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Hi All

I hope someone can help??  I need to get a hitchlock for our Erde 122 trailer, but to date I've not found anything that fits! 

I've also tried a wheel clamp, but that was too big! 

The key thingys that Halfords sell don't seem very secure, does anyone have experience of these?

Really need to find one before July, because we're off to the South of France and plan to stay in a hotel for one night on the way down.

You all seem a very knowledgable bunch, so any ideas?

thanks loads for any help........

Hi

I use an Apache hitch lock on my Erde 122 - you can buy one here

Les

we got ours from

http://www.western-towing.co.uk/acatalog/Erde_122_Accessories.html

we got the coupling lock on the above page

http://www.western-towing.co.uk/acatalog/Coupling_Locks.html

and the universal trailer hitch lock ( the yellow one WKS12) on this page

both work fine and the service from this company was good.

karin

Thanks all - I'm really gratefull for all your advice! 

Please excuse my bad manners in not replying earlier, been very busy revising for an exam, which thankfully "I think" went quite well this morning!

I went to our local forge and got them to weld a U shaped piece of metal onto the arm of the trailer underneath the hitchlock.  I then use a heavy duty motorcycle chain and chain the trailer to the car using 2 padlocks to the towbar point ensuring there is some slack in the chain for turning etc.  My witter towbar has 2 holes drilled either side which are perfect for this.   This serves 2 purposes.   1. It has so far prevented any toerag from nicking the trailer and 2. It serves as a heavy duty breakaway cable just in case for some reason the trailer every came away from the hitchlock when driving.  

The forge charged me £ 5 for this    

thanks Dripping_Wet!  We have a forge not far from home this may well be worth looking into!