Tailgate, quick & easy open up & you have one ready made shelter also it looks cool, cooler than twin doors.

Twin door practicaity the best as if you have some sensative equipment inside you only need to open half the door plus is eaisier in a car park. now here the tricky bit if you wanted say extra space to cook outside the van then with the twin door's all you need is a roof & sorted you have an instant shelter but with the tailgate you have the roof but no sides.

so:

its a choice between practicality, coolness or availability.

Point to note barn doors not as desirable come time to sell where as urban myth dictates a tailgated version is the version to go for only if you want it often attracting a daft premium on an identically aged mileage barn door type version, at least this was my findings when seeking my last which was a barn door when purchased and was later changed to a tailgated version so i can testify its easily done.........

But just to be differenet i have NO back door this time none at all well excludung a toilet access that is !!! the way to go no backdoor then you dont need to choose have a toilet and shower instead like me

Watch that living room window Mr. Wireman.

Pablo

ehm i beg to differ that pablo a single security lock placed at the bottom of the tailgate a snear to the centre as possible should be enough to stop any theif provided fitted correctly be rust free.

pls feel free to correct me

Better still my last one had to great effect essentially double glazing door locks fitted to ALL doors that deadlocked then to the respective pillars [the only one not done was the slider ??/ still never really got an answer as to why] cheap, easy and secure will work ON ALL DOORS ALSO with ONE KEY ..........

Pablo

Common sense dictates that all valuables are well out of sight obviously sadly with mine being a motorhome i have extra worries in that department to the extent that whilst we have a manufacturers fitted safe under one of my seats i far preffered my original idea of it opening into the footwell and not the rear that way you had to get the door opened before you could get the safe opened, and with deadlocks of any description that is a kind of hard task, so even if your window is panned they still wouldnt get the safe opened as the door is larger than the doors aperture between it and the door where as rear facing safes can be seen through the side window and opened far easier, my last van had the later design with the deadlocks making it as safe as possible in most circumstances that a car thief may operate.

The secret is to be safe but not paranoid to the point that you are always worried about leaving it or it will just ruin your enjoyment a much better bet is to have clealry visible locks thus they will in most cases simply move on to the next not so well secured one in the row..... a phylosiphy that has always worked for me anyway....

[A wee tip if its double glazing door locks keep the fronts of said locks smeared with a little grease or vasaline why? simple to stop them tarnishing [another T4 Club Top Tip]]