DVLA Removed Deceased Relative's Car

Marvel1

ROY47 wrote: »

If you dont know what the reg of the vehicle is i don't think the DVLA can help on Monday.

Try Google earth it may show the car outside the property ?

The regs marks are blurred out.

woodbine66

Marvel1 wrote: »

It sounds harsh but it sounds like you are just after money, they died over a year ago and you didn't know.

You obviously don't understand families or the human condition with a comment like that. I know it sounds harsh. It's not uncommon for people to estrange themselves from their family. Her choice, definitely not ours. And when her brother died and she had no money, We paid for his funeral.


What would you do? Forget about the car and let the state keep it? Leave the house locked up for more years until the state gets the money for that too?


Easy to judge from behind a keyboard.


Thanks to all who posted advice. Will try to find out the situation next week.

konark

Mojisola wrote: »

I hope you will offer to repay the EA for the funeral.

The council or the NHS (depending on where she died) would have paid for a simple funeral - no-one else should have been pressurised into funding it.

According to the OP a local estate-agent paid for the funeral, which seems strange , to say the least.


Isn't there another thread on this topic?

amersall

Here
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5979342/should-we-administer-relatives-intestate-estate


I thought it sounded familiar

Aretnap

ROY47 wrote: »

If you dont know what the reg of the vehicle is i don't think the DVLA can help on Monday.

There's no obvious reason why the keeper's name and address.wouldn't be enough information to trace the vehicle - assuming they did take it.

Astrozombies

Mine isn't.
The car is over one side of the road in normal view but on street view is on the other side of the road with the number plate clearly visible.

DUTR

Astrozombies wrote: »

Mine isn't.
The car is over one side of the road in normal view but on street view is on the other side of the road with the number plate clearly visible.

Well that is an exception rather than the rule, house numbers faces and registration plates are blurred out.

Nasqueron

Astrozombies wrote: »

Mine isn't.
The car is over one side of the road in normal view but on street view is on the other side of the road with the number plate clearly visible.

It's very rare to find ones not blurred, the algorithm they use is so sensitive there is are examples like blurring a dog or a cow

Sea_Shell

Just be aware of the pitfalls of unwittingly dealing with a (possibly) insolvent estate. You have no idea what debts may be lurking!!

You may be best advised to walk away.

woodbine66

Thanks again for all posts and advice. Yes, there is another thread on this subject. Yes: it's complicated.


Followed the suggestions for Google Street View. It did show a very nice car outside (Jag), but unfortunately the Street View was done in 2011. This would have been approx. a year before our relative moved in. Street view actually showed the for sale sign in the window of her house.


Will persevere with the DVLA. I'm sure they will be able to find something with her full name, address and the location of where the car was removed from.