Hitch Lock for a Standard Coupling in a Premium Specification

Security: a hardened lock that fills the coupling so nothing else can, which is the simplest security there is and the one most insurers ask about.

Towing is the one thing you can buy for a car where the wrong part is not merely disappointing. Every towbar listing here states the type approval number, the D value, the maximum noseweight and whether the bumper has to be cut, because those four facts decide whether a bar is legal on your vehicle and whether it will pull what you want to pull. Every electrical listing says plainly whether it is a dedicated loom or a universal one with a bypass relay, and what each will and will not do. We would rather lose a sale to a cheaper part than sell you one that does not fit.

Specification

• Fits: tell us the coupling type and the wheel size and we will confirm before you order. A wheel clamp that does not fit the wheel is this category's commonest return
• Approval: Sold Secure rated where the item carries a rating, at the level chosen above. Sold Secure is an attack test with real tools for a stated time, which is different from a manufacturer's own description
• Rating: Sold Secure Silver, Gold or Diamond as chosen above, with the certificate number on the pack for your insurer
• D value: not applicable, this is an accessory rather than a load bearing towing part
• Noseweight: not applicable, though a hitch lock left fitted while towing is a real and surprisingly common mistake
• Ball height: not applicable
• Electrics: not applicable
• Fitting time: a minute for the mechanical items, three hours for a tracker fitted properly and hidden
• Bumper: not applicable
• Materials: the specification we would fit to our own vehicle, with the parts that wear chosen for life rather than for price. Hardened boron steel on the shackle and the body, which is what resists a bolt cropper
• Weight: approximately 2.5 kilograms
• Guarantee: three years
• Insurance: most caravan policies require a hitch lock and a wheel clamp in use whenever the caravan is unattended, and will decline a claim without them. Read your policy rather than assuming
• Keyed alike: we will key any combination of locks in one order alike at no charge, which sounds trivial and is the difference between using the security and leaving it in the locker
• Weather: the barrels are sealed and supplied with a cover. An unlubricated lock on a storage field will seize by February
• Sold Secure levels: Silver, Gold and Diamond are attack test durations. Some storage sites and an increasing number of policies now specify a minimum

What arrives

• the lock or clamp
• two keys
• a weather cover
• the Sold Secure certificate where the item carries a rating
• fitting instructions

Fitting

A minute for the mechanical items. A tracker is a three hour job done properly, which means hidden, separately fused and wired so that cutting the obvious cable does not disable it. We fit trackers at our centres and at your address.

Before you order

Buy to the Sold Secure rating your insurer or storage site specifies, and get that requirement in writing first. Beyond that, the two things that actually matter are nut coverage on a wheel clamp, because a thief with a wheel brace does not need to defeat the clamp, and keying everything alike, because security that is annoying to use stops being used by August.