Just looking for advice here, really hoping someone can help
someone close to me handed their car in to a garage with engine problems. It turned out the engine was damaged badly to the point the car could not be driven and has had to wait for a new engine. They have been told the car itself is sitting in the garage and the engine has been removed and sent away (I’m not sure if the engine is being sent to be repaired or sent to be looked at and they’ll get a new engine, but I do know they were told the car was not drivable and the car is sitting engineless) it’s been in the garage for nearly 4 weeks now and they’re due to get their car back in just under a week now.
however they have just received a parking ticket for their car, from the other end of the country (the equivalent of Edinburgh from Essex- that sort of thing) it’s definitely their car- there’s a photo included of it parked up and it was dated over a week ago- when they were told the car was sitting engineless in the garage, so it definitely wasn’t a test drive to see if the engine is fixed and it was too far a distance for that anyway.
does this sound dodgy or are we being petty? Is there any reasonable way this could be legit? Never had this happen before so very inexperienced in this and not sure if there’s a normal reason behind this. We are waiting to speak to the garage obviously to ask wtf our car was across the country when it was apparently sitting engineless.
any help would be greatly appreciated here x