Car worries...

• Has anyone had a problem with theives at car parks at the end of tramping routes? I'm planning on doing the Abel Tasman and probably a few in Fiordland, and any others I stumble across.
  
  I've heard a few tales of woe about returning to empty cars.
  
  However, when I did the Lake Waikeremoana I found a camp site with a secure car park that I could leave my car at for free, is this common throughout the islands?

  29 May 2007, 07:15 Laura

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• less common in the South Island

  Break ins are possilbe pretty much anywhere, but much less common in the South Island. generally speaking.
  
  Where I live, outskirts of Auckland, I would normally not want to leave my car overnight. I'd almost expect it to get broken into.
  
  but in Otago, where I used to live, I'd leave my car pretty much anywhere and expect it to be there when I got back.
  
  Secure carparks are not common.
  
  That said, I've left my car lots of silly places and have never had a problem.
  
  Just make your car look unappealing.. Laughing

  Ron 29 May 2007, 07:16 - Report