Airport Meet and Greet Driver / Insurance Database Query

Manxman_in_exile

angrycrow wrote: »

...so their only option is to have the car impounded until they can reach the legally insured keeper of the car.

Police have done nothing wrong here. .
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Am I missing something here? I thought the "legally insured keeper" (the OP) was a passenger in the car? Why couldn't the OP just drive it instead of the police impounding it?

Warwick_Hunt

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

Am I missing something here? I thought the "legally insured keeper" (the OP) was a passenger in the car? Why couldn't the OP just drive it instead of the police impounding it?

Because the vehicle was showing no insurance and the OP couldn't produce evidence that it was?

Johno100

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

Am I missing something here? I thought the "legally insured keeper" (the OP) was a passenger in the car? Why couldn't the OP just drive it instead of the police impounding it?

Where are you getting that from? The usual arrangement is that you hand the vehicle over to the meet and greet company at or near the airport, you go away on your hols and they drive away your vehicle and park it up somewhere (supposedly) secure and bring to back to you at the airport when you return.

DoaM

Johno100 wrote: »

Where are you getting that from? The usual arrangement is that you hand the vehicle over to the meet and greet company at or near the airport, you go away on your hols and they drive away your vehicle and park it up somewhere (supposedly) secure and bring to back to you at the airport when you return.

Is the correct answer. I've used M&G at Edinburgh a couple of times and that is exactly hat happens. (Each time the trip mileage has increased by about 0.5 miles, so I know they've parked it nearby and not used it as a runaround - I always photograph the trip meter after drop off and before the driver takes the car away).

Manxman_in_exile

Johno100 wrote: »

Where are you getting that from? The usual arrangement is that you hand the vehicle over to the meet and greet company at or near the airport, you go away on your hols and they drive away your vehicle and park it up somewhere (supposedly) secure and bring to back to you at the airport when you return.

Of course! I misread the OP saying "on our return" as being returning to their home as passengers(*) rather than the meet and greet driver going to the airport to meet them.


(*) How could I have thought that?!

Herzlos

angrycrow wrote: »

Makes you wonder how the car was stored.

Depends on how much the mileage has increased. It could have been in a secure site near the airport, or on a housing estate, or being used for the duration by one of the drivers.

Marvel1

Mine was on the MIB site within hours, why was yours not showing after months?I believe if your insurance failed, then it's their fault.

dogshome

Remember Meet & Greet in it's infancy
Flying out of Heathrow and needed 2 weeks parking, somehow found an M&G firm and rang them.
All sounded great - Drive to set-down, unload luggage, hand over keys with car delivered back 14 days later.

Phone call progessed to charges, which they summed up by saying "And if you pay cash we can forget the VAT"
At that point my enthusiam for handing over my brand new Peugeot 405 GLX Estate to a stranger, vanished
Little seems to have changed

missile

I would check AskMID to see if your car was on the database. If not, complain to your insurers.

PS: I always do this after insuring my vehicles as a precaution.

unforeseen

It was probably impounded because the drivers insurance cover for the vehicle was dependant on the vehicle itself having insurance.

No fault on the parking firm. If police caught him speeding then even if not speeding the car would have got pinged by their ANPR for no insurance.