Touring Caravan Insurance

Touring Caravan Insurance is critical, but so is being security conscious about your caravan. Always remember that your caravan is vulnerable everywhere, even during a brief stop in a lay-by or at a motorway service station. You must make sure you protect it!

To help you, I have provided a few tips which will set you on your way to protect your caravan, and keep the cost of your touring caravan insurance down.

• Fit approved security device or wheel clamp, alarms and hitchlocks.
• Padlock gas cylinders to fixing clamps.
• Make sure your storage site offers good security
• Always close and lock doors and windows, even if your only away a few minutes
• Fit a special caravan deadlock to the door
• Remove personal belongings when not in use
• Get a special number (e.g. a CRIS number put on your windows)
• Use a time switch to make lights come on after dark, to give the impression you are inside
• Valuables (e.g. jewelry) are not covered by insurance, so don’t leave them in the caravan
• Don’t leave documents relating to your caravan inside your caravan.

These are just a few tips to protecting your caravan. There are a number of other ways to do so.

One of the best ways to keep the cost of your touring caravan insurance down is to make sure you don’t have to claim on it.  And to do that you must think security.