Broken down car left outside my house.

[ButterOllocks]

We have a drive, so that's ok for now, but when my son comes home on leave from the forces we would like to park outside my own home and let him park in the drive. Most of my neighbours have 2 or 3 cars so parking is at a premium. The car is an old one and the last time I saw the owner - about 2 weeks ago he said it needed a new timing belt which is an expensive repair. Not seen anyone near the car since - really frustrating AIBU to want to report the police ??

YABU to use the misogynistic slur "Karen".

But anyway, your son might want to check his insurance. A "high-spec Range Rover" might not be covered if parked on the road - it wouldn't be where I live.

Depends.

I think if a car is untaxed there is something called SORN - statutory off road notification. So if it has been SORN'ed and the person who parked it has a right to park it in that space then maybe it would be OK.

I have no idea whether or not a car shows up as SORN or not on the online app when you input the reg.

Someone will be along in a bit to clarify.

According to my local council you can report a vehicle as abandoned if it hasn't moved for 21 days (and is untaxed or no MOT), might be worth checking you can do this?

Love how the OP used the 'Karen' slur and no-one reacted so they used it again, and still little to no reaction.

They must be soooo disappointed.

just VERY inconvenient for everyone - I think I just wanted to vent here

In what way is it inconvenient for “everyone” - your son isn’t home and the space would be used by someone else, even if your son was home the owner has a right to park there as much as anyone else who pays for there vehicle.

'Karen mode'

For that misogynistic comment I hope the car rusts outside your home for many years.

Quite genuinely you need to find more to do than fretting about a car that's parked outside your house because in the future you want to park there.

You are going to drive yourself mad living your life like that.

Is it blocking your drive? if not, why don't you park in street and let your son park his high spec car on the drive?? it's not diff your to figure this out

Yes call the police because they have nothing better to do than respond to non-existent 'crimes'. The car is parked on a public road, you don't own the road so unfortunately your son will have to park his high spec range rover elsewhere 🙄

Is it just a MN thing where people refer to a car as 'dumped' or 'abandoned', just because it happens to have been (completely legally) parked where you would have liked to park?

It seems even weirder to complain about a car that's broken down/temporarily immobile for not having been moved... think about that for a moment!

Calling the police to let them know that somebody has parked their car in a safe, legal space is the equivalent of a toddler screaming "Mummy!" repeatedly because they urgently want to tell you they've seen somebody wearing a jumper the same colour as theirs.

You can check if it's taxed and MOTd online. It will also tell you when it runs out. Just note the reg

Sorry but this tickled me....heard it in a pervy "ooh, young MAN!" voice...

Yes, we have a neighbour who makes it his hobby to care and complain about where people park their cars within a radius of his home - even though people always leave him plenty of room to access his own double drive.

I agree that, although it's obviously also irritating for the neighbours who don't want to be expected to give headspace in their busy lives to a mundane irrelevance that makes no real difference to anybody, it must be crushingly sad to actually be that person who has nothing else in their life more exciting to do than to obsess about where somebody else has parked their car in a way that has no effect on your life at all.

If it's parked on private land, there's no reason it needs to be taxed. It doesn't sound like the bays are monitored by a parking company either, although they would only be able to issue fines.

You could try reporting it to your local council, but I'm not convinced they'd be chomping at the bit to pay for an expensive tow and impound fees.

He's got a high spec range rover and thefts of these are really high in my area - we usually let him park it up the drive and I park across our drive to keep it more secure at night.

So why do you want him to park on tthe road next time he is home?

This.

I do realise that parking a RR on the road or even a drive without boxing it in is a recipe for disaster but I don't see why you can't just park across your drive, unless the dead car is parked across it, but surely you'd complain about that specifically.

Diagram or it didn't happen.

I can't even understand how you have got to the point of thinking it is in the way as
a) your son isn't with you at the moment
b) you said when he is he parks on the drive and you park across the bottom of the drive

So this car isn't even in your way, is it?

Just out of interest, is the temporarily broken-down car quite old and/or an unremarkable cheap/mid-range model - in stark contrast to your DS's shiny Range Rover?

In my experience, a lot of people who object to a neighbour parking their car in a safe and legal space on the public road also have an inbuilt snobbery and entitlement that causes them to naturally assume that a posh, expensive car should have more parking rights than an older, cheaper one.

See also: people who believe that having lived on the road longer gives them more rights than those who have moved there more recently and also those who believe homeowners to be somehow superior and more deserving of their favourite parking spaces than those who (probably pay more each month to) rent their homes.

Both ludicrous, of course, as anybody who lives 500 miles away can quite legally park their taxed, insured and MoT'd car in any one of those revered spaces on the public road outside your house for as long as they like.

Yep. He parks on drive, your car across drive. That's what we do, along with steering and pedal locks for security.

Broken down car may not be able to be move especially if its the timing belt.

We have a neighbour who thinks they're parking patrol. Every day 1st thing in the morning 7.30am he takes his car off his drive to keep the space outside his house. For no reason other than, he doesn't want to look at other people's cars smack bang outside his window! - his own words.

When i got a new car, there were no spaces around for my old one until, at 5pm on the button he moved his car into his drive. Guess where my old car went? Yep outside his house, legally parked for about 12 weeks. It was taxed, insured and mot.

I always get people park outside my house too. Im not fussed at all, I just park on the drive then when dh gets home he puts his on drive and puts mine across the drive, blocking him in.

👏 👏

Did you get him knocking on your door complaining?

Please don’t waste police time with this

I thought it was illegal to park across a dropped kerb, even if it's your own driveway - so if a parking warden happens along, you could get ticketed outside your own house? Is this not the case?

The Range Rover doesn't have more right to park where it wants, but it does have a greater need, on account of it having no effective locks.

Morning @ButterOllocks, you got a right blasting there.... ! It's an irritation, isn't it? And as PPs have said, little you can do. Obv not police matter, but if you see a PCSO, you could ask advice, it won't do any harm. Or report it as suspected abandoned and wait.

Or pop some hanging baskets on it so it's at least nicer to look at 🤭