Neighbour parked on my drive

[maltesersplease]

In February, neighbour/friend gets clamped and fined for no tax, MOT, insurance. Asks if she can park on my drive a few days until she can afford to sort it all out.

We fell out over something else a few weeks ago over something much more serious, and don't speak anymore. Don't need to drip feed, this part's irrelevant.

The car is still on my drive. I've asked her to move it, she says she will SORN it. Car doesn't start either so I can't just move it myself. If she SORNs it, she will never move it! It's still not taxed or MOTd.

So now I seem to be stuck with it on my drive. Each of the police, DVLA and council have told me it's one of the other responsibilities.

I'm feeling really irritated by life in general and if I wasn't worried it would harm a person, I'd have taken the handbrake off it by now!

(This isn't AIBU to remove the handbrake, it's more of a "I'm really fed up can anyone help please?).

It would be an awful shame if one side of the car was completely scratched and she had to pay the finance company extra money at the end of the initial HP.

I'd let her know that - she may want to house it safely herself...

I'd put a sign up on my drive saying that vehicles left on the driveway are at the owners risk and the owner of the driveway does not accept liability - take the wording from a supermarket car park sign. Then pop a note through her door advising her of this.

Op - so it was the correct finance company?

Call them back say saying they have a duty to remove their car from your driveway and compensate you for the inconvenience and distress and if the don’t you’ll ensure negative publicity. Do this via email.

I had to look up SORN on Google. I wish posters would understand not everyone is in the U.K

I wish Americans would understand that the world doesn't revolved around them?

Yes,get someone to help move it, its very annoying to be taken for a mug. Some amusing male neighbours might like a car moving challenge.

I'd be very tempted to write to her in both email and letter form giving 7 days notice to remove the car or it will be sold as she no longer has permission to keep the car there.

Also state any money made from the sale of the car will be use to pay for 'admin fees'

She is being totally unreasonable for not just moving her car, her financial problems are not your problems.

I think you can't damage it, so you have to deal with it without damaging it. You need a friendly guy who knows how to do it safely, get a couple of heavy duty car jacks, jack it up, move it on to the road safely, and leave it there.

Send an official notice if not moved by x then £50 charge per week. Send an updated letter once a week.
It is legal and they won't want court & debt

You could have it towed to a local car park. That way, you wouldn't be responsible for leaving it on the road because it would still be on private land. Just not on yours!

If you aren't talking to each other, might it be helpful to ask a friend to intercede on your behalf? I agree with @HippyMama90 that her financial problems are not your problems, but really, what can she do? If the car doesn't go and she has no money to fix it and no money to have it towed and no one will lend her any more money, what are her options? Really, only to return it to the finance company. Can't she do that, as it's obvious there is a long term financial issue she hasn't managed to solve.

This company removes abandoned cars from business premises [abandonedvehicles.co.uk/] Sorry, dodgy link.

They may be able to advise and their website tells you what you can't do. So sorry, you have to leave it there for the time being.

Oh she has plenty of money.

List it for sale or freecycle it. It's been dumped on your property, you've contacted the owner multiple times and the owner clearly doesn't want it.

You can apply for ownership of the car to deal and unless she replies within a certain time period, you get given ownership and can scrap the car for money. Also, once it’s been on private property for a month, the council can be made to tow it away. I’d write and give formal notice that if not removed within x amount of days you will have it towed . Cheeky bitch

*dvla

Really shocked finance company isn’t
Interested as when she took the finance it usually states in contract car must be taxed and fully comp insured at all times! What a CF

Maybe they are, but just can't tell me what they are going to do?? (Hopeful)

Push it onto the road. Ask some burly neighbours to help

Into a place that's safe for other drivers of course

Phone LBC legal hour Wednesday for advice

Thus thread is pointless. The split second I fell out with her it would be gone. Who cares if it is a decent car, she is taking the piss.

I would put a notice on the car saying
“ Car going free, if you can move it you can have it “ !!!
If I had continuously asked her to move it and she wouldn’t, I wouldn’t care how I did it.

....or give her an invoice as she is RENTING your drive. Cheeky bitch !!!

If she knows you are a doormat she will wipe her feet on you. That's why you do whatever it takes for some lads to move that car off your drive and plonk it on her flowerbeds so she knows you won't just lie on the floor so she can wipe her feet on you. She has to know her car will be off your drive and if that means the police tell you off a bit (which they won't) you won't care and her car won't be on your drive, if she shouts you won't care and her car still won't be on your drive, etc.

Basically, get the car taken off your drive by whatever method is easiest for you, which is surely by asking friends/other neighbours to help move it. Don't worry about obscure never applied rules about who is theoretically allowed to do what. Get it moved. Then walk away whistling.

Could you not drag it out with a tow rope?

Tell the finance company you'll have it taken away, it isn't yours and not your responsibility.
Tell them to pick it up or you'll have it crushed.

I can't believe it's still there, it wouldn't have seen the day out on my drive.