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Car outside my house for over a month...

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coffeelover3 · 13/10/2020 13:05

So I live beside a school entrance in a cul de sac, and in front of my house is space for 3 cars. I use one of the spaces to park my 1 car. This car has been parked in 2nd space, but edging into the 3rd space for about 5 weeks. It has no tax or insurance on it. I've never seen anyone driving it. It's becoming a real nuisance. There's double yellow all around the rest of the cul-de-sac - to stop mayhem at school times. There's only 1 space for the school collection now if I'm parked, and they cant really use that space as it edges onto the yellow lines as the mystery car is not in the middle. So my neighbour has had guests all week, and so he's using one of the spaces, the one nearest to my house, so I'm left with the 3rd space, which edges onto the yellow lines. Is there anything you can do about a car like that, just left there....

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AryaStarkWolf · 13/10/2020 15:07

@TreestumpsAndTrampolines

In Ireland you display both tax and insurance disks - if OP's running on Irish plates still she might not have realised that you don't have to display them in the UK.

and an NCT disc (unless it's a newish car)

Malahaha · 13/10/2020 15:10

@FourDecades

OP moved from Ireland to Birmingham. Would that explain why she wouldn't know?

That would indeed explain it. In Ireland you need three disks, tax, insurance and MOT.

TreestumpsAndTrampolines · 13/10/2020 15:18

and an NCT disc (unless it's a newish car)

Yep - then I also have parking permits for work and flat, and the little dongle for the motorway toll! It's a wonder I can still see out :D

user1495884620 · 13/10/2020 15:28

If the OP has moved from Ireland and brought her car with her, shouldn't she have registered it in the UK (unless there are special rules for Ireland)? Maybe best not to start kicking up a fuss about untaxed, uninsured vehicles.

AryaStarkWolf · 13/10/2020 15:32

@user1495884620

I can only speak from the other way round UK-Ireland but you have 6 months to re register the car here

OhCaptain · 13/10/2020 15:33

All the sneering posters can’t wrap their head around the possibility that OP isn’t from the U.K., no?

Sh05 · 13/10/2020 15:35

"Report an abandoned vehicle - GOV.UK" www.gov.uk/report-abandoned-vehicle
Just enter the details of the car on this page OP.

AmICrazyorWhat2 · 13/10/2020 15:40

We live on a city street (in the US) and regularly have problems with people leaving their cars outside our houses for days on end, which is illegal. The neighbors all recognize each other's cars, so if I notice an unknown vehicle parked for more than a week, I inquire to see whether it belongs to anyone and if not, call the council. We all do it, not just me being a busy-body , as the homeowners can't park if all the spaces are taken.

Here, they put a warning notice on the car saying it must be moved within 10 days; if not, it gets towed. Most people move the car, but a few have been genuinely abandoned and are towed.

I'd call the council and let them take care of it.

Greeneyes78 · 13/10/2020 15:41

Are you irish op? Lucky you we have to display everything in our window.

Reading some of these comments has reminded me why I couldn’t live in the U.K. and left.

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coffeelover3 · 13/10/2020 15:47

sorry I still have my tax and insurance from Rep of Ireland and am displaying them on my car - am waiting for new reg plates from DVLA - have paid my tax but hadn't received the 'disc' yet lol. I didn't know you didn't have to display tax and insurance here!!! I was wondering, as I haven't been through a police checkpoint since I've been in the UK!!! They are everywhere in Ireland, and you can get in big trouble if you're not displaying the right discs. You have to display for NCT (MOT) as well :)
Anyway, this car is not taxed I looked it up, but only since 1 Oct. I guess I'll give him some leeway. It's annoying though as he's taking up 1.5 spaces. There's room for 3 cars if you park properly. I'm just back from collecting ds from school, and had to park behind him, and now my wheels are on the double yellow lines. I'm watching out to see when the other car goes and will have to go out and move my car then.

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coffeelover3 · 13/10/2020 15:48

and yes car has insurance and has had an MOT in case any of you were wondering ;)

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QuantamBaby · 13/10/2020 15:50

Don't worry about the feelings of this car abandoner! If it's not taxed and it's causing you problems then get it shifted...

Standrewsschool · 13/10/2020 15:51

We had a car outside our house for a month. Called 101. They came to investigate as the car had been involved in a robbery elsewhere.

HavelockVetinari · 13/10/2020 15:57

On a tangent, Dara O'Briain has a hilarious story about the acronyms MOT and NCT and making sure you're aware of where you are when you say them - in the UK, NCT =National Childbirth Trust who run antenatal groups. He apparently walked out at the start of a tour in Dublin and told a very perplexed audience about taking his pregnant wife for an NCT

MLMsuperfan · 13/10/2020 16:05

I miss tax discs. I used to like carefully tearing off the perforated bit outside the circle.

theemmadilemma · 13/10/2020 16:06

Oh I learned something new. Sorry OP.

CaveMum · 13/10/2020 16:16

Definitely report to your local council, there will be an email address or contact form on their website. They may decide to write to the owner if they are local to the area (my local council did this when I reported a car that had parked near my house for more than 2 weeks with only 3 wheels!) but otherwise they’ll arrange for it to be moved.

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coffeelover3 · 13/10/2020 16:25

Is there anyone from Ireland on this thread? I think there might be. One other weird thing that's been happening is when I'm driving, usually it happens on a motorway, my car starts beeping. I cant work out where it's coming from. It sounds like somewhere under the front passenger seat. Has anyone ever experienced this

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coffeelover3 · 13/10/2020 16:28

@MLMsuperfan

I miss tax discs. I used to like carefully tearing off the perforated bit outside the circle.

me too!!!!

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WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 13/10/2020 17:02

We just goggle to see if it's taxed.

Wouldn't it be easier to just check online rather than staring at it employing your combined powers of super-human visual perception?

I was once pulled over by the police in a Tesco trolly (me not the police)(they were in their car) because i wasn't displaying a tax disc.

You were IN the trolley? Are you a toddler?!

dottiedodah · 13/10/2020 17:21

Sadly as PP above have said ,there is no law against parking wherever you want! Seems mad doesnt it .We have had similar as well here .Tax discs went out about 5/6 years ago, and all Insurance /Tax done online .Maybe check on computer ,see what the position is and speak to the Council if not in order .If it is in order though ,not much you can do really!

dottiedodah · 13/10/2020 17:24

If its not taxed and still out there ,maybe contact Council toward end of month .Seems likely he has dumped it though if he hasnt been back in all this time

LindaEllen · 13/10/2020 17:26

@coffeelover3

Do you not have to display insurance and tax discs on a car? I suppose it could be taxed and insured and not have the discs displayed maybe?

Are you joking? Tax discs haven't been a thing since 2014 (I know this as my DP still has his in his car with the last date on!!!!) and you've never had to put an insurance disc up.

Which leads me to ask the question .. how the hell do you not know this if you're a car owner? I mean, do YOU display these mythical discs?

LindaEllen · 13/10/2020 17:29

@coffeelover3

sorry I still have my tax and insurance from Rep of Ireland and am displaying them on my car - am waiting for new reg plates from DVLA - have paid my tax but hadn't received the 'disc' yet lol. I didn't know you didn't have to display tax and insurance here!!! I was wondering, as I haven't been through a police checkpoint since I've been in the UK!!! They are everywhere in Ireland, and you can get in big trouble if you're not displaying the right discs. You have to display for NCT (MOT) as well :) Anyway, this car is not taxed I looked it up, but only since 1 Oct. I guess I'll give him some leeway. It's annoying though as he's taking up 1.5 spaces. There's room for 3 cars if you park properly. I'm just back from collecting ds from school, and had to park behind him, and now my wheels are on the double yellow lines. I'm watching out to see when the other car goes and will have to go out and move my car then.

Sorry ignore my previous comment, I hadn't read this. I do forget that other countries exist sometimes!!!!

Anyway - my partner's car hadn't moved since mid September until today because his MOT had ran out and we couldn't find a suitable time to take it when we were both free (no waiting, too far to walk, so I needed to be off at the same time to pick him up and take him back for it later - usually ask our parents but can't mix!) so if it only ran out on Oct 1st chances are the owner (surely someone near you?) knows, and is waiting to be able to book it in/pay the tax/sell the car.

OhCaptain · 13/10/2020 17:35

I do forget that other countries exist sometimes!!!!

Shocker!

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