Too many cars at home?

retrocircles

Tippytoes wrote: »

I'm with OP, too. Who the hell wants to live in the midst of cars being shunted back and forth all the time? If the cars are street legal, there is nothing you can do about it. If they're not, I'd be making a few phone calls....

They're not! For 4 weekends he was stripping an old Ford back to bare metal, drilling & sawing through metal for hours on end. When he had finished he had it shipped off... god knows where to. We haven't seen that one since. I'm half expecting it back any day now after a respray or something!

ehlo

Similar situation here. Many houses have been converted into flats and so can have 3-5 cars each. Also many people are doing second jobs as taxi drivers. One person even has two taxis as well as their normal car (who knows why?!). Makes it incredibly hard to park (none of the houses here have space for drives)

I_am_mad

Hi, I know exactly what its like to be in this situation. I live on a road which isnt exactly roomy and the people over the road from me bear in mind there is only 2 of them they live in a house which has space for 1 car, yet they have 3. Bear in mind there is only 2 of them, sometimes they bring their caravan home with them too and their boat and often a motorbike. It is very annoying and also very inconsiderate as they often cause trouble with other traffic as lots of farm tractors come past our house and we are always the ones who have to move our cars, as they never open the doors, even though its their cars causing the disruption.

So all those people moaning about the OP, just have a think what it would be like if you were in the same situation!?

lucylucky

retrocircles wrote: »

They're not fixing them. They work on them every single weekend, all day long & often weeknights. If it was a case of just fixing a domestic issue, with a domestic car... FINE. But that's clearly not the case here is it?

3 people live in their house. So why 9 cars? It's clearly a business. Having a mechanic/car forecourt over the road from your house is going to be an eyesore.

So I should just close my curtains & never look through the 5 windows on the front of my house? Stop being an idiot.

If it is a business I wonder if their insurers, council, HMRC know this?

Maybe someone should inform them;)

ankspon

Amazing,we had a family across from us that did the same and we called them clampits,i got in touch with the council and they told them to move them

ScottishSapper

retrocircles wrote: »

I wouldn't know without sneaking over & having a look?! They're not particularly well off, only 1 of the adults in the household works, so I highly doubt it. 9x car tax a year... I know I couldn't afford it!

If you can see the Reg Nos than you can check on the DVLA site
http://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/application?origin=vehicleEnquiryInfo_en.jsp&event=bea.portal.framework.internal.portlet.event&pageid=Vehicle+Enquiry&portletid=VehicleEnquiry&portletns=VehicleEnquiry_en&wfevent=link.next

Not alot you can do about anything parked on drive but any untaxed vehicle on the road can be reported :::
https://www.dvla.gov.uk/dvla/onlineservices/report_unlicensed.aspx?ext=dg

pendulum

retrocircles wrote: »

Nosey?

I'd call it nosy when you know exactly how many people are living there, and the working or not working status of each of them, when your not even friends with them. I have lived in my house for 12 years and don't know such details about my neighbours because I mind my own business.

From what you say about 'yobs' and 'modded cars' etc, it sounds like he might just be inviting his car enthusiast friends round for evenings of working on their cars. Maybe they all have some projects on the go. It sounds like its something you've got to put up with, and if it bothers you so much, take the advice of an early poster here and don't look.

thescouselander

We've got a similar situation round here. One of the neighbours keeps parking loads of cars around the place, they come and go and occasionally the same car can be seen with several different reg numbers over a few weeks. All very suspect.

Cool_Username

Retrocircles the fact of the matter is if these cars are taxed I don't see that the house in question is doing anything wrong legally - lets face it lots of households these days have two, three or maybe four cars to a house.

That said the situation you describe does seem a bit extreme, regardless of the legality of having a dozen or so cars parked in the street by one household it would get on my nerves as well.

I suppose you could try getting in touch with the police and/or the local council and ask if there is anything that can be done about the situation - the household in question is clearly causing a nuisance to you with the noise and disruption that they are causing - you have nothing to lose by asking if something can be done.

Cool_Username

thescouselander wrote: »

We've got a similar situation round here. One of the neighbours keeps parking loads of cars around the place, they come and go and occasionally the same car can be seen with several different reg numbers over a few weeks. All very suspect.

You keep seeing identical cars with different registration numbers? Have you informed the police?