Your top security suggestions.

[magicmoments]

Where ever possible make sure items/are not on view to anyone walking past. Love some of the ideas other posters have given. At one yard I was on all tack got nicked bar one saddle. It had been taken off, with a rug slung over it, so the thieves didn't see it.

 

[asmp]

Where ever possible make sure items/are not on view to anyone walking past. Love some of the ideas other posters have given. At one yard I was on all tack got nicked bar one saddle. It had been taken off, with a rug slung over it, so the thieves didn't see it.

My friend‘s husband had his motorbike stolen from their garage. It was locked in and chained to the floor. He hadn’t ridden it since October! They live in a nice quiet road in a town. How the scumbags knew it was there, no one is quite sure.

 

[SashaBabe]

I had oil stolen from my oil tank a few weeks ago. I had an oil delivery a few weeks before and am very careful about using the central heating. I dip the oil tank every 10 days or so, otherwise I would probably have thought I had put the heating on more than I reckoned. They had marked the tank with a felt tipped pen, which is what alerted me to it.

 

[horsimous]

Thieves will often come back for your replacement after they stole the original. unfortunately, Land Rover/range rovers are pretty easy to steal and a desirable target, suggest you don’t get another.

 

[santas_spotty_pony]

Thieves will often come back for your replacement after they stole the original. unfortunately, Land Rover/range rovers are pretty easy to steal and a desirable target, suggest you don’t get another.

Not looking at getting another but we already do have another which was sat right next to it which they didn’t take this time hence trying to improve security.

 

[Ratface]

Large, loud dogs, padlocks and chains on all access gates, cameras and motion-triggered spotlights.
No driveable vehicles left on site.
Remote spot, but all the neighbours also have versions of the above, so can be alerted to unknown and unexpected "incomers". The noise would wake the dead.
Anyone trying to nick any of the horses out of their stables would, for various reasons, be very sorry.

 

[magicmoments]

My friend‘s husband had his motorbike stolen from their garage. It was locked in and chained to the floor. He hadn’t ridden it since October! They live in a nice quiet road in a town. How the scumbags knew it was there, no one is quite sure.

Could it have been noticed when it was last ridden back? Who else knew it was there. Had a conversation have been overheard about, but sometimes it was just chance they got lucky. We can only do so much. Sounds like there was nothing else you could have done.

 

[PurBee]

Our security for a soft-top classic car we used to own, was to pop the bonnet after parking it up anywhere, and remove the small dice-sized rotor arm from the distributer cap. 5 seconds to do this. It popped into my purse easily. Without that one little thing the car couldnt ever start to be driven. The engine absolutely needed that to start, there;s no other way. Theyd need either a recovery truck, or have that exact rotor piece which, at that time, could only be got from 1 specialist classic car manufacturer.

Cars nowadays are all electronically guided, but i’d still hunt for something that can be easily removed that the entire system needs in order for it to start and drive. That would depend on model/make of car these days. Maybe removing a chip from the electronic box central computer system. I’d figure-out something that was quick and easy to remove.

We bought our land rover with an engine cut-off secret switch installed under the drivers seat, without it turned on it would never start. But i think this has become quite common, as a relative bought a different car with it too, and then we bought a van with it on too - so that method might be known to thieves, and they likely now hunt around the dash or under the drivers seat for a secret switch/button.
If the button/switch was installed in a completely odd place aside from drivers seat or beside/under dashboard, that would likely work these days.

Sorry youve had your car stolen, they sound determined, to have also got through/removed your electric gate too. Its weird they happened to hit at the time you were out. Have you noticed any people or cars hanging about near your place checking-it out? It sounds like they were ready to strike as soon as they knew you were out, and your guard dog locked inside. Thats some random ‘luck’ for the thieves, that i think borders on ridiculous - unless its common for you both to be gone out together of an evening?

 

[PurBee]

Another common security mishap is to have gates that can be lifted off the hinge posts. You can have all the locks in the world on the gates, but if the gates can be lifted off the hinges, youve got no security. The hinges need to be bolted on both to the gates and to the gate posts on the inside of the property. Then those bolts need rounded caps fixed on covering the bolt head.

My OH went to collect wood from the local builders yard near to closing time. He paid for his order and was in their vast yard loading up the landrover roofrack with wood. He went to the gates to drive out only to find himself locked in! The staff had locked-up and left without checking the yard for customers!
He tried ringing all the numbers he had for them but they were just yard phone numbers. He was locked in for the night. Surrounded by 8foot spiked security fencing too. The police couldnt help as they didnt know the personal phone numbers of the yard workers, or their names.
He had to ‘break out’!
He attached the landrover winch to the tall heavy duty industrial yard gates, and using the landrover’s engine torque power pulled the gates and hinges off the posts. He had a large torque spanner in the landy luckily, which helped him loosen the massive hinge bolts off the gate posts to make it easier to pull the gates down.
He then drove over the fallen gates and got out. He made an effort not to damage anything so they could be re-hung!
He rang the yard in the morning after opening and explained what happened, they were fine about it and happy to have an explanation to the destruction that met them that morning!

How gates are fixed to the posts matter, as some simply are so lightweight a vehicle like a landrover could just launch into them and get them down. Thieves dont care about damage to get what they want.

 

[santas_spotty_pony]

Our security for a soft-top classic car we used to own, was to pop the bonnet after parking it up anywhere, and remove the small dice-sized rotor arm from the distributer cap. 5 seconds to do this. It popped into my purse easily. Without that one little thing the car couldnt ever start to be driven. The engine absolutely needed that to start, there;s no other way. Theyd need either a recovery truck, or have that exact rotor piece which, at that time, could only be got from 1 specialist classic car manufacturer.

Cars nowadays are all electronically guided, but i’d still hunt for something that can be easily removed that the entire system needs in order for it to start and drive. That would depend on model/make of car these days. Maybe removing a chip from the electronic box central computer system. I’d figure-out something that was quick and easy to remove.

We bought our land rover with an engine cut-off secret switch installed under the drivers seat, without it turned on it would never start. But i think this has become quite common, as a relative bought a different car with it too, and then we bought a van with it on too - so that method might be known to thieves, and they likely now hunt around the dash or under the drivers seat for a secret switch/button.
If the button/switch was installed in a completely odd place aside from drivers seat or beside/under dashboard, that would likely work these days.

Sorry youve had your car stolen, they sound determined, to have also got through/removed your electric gate too. Its weird they happened to hit at the time you were out. Have you noticed any people or cars hanging about near your place checking-it out? It sounds like they were ready to strike as soon as they knew you were out, and your guard dog locked inside. Thats some random ‘luck’ for the thieves, that i think borders on ridiculous - unless its common for you both to be gone out together of an evening?

I know it’s so odd. Hadn’t noticed anybody hanging around and we had been in the garden all day that day. No we hardly ever go out so it was pure chance we decided to - and we left the cars at home and took my van so as not to have to park them in the city. The gates have now been mended but the guy who came said they were twisted as they had tried to ram them open but couldn’t so climbed in and opened them up. Makes you wonder if they would have come in whether we had been here or not!