Garage door security measures - what's effective and easy to use?

[Flip]

Nothing does stop them. But you should never make yourself an easy target. Theves are basically a cowardly lot and they don't like being confronted and being beaten up.

I have a tilter door on my bike garage. The tilter door has an extra drop bolt top and bottom. The side door has been reinforced with angle iron and has a big "procreate in another location" pad lock on it. The garage has no windows only sky lights and has a basic motion sensor alarm system. I fully lock up any vehicle I leave in it and if I am awol I park my work ute in the drive to block access.

Oh and my dog is worth much more to me than anything I will ever park in my garage.

[Headbanger]

Auto-tilt doors are generally so weak that a good yank will twist em enough to open them, Otherwise a jimmy bar and a sledgehammer and no shed is safe.

Bars over the window?, no problem.

[BoristheBiter]

Nothing does stop them. But you should never make yourself an easy target. Theves are basically a cowardly lot and they don't like being confronted and being beaten up.

I have a tilter door on my bike garage. The tilter door has an extra drop bolt top and bottom. The side door has been reinforced with angle iron and has a big "procreate in another location" pad lock on it. The garage has no windows only sky lights and has a basic motion sensor alarm system. I fully lock up any vehicle I leave in it and if I am awol I park my work ute in the drive to block access.

Oh and my dog is worth much more to me than anything I will ever park in my garage.

Dead right there. sounds like we took the same "how not to get scamed" course.
some people just make it too easy for them to get in, although i have come home to all the house being locked up and alarms set to find i hadn't closed one of the doors.
Also we lock the gate.

[Elysium]

Our garage door has a simple slide latch at the bottom of the door. But some previous owner installed this large chain into the floor that once secured a Subaru Legacy, may concider using that soon.

[Mom]

i prefer tilt doors over rollers.
then its as easy as a plank of wood slotted between the scissor mechanisms

What he said

[rustic101]

American Bull dog sleeping next to the bike works very well

[Jonno.]

The main way people will get into your house is a window or door and it will most likely be during the day.

[kave]

I used to work for a warehousing company that wholesaled expensive electronic equipment. Roller-door was bolted, bollards were placed behind the roller-door. All windows had massive steel bars over them both on the inside and out. The area was alarmed. Came in one day to find thieves had managed to hook up a truck to the exterior bars and pull them off. They had then smashed the window and used an angle-grinder to get through the internal bars. They had escaped with one box of stock (but luckily the box only contained damaged goods that were going in the bin).

The cheapest security is insurance. If you are really keen on turning your garage into a fortress but want to keep the convenience of automatic doors (none of which are very secure) I would suggest making sure that your door opener uses rolling code technology so thieves cant use a code grabber. I would get an alarm professionally installed with heaps of PIRs and sensors on all the doors and windows. Then I would secure the bike using a ground anchor. Maybe install a "sonic barrier" and "light barrier", essentially a multi-tone siren operating at about 125db with a 2700W strobe. Combine that with a fog cannon such as the "protect 600" .The combination of the sound barrier, light barrier and fog cannon actually prevents any burglar from remaining on your premises for more than a few seconds, acts on the same principles as a flash-bang grenade, totally overpowers all your senses.

[Eyegasm]

Maybe install a "sonic barrier" and "light barrier", essentially a multi-tone siren operating at about 125db with a 2700W strobe. Combine that with a fog cannon such as the "protect 600" .The combination of the sound barrier, light barrier and fog cannon actually prevents any burglar from remaining on your premises for more than a few seconds, acts on the same principles as a flash-bang grenade, totally overpowers all your senses.

Shit, add some Dubstep or Drum and Bass and I'll have a party in your garage any day!!!
Fog, Strobe and loud sounds.... Yip sounds like a wicked gig.

[Bad Gixxer]

My security device consists of an elderly Watchlady called June who lives in the house in front of mine. She clears my mail, brings the paper down the drive on a rainy morning, intercepts the courier for all those trademe purchases and signs the receipt for me, gives me a rundown on any visitors that arrived and I wasn't there, and generally watches the place like a hawk. If I go away and (as I sometimes do) leave the garage door open, she'll close it for me and check the doors.

She's cheap to run as well - a box of Roses at Christmas and a couple of odd-jobs for her now and again. She's worth her weight in gold. I reckon any dropkick that tried to nick my bike (assuming he got as far as riding out the driveway) would get a spade in the face from the old lady!!

[Swoop]

I was told that one of the common ways auto tilt doors are opened is by hooking the rope on the release mechanism through the top of the door, disconnects the door from the drive chain so it can be lifted open.

Yup. A Kotanga with a loop on the end can release the mechanism from the top of the door, or there is another easy entry... Either way, a tilt door is a weak point, so reinforce your door security folks!

Also, a nosey neighbour is a handy thing to have (at times).



Extra security is needed with tilt doors, no matter what you have inside.

[dogsnbikes]

Knowing your neighbours is a good start,not many people do these days though....but I still keep garage locked both inside and out even tools box's and cupboards and bike's locked failing all that I have insurance,but at least I know I have done my part to minimise the risk..

But its a bonus that no-one can see our house or garage from the street,and our neighbours always tell us if someone show's up when we are out........

But Guys its all too common if you can see your garage door from the road don't leave the bloody door open for the world too see what you have

[Flip]

Knowing your neighbours is a good start,not many people do these days though....but I still keep garage locked both inside and out even tools box's and cupboards and bike's locked failing all that I have insurance,but at least I know I have done my part to minimise the risk..

But its a bonus that no-one can see our house or garage from the street,and our neighbours always tell us if someone show's up when we are out........

But Guys its all too common if you can see your garage door from the road don't leave the bloody door open for the world too see what you have

Exactly, what the eye does not see the heart does not want.

I do not think I would be an easy target. Addittionally my little brother was "Sargent at arms" at one of those big nasty motorcycle clubs we have down here, so it is likely the bike would be returned PDQ.

[aprilia_RS250]

Few years ago one of my mates at uni who studied electrical engineering had his bike pinched by some shitheads. He got a new bike and completely re jigged the electrics on the bike. He molded something that he called a bridge or something like it. It was a proprietary bit of plastic that once plugged into a what looked like a cigarette lighter plug in a car would complete the electrical circuit, this was housed in the sandwich box in the back of the bike. He told me the bike could not be turned on, even with a key, if the bridge was missing. The only way someone could pinch it was if it was picked up and carried away.

[Latte]

Few years ago one of my mates at uni who studied electrical engineering had his bike pinched by some shitheads. He got a new bike and completely re jigged the electrics on the bike. He molded something that he called a bridge or something like it. It was a proprietary bit of plastic that once plugged into a what looked like a cigarette lighter plug in a car would complete the electrical circuit, this was housed in the sandwich box in the back of the bike. He told me the bike could not be turned on, even with a key, if the bridge was missing. The only way someone could pinch it was if it was picked up and carried away.

sounds like an elaborate kill switch, good idea.

Mate had one in his car where the Ash tray had to be a certain distance open for the car to start, once started it could be pushed back in.