Abandoned car in private parking

[AlexIT]

Looking for an advice here: in a private parking at Milan Malpensa Airport there's an abandoned PT cruiser with UK plates. I've shortly talked to a policeman driving by, but being private land they obviously don't care. I also phoned to the number on the parking entrance, but they don't really care either: the parking is for employees of the airport, so it's not really bothering anyone.

I have no idea why it's been abandoned there and if anyone would have any interest in getting it back despite its conditions...

What would you folks advise to do?

[MacW]

I'm not following what you're asking. It's not your car, not your space and not your car park, what exactly are you asking for advice on?

[Triumph Man]

I don't think anyone, anywhere, wants a Chrysler PT Cruiser back.

[MightyBadger]

What a strange thread.

[CraigyMc]

AlexIT said:

Looking for an advice here: in a private parking at Milan Malpensa Airport there's an abandoned PT cruiser with UK plates. I've shortly talked to a policeman driving by, but being private land they obviously don't care. I also phoned to the number on the parking entrance, but they don't really care either: the parking is for employees of the airport, so it's not really bothering anyone.

I have no idea why it's been abandoned there and if anyone would have any interest in getting it back despite its conditions...

What would you folks advise to do?

What's the registration number and vin? (I'm assuming the vin is visible through the little window on the main windscreen).

Either way, as an interested party, the car park operator is allowed to enquire for a small fee at the UK's DVLA and they will give the name and address of the registered keeper (note: registered keeper isn't necessarily the owner - DVLA doesn't keep a list of owners, which are often companies or loan providers).

As someone who has just seen a car and is interested, DVLA have no duty to give you that info.

You can at least use the registration number to check when the car was last MOTed, and to see if it's insured on the UK motor industry database.

[Chubbyross]

Triumph Man said:

I don't think anyone, anywhere, wants a Chrysler PT Cruiser back.

This.

[AlexIT]

MacW said:

I'm not following what you're asking. It's not your car, not your space and not your car park, what exactly are you asking for advice on?

I actually don't know

I happen to go there from time to time and I just wondered if there was an easy way to make the owner aware that the car's there as I might have been stolen, but I agree with this:

Triumph Man said:

I don't think anyone, anywhere, wants a Chrysler PT Cruiser back.

So possibly just an owner who didn't want to let the world know he bought that car in the first place

[carinaman]

AlexIT said:

MacW said:

I'm not following what you're asking. It's not your car, not your space and not your car park, what exactly are you asking for advice on?

I actually don't know

I happen to go there from time to time and I just wondered if there was an easy way to make the owner aware that the car's there as I might have been stolen, but I agree with this:

Triumph Man said:

I don't think anyone, anywhere, wants a Chrysler PT Cruiser back.

So possibly just an owner who didn't want to let the world know he bought that car in the first place

I think I read recently they do have a redeeming feature, but I am struggling to remember what it is.

Do some of them have a banging multi-speaker stereo system?

[BrickCounter]

Let’s just hope it doesn’t have loads of chrome stuck on it, and a Stars and Stripes sticker on the back!

[The test driver]

carinaman said:

I think I read recently they do have a redeeming feature, but I am struggling to remember what it is.

Do some of them have a banging multi-speaker stereo system?

I'll put my hand up and say I ran one for a while, stereo was decent and the back seats where completely removable to make it very much van sized in side with its flat floor. Had an MX5 engine and gearbox complete on a pallet forklifted into the back, closed the tailgate and off we went. Decent enough for what I needed would I have took it to a car show...No!

[WCZ]

just take it?

[Superflow]

Oh you don’t know what you’ve done!

I knew it would be found eventually, whatever you do don’t look in the boot.

[A Winner Is You]

carinaman said:

I think I read recently they do have a redeeming feature, but I am struggling to remember what it is.

That most of them have now been scrapped.

[Skyedriver]

John Peel used to own one I believe.

[DanL]

I suppose it could be someone’s holiday run about, parked up there when they’re not in town?

[MonkeyBusiness]

Dumped after a rally event? The ones where you buy a car for £100 and try get it to a destination.
Maybe didn't fancy driving it back.

[Byker28i]

There's quite a few cars like that in Gibraltars nearest multistory to the airport.

[Zarco]

Triumph Man said:

I don't think anyone, anywhere, wants a Chrysler PT Cruiser back.

[bqf]

Lots of people keep a car at the airport, often for months. Might look abandoned, but they might have done a deal with the parking co to store it.

Mind your own beeswax

[Superflow]

Twenty or so years ago we used to leave our own car at Bergerac airport outside the tiny at the time terminal building before flying back to UK and with no charges.

Absolutely unimaginable now in current times.