Safest place to park a SORN car long term worry free?
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Hi,
I invested around £1100 in a mondeo ST220. Speculation states in 15 years time this car will be worth give or take £50000 due to it being rare and ford stopped making mondeos. The more rarer the more it will worth.
I dont have my own driveway or garage or any private land to park it. Its parked on the street outside my house and I can't afford private storage unless I can travel in the future and collect my investment return lol.
I have a relative who lives in a council tower block of flats but hes at work most of the time. This council tower block has its own free car park for residents living there but I don't see any signs or permits being displayed enforcing that. My relative said he parked his other own sorn car there for the last 7 years with no problems. He can't be arsed scrapping his SORN car lol.
Okay the question is it safe to park my car at the above car park and just leave it there without worrying about it being recovered or towed by authorities? Car thieves will see it as old car and won't bother with it so my concern is the authorities taking it.
How does the authorities or council get suspicious on a particular parked car for example? I doubt council residents will notice a old car parked with many resident cars to phone and report. Also what is the law on parking SORN cars?
Otherwise any other suggested safest places to park SORN cars for long term for free? Definitely not at supermarket car parks though lol.
I invested around £1100 in a mondeo ST220. Speculation states in 15 years time this car will be worth give or take £50000 due to it being rare and ford stopped making mondeos. The more rarer the more it will worth.
I dont have my own driveway or garage or any private land to park it. Its parked on the street outside my house and I can't afford private storage unless I can travel in the future and collect my investment return lol.
I have a relative who lives in a council tower block of flats but hes at work most of the time. This council tower block has its own free car park for residents living there but I don't see any signs or permits being displayed enforcing that. My relative said he parked his other own sorn car there for the last 7 years with no problems. He can't be arsed scrapping his SORN car lol.
Okay the question is it safe to park my car at the above car park and just leave it there without worrying about it being recovered or towed by authorities? Car thieves will see it as old car and won't bother with it so my concern is the authorities taking it.
How does the authorities or council get suspicious on a particular parked car for example? I doubt council residents will notice a old car parked with many resident cars to phone and report. Also what is the law on parking SORN cars?
Otherwise any other suggested safest places to park SORN cars for long term for free? Definitely not at supermarket car parks though lol.
Roboticarm said:
If the plan is to keep and resell it then you can't leave it outside, it will rust and become worthless, you have probably way overestimated the future value, it's not an Escort cosworth but if you plan to park it up form years then recommission and sell it you need to store it indoors in a dry environment.
If you can't store if indoors sell it now as it will loose value of left outside for years
It won't rust If I wax it or so every month plus we live in the midlands not by any salt water sea for it to rust. The underneath of the car looks already rust proofed.If you can't store if indoors sell it now as it will loose value of left outside for years
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