how to make a hatchback boot secure

[kazino]

I'm considering getting a hot hatch as a daily driver (fiat 500 abarth, clio rs etc). I remember some of my friends having their cars broken into for the content of their boots. Is there any way to secure them so if the car gets broken into the boot area is secure.

[Krupp Stahl]

Short of bolting a van-type safe to the boot floor, I wouldn't have thought there was much else one could do to stop a determined scrote chucking a bin through the rear windscreen and cleaning you out.

I guess the old chestnuts apply - leave nothing on show.

[kambites]

Securing the boot wouldn't stop the car getting broken into anyway, unless it's obvious to the thief that it's secure.

[kazino]

Rarely have much of interest inside the car, change/sunglasses, cannot think of much else, so would just want the boot to be secured if I want to keep some things in there from time to time.

How secure Is the boot of a non hatchback, maybe I shouldn't be keeping anything in there either?

[ging84]

are you planning to keep anything in there?
i knew someone who would always leave his rear seats folded down and glove box open to show the car was empty, he did have ocd

[vikingaero]

Tinted/privacy/armour film glass to hide the contents and a dog guard is about as far as you can go without fitting deadlocks.

[Blue Oval84]

If they want to get into the boot they'll get into it regardless of whether it's a saloon or a hatch.

The locks on a saloon car offer very little extra resistance compared to a hatchback, if you've got anything of value I would suggest not leaving it in the boot!

[kazino]

Indeed would like to leave some things in the boot and cannot afford for them to be stolen.

[mph1977]

kazino said:

Indeed would like to leave some things in the boot and cannot afford for them to be stolen.

gun safe ( at risk of them trying anyway and smashing windows) or 'cage' the boot and leave the window grills visible then

[tog]

This is written from a photographer's point of view, but there is a section in this blog post on securing stuff in the back of cars.

http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2010/12/23/secure-yo...

[vx220]

Krupp Stahl said:

I guess the old chestnuts apply - leave nothing on show.

I apply the opposite theory...

The inside of my car looks like a small, dirty nuke has gone off inside! Never an issue in 26yrs

ETA: Actually, I once had a window smashed, but I had picked the car up about three days before, and the inside still looked fairly normal, there having been insufficient time to build up a layer of detritus

Edited by vx220 on Saturday 21st March 07:36

[Krupp Stahl]

vx220 said:

I apply the opposite theory...

The inside of my car looks like a small, dirty nuke has gone off inside! Never an issue in 26yrs

ETA: Actually, I once had a window smashed, but I had picked the car up about three days before, and the inside still looked fairly normal, there having been insufficient time to build up a layer of detritus

Edited by vx220 on Saturday 21st March 07:36

I like your train of thought - plenty of heavily bogey-encrusted tissues spread liberally about the vehicle.

Perhaps a blood filled syringe from the local park, and a maybe even used (open) nappy in the boot as the final line of defence.

Perhaps the latter could be rigged to the bootlid via an embedded party popper - a crude jack-in-the-box if you like.

[kazino]

I prefer this to the gun safe option

Krupp Stahl said:

I like your train of thought - plenty of heavily bogey-encrusted tissues spread liberally about the vehicle.

Perhaps a blood filled syringe from the local park, and a maybe even used (open) nappy in the boot as the final line of defence.

Perhaps the latter could be rigged to the bootlid via an embedded party popper - a crude jack-in-the-box if you like.