklists and sensible layers so you can travel without imagining disasters back home.
Fire, carbon monoxide and first aid
Prevention first, then what matters most in the first critical minutes.
Conflict management and terrorism awareness
Avoid, de-escalate, leave. Not confront.
Why this book?
Most online “security advice” is either clickbait horror stories or product reviews in disguise.
This handbook focuses on patterns: the predictable situations that lead to problems. Good security should be invisible. When it works, you barely notice it. You just sleep better, worry less, and enjoy the trip you set out for.
How to get your copy
➡️ Subscribers: Can Download From the Member’s Area
➡️ Non-subscribers: Buy on Amazon
The Motorhome Security Handbook is produced in association with MotorhomeFun. The guidance blends professional security experience with the hard-won lessons of thousands of motorhome owners who live this life every day.