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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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iklboo · 13/10/2020 17:40

Cancel the tax discs & insurance displaying cheques.

FedUpAtHomeTroels · 13/10/2020 17:49

Report to DVLA I did this with a car that was parked in our cul de sac, it had been there so long the tyres were rotting. It was on the street and had no tax or MOT. It was gone in a couple of weeks.

OhCaptain · 13/10/2020 17:51

@iklboo

Cancel the tax discs & insurance displaying cheques.
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Pashazade · 13/10/2020 18:07

@coffeelover3 the beeping could be the seatbelt alarm. So if you don't plug your seatbelt in and start driving most modern cars will beep at you. My car does this if I have a bag in the passenger seat and it shifts, the weight of the bad sets the sensor off because it thinks that someone has sat in the seat, usually it goes off if I move the bag a bit.

Onairjunkie · 13/10/2020 18:34

Tax discs ended in 2014. Surely you know that if you have a car, OP Confused

Onairjunkie · 13/10/2020 18:35

Oh. Didn’t rtft.

FourDecades · 13/10/2020 18:35

Maybe read the thread before berating others

Magissa · 13/10/2020 18:43

I thought that if a car isn't taxed it can't be parked on a public road. It should be taxed, insured and have a valid mot. If one of those is missing it can't be on a road. Has that changed?

Creatingausername · 13/10/2020 18:51

I was just about to say the same as @magissa
If it isn't taxed it has to be on private property so report it and get it moved!

tommika · 13/10/2020 19:00

@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.
Consider dropping a polite note on the windscreen asking if they can move it slightly, and providing its non confrontational then the problem is resolved without anyone else being involved.

As you are parking on part of a space and going into the double yellow line there is the risk of things backfiring and you getting a parking ticket when someone comes to look at the car.

Here, some police cars are fitted with ANPR and get a ping if a car passes without tax, insurance and MOT (or tagged for their interest) , and if you come to the attention of the police they will check details.
Some fixed ANPR cameras pickup that cars are passing by without the cover. The DVLA sometimes check areas for no MOT & tax, and clamp them.

Ultimately the council will tow a car, but will first put a sticker on the windscreen for a period of time advising the owner that it may be treated as abandoned.

Princessbanana · 13/10/2020 19:28

If it’s an irish reg car then it has to display tax, insurance and nct but if it’s northern plate then it doesn’t display tax or insurance. I wouldn’t waste your time with the guards as there is nothing they can do.

Sh05 · 13/10/2020 19:47

We had similar at the begining of September only I knew the car belonged to someone who lived in the Street behind us.
It had a flat tire, no mot or tax so I knocked and asked them about it. They had got a new car and couldn't Get rid of the old one so dumped it in our street!
I reported it abandoned, it was towed away around 8 days later.

AdoptAdaptImprove · 13/10/2020 19:53

@coffeelover3

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 Confused
I’m sorry for doubting you till we heard you’re new in the UK.

I drive hire cars a lot for work and I’ve had one or two which did this beeping on the motorway - it turned out to be an alert that something was passing me on the outside and entering my blind spot. Very useful! If it’s that you might have a choice of settings - have a look in your manual.

purplebunny2012 · 14/10/2020 18:19

It's a bit worrying that OP has moved to the UK but not made themselves aware of the rules regarding cars. This is definitely the sort of thing you should have educated yourself on. Who knows what rules are being broken when driving?

ilikefastcars · 14/10/2020 22:33

This beeping noise you get when driving, do you have things (eg handbag) on passenger seat?
Could be a seat belt warning.
Or do you have parking sensors? Could you have knocked one?
That's the most obvious causes!

Vivianebrookskoviak · 15/10/2020 23:02

I'm wondering if the answer could be due to a similar problem to what happens in Bristol. People park cars or vehicles in residential streets and leave them for months then move them further along the same street or within the same area before leaving them again for months. I think it might be to do with the parking permits in place in areas near the city centre so they're leaving their cars or vehicles in areas not covered by them but still accessible easily. I'm not sure of this reason in all cases(sometimes to do with people living in vans etc) but I've seen vehicles that look like they're dumped move after a few months a few meters up the road. But if it isn't taxed and insured then it needs reporting anyway.

Usernamerequired · 16/10/2020 00:13

-The beeping under your car
Do you have one of those insurance company black box things? If so it might some kind of speed warning? Worth popping into a garage and asking.

nannykatherine · 16/10/2020 01:22

@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?
Not anymore as everything is digital now I dont even display my parking permit anymore and parking tickets from machines are a thing of the past as all done by APPs now
thereisonlyoneofme · 16/10/2020 15:07

I have a car park ticket from yesterday !

pollymere · 16/10/2020 19:00

I realized the beeping was caused by me knocking my handbrake on...

funnylittlefloozie · 16/10/2020 19:07

Set fire to it. The police and fire brigade will be along and take it away....

MLMsuperfan · 25/10/2020 17:39

Is it still there?

MLMsuperfan · 16/11/2020 14:06

How about now?

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