Parking Eye and overseas victims

Coupon-mad

The Memorandum of Understanding between the BPA and the BVRLA removed the need for the hire agreement & statement of liability AFAIK, making life fairly easy for hire/lease firms to discharge liability, if they did but know it. It really only needs a letter I believe, saying the name & address of the driver. This was explained to BVRLA members in January/February in at lease one BVRLA newsletter. Once the letter giving the driver's details is received, the PPC cannot revert to the lease/hire company keeper - and if they try, the lease/hire company keeper can't suddenly bully the hirer by paying and debiting the hirer's card, because it's none of their business by then.

bazster

esmerobbo wrote: »

I recently had a car on hire through a dealer when my new car was late, I noticed a term in their conditions were they stated they will make a admin charge for dealing with a private parking charge.

This was only a local small company, but I wonder how many others have it in their T&C's.

Never seen it, although I imagine it might become more common.

However, when push comes to shove, it's probably an unfair contract term because, whatever way you look at it, a private parking charge is neither their problem nor any of their business. Especially if they are proposing to charge some ridiculous sum like £35.