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Thousands of pounds owed to glasgow city council - help me!

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  • I am willing to put money on whatever insurance arrangements are in place for this car are fraudulent.

    I also am highly sceptical about the motives of the ownership of the car in the first place.



    A bit harsh mate.

    Family have given me a car before to pretty much use on a permanent basis. Their insurance & their car.
    Not Again
  • A bit harsh mate.

    Family have given me a car before to pretty much use on a permanent basis. Their insurance & their car.


    And at the very least then it will have likely been fronting as they no doubt had it insured them as the main drivers.

    Also were you the only person using it?

    I still think the OP and their family at the very best have misused the shared usage to avoid criminal and civil penalties relating to the vehicle
  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    To get back to the OP, has anyone good advice which helps them with their problem, its nothing to do with insurance, thats immaterial to the parking tickets.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • mikey72
    mikey72 Posts: 14,680 Forumite
    Probably no good when your commiting insurance fraud and fraud by having a car registered to someone who seems to barely use it.

    Never use my car at all. My wife never drives hers.
    I insure my wife's car for me as the main driver, she insures my car for her as the main driver. Registered owners are declared to both insurance companies, they have no problems with it. Not any case of fraud at all. But we would get each others tickets.
  • Has the OP actually asked who was driving and asked them to pay?

    If she is willing to let her family use the car as they see fit surely a relationship exists that she can ask this and ask for repayment.
  • mikey72 wrote: »
    Never use my car at all. My wife never drives hers.
    I insure my wife's car for me as the main driver, she insures my car for her as the main driver. Registered owners are declared to both insurance companies, they have no problems with it. Not any case of fraud at all. But we would get each others tickets.


    Again do you have the keys sitting so your entirely family can use it?

    If not then its not even comparable to the OP who doesnt seem to know who is driving her car or when.

    Rather convenient that when it gives rise to avoiding all the tickets etc
  • Again do you have the keys sitting so your entirely family can use it?

    If not then its not even comparable to the OP who doesnt seem to know who is driving her car or when.

    Rather convenient that when it gives rise to avoiding all the tickets etc


    I dont think its really that convenient bearing in mind if she cant say who was driving at the time she admits another offence & also has to cough up unless she gets off on a technicality..

    Then there is the additional offence of not informing the DVLA if the details on the log book where wrong...

    Ooooo & the change of address she never made to the insurance company & the DVLA...
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  • sarahg1969
    sarahg1969 Posts: 6,694 Forumite
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    Where is the relevance in any of this?

    OP, pepipoo is your friend.
  • Neil_B
    Neil_B Posts: 1,360 Forumite
    edited 22 June 2009 at 8:37PM
    I'm afraid this post is the reason why I suggested the OP goes to Pepipoo, they at least try to help without having a dig at them. How on earth does this help the OP get out of her /his problem?
    sarahg1969 wrote: »
    Where is the relevance in any of this?

    OP, pepipoo is your friend.

    Indeed.

    The only decent MSE organiser here seems to be Crabman. The site owners clearly don't give a monkey's about these pointless and detracting interruptions.

    Quite how some people think their posts are in any way constructive is beyond me. The proof of the pudding is that, on here, many OPs never return after first post.

    Apart from existing cases where I have tried to help I shall not be posting again and I strongly recommend any new members find a useful forum such as that suggested. (I have no affiliation)
  • sarahg1969
    sarahg1969 Posts: 6,694 Forumite
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    Neil_B wrote: »
    Indeed.

    The proof of the pudding is that, on here, many OPs never return after first post.

    Unfortunately, not many of them can be bothered to get on to pepipoo, either.

    It seems that some people just don't want to be helped.
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