Cer Electrics Chewed on Work Car Park. Leaseholder Liable?

JaseGill

Edit: Car electrics, told you it was my 1st post!!!!

Hi,
My 1st post so please be nice to me

I have recently returned from a trip away from work. I left my car in the work car park (its a leased car park from a 3rd party building owner if that matters) and I find that some vermin has been under my bonnet and chewed away my electrics (my car was left for a week whilst I used a company car on a business trip).
Cost was just north of £860, obviously I'm not best pleased. The work has been done (I need the car for travel to and from work) and now I'm trying to find out if I have a claim against either the work of the building owners insurance.

Work have asked me to approach the building manager, done and I'm told they're working on it. The building manager called in local pest control, who have been in and said there is an issue and it needs resolving. He is stonewalling me as far as building owner contact details etc...
There are no signs saying parked at owners risk.

As the car park is leased I don't know where to go next? Can I ascertain the building ownership via other means and approach them as a private individual or should I chase it through my employers who seem to have washed their hands of it now that I have approached the building manager

Do I have a viable case to claim for my losses?

Hintza

JaseGill wrote: »

Do I have a viable case to claim for my losses?

Probably not. Unless you can prove negligence. Can you prove the mouse/rat etc was not transported to site by yourself? I had a car that was driven everyday and the mice grazed on constantly

Has anyone else experienced the same problem? This is probably your only hope.

mattyprice4004

To be honest, you have no claim. It's just one of those things - wild animals are exactly that, wild.

The car park must have some kind of open entrance for access, any mouse or rat could have entered this way. That's a given in a car park, and not the management or the owner's problem.

AlexisV

There would have had to be an existing, known about pest problem and the management company would have had to have done nothing about it for there to be any potential negligence. All very hard to prove.

JaseGill

Thanks all.
As I thought not much hope.
Its not going to stop me sending an email to all who park here warning them of the issue though. Will probably get a bollocking but its worth it to save others the same problem.

Strider590

For that to have happened i'd hazard a guess that you "splatted" something and left a nice little festering smelly meal for some hungry wildlife.

I don't think you have any right to a claim, it could happen literally anywhere......

s_b

its rats that normally chew cables and they prefer some cars to others
for instance they love mercedes ,dont ask ,i dont know why but they do
unless you can prove its roland from drain 4 and he has any assets then theres not a lot you can do other than advise other car users and maybe get the owners to put some bait down