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Originally Posted by ElDiabloJoe
WileeTundras, these vaults are custom made to fit in truck consoles. I thought about the dimensions of the ones you listed, and I can't find a discreet place in my truck to mount any of those. There're too many electronics and wiring under my seats, and I don't want to bolt it in the truck bed exposed to the elements. Installing any of those in the glove box has two problems; 1.) it may not fit, and 2.) it would be easy to tear out the plastic glovebox and take it with the vault away to work on opening later.
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The smaller safes will mount under the backseat of the DoubleCab and they can be bolted to the floor or the seat bracket if needed to prevent them from being stolen out of the vehicle. My truck bed has a LINE-X
liner and a hard cover so there is no problem installing one or more safes or toolboxes back there. Any time I take the cover off to haul a big load I could just move the safe into the cab, or remove it altogether when I am not using it. Plus the locking bed cover and tailgate would provide an additional layer of security, and you could fit a much bigger safe in the bed if you had a lot of stuff to secure (several guns, wife's purse, valuable tools, etc.)
Also, it would be just as easy to remove the console vaults from the console if a thief wanted to break them open remotely. At least the steel and locking mechanisms are much stronger on the traditional safes.
The bottom line is that no safe or vault is going to protect a determined thief that has a few minutes to work on the vehicle. They will only stop the thieves of opportunity like mechanics, valets, parking lot attendants, or the smash and grab street punks.
Another note for those without any safe: my 07 Tundra DoubleCab has a locking glovebox which is quite big, in addition to a second glovebox which could be used to hold the traditional stuff so that the locked compartment could be used exclusively for the valuables. The truck even came with a special valet key which will operate the truck but not the locking glovebox.