With these 2 holes together and exposed, that means a stranger could maliciously place his own lock into the unit and thereby locking me out of my own doors! Yikes!I'm a little paranoid, so the fear of a malicious act of someone placing a lock into the unit if my lock is exposed makes me worry. When the hockey puck lock is taken out, there are 2 round holes that come together much like at a gym locker. I should have known before-hand, but didn't. However, I realized a shortcoming or downside to having these locks installed. I was able to figure out how to unlock and lock the keys quickly.I like the locks. I have attached pictures!The locks have matching keys for a total of 4 duplicate keys. ![]() Hi Guys,The van conversion shop finished installing the 2 locks, both for the rear doors and middle doors. The poor victims then later installed the door locks after having everything stolen.As the saying goes."an once of prevention.". I'm slightly paranoid.or overly cautious, whatever you want to call it, haha! I believe in more security versus less, and given a choice, I always prefer more.Reminds me of the Embassy Suite hotel television commercial whereby "more" is better, hyuck hyuck!I also don't want to rely on any one single security system, such as an alarm which I already have installed.I also believe a *physical" security system to compliment an electronic alarm system is a good thing.I want for a casual thief to take one look at the locks on the van and think to himself "ah, forget it!" and to move on to the next vehicle that's less secure.Even if the thief wants to start hacking away at the locks, the alarm will be blaring loudly, and I can't imagine the thief wanting to continue to hack away at the lock while the alarm is sounding.I was reading some website somewhere whereby owners of cargo vans fell victim to break-ins from both the rear van doors and middle doors and had many thousands of dollars of tools stolen. Heck, I even have "The Club" lock on my steering wheel too, hyuck, hyuck! All of this would deter the casual thieves when they see the multiple security locks and backups installed. Even my electronic Viper alarms have alarm backups! I'm now looking to add multiple *physical* security locks to complement the electronic alarm locks. You should see all the many keys I have on my multiple keyrings, it's pretty sick! I have everything locked down on my van. Geez, yet another set of keys to maintain! I just got more keys to add to my collection recently when I installed new wheels with lug nut lock keys. Anyway, I ordered 2 of these hockey puck locks with matching keys, and will have this installed probably next week. That's too bad, as the sliding deadbolt design with its built-in lock/key seems more convenient, versus the hockey puck lock that needs to be physically taken out and re-inserted for locking and unlocking. I certainly wouldn't try do to this myself, haha! Unfortunately, this same shop doesn't do the sliding deadbolt locking design. ![]() Seems like a reasonable cost to me, especially because I know this place will do a first rate job. I called the van conversion shop today, and the rep says it would cost about $325 to have 2 of the "hockey puck" style locks installed for both the rear doors and middle doors (includes parts and labor). Anything you can do to deter theft is worthwhile in my opinion. Having these special exterior van door locks would add additional manual lock security to help deter the "smash and grab" thieves. However, I also want a "manual" lock system to complement the electronic lock system, so I also use The Club lock on the steering wheel. ![]() I had to have an additional alarm installed for the rear of the van because it turns out that the Viper alarm did not have enough sensitivity to reach the back side of the van to sound the alarm in case of a break-in. I already have a Viper alarm system added to the van, plus an additional alarm for the rear part of the van. ![]() I like the idea of having both electronic locks and manual locks. So for example, let's say I know I will be parked someplace that I'm unfamiliar with for an extended time, that's when I would use these locks. Actually, I would only use the locks when I'm outside the van, not inside.
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