My car has just vanished

Johno100

bengalknights wrote: »

As you have left it so many days before deciding it was stolen your insurance may decide to take there time as you dont know what day it was actually taken.

When vehicles go missing the first thing you do is notify the police so they can look out for it.

Think you need a new calendar.

mollycat

Just a bit of helpful advice for OP given that this thread has taken a bit of a "mickey taking" turn.

If you get home tonight and the belongings in your home are missing; they wont have been collected by mistake by a removal firm, they wont have been sold on ebay by some mysterious third party who has hacked your account and they wont have fallen into a time vortex to be collected at some point in the future.

You will have been burgled! Call the Police.

sevenhills

Maybe your Wifes car would not start, so she got the spare keys and she took yours

unholyangel

I've never lost my car, have had an embarrassing encounter though!

Quite a few years back, my dad had driven me to a shop to pick up something for my own car. I went in and got them while my dad waited in the car park. Came out, got in the car, turned round to get the seat belt - all whilst yapping away - and it was only when I turned round to click the seat belt in I noticed the man (who looked utterly shocked) behind the wheel wasn't my father. At which point I exclaimed the obvious, "Oh, you're not my dad!". He caught on at that point as I was probably sporting a even more shocked look than he had.

Meanwhile, my dad was buckled with laughter 3 cars down.

Jackmydad

unholyangel wrote: »

I've never lost my car, have had an embarrassing encounter though!

Quite a few years back, my dad had driven me to a shop to pick up something for my own car. I went in and got them while my dad waited in the car park. Came out, got in the car, turned round to get the seat belt - all whilst yapping away - and it was only when I turned round to click the seat belt in I noticed the man (who looked utterly shocked) behind the wheel wasn't my father. At which point I exclaimed the obvious, "Oh, you're not my dad!". He caught on at that point as I was probably sporting a even more shocked look than he had.

Meanwhile, my dad was buckled with laughter 3 cars down.

I got in the wrong, identical type of car to mine once in a dark car park. Key opened the other car OK. :eek:
Fortunately it wouldn't work the ignition!

NBLondon

I have walked round a multi-storey car park for 20 minutes thinking "have I mis-remembered the floor or has it been stolen?" when the car was exactly where I left it - in the other multi-storey across the street....

Bonniepurple

NBLondon wrote: »

I have walked round a multi-storey car park for 20 minutes thinking "have I mis-remembered the floor or has it been stolen?" when the car was exactly where I left it - in the other multi-storey across the street....

Oh yes, I’ve done that. In my defence I hadn’t realised that the town had 2 multistories as I’d only ever used the one before!

Mr.Generous

What make and model / year car is it? Could be its very unlikely to be stolen so it was the last thing op thought of... I'm thinking a rusty Lada or something?


OP are you familiar with the area you parked in, is there another similar car park nearby? I'm interested ...

Dan-Dan

summerwinter01 wrote: »

My car has just vanished...!?!

I last used my vehicle on tuesday and parked it in a car park around 7:20pm on 19th February 2019.

20th February 2019 around 3:30pm, I go back to the car park, to find my car was not in the space I left it in.

I then proceeded to call my local council car pound... They did not have it

I then contacted DVLA... they did not have it

I contacted DVLA NSL... they did not have it

I contacted Redcorn, who DVLA informed me to contact.... they did not have it

I contacted/text TRACE... to which response was this vehicle has not been towed.


I contacted the car park operator and they informed me that they do not have a removal company they work with etc... That I would have to contact the police and get a crime ref number and for the police to liaise with the company.

I then go back to the car park today and speak to the guy who sits in the booth and he said to me he is unaware of a car being removed/taken, as he would have been notified of it.

I said are there cctvs/does it work - he said yeah they are all over, but I would need to contact the company about that (the company i contacted already above).


This is turning it a very weird, scary, wild goose chase. Something like this has never happened to me before and feeling very very worried now as Ive had to do so many things.

I have contacted 101 and filled out the form and got a crime ref number, and I also contacted my insurance to let them know...


Would there be anything else...?

This is a fantastic post when it doesnt not once take into account it might have been nicked :rotfl: even as far as to call it weird, scary and wild first

[Deleted User]

My first thought would be the obvious one - that someone has painstakingly painted the car to blend in perfectly with the background, rendering it virtually invisible.

Might be worth checking before jumping to the outlandish conclusion that it's been stolen.