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Wells Cargo Locks

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Posted by: Chili---------------------

I have found yet another trailer in my search and have a question. Most trailers I have looked at have a lever that latches across the door and then you apply a padlock. Given a very expensive shrouded padlock I've felt this setup was "relatively" safe from break-ins. This Wells Cargo trailer has what appears to be a recessed door latch on the man door with a key setup similar to my RV rear door. Anyone with one of these units care to comment on how secure they seem?


Posted by: Jeff Gilbert---------------------

Locks are for honest people my friend, I've never seen a lock that Jaybird couldn't get into
My experience from the Wells Cargo locks are they only work temporaraly.


Posted by: Okiewan---------------------

Mine's great .... had the trailer for 3 years.


Posted by: Chili---------------------

I understand you'll never keep them out if they really want in. But with the cam/lever setup and a $50 shrouded padlock it is way more work than most would go to before they would most likely get detected. Okie they pretty solid? I figured a small pry bar and the door would pop with them. The general use the lock will see would be at the track while we are sleeping and on overnighters when driving like our trek to DW. At home the trailer will be unloaded (bikes anyway) and most of our stuff secured.


Posted by: Okiewan---------------------

It allows you to add a padlock if you want... but yeah, it's a decent lock.

You'd lock your trailer at DW? Pretty cool to see 400+ bikes just sitting out for a week. I don't think I've ever locked anything in 4 DW's.


Posted by: Jeff Gilbert---------------------

The thing we as honest folk fail to think about is the part that the pad lock goes into. Even with the cam/lever setup, you will have a single thin peice that the pad lock slips through that is easily cut in less than a minute. I had this happen to a friend's trailer. He had spent the coinage for a bad azz lock to wake up one morning and find that someone had not bothered with the lock, just cut the part that the lock slips into and opened it right up. I guess I'd make a terrible thief because I would have spent an hour trying to cut the lock


Posted by: Chili---------------------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Okiewan
You'd lock your trailer at DW? Pretty cool to see 400+ bikes just sitting out for a week. I don't think I've ever locked anything in 4 DW's.


I'd lock my bike while we sleep overnight on the way to DW. Gonna be 2-3 day drive for us. I've generally never even bothered to lock it overnight at the local tracks here but the last few years the odd thing has started to go missing from folks pit area's overnight


Posted by: Smit-Dog---------------------

I have an RV latch/lock on the side door of my enclosed trailer. It has 2 keyhole locks: One prevents the latch from opening, the other slides a deadbolt into the steel frame of the door. A pry bar could easily override the latch lock, but prying open the door with the deadbolt in place would tear/bend the hell out of the door, and make a lot of noise.

I've seen side doors with both the RV-style latch/lock, along with the cam/lever lock system over it. That'd be nice. The one thing I like about the RV latch is that you can lock it from the inside. Works out great for camping.

The back of the trailer has barn doors, with the conventional cam/lever arm design. It has high-end Masterlock that'd be a b!tch to cut through, but like Jeff mentioned, it'd be nothing to hacksaw the metal arm off.



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