moodrater said:

120L OF diesel at french prices is a saving of £10 hardly worth thinking about, deadlocks are great until you lose the key or they malfunction, remember they can always whip off your skylight or smash a window if they can't open the door. Or with a motorhome rip off a door or window which is more costly than anything they'll take.

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re the fuel saving, it depends on how often you save £10, we are back and forward a fair amount of times...

I think the point of deadlocks is to give the chancers a second thought that it may be a little more difficult to get in than just a fast smash of a lock.

Have now had 3 break ins, 2 in our Ducato vans and one in a motorhome, so plenty of experience of much of what these people can do. My conclusion is deadlocks are good as they make it a little more daunting to casual thiefs having to bodily climb through a window and then get what they are after out the same way.

If a professional thief wants to break in there's nothing apart from a fully amoured vehicle that will prevent them.

As to costs, having a single lock smashed on a Ducato means that via a FIAT dealer they will only sell you a lock set, £700 + for the set plus coding and fitting, deadlocks are cheaper and more effective.

Just my experiences

friend of stouby said:

As to costs, having a single lock smashed on a Ducato means that via a FIAT dealer they will only sell you a lock set, £700 + for the set plus coding and fitting, deadlocks are cheaper and more effective.

Just my experiences

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Deadlocks won't stop some numbnut sticking a screwdriver in the lock or the handle, Theres absolutely no reason to recode your van or replace your remotes a full lockset + new keyblades is about 100 quid on ebay. Better still a good autolocksmith would retumble a lock barrel for about 30 quid and you'd be back on the road for 50.