Keeping Vehicle After VT

Craigg

Voluntarily terminated my agreement with the car finance company as part of the option towards the end of my agreement -- basically I swap for another vehicle or pay the inflated amount.

Spoke with the company, realised after reading on this website that I had sent back the VT paperwork they sent in the mail... "it's a trap," as it states elsewhere online -- slightly frustrated about that.

Anyway, the company haven't collected the vehicle yet and it has been almost three months! I have spoken to them multiple times on the phone to no avail, they eventually emailed saying it had been sent to the car collection company to pick it up from my drive that it has sat on since I first spoke to them when my agreement was ending. It is still sat on my drive, and when I called the company that is supposed to collect it, the number goes to a voicemail service where "a customer representative will contact you back,".

Two things:

1) what should I do?
2) is there anything in the law that states if the vehicle/item is left for 'x' amount of time, it becomes 'abandoned' or even the property of the previous keeper, i.e. me?

The second question may seem a little strange, but if I was charging the typical day rate for city parking, I would be raking it in.

Thanks

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Craigg wrote: »

2) is there anything in the law that states if the vehicle/item is left for 'x' amount of time, it becomes 'abandoned' or even the property of the previous keeper, i.e. me?

Yes. If a car's owner doesn't drive it for more than a month, it's up for grabs by whoever gets there first.

Or not. I forget which.

Keep it safe until they get there, or take it to them.

AnotherJoe

Send the car finance company an invoice, £20 a day parking, starting 1st September.

bris

Or do the obvious, put it on the main road, there is nothing to say you need to keep it on your drive. It's not your car anymore.