Where do you park your car?

scuzz

Mine's on the drive as Mum's is in the garage.

black-saturn

Spare a thought for me. Where I live there are no garages or driveways and my house front door opens up right onto the pavement. If I had a car (which I don't but almost everyone in my road does) I would have to pay £56 per year for a parking permit just to be able to park outside my house. If I parked out there for 10 minutes without a permit someone up this road shops you to a traffic warden who gives you a parking fine. Then sometimes there are no spaces left anywhere up the road so you have to park 3 or 4 roads away.

Woby_Tide

I once completed the same insurance quote online twice, the difference between garaging the car and leaving on the drive was £18pa. I reckon on average due to driveway width and how long it takes to reach garage and open and close the door etc. it valued my time at something like 80p an hour, it can stay on the drive as far as i'm concerned.

Interested about the white line situation, we have a telegraph pole that is on edge of pavement directly in line with edge of driveway so we can only start turning car at a certain pont, have lots of trouble with people parking too close to pole making it really awkward to get out of driveway

Becles

I used to live in a street that had horrendous parking problems. There was a small block of flats nearby, but their car park wasn't lit well and they suffered car vandalism, so they parked in our street. The houses along side of ours, had drives at the back of the houses, but those people used to park in our street and use their front doors.

We lived on the end house in the cul-de-sac so the road stopped level with our drive. It was only normal road width. Often people just parked there and blocked the drive, or parked in front of the house, so you couldn't get the swing off the drive to get the car out.

We approached the council who were very helpful and painted a huge "Keep Clear" sign on the road. That stopped people parking across the driveway, and they left us enough room to get the car out after that.

It might be worth asking the council to see what they can do.

allycat999

Ganyam wrote:

Who tells the insurance company the truth... you tell tham its parked in the street they'll easly slap a 100 on the price ... lie where you can.. you owe them nothin!!!

I have a double garage and two cars that are parked in there every night, yes it takes time to put them in but at least in the morning I don't have to defrost all the windows
My insurance company state in their terms and conditions that if you stipulate you park your car in a garage then whilst its parked at your residence that it must be garaged between the hours of 2300 and 0600.
Wouldn't claim it was garaged if it was not, too honest for that.