Ducato cab doors - Security at night 🔐 👍

This is the quick, easy and free method of double locking your cab doors at night to give you extra peace-of-mind when sleeping in your motorhome.
You already have all the bits you need to do this!

[@helened6896]

This is brilliant. Thanks so much. I hope it works in my hatchback, as I want to feel more security when I travel and sleep in my vehicle.

[@mhart456]

Great tip as a secondary security measure.

[@ronaldvankappel5505]

Very good alternaty.....thanks

[@anthonycraughwell2967]

Good one 👍👍

[@michaelgilburt5909]

This has just saved us from a break in on Frence aire. Thank you.

[@Moho-bits]

How did they defeat the door lock?

[@robaire.b]

Good tip. I've always wound my windows down and leaned out to check the cab doors are locked on mine (Boxer/Ducato). The central locking appears quite dysfunctional despite endless reconfiguration. I've taken to anchoring the slide doors too with webbing straps from inside as they so often do not lock. My van is only a few years old but has always had problems with locking on all doors. The main issues are when you are inside. Most additional locks available for campervans are of little use for locking when you are in the van. I wish these vans had some kind of mechanical internal locking system

[@Moho-bits]

Agreed, I always found the lock operation not very reassuring on the Duke.
If this simple solution helps people sleep easier then it has achieved something 🤗👍

[@fliqyy3257]

@@Moho-bits
Definitely a good tip 👍

[@davecripps1618]

Very good idea 👍

[@Moho-bits]

Thank you 😊

[@noelgregdavis8235]

Very good tip well done

[@Moho-bits]

Thanks Noel, and a perfect name for today! 🎅

[@marthahutchinson5217]

Good idea!

[@Moho-bits]

Thanks Martha. There's more on my Miho-bits site! 🤗

[@dmarcouxbeatty374]

BRILLIANT!

[@Moho-bits]

Thanks.

[@laneo]

Cool!

[@Moho-bits]

Thanks

[@paulbignell6977]

We had an industrial webbing strap from door to door, While we slept at 0300 in the morning the assholes took out the front quarter light with a Stanley knife and cut through the webbing as if it was butter (the cut was so clean) they took all we had from the front of the van.... Please upgrade from webbing straps

[@daverobinson8217]

Done this for years works

[@Moho-bits]

Great minds..........🤗

[@suhli9731]

So easy,so perfekt👍

[@Moho-bits]

Thank you! 🤗🎅

[@Kordor888]

Спасибо за совет .

[@Moho-bits]

Thank you!

[@klashnacovak47]

Great tip.
Could you not just wind the window down and try the handle?

[@Moho-bits]

Yes, but please see my previous comments.

[@gkemp2887]

That scares me. If emergency you can't get out fast and if call cops they can get in fast either

[@Moho-bits]

At the end of the day, it's whatever you feel safe with.

[@Moho-bits]

Milenco provide a range of well designed, purpose-made retrofit door locks, but they need fitting and and come at a price.

[@stevebennett6727]

Mate, when you press the dash lock button it’s definitely locked 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Moho-bits]

Yeah........but how do you know?

[@G-ra-ha-m]

@@Moho-bits They bounce if not, the solenoids have sensors.

[@Moho-bits]

@@G-ra-ha-m If you look at the doors there is no indication that they are locked.......

[@G-ra-ha-m]

@@Moho-bits I always use the main switch on the dash. When the red light is on, it's all locked.
A motion sensing perimeter alarm would be a neat idea though: to get early warning.
Maybe parking sensors could be adapted and used by an Auduino or raspberry Pi ?

[@Moho-bits]

@@G-ra-ha-m That's all fine if you trust the light on the dash and you haven't seen the video of a scroate getting past the Duke door lock with a tennis ball........🤭

[@PeterMarshallBris]

I'm curious about the other 3 doors.

[@Moho-bits]

I think you must be referring to a panel van conversion?
This video is aimed at coach-built motorhomes, where the habitation door is a different design.

[@sandradittrich6706]

Auf Dauer ist das für den Gurt nicht so gut. Ein Seil von griff zu griff funktioniert auch.

[@Moho-bits]

Can you translate please?

[@sandradittrich6706]

@@Moho-bits For a long time, this is not so good for the belt. A rope from handle to handle also works

[@Moho-bits]

@@sandradittrich6706 The seat belt is extremely tough. I don't anticipate any long term issues.

[@arthurdent2900]

But it means the seats cannot be in the rear facing position. Ours are always in the rear facing position overnight. So interesting idea, but not for us. We just use the alarm in perimeter only mode.

[@Moho-bits]

Hi Arthur,
Good point.
This method will still work with the seats in the rear facing position as long as they have armrests.

[@stetomlinson3146]

Exactly what we do. Alarm on perimeter and seats turned around. We also have dog. A terrier. They might get in, but there would be more than enough DNA spread over the cab a conviction wouldn’t be in doubt! 😉😆

[@NK-dl2nc]

That coat hook on the bulkhead would worry me more than a break in. That would make a mess of you in an accident.

[@Moho-bits]

Thanks for that observation. Any modification in a vehicle should be properly thought through and all the consequences evaluated 👍

[@sk1nzsk1nz34]

Sadly, on the new 2022 model, this method is no longer possible.

[@Moho-bits]

Why?

[@MM-ul7sb]

They are inside 10 sec later with this method. A cutter knife and the seatbelt is cutted to pieces within seconds. So don't really see the security you are mentioning in the title ... . ??

[@Moho-bits]

Not an easy job to do quietly.........Get past the Duke locks, smash the glass, open the blinds, cut the seatbelts.........all the while hoping that the occupants have not been woken 🤔

[@MM-ul7sb]

​@@Moho-bits Don't see my remark as negatif. Pro's can open doors with sort of copy code transcoder. They open the door a little bit and then they have easy access to the seat belt. I know it is difficult to protect your MoHo and like you suggest = slowing down the thief make him hopelly stopping them. I don't know if you do this during the day to and then you have to count on your neighbours (social surveillance). But like I sais earlier : it stays a difficult topic : securing the MoHo . I have installed HeoSafe locks on my doors ;-)

[@Moho-bits]

@@MM-ul7sb I appreciate your comments and there is no definitive solution to this problem. At the end of the day it is what ever provides peace-of -mind sleeping at night. If the belts are set tight enough I don't think the door would open wide enough to allow the belts to be cut (through a gap in the door).

[@user-hr4ot2ei8p]

Пивет нет вазможнасти её купит

[@Moho-bits]

It doesn't translate, can you post in English?