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Hi Pete, I got one of the key ones at 19.99 and then took my front seat off its mountings (4 Bolts) I put the safe inside it, and Bolted it to the seat, If you wanted you could leave it loose and just pad it, It cannot be removed without unbolting the seat from the floor and that takes time and who would think of that?.
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Les
I used to have a safe in the pub I owned, The chap who fitted the CCTV and Alarm system looked at the safe and to be honest two fully grown men couldnt lift it. He said he would get it to the window in the room and throw it out of the window to a waiting pick up truck. So I thought about anchor bolts etc and he laughed. His advise was and he has been around to put it politely, put it in a corner and use loads of silicone on the bottom, back and side. You wont shift it then. That way no holes need to be drillled.
I hope these bits of advice are of some use to you. . .
1. Hide the safe if possible. A thief usually wants to be in and out as quickly as possible, so will tend to grab at easy items first.
2. Any safe can be opened if the thief has the time to do it, however, he will need to remove the safe to be able to take it away and open a decent safe, so ALWAYS bolt it down, and bolt it down well.
3. Buy the best safe you can afford, a mechanical keylock will always be better than a digital lock, but not as convenient. Having said that though, very few burglars ever pick locks, its brute force every time for them. Leverage will be the method of choice, to good effect most of the time.
4. A cheap safe will only stop a very low level attack, so bolt it down but dont put the family jewels in it. A good safe HAS TO BE bolted down well, as its designed to resist attack from the front, top, and sides only (there are exceptions to this, but not in the small safe market). So if its a good safe, then the experienced thief will want to remove the safe and cut or delaminate the safe from the back.
I appreciate the comfort a safe may give. However, I have always found a motorhome has plenty of places to securely hide the important passports and emergency credit card etc.
A safe is no good if they pinch the van
Just remember even if you have a safe you should keep a copy of your passports, insurance and credit card company contact numbers on an e-mail that can be accessed from any computer. That way no matter what happens you can obtain the important information.
It came in handy for me. Fortunately, nothing to do with motorhomes. I was at work and we had to leave someplace real quick and that meant leaving passports behind. I was able to get access to a scanned copy of mine which is in my e-mail files. I got my replacement passport 3 days before the others and got home before anyone.
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