Ok yesterday I acquired a garage
It currently has a standard up and over door. There is also no power or any chance of getting any.

So any tips on how best I can secure it to make sure whichever car ends up in there remains there ?

 

http://www.saundersonsecurity.co.uk/acatal...Door_Locks.html

 

I have 2 of these sunk in front of our double garage:

http://www.autolok.com/Pages/KTP3p.htm

 

You can also get a motion sensor alarm that has a SIM card in it which will alert you via text of an intruder. They dont use much power since they are in effect a clever mobile phone - reckon you might be able to hook up a small solar panel like you see for shed lighting to keep it charged?
If you do a google you should find simpler but look for Boat alarms sonce they ggenerally need to tell you remotely.

This looks a bit OTT but gives you an idea: http://www.easyalarms.co.uk/alarm_sy...one_alarms.asp

or

http://www.gsm-caravan-alarm.co.uk/products.htm


Hopefully you can secure it enough not to need one though

 

Had mine broken into 2 days.
They used a self tapping screw in the middle of the lock and just pulled the barrel out.
So now it takes me 20 min. to unlock the bolts and padlocks I put on.

 

This may be conceived as a red rag to a bull, especially if the garage is a rented one in a block.

The local yoof will instantly think there must be something worth nicking in their if the owner has gone to this much trouble.

 

That's what I thought.

But you can put it inside the garage if there's sufficient room (which there is likely to be).

Lee has sorted something out

 

Fair point but the garage is attached to the house, and the house is 150 yards off a country lane, and we are 3 1/2 miles from the nearest town. Issue for us was garage thefts by pikeys from Stourport/Kidderminster. We now have added (arguably overkill) protection since we have installed electric gates.

 

Surely this is an additional garage? Maybe I'm getting confused but aren't you the Maser guy? You haven't been leaving your Maser en pleine air have you?

 

Yep the Maser lives outdoors , every day and will probably continue to do so. It gets used often, racks up real mileage, is left all over the place and rarely gets washed.

It is after all just a car albeit a pretty nice one but still only a car.