Chock locks..anyone use them? Trimax?

[the other side]

I have the Little Guy one. I use it to make it harder for a thief. Also, it would take them longer, and that is more time to have someone spook them away.

[DragonFire]

I have the Reese hitch lock on it now...in an alarmed garage. I have a cover on order and the Little Guy/The Club tire lock on order also. I have a little driveway alarm from HF...I'll test it out and see if skunks and cats set it off...I have a big, long cable, and I have contacted McGard about which locking lug nuts I need...or at least what measurements they need to determine which one I need. I was going to get them for when I get a spare and rim, but I'll get them so I can put the tire lock on and nobody can just jack it up and change the tire and leave me with a tire with a nice lock on it in place of my Grasshopper...

Yeah, I've lived in the city too long. But then I've been awake at 3 am when I've heard the front screen door open and someone try the front door to see if it was locked....

[dmb90260]

I had this on my teardrop. I also had a hitch lock but the tear was so light it could still "walk out the door" with a hitch lock on, not so with this. I do not recall the manufacturer's name but it worked... until you drove off without removing it!

[working on it]

I am interested in a secure trailer,too. I use two different hitch coupler covers... one for Bulldog type and the other for an Attwood coupler. I've also coiled a locking steel cable around the couplers for an added deterrent. But if the thief really wants your trailer, all he has to do is use heavy-duty chain to wrap around his hitch and your coupler and pull the trailer off your lot to a more secure location, where the deterrent(s) can be removed at leisure. I've seen it done. And as for wheel chocks, and/or locking lug nuts, I've removed wheels with both before, with no special tools (though special tools are commonplace mechanics' tools). Also, don't forget that your wheels are held on by a castle nut secured by a cotter pin. A screwdriver and hammer are all you need, even with hub covers. Just jack it up, take off the chocked wheel, substitute another, and off you go. I have three trailers, including the unfinished TTT, and rely on the first three deterrents to discourage a dumb kid or amateur thief just passing by. If I lived somewhere that I didn't feel my trailers were reasonably safe, I'd probably use a Denver Boot-type immobilizer, to cover the lugs and hub as well. But, living where I do, people know that I'm watching my neighbors stuff and he is watching mine, and we're both armed....

[DragonFire]

interesting what you say about the locking lug nuts. So they don't work? I lived in the SF Bay area, where it was very common in the 90's to go out to your car and find it on blocks with the wheels missing. Never happened to me. I know plenty of people it did happen to. I'm not saying that it was because I have locking lug nuts, but every time I leave the car at the mechanic and forget to tell them where the key for the lug nuts is stored, I always get a call.

I realize that a pro is going to get anything they want..but I am trying to deter the common idiot thieves. The 11 year olds that steal cars, the meth heads who think they can drag it down the street and sell it for scrap. We have a pretty rabid police force here, 2 houses across the street directly facing the driveway where both people are home all the time. Besides someone is home during the week when I'm not here. And the guy next door is retired..so lots of people with eyes out..and several of them armed. Darren's trailer a few feet away is only locked with a Master lock on the hitch. No cover, everyone comments on how they want that trailer..people ask us if he's selling, they leave notes on his door...

Mine will be covered so nobody will know how nice it really is. And with a few deterrents, I think they will take Darren's before mine. I just want to make it a little harder, so if they do try to take it they will be out there longer and more likely to get caught.

I still think the average thief is going to try to undo the lug nuts before trying another way to remove the wheel. And I don't think any real pros will be hanging out in this neighborhood!