I purchased one of these but have yet to install it. Looks like a power point (American 2 flat pin). You open it with a small key screwdriver supplied, the faceplate drops down and you have a good size box to place money or valuables.
tezza said
03:34 PM Dec 23, 2013
so if it is american it doesn't look like an ordinary power point and any burglar worth his salt will read the same adds you read before buying it. It is possible that the wrong person might do more damage to the wall of your van, trying to get it open, than the contents of the safe are worth. I prefer the old adage, out of sight out of mind.
Hendo said
04:29 PM Dec 23, 2013
Good friend of mine owned a very popular chinese restaurant on the north coast. One night it was burgled and the safe cracked and a large amount of money taken. She was filthy, went off big time, "I tell him all time not put money in safe, first place they look, take home put under bed!" Now every time I see a safe I get the giggles and think of her.
Hendo
oldbobsbus said
04:54 PM Dec 23, 2013
I have built a safe into each of the motorhomes I have built ( dunno why coz I never have anything to put into them..lol)
They are hard to find and when you do, if you don't have the key and the combo you would need to demolish the joint to get at them with an angle grinder to cut them open..
Then all you would get is the left overs of your efforts..
We don't carry any jewelery and have a CC each for anything we want to buy along the way..
the rocket said
07:32 PM Dec 24, 2013
I suppose they are good if you need one. We don't. we don't have jewellery and take money with us. nothing worth putting in a safe in our van unless you count my amazing Italian almond biscuits that always disappear. merry Christmas.
george57 said
08:20 AM Dec 25, 2013
I would still like to be able to lock away my laptop/camera/phone etc. if I am away from the van.
Herb said
08:45 AM Dec 25, 2013
Dam you must have small laptop to fit in that safe lol. We have a lockup in the truck that holds laptop etc. We always take things like that with us as it is too easy to break into the van. When you think of all the nice things you have in a van a burglar would leave with hands full anyway. TV's, coffee makers, radios, petrol in containers, LPG bottles, fishing gear, generators, camping tables and chairs, BBQ's, Breakdown gear, Bikes, etc. all stuff easy to hock off and in small place so wouldn't take long. We had TV program on once that showed how long it took to burgle a house. From start to finish was less than 10 mins. I'm guessing a van would take 5. Laptops are more important than money I reckon, Money you can just hold a small amount but laptops have all your information on them like copies documents, contact lists and addresses, access to banks, and of course the grey nomad site. The good thing about a laptop is you can load software on it to allow it to be tracked and also remote access the camera when activated (take photo when turned on).
As the cops say keep things out of sight, it wont stop the serious burglar but it will stop the opportunist.
Legendts said
10:58 AM Dec 25, 2013
Hendo wrote:
Now every time I see a safe I get the giggles and think of her.
Hendo
Every time I hear the word safe I think of my wife's two disgusting excuses for sisters (can't call them human beings either) who stole a very large amount of money from their parents safe in Bundaberg after they passed away this year. Said there was no money in it.......but around two weeks later a new car was in the drive, go figure!
Like I tell my lovely wife, look out the windscreen and see what's ahead not through the rear vision mirror to see what's gone, life goes on, although sometimes made it's made a lot harder than it needs to be.
-- Edited by Legendts on Wednesday 25th of December 2013 11:00:33 AM
I purchased one of these but have yet to install it. Looks like a power point (American 2 flat pin). You open it with a small key screwdriver supplied, the faceplate drops down and you have a good size box to place money or valuables.
Hendo
They are hard to find and when you do, if you don't have the key and the combo you would need to demolish the joint to get at them with an angle grinder to cut them open..
Then all you would get is the left overs of your efforts..
We don't carry any jewelery and have a CC each for anything we want to buy along the way..
I suppose they are good if you need one. We don't. we don't have jewellery and take money with us. nothing worth putting in a safe in our van unless you count my amazing Italian almond biscuits that always disappear. merry Christmas.
Dam you must have small laptop to fit in that safe lol. We have a lockup in the truck that holds laptop etc. We always take things like that with us as it is too easy to break into the van. When you think of all the nice things you have in a van a burglar would leave with hands full anyway. TV's, coffee makers, radios, petrol in containers, LPG bottles, fishing gear, generators, camping tables and chairs, BBQ's, Breakdown gear, Bikes, etc. all stuff easy to hock off and in small place so wouldn't take long. We had TV program on once that showed how long it took to burgle a house. From start to finish was less than 10 mins. I'm guessing a van would take 5. Laptops are more important than money I reckon, Money you can just hold a small amount but laptops have all your information on them like copies documents, contact lists and addresses, access to banks, and of course the grey nomad site. The good thing about a laptop is you can load software on it to allow it to be tracked and also remote access the camera when activated (take photo when turned on).
As the cops say keep things out of sight, it wont stop the serious burglar but it will stop the opportunist.
Every time I hear the word safe I think of my wife's two disgusting excuses for sisters (can't call them human beings either) who stole a very large amount of money from their parents safe in Bundaberg after they passed away this year. Said there was no money in it.......but around two weeks later a new car was in the drive, go figure!
Like I tell my lovely wife, look out the windscreen and see what's ahead not through the rear vision mirror to see what's gone, life goes on, although sometimes made it's made a lot harder than it needs to be.
-- Edited by Legendts on Wednesday 25th of December 2013 11:00:33 AM