Trailer Wheel Clamps.

There are a lot of pretty poor products out there. Check out the Sold Secure site their products are insurance society approved and available all over the country. Most insurers accept either a wheel clamp or a hitch lock but if the vehicle is valuable they may desire both. Some hitchlocks can lock the trailer to the vehicle when stationary, jolly usefull in service station car parks.

Caravan shops have most of the decent makes at reasonable prices but there can be good offers online
 
my insurance company want a hitch lock and a clamp as its in a storage area and not on the drive and it had to have a rating of some sort to meet there standards
 
get one that prevents the wheel nuts being undone by either claming on the nut itself or having a front plate that pevents access to the nuts... no locking wheel buts on trailers generally so too easy to take the wheel off complete with clamp and fit a new wheel in minutes.. the sas products does a half decent job but there are better out there
 
maxi77 said:
http://www.soldsecure.com/
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Sold Secure may well satisfy insurers, which is important, but it hasn't impressed me as a standard for anti-thievability. I bought a Sold Secure motorbike chain, which I then wanted to shorten to make it harder to manoeuvre the chained-up object (not a motorbike) while trying to steal it. I was a bit concerned that I might have difficulty cutting such an expensive chain, bedecked with fancy-looking labels saying "hardened" and so, in order to make it shorter.

I cut through it in a couple of seconds with no difficulty at all.

Pete
 
prv said:
Sold Secure may well satisfy insurers, which is important, but it hasn't impressed me as a standard for anti-thievability. I bought a Sold Secure motorbike chain, which I then wanted to shorten to make it harder to manoeuvre the chained-up object (not a motorbike) while trying to steal it. I was a bit concerned that I might have difficulty cutting such an expensive chain, bedecked with fancy-looking labels saying "hardened" and so, in order to make it shorter.

I cut through it in a couple of seconds with no difficulty at all.

Pete
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Perhaps you should read the stuff on the web site. There are diffeerent grades and different applications. The stuff I had would also have been cut with an angle grinder, there is very little that will not go that way, No security device is absolute, the thing is if your stuff is fitted with SDold Secure the insurer will accept you took all reasonable precations.
 
maxi77 said:
No security device is absolute, the thing is if your stuff is fitted with SDold Secure the insurer will accept you took all reasonable precations.
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Yep, understood. And in some ways it's the insurance part that's the more important, because it's your ultimate recourse when everything else fails, as clearly it eventually will given sufficiently determined attack.

Still deeply unimpressed with that chain though.

EDIT: Assuming the similar-looking chain currently on Halfords' website is the same one, it was Sold Secure "silver" level that gave up in a few seconds.

Pete
 
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When I changed boats, I couldn't fit my existing clamp under the mudguard, and the only one that would fit was the Bulldog Euro (Soldsecure Automotive Gold, Caravan/Trailer Silver). It's a fine clamp, but doesn't cover the wheel nuts, so I also had to invest in security wheel nuts. Nothing is perfect, but a couple of pictures showing the clamped trailer, and a close up of the clamp and security nuts to send to the insurance chaps was my best option. I do have a hitch lock, but the word is that the thieving dastards bring their own hitch on a length of scafolding pipe which they clamp/jubilee clip/cable tie to the front of the trailer. I think I have the ability to padlock the hitch when it's on the car, but I usually just clamp it anyway.
 
Clamp one wheel and take any unclamped wheels off or the scum will just nick the wheels! (If you take them all off they will just bring their own) As has been said there is nothing that will stop determined thieves, especially now there are battery powered angle grinders, all you can hope for is that they choose someone else's that looks less hassle for them to steal.
 
saw a metal stand a few years ago. It was designed to replace the wheel, and be secured by a couple of wheel nuts. Meant that the van could not be towed, and that the tyres were in much better condition when the van was next ready for use as the tyres had not been deformed.
 
CreakyDecks said:
Clamp one wheel and take any unclamped wheels off or the scum will just nick the wheels! (If you take them all off they will just bring their own) As has been said there is nothing that will stop determined thieves, especially now there are battery powered angle grinders, all you can hope for is that they choose someone else's that looks less hassle for them to steal.
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I have taken the wheels off my trailer thinking it was a better option than a wheel clamp!

How far am I supposed to go, take the hubs off too or will they bring hubs AND wheels?
 
I was going to say. It's a lot quicker to take the wheel and hub off than the wheel on it's own.
If they have their own draw bar and a handful of U bolts the coupling locks aren't much use.
I had a motorbike chain on my outboard. When I got it the padlock was seized and I had no key anyway. That chain took a great deal of cutting.
Can't remember the make though.....
 
Talbot said:
saw a metal stand a few years ago. It was designed to replace the wheel, and be secured by a couple of wheel nuts. Meant that the van could not be towed, and that the tyres were in much better condition when the van was next ready for use as the tyres had not been deformed.
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You can now get ones where the 'wheel nuts' are protected too as the smarter trailer/caravan thief will carry spare wheels. Today I think there are now only two or three typse of hub so the choices are limited.
 
pvb said:
The Bulldog Titan has a good reputation. We have one on the horse trailer, and nobody's nicked it yet!
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I would also recommend a Bulldog Titan. I had a sideline selling Horse Trailers in an area where things would disappear. I had 2 Bulldog Titans and I sold a Horse Trailer to a lady who stored it with me and she put a cheap Wheel Clamp on it £35. And the trailer was stolen.
However I always take the view that a Wheel Clamp wont stop the trailer being stolen (boat on it or horse in it) but it will ensure that you get paid out by the Insurance.
I sometimes also remove the coupling off the trailer as if someone is going to steal it they will not only have to remove the Wheel Clamp, but bring with them a new coupling. (as well as a spare wheel as I remove a wheel during winter storage)
I was told you should always act as if you are not insured.
 
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