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I am looking for advice or your thoughts on securing an overnight bag behind the seats on a planned trip at the end of next month. I have a 2011 Plus 4.
Off on a first foreign trip, with some of the boys, and can foresee leaving the car unattended, roof down, whilst stopping for fuel, coffees, comfort breaks and possibly for food where I don't want to be carting a travel bag around with me. The bag will only contain clothing, so loss will be inconvenient more than anything else. I would be carrying document on me at all times.
I am looking to securing the bag to prevent an opportunist thief from just picking up the bag and wandering off with it. I am thinking maybe installing an anchore point behind the seats and using a cable to tie the bag to the anchore point.
Thoughts and suggestions please.
Ian
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You can get a bike lock that's a long steel cable, on a retractable dog lead type thing, that you plug back in to its self and lock with a combination on the handle.
Wrap it round the seat base or around the hood frame.
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Yup, a cable lock will do fine, even better to put some sort of cover over the rear shelf as well so the bag is invisible from passers by.
Best of all a full-length 3-zip tonneau cover will cover the entire cockpit and takes only a moment to fold back the driver's side.
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Use the tonneau fitted as you would a hood cover and let the free part (that goes over the seats to the windscreen) drop down behind the seats, not secure but hidden and awkward for someone to just lean in and take the bag.
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A small caravan safe bolted in someware is also usefull for paperwork,etc.
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I use a cable with a built in combination lock that I bought in a camping shop. It's long enough to pass through the sleeves of coats and the steering wheel, useful if we've got the flying jackets but don't want to walk around with them.
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Good idea Ian, and if you get a long enough cable you can secure mine while you are at it 
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I use the tonneau cover when the car is parked. The rear suitcase is secured with a steel rope (sometimes). Mostly I put the storm cover on when parking.
The car draws a lot of attention when parkd and that is a security aspect by itself so rather park on busy locations.
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I use a cable with a built in combination lock that I bought in a camping shop. It's long enough to pass through the sleeves of coats and the steering wheel, useful if we've got the flying jackets but don't want to walk around with them. Agree, I've got similar which I use for skiing when leaving my skis unattended for a while If it's somehow attached to the bag and the Mog then a would be thief wouldn't be able to quickly snatch it so rather than try to figure it out they would just leave it I am sure I would make sure the wire and lock is hidden from view so the would be thief wouldn't have time to prepare for wrestling with the cable lock I left my rather nice travel bag behind Roger-Cheshire's Morgan's seats unsecured while at TOTH on Saturday and pleased to say it was still there 8 hours later which I was pleasantly surprised about as there were some really dodgy characters roaming around mainly wearing helmets to hide their faces!!
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I use a cable with a built in combination lock that I bought in a camping shop. It's long enough to pass through the sleeves of coats and the steering wheel, useful if we've got the flying jackets but don't want to walk around with them. I left my rather nice travel bag behind Roger-Cheshire's Morgan's seats unsecured while at TOTH on Saturday and pleased to say it was still there 8 hours later which I was pleasantly surprised about as there were some really dodgy characters roaming around mainly wearing helmets to hide their faces!! It was probably safe because we were a few cars along from Graham sitting in his chair chewing his sausage. 
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