The Beach is an excellent all round family vehicle:
Van
7 seat MPV
4 berth sleeping accommodation
The alarm and security are already very good with all doors deadlocked when locked unless this has been disabled: even if a window is broken the doors cannot be opened.
If you want to be even more secure when parked, swivel the driver’s seat by 180 degrees, push the seat all the way back, engage the handbrake and raise the armrests before locking (and deadlocking). Even a professional thief will think twice before trying to take your Beach.
The main vulnerability is the key, have those stolen and your van is good as gone. Even in your home consider carefully where you keep them, and, as importantly, where your partner keeps theirs- a hook behind the back door is not a good idea. Inside a tin which itself is out of sight works for some. The tin also reduces the risk of the high tech crime of key cloning.
Plenty of others can offer better advice on insurance than me. We had to choose a specialist insurer that allowed 270 days overseas, then renewed for a further 180 days overseas while still away. It was bothersome.
Try to resist buying too many accessories before your van arrives. Our most expensive accessory still unused is a popaloo. I’m sure it is an excellent piece of kit, and many find such things to be a Beach essential. We don’t. The boys and I use a gherkin jar in the middle of the night, and we nearly always camp on campsites which have facilities not far away.
Probably our most useful accessory is our MUJI drawers. With a couple of extraneous clips removed they fit •perfectly• under the Beach’s multiflex board.
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