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Neighbour parked on my drive

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maltesersplease · 20/06/2019 15:50

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?).

OP posts:
baconsandwichandanegg · 26/06/2019 03:49

I agree. I'd just move it. There's no way I'd tell the insurance company I'd ever agreed to it being there either. I'd have said it's been abandoned.

MustShowDH · 27/06/2019 02:28

I can't believe this is ongoing - she's such a CF!

SophieGiroux · 04/07/2019 23:32

@maltesersplease is the car still there?

AdobeWanKenobi · 05/07/2019 02:07

I can't believe this is ongoing - she's such a CF!

As op hasn't posted since the 24th June nobody knows if it's ongoing or not.

zingally · 05/07/2019 09:12

A couple of years back, a car was dumped outside my house. Honestly, it took me quite a long time to notice, because the cars parked out on the street are constantly changing. It actually took a friend casually looking out of my front window, to point out that all the cars tyres were flat, for me to actually clock it.
A month later, it was still there, and its tax was expired. In the end, I put a note on it, "if this car isn't gone by X date, I'm reporting it to the DVLA". I did end up reporting it, and about a week after that, it was gone.

In your case, OP, I'd drop your neighbour a line, give them 10 days to move the car themselves, or you will. Then if they don't respond, bounce it to the road, and then report it to the police.

Isatis · 01/08/2019 10:01

Is it still there, OP?

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