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It'll be OK with the axle on a block of wood. I'm thinking of removing my unlocked wheel & replacing it with a wheel without a tyre on it & sit the rim on either a block of wood or perhaps a steel tube. We've had one pinched off the drive & I want them to have to work to get this one.

If you've any doubts about the wood, replace it with a big piece of RSJ with a sliver of wood on the top to break the metalto metal contact.

BB

Most insurance companies seem to say that if the van is left unattended for more than two hours then there must a wheel lock. Not that there must be wheel locks (plural). So if you have one wheel locked and the other off that would not seem to invlaidate the policy. Best check the policy though.

Try winter wheels with a cover over the locks for the wheel you take off.

http://www.sasproducts.com/acatalog/Winter_Security_Wheels.html

Phil

Unless I've read it incorrectly, the OP is only suggesting the removal of ONE wheel leaving the other wheel on the van with what sounds like the Al-Ko lock in place.

My insurance only requires the fitting of the required security devices,it makes no mention of me not being able to do as I choose with the other wheel. My idea of replacing the unlocked wheel with a tyreless rim sat on a length of steel tube simulating the tyre would make their scummy lives harder because the tyreless rim would be on the hub as per normal complete with locking wheel nuts.

I'd then have, an Al-Ko lock, a Hitchlock with the caravan hitched to an RSJ concreted into the ground in a hole 30 inches deep by 24 inches square & full of concrete. Two leg locks & the jockey removed. Plus, if I decide to do it, the tyreless rim.

BB

Quote: Originally posted by rollsroyce on 14/6/2010

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hi basilbrush, what a sad world we live in when we have to go to these extremes to protect our vans. i see where you are coming from though.

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Hello RollsRoyce, it certainly is something when we need to go to silly extremes to try & keep our property safe. It sickened me when our last van was taken. The scum who took it must have been watching the place & the thought of that makes my skin itch. If this one goes, they'll have to work hard to get it, but I'll not bother with another.

BB

would the winter wheels with locks be an option? they have a plate that locks over the nuts to preven removal, no idea of insurance approval, but it would allow for removed AND locked wheels.

mines outside my house, clamped, hitchlocked, alarmed linked wirelessly to house, CCTV inside the van, and outside, bollard going in this summer, and thats for a 93' van...