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[twink]

If you are booking it in to have work done, is there any chance they can take the car in early??

[Mini Cheddars]

Well my mum said she would accept half of the £320 keep this week and the other half next week, so I could maybe call them up on Friday and ask if I can take it in on Saturday. I don't know if Minispeed have some kind of storage fee.

After constant reading up on this kind of topic tonight, it looks like the minimum I would have to pay would be £260 and I won't have that until Friday. If they HAD to come, couldn't they have come on Thursday?!

[Wilhelm]

Change your wheel over to the spare, then charge the DVLA a £100 storage fee for you to store the wheel clamp in your house.

[twink]

It would be worth a call, even if they want £10 a day, it's half the price!!

And, no, they will never come at a convenient tie for you!!

Edited by twink, 25 September 2012 - 09:10 PM.

[Mini Cheddars]

Heh very true, Twink. I'm afraid it looks like it will be impounded, though. Which bumps up the cost even more. So when I get off the bus tomorrow and come home, I will have no car sitting outside my home. No idea what they'll do with the car cover draped over it and no money to pay any charges in full until Friday.

What a dreadful setback this is. I was really looking forward to getting my car back on the road next month as well.

[twink]

That's a proper poopy bit of news

Hope you get it back quickly

[Mini Cheddars]

And me, but if I can't afford to get the car back after all these extra charges then it will be crushed. My first car.

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Edited by Mini Cheddars, 25 September 2012 - 09:19 PM.

[twink]

No way!! Offer to do the housework for a month - see if your ma lets you off completely!!

[M J W J]

Go buy your own clamp and put it on it.

Not as stupid a suggestion as you first may think. If they remove your clamp by force then it could be considered as criminal damage. The same rule applies to you and them. They are not above the law. There may however be some sort of clause that says about preventing the vehicle from being removed etc etc so you may want to check up on this first.

The other option is to jack it up and put it on breeze blocks. If you own the breeze blocks then the car is technically on private property. Your property, the breeze blocks. As far as I am aware there is nothing that says you can't put breeze blocks on the road. There is about permanent structures and obstructions but the breeze blocks won't be as they could be moved.

On a more serious not take a stack of photos so any damage that they may cause can be used as evidence if it ends up in court. If they cause damage to your vehicle then they are liable for it even if they are lawfully removing the vehicle.

[miniyellowmini]

The other option is to jack it up and put it on breeze blocks. If you own the breeze blocks then the car is technically on private property. Your property, the breeze blocks. As far as I am aware there is nothing that says you can't put breeze blocks on the road. There is about permanent structures and obstructions but the breeze blocks won't be as they could be moved.

Wouldn't work as it's technically still on a public highway, otherwise you may as well just park it on the grass verge.

If you really have absolutlely no where to park it, my advise would be to pay the fine asap as you'll have to pay it anyway and the quicker it's paid the less it'll cost you. Forget payday loans, doorstep lenders etc.. you're digging yourself into a hole you don't want to be in going down that route. There's plenty of ways to make quick money, start by flogging some crap you don't need/use on ebay/gumtree, stuff that wont sell on ebay or won't make money after fees sell at a car boot.

Once you've paid the fine in the mean time park it on that patch of grass owned by the housing association and that at least would buy you some time and it's off the road. Unless you are very unlucky it will prob take them a few days to notice/do anything about it maybe even longer if the 'maintenance' is just cutting it and when they do try to contact you about it avoid speaking to them. That should get you another week or so till they write to you. Hopefully in that time you'll get the funds together to tax/MOT it and get it legally on the road.

Good luck!

[Daviewonder]

The other option is to jack it up and put it on breeze blocks. If you own the breeze blocks then the car is technically on private property. Your property, the breeze blocks. As far as I am aware there is nothing that says you can't put breeze blocks on the road. There is about permanent structures and obstructions but the breeze blocks won't be as they could be moved.

Christ, could you talk any more *******?

[Cooperman]

The one thing you can do is to have a skip in the road, with council permission, and store the xar in that. Not very practical, but quite legal.

[Ethel]

Don't pay the release fee unless you have another storage option, you could end up paying it twice & still get it impounded.

[SA MINI]

Do you know anyone with a car transporter trailer ?
Could Have the mini sat on that couldn't you ?
Or would this still be illegal?

[Mini Cheddars]

No way!! Offer to do the housework for a month - see if your ma lets you off completely!!

Unfortunately she needs the money as much as I do. It pays for the bills, rent and food.

Go buy your own clamp and put it on it.

Unfortunately I can't buy anything. I leave for work at 6:30am and get home at 7pm and I work about 20 miles away, having to get public transport because my car isn't road legal. All the shops will be shut.

Do you know anyone with a car transporter trailer ?
Could Have the mini sat on that couldn't you ?
Or would this still be illegal?

I think I do but I won't have time to get a hold of him. I've posted on my club's forum and our Facebook page with a link to the forum but so far had no response and I leave for work in 20 minutes. I believe that is legal though as that's how you carry a car around with no tax or MOT.

Unfortunately Ethel, I'm at a loss. I'm going to ring them up on my lunch break but I'm not expecting to be let off in any way. Best case scenario, they take the clamp off and come back to check next Saturday if it's still parked outside mine or even ring Minispeed and they ask if my registration number + details of the car is at their premises.

Worst case scenario is getting fined £1,000 or 5 times the annual vehicle tax, whichever is greater as well as storage fees and everything else.