Car Dealers new stock on surrounding roads

Car Dealers new stock on surrounding roads

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shost

Original Poster:

825 posts

142 months

Friday 22nd September 2017
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Trying to get an idea of how prevalent this is. Basically I live near a main dealer that specialises in parking a lot of its stock and courtesy cars on the surrounding streets.

Other residents have been in touch with council etc to get formal restrictions and of course we've spoken to dealership directly. The parking continues and its not unusual to see upto 20 cars on the resdential streets around their site.

Most of it isn't illegal, mostly inconsiderate e.g partially obstructing pavements.

I don't know of or haven't seen any other main dealer that does this. I've seen a couple of their cars have been vandalised. Today there is one missing rear lights and a smashed lock. 67 plate no less.

The sausages are in the freezer and my hammer is sharpened.


Plate spinner

17,649 posts

199 months

Friday 22nd September 2017
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If not parked illegally, all you can do is continue to apply pressure to the council / dealership.

dibblecorse

6,872 posts

191 months

Friday 22nd September 2017
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So locals in pitchfork riot because car dealer has the temerity to park cars legally ........

More NIMBYism .....


Cold

15,207 posts

89 months

Friday 22nd September 2017
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dibblecorse said:
So locals in pitchfork riot because car dealer has the temerity to park cars legally ........

More NIMBYism .....
I wonder if they're all taxed.

so called

9,074 posts

208 months

Friday 22nd September 2017
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Do they all have road tax then? Or do dealers have some sort of exemption?

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

99 months

Friday 22nd September 2017
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dibblecorse said:
So locals in pitchfork riot because car dealer has the temerity to park cars legally ........

More NIMBYism .....
Legally but inconsiderately to the local area is what the OP has mentioned. There is a difference, and its the same difference that is mentioned every time we have a thread about cars being parked in residential roads near an airport.

It would annoy me too, slightly. But fortunately I don't have to put up with this kind of thing, so I don't have to worry much.

All the dealers around Horsham appear to keep their stock on their site. Which I assume is better, surely, where it can be controlled, its behind locked gates/posts at night, and with CCTV covering anyone who tries to nick it. On the public roads, it has none of this.

C.A.R.

3,967 posts

187 months

Friday 22nd September 2017
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Are they parked there all night then? I wonder whether the insurance policy the dealership has would cover stock to be parked up on the road, out of sight and range of CCTV...


Earthdweller

13,432 posts

125 months

Friday 22nd September 2017
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There's an area near me with a number of car dealers along the road

You have to pass the BMW dealer to get to the Audi dealer at the end

It amuses me that the Audi dealer seems to park a line of brand new Audi's right outside the BMW dealers windows

Must be a coincidence surely ?

HTP99

22,443 posts

139 months

Friday 22nd September 2017
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It'll be interesting to see if the cars are registered and therefore taxed, having a number plate, doesn't necessarily mean the car is registered, if it isn't registered then it isn't taxed.

Pretty much all of the new cars that we on site have won't be registered until the day that they are delivered/collected.

shost

Original Poster:

825 posts

142 months

Friday 22nd September 2017
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Not quite Nimbyism as in it should happened in their yard not everyone elses. They know how big their site is and seems poor form to use space outside people front doors because they've too much stock. It heavily impacts other local buisnesses and not helped at weekends when a community centre gets visitors too.

Seems most of the vehicles are legit, some are too new to show on DVLA site though!

sjg

7,444 posts

264 months

Friday 22nd September 2017
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I live near a Toyota dealer and the roads around (no parking restrictions) have a lot of new Toyotas during the day. Seems to mostly be dealership staff parking for the day, I'm guessing they all get cheap/free cars. Like most dealerships away from the vast trading estates, there's barely enough space on site for used stock and customer/service parking, so staff must be asked to park elsewhere.

Don't have a problem with it, if they're parked legally.

Pookington

24 posts

97 months

Friday 22nd September 2017
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Tesco in Stockport always has loads of new Jaguars and Land Rovers in it's car park from the dealer across the road. Not sure if they have some sort of agreement permitting this.

SantaBarbara

3,244 posts

107 months

Friday 22nd September 2017
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shost said:
Trying to get an idea of how prevalent this is. Basically I live near a main dealer that specialises in parking a lot of its stock and courtesy cars on the surrounding streets.

Other residents have been in touch with council etc to get formal restrictions and of course we've spoken to dealership directly. The parking continues and its not unusual to see upto 20 cars on the resdential streets around their site.

Most of it isn't illegal, mostly inconsiderate e.g partially obstructing pavements.

I don't know of or haven't seen any other main dealer that does this. I've seen a couple of their cars have been vandalised. Today there is one missing rear lights and a smashed lock. 67 plate no less.

The sausages are in the freezer and my hammer is sharpened.
Which city is this?

If they are obstructing the pavement ask the council to erect bollards to prevent them

pomodori

4,404 posts

78 months

Friday 22nd September 2017
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I worked at a small main dealer,now closed,with almost zero off streeet parking.

We weren't popular locally.

Tow trucks had to block the street to drop off breakdowns ,even less popular.