Van “stuck in car park for 2 years” / owners £40k costs…

[scenario8]

Extraordinary. On many levels (see what I did there?)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qw74djvnjo

[fathomfive]

I can see how his costs have stacked up.

[Iamnotkloot]

Should have dominated the stairs

[Skodillac]

That escalated.

[Gareth79]

There's a picture of the facility here, it looks like the car is parked on a metal tray, which is put into a shelving system. Lots to go wrong, and I assume it's a part disabling just that tray, not the actual stacking system (disabling the whole car park).

https://www.doubleparking.co.uk/rathbone.php

And I can't imagine it's done the vehicle's traction battery any good being left idle that long...

[Downward]

I’m sure it said they are getting charged for the parking at the facility too !

[z4RRSchris]

lol, i heard about this last week.

even funnier is the owners of the flats who have a) paid £175k for the space and b) had their cars stuck in the stacker!

[mac96]

They should think themselves lucky. There used to be a stacker car park in Leeds- if went one better by posting a car out of the side so it fell several levels to the street.

[Big Nanas]

mac96 said:

They should think themselves lucky. There used to be a stacker car park in Leeds- if went one better by posting a car out of the side so it fell several levels to the street.

Well in that case at least there would be closure - there would be an insurance claim and this small business can get another van. Currently it's in limbo.

Awful situation really, and as for one previous poster finding this funny? Why? Nothing amusing about this in the slightest.

[Gordon Hill]

Threads like this have a habit of escalating.

[mac96]

Big Nanas said:

mac96 said:

They should think themselves lucky. There used to be a stacker car park in Leeds- if went one better by posting a car out of the side so it fell several levels to the street.

Well in that case at least there would be closure - there would be an insurance claim and this small business can get another van. Currently it's in limbo.

Awful situation really, and as for one previous poster finding this funny? Why? Nothing amusing about this in the slightest.

Of course you are right, it really isn't funny.
I wonder what the contract between car park and customer says. If it allows them to keep vehicles indefinitely without compensation that seems unreasonable.

[Dogwatch]

mac96 said:

They should think themselves lucky. There used to be a stacker car park in Leeds- if went one better by posting a car out of the side so it fell several levels to the street.

"That's our express exit service sir"

[biggbn]

...did the article say £800 a month....for a van?

[Stick Legs]

Big Nanas said:

Awful situation really, and as for one previous poster finding this funny? Why? Nothing amusing about this in the slightest.

Oh come on!

Laughing at other people’s misfortune is not mocking the victim. It’s a ridiculous situation and a few bad puns on an internet forum are hardly going to affect the situation.

The hubris of the designer / owner of the car park is worth mocking.

The situation the owner of the van is in invites empathy.

The ludicrous nature of the entire situation is funny in and of itself.

[AlpineWhite]

biggbn said:

...did the article say £800 a month....for a van?

Short term I guess?

[dxg]

Hmm,

So an electric Vivaro weighs 2131kg, with a payload of 1000kg.

Rathbone Square apparently has a "MasterVario R3L" parking system. It's technical specs (1) state a max load of 2,500kg per tray.

So, was/is the van empty?


1/
https://multiparking.com/en/products/?tx_wwmultipa...

[rodericb]

dxg said:

Hmm,

So an electric Vivaro weighs 2131kg, with a payload of 1000kg.

Rathbone Square apparently has a "MasterVario R3L" parking system. It's technical specs (1) state a max load of 2,500kg per tray.

So, was/is the van empty?


1/
https://multiparking.com/en/products/?tx_wwmultipa...

The published maximum load will be the defined safe working load which will be a lot less than what the lift could physically handle. Or in other words, sticking 2,510 kg (or even 3000kg) isn't going to have it breaking bits. Besides, a decent stacker would have load cells to check for overloading.

[Digga]

rodericb said:

The published maximum load will be the defined safe working load which will be a lot less than what the lift could physically handle. Or in other words, sticking 2,510 kg (or even 3000kg) isn't going to have it breaking bits. Besides, a decent stacker would have load cells to check for overloading.

We run 5 Modula storage system for industrial parts and components, the largest 3 are 9m high with between 50 and 60 shelves, each capable of carrying up to 990kgs. The machine will not store an overweight tray. It calculates the weight of each on lifting. Th8s even on the oldest units installed 10 years back.

[Djtemeka]

biggbn said:

...did the article say £800 a month....for a van?

Super easy to do!
My Renault traffic was £26+vat. (30k)
I put £15k down and still day £400/pcm.

The electric vivaro would be more expensive.

A vw can hit £70k+
A Mercedes easily £80k+

[dontlookdown]

The legal bills for all those claims are going to be astronomical. And slow, I imagine there will be a lot of wriggling over liability.

I parked in that car park a few times back in the day, I believe it now enjoys the cachet of being one of the UK's most expensive car parks.

It was always rather nerve wracking watching the lift take your car away and wondering if it would bring the right one back when you returned.