I changed strategy on taping vehicle lights this year after fighting with too many of them. Simply remove any and all reason to open your car at night, and keep your keys away from it. That way you don't have to do anything to your car. Something left in the car? Tough luck, wait until morning.
I do the same, although I do both, cover or disable lights and stow the keys in the tent at dusk, where they are not to be touched until morning. It does help to have a truck, so anything I may want in the night is set out in the back of the truck, which is not lit. That includes snacks, which caused me to embarrass myself one night about 15 years ago, an experience I never intend to repeat.
