Random car outside my house, what can I do?

Yes I'd report - we have similar on our road, but we live nearby an airport and a motorway so never know if it's been abandoned/stolen, or if they've just gone on holiday or for a work trip! The odd parking situation makes me think it could be stolen though

Do you have an airport near you ?just remembered . My friend had. Car parked just outside her drive for 2 weeks , apparently it was one of those airport parking services where you give the valet the keys and they are supposed to park it safely , turns out this company is just parking them randomly where they don’t have to pay .

Call the police , put a post in the local Facebook group and if none works get someone with a tractor to drag it out if the way . That’s what would happen where I live ( very rural )

Sometimes car thieves steal a car and park it somewhere for a week to check if it's being tracked.

Either that or the owner has fallen down a well somewhere.

As said it could be stolen or a walker that's got into some kind of trouble.

It could also be one of those Airport parking services that take your money making you think your car will be parked in a secure car park then scatter them over an area that's a bit out of the way.

Just report, giving the car details, if registered the police can contact the owner.

This. My car was stolen a few years ago and the thieved had done exactly this and since we do have tracker we were able to find and recover it. The police were involved and were actually pretty helpful.

OP I’d report to the police (non emergency) and also the council as an abandoned vehicle and as a highway obstruction (it’ll probably be 2 different forms) if it’s blocking farm traffic.

That was my first thought.
Just call the police and put your mind at rest.

Years ago, my Mum’s car was nicked. She got it back because the thieves abandoned it and someone noticed it had been there a while and reported it to the police.

I live in N Ireland and I dare say they’d care here! My mum was dropping me off at a violin lesson once and waited outside in her car. A neighbour of the violin teacher called the police and they rocked up at our door! Interrogating my mum as to her “suspicious behaviour”!

I live in a very similar set up. We’d have called the police days ago.
I’ve lived here 12 years and in that time, we’ve had someone park up and them commit suicide off a nearby bridge and we had a walker go missing and be found a few days later quite badly injured. We’ve also just had a couple of abandoned cars after being stolen and taken for a joy ride.

Call the police.

i had a weird looking car parked outside my flat for a couple of days a while ago.

i literally live opposite a police station.

i called them and they couldn’t care less.

i said ‘don’t you care it could have been abandoned opposite a police station and it might be dangerous’, they said no.

the car eventually disappeared.

I can't help smiling at the notion that someone who has a local group of any description wouldn't have first thought that might be the best option.

Shall I ask my neighbours or the whole world, 🤔?

There's a website called "is it nicked" go on there and put the VRM in and if its been reported stolen it should tell u then u can call 101 to speak to police

You can check if its stolen by the reg very easily. And yes, it may well have been left to "cool down" and will br collected later. This happened on my Dads street. We reported it and it was retrieved by police. Had been stolen at a petrol station. Tell me the reg, I can check right now for you. It's almost certainly stolen. (But could be on cloned plates)

We had a car parked on the street near our house for over a month, nobody on the street knew whose it was and it never moved, so we reported it to the local council as abandoned, not really expecting anything to happen any time soon.

Within 24 hours there was a sticker notice on the windscreen from the council instructing the owner to move the vehicle or else the car would be removed.
Frustratingly the car then disappeared, never to be seen again, while we were away for the weekend, so I don't know if it was towed or an owner materialised!

Can you ask on a local FB group?

You won’t be wasting their time. It’s a suspicious vehicle. New BMW’s don’t just get dumped on country lanes and left for a week.

I live similarly to you OP, and after a week I would definitely be reporting it.

I had one too and this is what I did 👆 it turned out to not had mot or tax. Someone came and towed it away.

You can always report it to your local council as abandoned as well

I would report. sometimes car thieves park them up somewhere to see if anyone is tracking them and then go back later.

Please ring 101, my great uncle passed away whilst out walking in Scotland (very sudden, not suspicious). He regularly went off on his own so no one would have been any the wiser had someone like you not called the police as he had parked it on a verge and it was causing a few problems. I think she called on day 3. Even if she would have called earlier, the result would have been no different however he was left exposed in the sunshine for a few days until he was found. This might be nothing but please just have it checked out for peace of mind.

Sounds odd. Report, someone could have gone walking and become injured or yes, stolen. I think you can look online to see if reported stolen also.

I'd be concerned too. You know the area and if it's something unusual then you aren't being in anyway unusual. I would be more concerned that someone has perhaps gone for a walk and got lost or worse.

Yes definitely report on 101.

Parking stolen cars somewhere isolated for a few days to check if they have a tracker fitted is a common theft tactic. The police will be able to contact the owner to establish why it's parked there.