TheAA (Richford) stole my car

mcpitman

This appears to be complete codswallop.

sleepyjones

If the cars been sitting in an outdoor storage facility for a year with a broken window, there's probably trees and god knows what growing out the back seats by now

I get the whole story, but if a garage was selling my car I'd be checking up with them AT LEAST every couple of weeks to see if there'd been any interest. I don't understand why a year later you decided to go to the garage and see how much they owed you for a sale of a car.

Something doesn't add up.

Ectophile

I wonder when the OP is going to get a big fine from the DVLA for not taxing or SORNing the vehicle for a year.

Davy_Jones_II

luxs wrote: »

That is why i prefer to do everything in writings, not verbally. to recover all possible mistakes later.
Now I don;t know how to resolve it. because i don;t have finances to pay off storage fee.

Next action will probably be to contact some legal companies to look at this case...

If it had been repaired, as you assumed, how much would you have expected to pay for the year’s storage after you failed to collect it?

born_again

Davy_Jones_II wrote: »

If it had been repaired, as you assumed, how much would you have expected to pay for the year’s storage after you failed to collect it?

Keep up at the back...

Op said they were repairing and then selling it...

Wonder if it was not insured? Recovery company could be used to recovering for police etc. As such will be used to needing to see a active ins on car.

AdrianC

Ectophile wrote: »

I wonder when the OP is going to get a big fine from the DVLA for not taxing or SORNing the vehicle for a year.

I wonder if he handed the V5C over, and sent the "in trade" slip to DVLA?

cubegame

Some quite nasty comments on this thread.

I find it perfectly possible that someone could get themselves into this situation.

A friend of mine's wife suffers from depression and anxiety and while she is perfectly capable of living normally chains of "out-of-control" events can tip her into doing rather odd things as a coping or avoidance mechanism.

As an example (quite similar), she left her car in a short stay car park at Heathrow for two days on a business trip. She was due to collect it on her return and drive it to the long stay car park where it was pre-booked for three weeks so she could go on a subsequent personal trip.

Due to a flight delay on the business flight, she decided she didn't have time to move the car (in fact, she had three hours to spare but the anxiety of being late had already overwhelmed her reason).

She could have phoned her husband to ask him to collect the car but this was also too much for her. Instead, she boarded her flight and left the car for what ended being 3 months (she was visiting a sick relative).

When she returned back the bill for the short stay were in the region of £5000. Her reaction to this was to further abandon the car and return home on public transport. Through different excuses and stories she hoodwinked her husband for a further 2 weeks or so, before a letter arrived in the post for her husband (apparently triggered by her putting the ticket in the machine when she did return for the car) to whom the car was registered.

On that occasion, Heathrow were understanding and actually waived most of the charges after hearing of the situation.

Takmon

cubegame wrote: »

Some quite nasty comments on this thread.

I find it perfectly possible that someone could get themselves into this situation.

A friend of mine's wife suffers from depression and anxiety and while she is perfectly capable of living normally chains of "out-of-control" events can tip her into doing rather odd things as a coping or avoidance mechanism.

As an example (quite similar), she left her car in a short stay car park at Heathrow for two days on a business trip. She was due to collect it on her return and drive it to the long stay car park where it was pre-booked for three weeks so she could go on a subsequent personal trip.

Due to a flight delay on the business flight, she decided she didn't have time to move the car (in fact, she had three hours to spare but the anxiety of being late had already overwhelmed her reason).

She could have phoned her husband to ask him to collect the car but this was also too much for her. Instead, she boarded her flight and left the car for what ended being 3 months (she was visiting a sick relative).

When she returned back the bill for the short stay were in the region of £5000. Her reaction to this was to further abandon the car and return home on public transport. Through different excuses and stories she hoodwinked her husband for a further 2 weeks or so, before a letter arrived in the post for her husband (apparently triggered by her putting the ticket in the machine when she did return for the car) to whom the car was registered.

On that occasion, Heathrow were understanding and actually waived most of the charges after hearing of the situation.

That entire series of events is pretty ridiculous. The fact that she was able to return on home on public transport meant that it would have been far cheaper to just leave the car at home and go there on public transport instead of paying for 3+ weeks parking.

Car_54

Takmon wrote: »

That entire series of events is pretty ridiculous. The fact that she was able to return on home on public transport meant that it would have been far cheaper to just leave the car at home and go there on public transport instead of paying for 3+ weeks parking.

There is nothing ridiculous about that: cost is not the only consideration.
I can get to and from Heathrow on public transport entirely free of charge, but sometimes pay for parking simply for convenience.

Dr_Crypto

How much chance has the OP of getting the storage fees written off at this stage? Very little, I’d say. They failed to act with any kind of promptness; inexcusable when there had already been complications with the recovery.