My car has just vanished

Geodark

Drove to the shops about 1/2 a mile from where I lived, and walked home. First time I thought someone had nicked my car - second time I thought "you have done it again you bloody idiot"

Then again, if I wasnt such a lazy sod and driven half a mile instead of walking then neither would have happened

societys_child

danny91 wrote: »

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

Or even looking for the correct car . . ?

waamo

It would help if there was a centralised phone number you could ring if you discovered your car was missing. The poor op must have rang five or six people as well as asking the car park attendant.

I bet the op can list 101 reasons why such a number would be useful. What number they could assign for those 101 reasons I don't know though.

robatwork

"I would never be so stupid as to lose my car".....

makes me remember walking round Santa Pod car park (actually just a huge field) after a race day with absolutely no idea where I had parked. It looked very different after it was full of cars. Must have taken 20 mins to find it.

At the time we parked up I noticed people putting little flags up on their cars on extending sticks. I thought that looked silly. I now know it was anything but silly.

facade

robatwork wrote: »

"I would never be so stupid as to lose my car".....

makes me remember walking round Santa Pod car park (actually just a huge field) after a race day with absolutely no idea where I had parked. It looked very different after it was full of cars. Must have taken 20 mins to find it.

I did the same when I went to Goodwood.


I was so excited about being there (and it was just starting) that I scampered off to the circuit having just clocked that it was near some trees.


When we got back there must have been another 3 fields full of cars, and every one had dozens of identical trees........

GwylimT

I had a car issue last week, my key wouldn’t work and it’s a card so I couldn’t manually open the door, I called my breakdown who explained it would be about two hours. In the entire two hour wait it didn’t click that I was trying to get in the wrong car, or that my car was parked two spaces away and simply obscured by a van.

The worst part?

I’m a qualified vehicle mechanic!!

stator

Replies are way too hard on this thread.


If the car was left overnight in a car park, first thought would be that it's been towed, especially if not taxed.



Car theft is actually pretty rare these days, especially if your car is modern.

KatrinaWaves

GwylimT wrote: »

I had a car issue last week, my key wouldn’t work and it’s a card so I couldn’t manually open the door, I called my breakdown who explained it would be about two hours. In the entire two hour wait it didn’t click that I was trying to get in the wrong car, or that my car was parked two spaces away and simply obscured by a van.

The worst part?

I’m a qualified vehicle mechanic!!

I got in a van parked next to my dads van once. I even thought as I clambered up into the much higher seating cab that it felt a bit different to normal. The man inside was very bemused. My dad was just sat in his van laughing.

I also tried to get into my generic purpley blue Micra many times before realising that was not my car....

Sally_Forth

If my car went missing, and it's parked permanently in a multi storey, my first thought wouldn't be stolen.
It's pretty hard to steal a modern car without the keys.

Going back to '90 or '91 I had a car go missing. I phoned the police 1st that time and reported it stolen after they assured me they didn't have it.
Four days later they told me they found it, and I owe them a towing and storage fee for illegal parking.
Guess they didn't have computers as much in those days.

waamo

stator wrote: »

Replies are way too hard on this thread.


If the car was left overnight in a car park, first thought would be that it's been towed, especially if not taxed.



Car theft is actually pretty rare these days, especially if your car is modern.

Whilst it does seem more rare there were still over 100,000 reported thefts last year so not exactly uncommon.