Insure the roof tent?
There are different ways to insure a roof tent. The best solution is to cover the roof tent through your car insurance. Most partial and fully comprehensive insurance policies cover the include loads such as roof boxes or roof tents. It is worth calling your own car insurance company and asking. Most car insurance companies do not even have a value limit. However, the roof tent must be connected to the car. This means that if you remove the roof tent and hang it under the carport, for example, the roof tent would not be insured during this time.
If your car insurance does not cover a roof tent, we also offer you roof tent insurance. We work together with Gothaer Versicherung, who offer a special roof tent insurance. You can find all information on the product data sheet here: Data sheet roof tent insurance
Protecting a roof tent from theft provides additional security. Although it is very difficult to steal a roof tent, because it has to be unscrewed and lifted off the roof of the car, safe is safe.
What can you do to protect your roof tent? The roof tents are often fastened with normal nuts and counter plates. If you have a suitable combination spanner with you, you can easily loosen these nuts. Autohome has developed an anti-theft protection for this purpose.ndeveloped. The set consists of special caps that are screwed onto the nuts and can only be removed using a specialkey to open them. These screw caps are a hurdle for possible thieves.
Another way to secure your roof tent is with ring nuts. With these nuts and a U-lock, the nuts can no longer be turned.
Conclusion
There are various ways to protect a roof tent from theft. With sufficient insurance, however, you can protect but in any case your own wallet. Caps or nuts with locks make it obvious that the roof tent cannot be unscrewed quickly.
In addition, Autohome gives each roof tent a serial number. It is helpful to document this number and keep it safe.