Parking fine but have the ticket

Lalacraves

Hi I'm just looking for some advice on a parking fine I received from Euro Car Parks (even though I paid and have proof).

I paid with cash at the machine instead of paybyphone. It said to enter full reg plate details and I cannot see why I would not have entered these fully but on the ticket it only had the first 4 digits. The minimum amount was for 2 hours and I was done and put in just over an hour. 

3 months later I received a letter from a debt collection agency saying I owed £145 for not paying a parking fine from that day and that I have been sent 2 letters previously from Euro Car Parks (which I have not received).

Euro Car Parks will not allow me to appeal it now as it is with the debt collectors. The debt place have said I can refuse and it will bounce back to Euro Car Parks who will probably take me to court.

I have my ticket still. But it only has the first 4 digits of my reg. I have been back to the machine since with a fictional number plate and it did print the whole reg number.

What I want to know is would I stand any chance not paying the debt, having it passed back to Euro Car Parks and showing this ticket?

My rationale to the missing letters is I paid the ticket, so if I received letters why would ignore them when I had proof.

Okell

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WellKnownSid

There was a BBC article last year about this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdeln2ly1z0o

We have a machine near us, and it's very slow to respond to the keyboard.  Several times I have ended up with tickets for the registration AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB12CDE

Mildly_Miffed

Lalacraves said:

I paid with cash at the machine instead of paybyphone. It said to enter full reg plate details and I cannot see why I would not have entered these fully but on the ticket it only had the first 4 digits.

WellKnownSid said:

We have a machine near us, and it's very slow to respond to the keyboard.  Several times I have ended up with tickets for the registration AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB12CDE

If there's a lesson here, it's to look at the screen and make sure you've entered the reg correctly...