Car dealer storing cars in our car park

[anonymous-user]

get some cones.

[ashleyman]

Get those big stickers and stick them on every window of the car. Then smear vaseline on the windscreen. Perhaps put some birdseed on the roof and bonnet. Expanding foam up the exhaust pipes. Let the tyres down. Nutella under the door handles Position screws under the wheels so when he moves the car it picks up screws. Hide a fish in it/under it somewhere.

I wouldn't suggest blocking it in with your car as then he might damage your car. But plenty of things to do to it and he doesn't know who done it.

Assuming he's storing the cars there and then moving them when a potential buyer comes to view it, enough instances of him having to waste time peeling off stickers or washing off vaseline will cost him enough time and business that he'd stop doing it. Hopefully he has to cancel viewings because the cars aren't presentable.

You could always drag them out onto the road and hide them in a different road so they're not obvious to him.

Edited by ashleyman on Monday 8th October 16:17

[loose cannon]

If he is a part time trader could you not report him to trading standards for selling cars on somebody else’s property or something related
Phone the tax man is that something that could
Balls him up ? Not really up on the legalities of part time traders

[ghe13rte]

freenote said:

Thanks. I am a director of the freeholding co and know exactly what's going on. I'm trying to work out what action we can actually take to stop him parking his cars there.

Why not simply ask your solicitor the question.

[JamesBryan88]

Remove a few wheel nuts and post them through his door with note saying you'll return the other bolts when the cars are moved.

[MattM135i]

Plastic bag between the exhaust and the body of the car.

When someone comes for a test drive it might well put them off as it starts smelling of burning plastic.

[Trevor555]

freenote said:

All,

We have a car dealer (part-time trader) who lives somewhere down the road using the car park for our block of flats to store his cars for sale, untaxed.

I have confronted him before and he is quite aggressive.

Is there anything we can do to stop this?

Any help much appreciated. I would consider any lawful option.

Him being aggressive isn't really lawful is it?

[Lazermilk]

SmoothCriminal said:

Grease under all the door handles every car every time

Or dog st, although if you do anything to his cars he will just return the favour surely.

Some of these maybe?

[CAPP0]

Out of interest, what sort of value cars are we talking here? (not that that changes the situation with him parking there in any way; just curious).

[Lazermilk]

Also like the stickers on windows option, cheap and will be annoying for him. Whatever you do though you risk him being a dick and retaliating somehow, do you have CCTV already on the car park just in case?

[anonymous-user]

S11Steve said:

Needs to be part of a trade association and all the nonsense that goes with it to obtain keeper details from the DVLA. far more trouble than it's worth.

Absolute rubbish! Muppet.

To get vehicle owner details from DVLA,

"You can ask DVLA for information about your vehicle or another vehicle and its registered keeper if you have a ‘reasonable cause’.
Information about another vehicle or its registered keeper

You can ask for details of another vehicle’s registered keeper. You’ll need a ‘reasonable cause’, for example:

finding out who was responsible for an accident
tracing the registered keeper of an abandoned vehicle
tracing the registered keeper of a vehicle parked on private land
etc"

Just use form V888, available on DVLA website.

[anonymous-user]

Deep Thought said:

rockin said:

Clamping etc is now illegal (on private property) so that's not a possibility.

• Get your residents association to formally agree a parking charge of £100 a night for non-residents (and non-guests) who park overnight.
• Put up clear signs setting out the new parking charges.
• Use CCTV and/or DVLA enquiries to identify who is doing the parking.
• Send the parker appropriate bills.
• Sue the parker in court for any unpaid bills. This is not expensive.

^^^^
THIS

Precisely

[Jasandjules]

Get some of the residents to park their cars for a few days completely blocking his in.

[ninjag]

For those suggesting blocking the cars in, isn't it illegal to prevent a car from being able to join the highway or something even if it is parked on someone else's land?

[S11Steve]

rockin said:

Absolute rubbish! Muppet.

To get vehicle owner details from DVLA,

"You can ask DVLA for information about your vehicle or another vehicle and its registered keeper if you have a ‘reasonable cause’.
Information about another vehicle or its registered keeper

You can ask for details of another vehicle’s registered keeper. You’ll need a ‘reasonable cause’, for example:

finding out who was responsible for an accident
tracing the registered keeper of an abandoned vehicle
tracing the registered keeper of a vehicle parked on private land
etc"

Just use form V888, available on DVLA website.

Have you ever tried that before?

If not, give it a go, and please let us know how you get on.....

[anonymous-user]

Just let the tyres down of any cars parked there. No damage caused but a royal PITA for him to have to sort. He should pretty quickly get the message. With no witnesses what could he prove, and even if he could the police are overstretched and wouldn't even bother turning up if reported. Or buy an old car and start parking it in front of his place?

[Jasandjules]

Andy20vt said:

Just let the tyres down of any cars parked there. No damage caused but a royal PITA for him to have to sort. He should pretty quickly get the message. With no witnesses what could he prove, and even if he could the police are overstretched and wouldn't even bother turning up if reported. Or buy an old car and start parking it in front of his place?

That is criminal damage.

[PF62]

familyguy1 said:

take pictures and advertise them for sale with the blokes own number, but put them at a lower price where they are almost to good to be true but not quite. This should mean the bloke gets calls from lots of different people (and numbers, so cannot block them) and has to deal with upping the price on the car "he has advertised"

http://www.27bslash6.com/f4s.html

[Smiljan]

S11Steve said:

rockin said:

Absolute rubbish! Muppet.

To get vehicle owner details from DVLA,

"You can ask DVLA for information about your vehicle or another vehicle and its registered keeper if you have a ‘reasonable cause’.
Information about another vehicle or its registered keeper

You can ask for details of another vehicle’s registered keeper. You’ll need a ‘reasonable cause’, for example:

finding out who was responsible for an accident
tracing the registered keeper of an abandoned vehicle
tracing the registered keeper of a vehicle parked on private land
etc"

Just use form V888, available on DVLA website.

Have you ever tried that before?

If not, give it a go, and please let us know how you get on.....

+1 tried it when some selfish oaf was blocking my private parking spot consistently. They refused my request and wouldn’t help.

[rambo19]

Jasandjules said:

Andy20vt said:

Just let the tyres down of any cars parked there. No damage caused but a royal PITA for him to have to sort. He should pretty quickly get the message. With no witnesses what could he prove, and even if he could the police are overstretched and wouldn't even bother turning up if reported. Or buy an old car and start parking it in front of his place?

That is criminal damage.

IIRC, it is not, it is interfering with a motor vehcile though.