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Thank you! I will look into this!

johncanfield wrote:Yikes! I have a 2000 model year F-250 diesel but it usually doesn't leave the Kerrville/Fredericksburg area. We've heard about lots of car thefts at La Canterra - isn't that the shopping area west of 1604 on I-10?

Yes. In fact, this is where the Six Flags park is located where our truck was broken into.

When we are home, we are normally in low-risk areas. Our vehicles stay in the garage when home and in the school parking lots when we are at work.

I realize we could stop traveling, but we don't want to.

Our truck is the F-150. I know this isn't what the more dedicated campers use to tow, but our trailer is light and this is the truck/trailer combination we could afford.

I'm curious about the fuses. How would I know which fuses to remove to keep the truck from starting? I'm wondering if this plus the club would make a decent 1-2 punch to keep them from taking off in our truck. Have any of you pulled the fuses regularly? Has this caused you any electrical problems? I just talked to my husband about that, and he's worried that this would mess up our electrical and leave us stranded.

To answer Interblog's question: The service department at our local Ford dealership said that they reached their hands under the front grill and disabled the horn so that the alarm wouldn't draw attention. They busted the handle, which he said took less than a minute, and this gave them access to the cab. He said that the reason they went through our console is because most people keep their valet keys in there. They were planning to simply drive it out of the lot. My husband said he didn't even know if we have a valet key.

Carlson, what is this ravelco?

We visited the beautiful Texas Hill Country over spring break. We stayed at a campground in our travel trailer, towed by our truck.

We visited the Six Flags park, which is posted. You also go through a series of security checks. I left my handgun in the glove box and locked it.

My husband got a notice on his phone that the alarm had gone off on the truck. He saw the notice about 15 minutes after it was sent. We were in the back of the park, so it took him some time to walk up to the front and through the parking lot to the truck.

He discovered our driver side lock busted, and they had rummaged through our console, but did not bust the lock and get into the glove box. My gun was still there!
I was pleasantly surprised.
(We discovered later that our horn didn't work.)

When my husband made the initial report, he was told that someone had likely spooked them and they ran. We assumed they were looking for quick cash, or maybe drugs. We had a back up camera monitor and an old digital camera that they didn't touch.

The Ford dealership said that they believe that they people that broke in were actually trying to steal the truck. Apparently, this has become a major problem in San Antonio; six vehicles were stolen from the Six Flags lot during spring break, but San Antonio seems to have this problem at multiple locations within the city.

Since we tow our trailer with the truck, this would pose a major problem for us, as we can't exactly use a rental Prius.

We really would like to make the truck more theft resistant since it's the only vehicle we can take on vacation.
One person mentioned the old steering wheel club (think 1992) as a deterrent. Those seem easy as pie to bust the lock on.

What are your recommendations?
BTW, I've learned how easy it is to break into a Ford truck.