Have you ever had a car impounded?
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I was once the custodian of a vehicle on behalf of an organisation who had registered the vehicle at their charity address but it was trusted to me and I was taking care of it. So typically it wasn't at the registered keepers address but outside my place instead.
As an organisation they were having some internal issues and as a consequence finding someone to pay for the tax for this vehicle wasn't happening. When I agreed to take the vehicle it was taxed and I didn't think they would stop taxing it so there was never any plan to keep it off road.
One day I decided I wanted to move it so I added it to my trade policy. When I got home later that day it was gone. So my trade insurance company were in cahoots with the DVLA and as soon as I had connected my trade policy with the vehicle the impounders swooped in and plucked it off the street.
I don't mind telling this story because I was helping them and not guilty myself of failing to tax it, I did nothing wrong. It was an interesting episode. Going to get it out of the pound was fun as well.
As an organisation they were having some internal issues and as a consequence finding someone to pay for the tax for this vehicle wasn't happening. When I agreed to take the vehicle it was taxed and I didn't think they would stop taxing it so there was never any plan to keep it off road.
One day I decided I wanted to move it so I added it to my trade policy. When I got home later that day it was gone. So my trade insurance company were in cahoots with the DVLA and as soon as I had connected my trade policy with the vehicle the impounders swooped in and plucked it off the street.
I don't mind telling this story because I was helping them and not guilty myself of failing to tax it, I did nothing wrong. It was an interesting episode. Going to get it out of the pound was fun as well.
Only once on New Years Eve in 1979. I parked my Rover P6B behind a line of other cars in Kingston-upon-Thames next to a boarded-up building site as all I could see was a single yellow line, but it seems there was a 2nd line behind the boarding!
So when I came back my car wasn't there and I walked to the Police Station to report it stolen! They smugly told me it was in the pound nearly a mile away so I had to walk there.
In their office they had maps of places to park in the town, one of which was a car park where the building site was. I told them their map was out of date and wished them a miserable 1980, then grudgingly paid the release fee (£35 I think) and went and found my car that was in a line with the others I had parked behind!
Put that down to experience and it has worked so far.
So when I came back my car wasn't there and I walked to the Police Station to report it stolen! They smugly told me it was in the pound nearly a mile away so I had to walk there.
In their office they had maps of places to park in the town, one of which was a car park where the building site was. I told them their map was out of date and wished them a miserable 1980, then grudgingly paid the release fee (£35 I think) and went and found my car that was in a line with the others I had parked behind!
Put that down to experience and it has worked so far.
Happened to me in Alicante a few years ago with a hire car.
Got back to the car park after a few hours on the beach and the car was not there. Apparently I had left the front tyre sitting on the white parking bay marker line and the police removed it. They knew it was a hire car so easy money for them.
It was thanks to a couple of old Spanish guys who told me what had happened and told me where to go to collect it.
Cost me a 30 Euro fair and 167 Euros to get it back so quite an expensive few hours at the beach.
Got back to the car park after a few hours on the beach and the car was not there. Apparently I had left the front tyre sitting on the white parking bay marker line and the police removed it. They knew it was a hire car so easy money for them.
It was thanks to a couple of old Spanish guys who told me what had happened and told me where to go to collect it.
Cost me a 30 Euro fair and 167 Euros to get it back so quite an expensive few hours at the beach.
Edited by Monkeylegend on Saturday 1st October 13:20
I picked a mate up at Malaga airport in a French reg car and was stopped by the police leaving , I’d left my wallet in the flat I was staying at and couldn’t produce my drivers license, cue a tow truck and a 2 hour 160 euro round trip in a taxi . But I know not to argue with a man who carries a gun for a living !
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