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04-03-2015, 06:17 PM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club iRV2 No Limits Club
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Rainbow Riding
Posts: 18,574
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Originally Posted by Old Scout
Starting the rig quickly might not be your only concern....you may have to bail out a side window/emergency exit at some point, with little or no notice. It might be good to keep all your MH and toad keys and other valuables like IDs, wallets, cash, etc, in a convenient and easy to reach location----just saying....
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X2. My keys, wallet and pocket knife are in my pants pockets next to the bed. Our Emergency Exit Window is at the foot of the bed. My pants - my shirt and shoes go out the window. The comforter goes over the window frame. Annie out and me out. We have a small extinguisher in the kitchen - 1 at the front door - 1 in the bed room and a big one under the rear bath sink next to bed room.
I keep the keys in my pocket for another reason. I have been locked out in the cold before.
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2008 Fleetwood Bounder 38F ~ 325 ISB Turbo ~ Freightliner XC 2014 CR-V ~ Invisibrake / Sterling All Terrain
Sioux Falls, SD (FullTime Since Nov 5th 2014)
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04-03-2015, 06:55 PM
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Senior Member
Winnebago Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Humble/Atascocita, Texas
Posts: 1,281
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One one nighters, the "driving" set of keys is left in the ignition to void locating keys keys in an emergency. Regular keys, wallet and transportable defense on the night stand.
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RV: 2014 Itasca Sunstar 35F
USAF, Retired, Life Member: DAV, VFW & VVA
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04-03-2015, 09:01 PM
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Member
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 93
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We stop in campgrounds and not parking lots but it would be hard for me to get in my truck if I left the keys in it. It is also hard to lock it as well so the keys would be in the trailer.
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04-03-2015, 09:25 PM
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club Solo Rvers Club
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: The Constitution State
Posts: 4,590
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My ignition key is separate from all the other keys. I leave it in the ignition while traveling and it'd be hard for anyone to see it's even there. The only time I take it out is when the coach is parked for any long period of time and I'm not there with it.
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04-03-2015, 09:38 PM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club iRV2 No Limits Club
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Rainbow Riding
Posts: 18,574
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Guess I should have mentioned that since going full time I consider my bay key - engine key - Deadbolt - door clicker, door key and toad key to be my house keys - and the keys to almost everything we own. I have a two piece key chain. The second piece is stored in a place of its own. That includes the gas cap key - engine door, generator door, fresh water lock, etc.
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2008 Fleetwood Bounder 38F ~ 325 ISB Turbo ~ Freightliner XC 2014 CR-V ~ Invisibrake / Sterling All Terrain
Sioux Falls, SD (FullTime Since Nov 5th 2014)
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04-03-2015, 11:17 PM
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Senior Member
Country Coach Owners Club Solo Rvers Club iRV2 No Limits Club
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Vancouver, WA
Posts: 37,725
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I leave the keys in the ignition 24/7/365. But only for the last 20 years or so.
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Charter Good Sam Lifetime Member, FMCA,
RV'ing since 1957, NRA Benefactor Life, towing '21 Jeep JLU Rubicon Ecodiesel
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04-04-2015, 08:57 AM
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Senior Member/RVM #90
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Columbus, MS
Posts: 54,785
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No, we don't leave the key in the ignition, but it's in a hiding place close by!  
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Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.....
2002 Monaco Windsor 40PBT, 2013 Honda CRV AWD
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04-04-2015, 09:01 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Tasmania now, USA/Canada/Alaska in April
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Pitch dark and a vehicle next to you catches fire. Smoke alarm is blaring, dogs barking and wife screaming - or is that you screaming. What earthly use is a silly gun, or keys in pockets or in a drawer, because you won't be able to find them. Best you can hope for is to find the drivers seat and then you'll be very glad the keys are in the ignition.
And as I posted on another topic - are you absolutely positive you know which window is the escape window and where the release catch is, and most important of all, can you actually open it.
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RVs. USA - Airstream Cutter; in Australia - MC8 40' DIY Coach conversion & OKA 4x4 MH; in Germany - Hobby Class C; in S America - F350 with 2500 10.6 Bigfoot camper
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04-04-2015, 09:06 AM
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 10,310
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Good point Tony! Do people think, at night , key in the ignition, you sleeping in the bedroom, that someone is going to break in, start it up, pickup the jacks, retract the slides, and steal it? with you in bed? 
How about even in a campground during the day?
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04-04-2015, 09:16 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 1,029
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Everything has a place and everything in its place.
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04-04-2015, 09:33 AM
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Senior Member
Gulf Streamers Club
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Pacific Coast, Washington State
Posts: 469
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony Lee
Pitch dark and a vehicle next to you catches fire. Smoke alarm is blaring, dogs barking and wife screaming - or is that you screaming. What earthly use is a silly gun, or keys in pockets or in a drawer, because you won't be able to find them. Best you can hope for is to find the drivers seat and then you'll be very glad the keys are in the ignition.
And as I posted on another topic - are you absolutely positive you know which window is the escape window and where the release catch is, and most important of all, can you actually open it.
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Something similar actually happened to us many years ago.
Staying one spring in a pretty campground in W. Washington right next to a river; middle of the night, someone is pounding on the side of our old Class C shouting; "The river is flooding- get the heck out of here!"
It was literally a case of falling out of the bed over the cab; hubby into the driver's seat, me outside in my nightie unplugging the electric (drenched), dogs barking their heads off. Couldn't have taken 2 minutes to get under way. I understand the flooding damaged a number of rigs there .
Being a Boy Scout is a good idea in this life.
Side note; hubby says we were in Montana, I remember it as Washington. Think we can remember where the keys are??
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04-04-2015, 09:42 AM
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#26
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Senior Member
Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Pensacola Fl
Posts: 667
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Quick disconnect key chain, ign on one side, all other keys on the other side.
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04-04-2015, 02:22 PM
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#27
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 1,224
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Keys in ignition but toad key is clothspinned to wheel to remind me it is connected but in park.In an emergency I know I could drag it. (Accidently tested it once)
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04-04-2015, 04:44 PM
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#28
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Senior Member
Winnebago Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Home on the hill in Georgia
Posts: 2,742
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Why would you stay in places that you have to worry about things like that.
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1999 Coachman Catalina Sport
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