To bump this car out of the way?

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Every Monday I need to get my van out to pick up my dc from school and take them to their club. Other days I use my car but on Mondays it’s kayaking so I need the van until a place in the kayak storage becomes available. My van is 20year old and very bashed.

Every Monday at 2.30 a brand new Volvo parks directly opposite my drive, in front of my neighbours dropped kerb. When they park here I can get my car out but not my van meaning my dc cannot go to their club which I have already paid for. I know they are inside the house opposite, I knock on the door but they don’t answer but then when I’m attempting to manoeuvre my van out I see them peeping out of the window. I put a note through the door a couple of weeks ago asking them not to do it after they still wouldn’t open the door. They put a note back through mine saying they were parking in front of their dropped kerb, they were entitled to and many others on the road did the same. This is true but I am the only house on my side of the street so no one else has anyone else opposite. I’ve also put a sign on my gate saying please do not park opposite

Having again had to carefully get the car out and not be able to get my kids to their club I’m thinking next week I’ll just bump it. I’m pretty sure I could get out with a couple of touches to their car but it would probably leave dents.

I’ve tried calling the police to say I’m blocked in but by the time they arrived neighbours friend had moved their car and when the police knocked they hid again 🙄

Btw I know I’m unreasonable and I almost certainly won’t do it. I’m just bloody pissed off.

@Fiddliestofsticks

Drive out as far as you can, stop, put your hand in your horn and sit there.

This made me laugh 😂😂.

Can you park the van between Twat Driveway and the one at the top of the diagram?

Sadly they are perfectly entitled to park where they are but it's a bit twattish not to move when asked when it is a specific reason rather than just you being awkward.

*meant to say on your horn not in your horn!

I'd be very pissed off. Only compromise (and you shouldn't have to) would be you park where the twat car is and let them use your drive. If they won't engage, I would consider doing that. Leave a note under your wiper then you can negotiate.

What a nobber. Honestly.

Ugh. I had this happen once when I drove a pickup (which I was very good at getting in and out of tight space), but I had cars nudged right up either side of the drive, and cars all up the opposite side of the road, and it was just physically impossible.

Short term I'd try doing a lot of revving and getting as close as I could if they were refusing to move.

Longer term, make a fuss with the parking enforcement

And really long term, if I owned those banks and it was physically possible, see if I couldn't widen it into a bit of a layby for myself to get the swing room (although that obviously brings the risk of jerks coming and parking in it if you made it big enough.)

soupdragon they are not entitled to park there as they are blocking my drive. Police came and confirmed this although the car itself had moved by the time they arrived.

I can’t park in between the cars - in reality it’s a gap of about a metre so no chance I could even get a bit of my van in.

Excellent diagram. Really unsure what to suggest, don't get why they cant park twat car just up from where they are.

I don't understand why you can't park on the other side of the road?

Your diagram shows there are cars parked there. Surely there is a point where you could take one of those spaces (preferably right outside Twat Neighbours house) with your van and leave it there?

chisistoast I understand why they parked there - there is literally nowhere else to park in town. If they wanted to visit their friend they would have to use the park and ride. I wouldn’t even mind them parking there if they moved it when I wanted to come out but they don’t, they just hide and then peep out from behind the curtains whenever I attempt to get out

Does reversing your van into your drive help so you can drive out?

lockdownalli all the cars parked on the road are owned by the houses and parked in front of their own dropped kerbs and they shuffle them round depending which car is needed. There is no room to park a car on that side of the road without parking directly in front of someone’s driveway.

Yes, that's what's frustrating, it's literally for want of 2 minutes for them to get in, shuffle forward a mo while you pull out, then shuffle back.

It's mad that they won't even do that for good neighbourly relations.

Yeah tap twat car gently....they'll come out and move it

Why don’t you pull you van off the drive at say 1.30 and park across your drive? That way they can’t park in front of your neighbours dropped curb without blocking the road. What’s good enough for them is good enough for you!

iamanunsafebuilding I always reverse my van into my drive but it’s absolutely impossible to get it out with the car there due to the width of the gap in my driveway between two listed walls that I can’t touch and how close the car opposite is parked.

I would do what others have suggested

Pull out as far as you can and then sit on the horn until they move

In my experience (and whilst against the highway code) - reversing off is easier when trying to get out of tight spaces - you can get your arse out onto the top of the T, gaining just that little bit of room for your nose to swing round tight, whereas coming out forward there's only so tight you can turn without taking out the side of the van on whatever is in the corner.

Plus for some reason I find it easier to aim with the mirrors.

chloemol I can’t park across my drive - not wide enough and steep banks either side.

You have my sympathy as we have a similar driveway and if large vehicles are parked directly opposite, it can mean that we cannot get off our drive.

However, you bumping the Volvo deliberately is not an option but you know that don't you?.

Could you move your van and park it across the entrance to your drive, between the two grass banks?

Or move your van so that it is sticking out so much that it wont be possible for someone to park opposite without blocking the road.

kotatsu if there was room to do that I would but it is physically impossible to get my van out with the car parked there.

I think on future Mondays, you should park on the road so you're blocking your own drive and twat neighbour has to park his Twatmobile somewhere else.

Of course, that may mean you have to park there for days on end, but that's the price people pay for twattishness.

Twats. Bump the car.

Or move your van so that it is sticking out so much that it wont be possible for someone to park opposite without blocking the road.

That's a good idea, unless they're the kind of twats who'll do it anyway and then blame you.... in which case you defo need cameras..

I’d park my car/van there permanently just to prove a point x

I CAN’T PARK ON THE ROAD OR ACROSS MY OWN DRIVEWAY