My car has just vanished

CardinalWolsey

summerwinter01 wrote: »

I parked my car on tuesday. I went there on wednesday. I called up my insurance company probably 4 hours after I saw it wasnt there on wednesday..... So I am not too sure where so many days have gone by.

Were you making love on Wednesday?
And today, and you plan on doing so Friday and Saturday?
You can chill on Sunday.

Alas your car has been stolen. You've reported it to the police and your insurer. What did your insurer say about process / timelines when you asked them? We can only guess not knowing your insurer and particular policy cover.

danny91

And you're sure that you're looking in the correct car park? :rotfl:

Nearlyold

Perhaps the OP is similar to my Dad.


Dad finishes work and goes to the bike shed only to find his bike missing.

Duly reports the theft to the police (this was in the sixties when there were still local bobbies)

Next day the Police call at his work to let him know they've found his bike

"Where was it?" asks my Dad

"Outside the newsagent in the village" came the answer

" Erm okay I'll call round the station later - thanks" says my Dad

Dad makes mental note - "Next time I ride to the village newsagents in my lunch break to pick up my paper I must remember not to start reading it and end up walking back to work"

spadoosh

BodyOfBones wrote: »

Having read this post I feel I need to get a list of all the possible numbers I will need to call to find out if they have my Car?

Seriously who has their local pound number?

I smell Bull Excrement here!

If its got no Tax on it they clamp it!

Maybe they happened to be carrying a copy of the Thomson Local?


Being a millenial though, id just google it.... :rotfl::rotfl:

spadoosh

Nearlyold wrote: »

Perhaps the OP is similar to my Dad.


Dad finishes work and goes to the bike shed only to find his bike missing.

Duly reports the theft to the police (this was in the sixties when there were still local bobbies)

Next day the Police call at his work to let him know they've found his bike

"Where was it?" asks my Dad

"Outside the newsagent in the village" came the answer

" Erm okay I'll call round the station later - thanks" says my Dad

Dad makes mental note - "Next time I ride to the village newsagents in my lunch break to pick up my paper I must remember not to start reading it and end up walking back to work"

Ill claim first prize for idiocy on this im afraid.

Ive left my car at a petrol station having gone to fill it up during my lunch break. Just went in, paid and then walked straight past my car back to work.

waamo

Jackmydad

Perhaps a trans-dimensional wormhole opened up and the car fell through it. The time shift which occurred when this happened also meant that the car was no longer taxed, because there is no way the tax could have otherwise just expired in the middle of the month, and of course the car must have been taxed when you last used it?

Or it's been nicked.

photome

summerwinter01 wrote: »

right people are saying why did i not call the police first.... Well everyone knows that cars get towed or taken away everyday in all walks of life... My first port of call was to call the local council pound; as to what I did. They informed me they do not have it. 'DVLA may have taken it if it did not have any tax'.

I proceeded to log onto dvla website on my phone to see if it in fact had tax... The tax was expired, so again I thought ahh DVLA have taken it.

I called DVLA and they said they dont have it... nothing has come across to them saying that they have it at all.

They then told me to call their partner REDCORN. I call redcorn and they told me that they dont have it/they dont cover this area.

So as you can imagine AT THIS TIME, I am now thinking that it has been stolen...

With thought comes logic.

this post takes the biscuit.

jk0

My mother lost her car at Reading B&Q some years ago. She made a mental note that it was by the door she entered the store through. Of course the exit is some way away, but Mum couldn't understand where her car was.


The B&Q security man found it for her. She hasn't lived that down yet.

JP1978

summerwinter01 wrote: »

right people are saying why did i not call the police first.... Well everyone knows that cars get towed or taken away everyday in all walks of life... My first port of call was to call the local council pound; as to what I did. They informed me they do not have it. 'DVLA may have taken it if it did not have any tax'.

I proceeded to log onto dvla website on my phone to see if it in fact had tax... The tax was expired, so again I thought ahh DVLA have taken it.

I called DVLA and they said they dont have it... nothing has come across to them saying that they have it at all.

They then told me to call their partner REDCORN. I call redcorn and they told me that they dont have it/they dont cover this area.

So as you can imagine AT THIS TIME, I am now thinking that it has been stolen...

With thought comes logic.

Bad logic.

Is your tax and MOT valid?
Is your insurance valid?

If answer is YES, call police.

If NO and you parked in an acceptable manner then possibly call the DVLA etc before the police, although I suspect if MOT, Insurance or Tax wasnt valid, the police may have been calling YOU!

Its not as if car theft is a rare occurrence in the UK is it? Maybe of you lived on a remote island somewhere then understand.