Cover for outside water hookups?

[1200bruce]

Portable water and city water, I would like to cover it up and lock it. Anyone know the product, it'll be on our 2021 5.0 TA.
Thanks.

[gbaglo]

Originally Posted by 1200bruce

Portable water and city water, I would like to cover it up and lock it.

I wouldn't place a lot of confidence in whatever cover you find. Mine does lock, but so what?

[Ron in BC]

ETI stopped installing the locking cover in 2014. I was a little miffed because when I saw it on a demo model I said "great, I don't like the unprotected fillers on my Scamp". Then I picked our 19 up and wasn't a happy camper that they'd switched to the exposed type.

Maybe I'm paranoid but if I had a choice I'd choose the locking cover.

They're readily available if someone really felt strongly about the issue.

Ron

[gbaglo]

Originally Posted by Ron in BC

They're readily available if someone really felt strongly about the issue.

Ron

Readily available and easily defeated.

[rubicon327]

Originally Posted by Ron in BC

ETI stopped installing the locking cover in 2014. I was a little miffed because when I saw it on a demo model I said "great, I don't like the unprotected fillers on my Scamp". Then I picked our 19 up and wasn't a happy camper that they'd switched to the exposed type.

Maybe I'm paranoid but if I had a choice I'd choose the locking cover.

They're readily available if someone really felt strongly about the issue.

Ron

Ron: Would this possibly work to solve your problem without full replacement of the water connection assembly?
https://www.amazon.com/Water-Inlet-L...01MYQZJHO?th=1

[Ron in BC]

Originally Posted by gbaglo

Readily available and easily defeated.

Well if it was pried open you'd know if someone had tampered with it. I guess my wish for a locking cover started with my Scamp. It had a water filler that looked like a mini urinal. Always wondered if bored kids in the campground would think the same way.

Originally Posted by rubicon327

Ron: Would this possibly work to solve your problem without full replacement of the water connection assembly?
https://www.amazon.com/Water-Inlet-L...01MYQZJHO?th=1

They would do it but the whole assembly is only a few bucks more and I'd rather have the locking hatch style.

Ron

[gbaglo]

Originally Posted by Ron in BC

I guess my wish for a locking cover started with my Scamp. It had a water filler that looked like a mini urinal. Always wondered if bored kids in the campground would think the same way.
Ron

Heard that anecdote before. Trying to picture it happening. My four-year-old grandson might be keen, but he'd have to climb up on blocks to reach. I guess an NBA player wouldn't have a problem, but they're busy sinking baskets.

Seems it would be so much easier to pull the black and grey traps. , pull the break-away pin and throw it in the bushes, lock the safety chains together with a padlock, or lock the hitch itself with a locker combination lock . . . fill the cover lock with Gorilla glue...

[cpaharley2008]

or wrap your Escape with one of those covers seen on boats, like saran wrap......?

[steve dunham]

Since we are not experiencing a drought or a shortage of water in the upper Midwest we have not experienced any problems with anyone trying to steal / pilfer water from our trailer
The major problem this time of year , now that it is starting to cool down is people stealing 20 / 30 lb propane tanks

[1200bruce]

My wife just likes the aesthetics of it being covered up not for safety.

[Perry Butler]

Originally Posted by gbaglo

Seems it would be so much easier to pull the black and grey traps. , pull the break-away pin and throw it in the bushes, lock the safety chains together with a padlock, or lock the hitch itself with a locker combination lock . . . fill the cover lock with Gorilla glue...

You have quite the mischievous mind.

Over the years we've had our black water tank handle pulled a couple of times. After the first time I purchased a RV sewer cap with handle and carefully remove the cap. The black tank valve on our Bigfoot driddled fluid when first opened. I was glad I already had the cap with a handle.

Enjoy,

Perry

[Centex]

Originally Posted by Perryb67

.... I purchased a RV sewer cap with handle and carefully remove the cap. The black tank valve on our Bigfoot driddled fluid when first opened. I was glad I already had the cap with a handle.

I've never suffered any of the 'vandalism' speculated in this thread, nor do I intend to live in anticipation of it, but that gizmo (previously unknown to me) is attractive just from a 'sanitary handling' perspective, so Thanks for the link.

(I keep following threads on this forum and eventually I often learn something new and useful to me ... I appreciate the forum, both for its 'entertainment' and its personally useful information! )

[escape artist]

Originally Posted by 1200bruce

My wife just likes the aesthetics of it being covered up not for safety.

Hi: 1200bruce... This is precisely why I always wear a bathing suit!!! Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie

[Ron in BC]

Originally Posted by gbaglo

Trying to picture it happening. My four-year-old grandson might be keen, but he'd have to climb up on blocks to reach. I guess an NBA player wouldn't have a problem, but they're busy sinking baskets.

I don't know, it still looks like a mini urinal with a flip lid to me.

Originally Posted by Perryb67

You have quite the mischievous mind.

Perry

That's the nicest thing that anyone has said about Glenn in years.

Ron

[Patandlinda]

Originally Posted by 1200bruce

My wife just likes the aesthetics of it being covered up not for safety.

Me too so I installed the locking ring around ours . Really what prompted that was the plastic lanyard was broken and the cap was about to fall off . Pat