Car Has Been Towed

tomsutherlanduk

I've sent it already now. Figure I'll give them an opportunity to respond and if I hear nothing I'll send it as a letter with a reduced time.

Crabman

tomsutherlanduk wrote: »

Muckybutt, is moving the thread something I need to do, or had it been done already?

I've just moved this thread to the Parking board

vax2002

tomsutherlanduk wrote: »

I've sent it already now. Figure I'll give them an opportunity to respond and if I hear nothing I'll send it as a letter with a reduced time.

Your appeal has been rejected.
Ill save you the bother.

Have you paid them, ?

muckybutt

A statutory demand will make eff all difference vax.

The only way to get the car back is to pay then sue....been done before and it works.

give_them_FA

Send it as a letter as well. If it goes to court this will help. You could pay with a credit card and claim a chargeback.

Or you can e mail whoever hired these cowboys to say that unless your vehicle is returned forthwith, you will hire a replacement and they will be responsible for the charges. To be enforced by Court action. That will keep you mobile and it needs to be brought home to the fools that hire these parasites that THEY are going to be responsible for their misdeeds. Too many of these management companies fail to realise what they let themselves in for.

ManxRed

Tom,

Are you renting the flat, or do you own it?

Throbbe

Crabman wrote: »

I've just moved this thread to the Parking board

Apologies OP, but the fact that this thread got 'towed' tickled me.

HO87

@OP What you do next depends to a degree on whether uyou own your flat or simply rent it. Knowing that information will guide what we advise next. Do you know who owns the building or who are the managing agents?

Secondly, if you have not already sent the email, don't bother. As has been suggested, you will need to threaten, at least, to sue both the clampers themselves, the person who actually fitted the clamp and the owners/managing agents - whoever signed the clampers up. (that is 3 parties) You will know who the clampers are and the details of the clamper from the recipts/documents you have.

Send the same letter to all parties. it should read something along these lines:

Dear Sirs

Letter Before Action
Clamping of motor vehicle <insert reg. number> at <insert location> on <insert date>

At <insert time, date> I parked the vehicle concerned at the above location, a private car park, in a space allocated for the use of residents. At that time a current parking permit was clearly displayed in the windscreen.

At <insert time, date> I returned to the car park and found that the vehicle had been clamped and subsequently removed by <insert clamping company's details>. In order to recover it I have had to pay a total of £345 in costs to the clamping company. In recovering the vehicle from their pound I have incurred the additional expenses of <insert amount - e.g. taxi fares, phone calls etc etc>. A total sum of £XXX.

I am entitled to use the car park (and can demonstrate that with evidence I have secured) and was issued with a parking permit on or about <insert date> and it has been clearly displayed in the windscreen of the vehicle since that time.

It is alleged by the agent of the clamping company that the reason for the immobilisation and removal of my vehicle was because I had failed to display a current parking permit. For my part I will state that I displayed the only permit with which I have been supplied; that I was unaware that a different permit had been issued, if indeed it has, nor that there was any requirement for me to do so and that the signage, it is averred by the parties involved, that refers me to issue of a new style permit actually does no such thing. I have secured evidence of the signage displayed on the day.

It is my case that the immobilisation and removal of my vehicle was improper and that the witholding of the vehicle against payment was similarly improper. Unless I receive full reimbursement of the charges levied and the costs I incurred as a consequence within the next 14 days I will commence proceedings without further recourse to you.

Yours faithfully

tomsutherlanduk

As has been said a Stat. demand is not the route to follow.