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?).

Seriously just move it yourself - tow rope handbrake off. Send her a message saying it's gone end of.

Google and youTube will help you find loads of ways to move the car. It'll be fun. You can do this. You will feel like a flipping Amazon warrior afterwards. Get your best mate involved, have a laugh and you'll be talking about this one still when you are both 98.

Give her 5 days warning then get it out on the road-she’s no friend!

I would be tempted to go ‘away’ for the week and whilst you are away, pay someone to tow the car away and park it elsewhere on a public street but away from your property. You come home and you are delighted to see the car is gone- you are clearly away from home when it is towed and not responsible. I’m sure you would find someone willing to do this cash in hand.

Honestly if this were me then after the first month I’d have got some people and some trolley jacks then jacked the car up and moved it out of my driveway and to the road outside her home or even on her front lawn if possible. I’d have also have denied all knowledge of doing it if the police happened to ask and told them that since the car was supposed to have been moved ages ago and that I’d been asking repeatedly for it to be moved then I assumed the owner had finally moved it herself. Whilst technically you shouldn’t deliberately place a car onto the road and leave it there, you aren’t abandoning it because it isn’t yours, you aren’t stealing it because you are trying to return it and have no intention of damaging or withholding it from its owner. The police would be very unlikely to do anything to you because they would have to prove it which wastes their time when all they want is the car safely off the road which they will then arrange quickly.

wish posters would understand not everyone is in the U.K or understands all these MN acronyms -which makes reading difficult.

Bless you, I’m sure it must be very challenging reading foreign words & possibly realising other countries exist So, why not use American sites rather than Bitching about English posters using English words on an English site

FFS

Here here chipping!

The law states that if you own your home then it is private land and therefore your responsibility. You can legally have it towed but you have to pay for that to happen. Also if there is any damage you are still liable. However, it may be worth telling her you are going to organise for it to be towed in x amount of days which she will be liable to pay daily charges etc. to release it. I would then follow through with your threat, taking pictures of the car for any existing damage to cover yourself.

Fingers crossed Loan company move it x

I wish I could use some MN acronyms on my American boss who is yelling on Skype all day

The local council have the power to serve notice and if it is not moved they can then remove it. The problem is that most of the council's are not interested in such matters so will push back to dvla/police. Stand your ground, complain if you have to. www.gov.uk/guidance/abandoned-vehicles-council-responsibilities

Where was the car before it landed on your drive op?

Tell the police that there is an abandoned car on your drive and you don’t know who it belongs to and you’re worried it’s been stolen and dumped on your property 😬

@lightsout and they do nothing because cause it’s not stolen.

Lightsout Funnily enough, calling the police was discussed at the beginning of the thread.

I contacted my exH's car finance company after we separated, and various other companies, to get them to change his address, they can't give you any information but they can listen and they do act, you just don't get much, if any feedback.

Handbrake off, roll off drive and leave it outside her house. The car is in her name so it’s her problem.

How is the OP supposed to get the handbrake off when presumably the car is locked, and the OP doesn't have the key?

@John470322

Demand that the police act. If they say it is private land ask if it is ok for you to murder your neighbour on private land. Obviously not so they can act on private land if you push them.

Don’t be so ridiculous. There’s always one idiot who compares a civil matter to a murder

@lightsout Yep, and when you’ve said you’re concerned it may be stolen they’ll check the VRM, see that it isn’t and also see it’s registered to the neighbour. So she’ll be advised to take it up with her neighbour again.

Police call taker here. The police have NO powers on private land with regards civil matters, as has previously been said. If you bump the car and it becomes damaged she could have a civil case against you, unfortunately. The finance company option is likely your best bet. If they’ve taken details they can check the contract to see if she is in breach of it. They won’t be able to tell you anything because of data protection but it doesn’t mean they won’t look into it. Failing that you would need to see a solicitor as it IS a civil offence and they can advise you further. It’s so frustrating when nobody takes responsibility, I know. Hope you get it sorted soon.

Our CF neighbour got a new car 3 years ago and moved their old one to the visitors parking spaces (there are two side by side one at our side one at theirs) they don’t belong to us. It’s been sitting there for 3 years looking older and rustier and probably a health hazard as there’s mould growing over the seats. They’ve since got another car and this old one is still sitting there. Their son parks in front of it. The cut their grass around it.

Just get it moved, I think it’s a passive aggressive two fingers to us really as when we were getting our extension we stored our bins there (on our actual property just at the front of the house for a bit) and they asked us to move them as they had didn’t money getting their house done up and our bins were making it look unslightly. Yet a mouldy rusty car doesn’t. Weirdly arseholes.

@Doidoit19 Thank you. I said that about 300 posts ago as my DH is a retired RPU officer. Unfortunately it seems that many pps don’t RTFT so no doubt there will be another 10 pages of “phone the Police/move it onto the road yourself”.

@maltesersplease Recorded signed for letter giving reasonable deadline (7 days) for the car to be removed before you hand the case to your Solicitor/have the car towed (in which case you will take her to court to recover costs).

@IHateUncleJamie I saw your comment and thought exactly the same!! One day, one day, people will rtft

I rtft but in the OP's shoes I would still move the car onto the road myself because where is the proof that I did it

Much easier, quicker and cheaper than having the car towed and going to court to recover costs. Less legal, yes!

If you can afford to get a scrap man to pick it up then do that