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What do I have to do to get an unlicenced, untaxed, unregistered car moved?
drc
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I wrote a thread a few days ago about our nuisance neighbours who are causing our block of flats trouble.
They are a group of students. One of them has a boy racer car which has no licence plates, no tax disc, no registration details etc. It is permanetly parked outside in one of the spaces allocated for our block of flats. This is not private land but part of the public highway. The car has 'for sale' adverts all over it but nobody will ever see them unless they venture into the block car park. This car has been here for months. The student who owns it occasionally drives it at high speed into the main road.
I have reported the car to the DVLA twice, the local council 'highways' department twice and it has been reported to the police. I have seen a policeman inspect it, a gentleman from the council and various other people. However, it is still here and taking up the space which means someone who lives here and does pay for all the legalities of owning a car cannot park in their space.
Nobody wants to speak to the guy that owns the car as he is quite aggressive and nobody wants trouble, hence doing it annonymously.
What I want to know is, what does one have to do to actually get an illegal car moved!!??? It seems like you can break the law for months with all the relevant agencies knowing about it and nothing gets done. What is the point of everyone else paying for their licence, insurance etc when guys like this are getting away with it. I am so angry :mad::mad::mad:.
I'm wondering why none of these agencies have actually done anything and what is the point of the DVLA having a hotline for unlicenced cars if nothing is done (reported to them weeks ago).
I cannot report the car abandoned as it is obviously not but I just want this piece of junk moved asap so that my husband doesn't have to park a street away every night when he returns from a long day at work.
They are a group of students. One of them has a boy racer car which has no licence plates, no tax disc, no registration details etc. It is permanetly parked outside in one of the spaces allocated for our block of flats. This is not private land but part of the public highway. The car has 'for sale' adverts all over it but nobody will ever see them unless they venture into the block car park. This car has been here for months. The student who owns it occasionally drives it at high speed into the main road.
I have reported the car to the DVLA twice, the local council 'highways' department twice and it has been reported to the police. I have seen a policeman inspect it, a gentleman from the council and various other people. However, it is still here and taking up the space which means someone who lives here and does pay for all the legalities of owning a car cannot park in their space.
Nobody wants to speak to the guy that owns the car as he is quite aggressive and nobody wants trouble, hence doing it annonymously.
What I want to know is, what does one have to do to actually get an illegal car moved!!??? It seems like you can break the law for months with all the relevant agencies knowing about it and nothing gets done. What is the point of everyone else paying for their licence, insurance etc when guys like this are getting away with it. I am so angry :mad::mad::mad:.
I'm wondering why none of these agencies have actually done anything and what is the point of the DVLA having a hotline for unlicenced cars if nothing is done (reported to them weeks ago).
I cannot report the car abandoned as it is obviously not but I just want this piece of junk moved asap so that my husband doesn't have to park a street away every night when he returns from a long day at work.
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I know this probably won't help, but there was a dumped car outside my mum's house (they are always dumping cars in her road) and my bf ripped the plates off (don't worry, he left it there a while to make sure it was dumped and it had no road tax). It still didn't go, so he got a big can of white spray paint and wrote "DUMPED" all over it. Teehee, makes us sound as bad as the dumpers really.
Anyway, it worked and the car was taken the next day.Pink Sproglettes born 2008 and 2010
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We had an abandon car without tax on it in our terrace street where parking is always at a premium and the DVLA people came checking for out of date tax discs and as no disc was displayed they walked right passed it!!!
But I met the tow truck as I came home taking a different untaxed car and I aked him why the other car hadn't been given a notice, he didn't know but within 48 hours a notice appeared on the car and it was moved a week later (by owner or dvla i'm not sure).
So I would ring DVLA again and ask why they haven't moved it. It sound to me like it's on private land, but you say it is on the highway so they have a duty to remove it. Take names and job titles or who you speak to and if they fob you off ask who you should be speaking to. It's going to be long winded but you should get there in the end.
(of course the quick way is probably to get some friends/neighbours together and move the car onto the main road - police have to move it then!)
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I had a car dumped outside my house and the local council said they would remove it one month after the tax disc expired. And they did!.....0
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Ask around to see if anyone knows of any unscrupulous scrap merchants and tell them they can have the car in exchange for taking it away.↑ Things I wouldn't say to your face
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http://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/caruplift/
anything here help?
i used the previous scheme to get my stolen car uplifted.
i had it stored off road on my drive with no insurance/tax etc but got it uplifted free through this scheme.
didnt even hand over any log book etc!!
police were more interested in how i was getting rid of the burned out car than anything else
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