Advice on getting an 'abandoned' car moved
 

To cut a long story short, until a couple of weeks ago, the house next door was being rented to a couple who were clearly taking/dealing drugs of various kinds and as such, after being there for 8 months, the landlord evicted them.

However, the guy had two cars which he circulated in use, presumably to attract less attention to himself during his dealings and due to very limited parking on the street, used whichever wasn't being used to maintain a parking space outside his house.

When they moved the week before last, he left the old banger of the two parked outside next door and took the better of the two with him.
He then came back on Tuesday this week, started the car, left if bouncing of the limiter for 2 minutes, told an old woman to keep her nose out of his business, raced up and down the street a couple of times and parked it facing the wrong way between my house and next door, meaning I can't park my car outside my house, basically to wind everyone up, likes he's been doing for the last 8 months.

Is there anything i can do to get it shifted as he lives about a mile away now.
The car's taxed until November so unlikely that the cops will be interested.

Any advice chaps?

Have a barbecue :luxhello:

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If it were pushed into the middle of the road sometime in the early hours , won't it be towed away then as it's causing an obstruction then...............

It's crossed my mind.
If I was handy enough it would have been gone by now.

It's in gear and with the handbrake on so it'll be hard to move.
If the windows get put through by 'vandals' and the wheels nicked, do you reckon this will aid my case?

If the tax disc were missing, it was on fire AND in the middle of the road I reckon you'd be rid of it within an hour or two :thumb:

The council will take it away if its deemed to be in a dangerous condition. All you need to do is break the windows and then report it.
If it is registered to him then they will write to him but I doubt he'd want to pay for repairs. If he didn't move it then they'd take it.

Steve

A mug sized pile of rich iron Rust - very dry

Strip of magnesium.

Gives you a thermite bomb.

Place this on bonnet of car (above block), ignite & walk away.

It *should* burn a hole straight through to the ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite


OK, it might not get the car moved. But it'll be fun.

I may be busy tonight...:norty:

I like the sound of it but it's literally outside my front door

An apparently legal car is parked legally and everyone is proposing criminal activity to get it moved :rolleyes::nono: Imagine the reverse scenario I left my Scoob parked outside someone's house for a couple of days and they torched it!

Make, model, year of this old banger?

It's been there 2 weeks now since he moved out. Upto his antics on Tuesday, it didn't really bother me, but he had the chance to move it, but instead decided to scare an old woman half to death and then, being the 'clever' d1ck that he is, shouted to his scally missis that 'that'll show 'em'.

It might just be me, but i'm fed up of being ridiculed by some low-life who's never done a days work in his life, yet can afford two cars in the first place.

K plate mk3 golf.
Deffo an MOT failure

Report to police as abandoned - say it has no tax and they'll be round next day. I had one near me - reported it about 6 times over a six week period - the last time I reported it I told them it had no tax and it was gone the next day.

At least they have their priorities right :Whatever_

I had the same problem last summer, phoned the cops who came out looked at it and told me there was nowt they could do as it was locked and taxed.

A week later the pikey who owned it came back, took the stereo out, left the car unlocked and threw half slabs through the front and rear windows, a week later the council came and put a 7 day notice on it, two weeks later the heap was removed, it sat there for about 6-7 weeks in total.

You can claim to be the registered keeper of any car - can't remember the form number but the DVLA will tell you. You simply fill out the form, send it off and the DVLA write to the current owner to confirm the change. If they hear nothing within (I think 10 days) they car is now registered to you and you can sell it as you will get a copy of the log book! You never become the legal owner though.

And then you'll get all the speeding and parking fines he probably ran up - not wise.

10 days?!
so if you know the owner of a ferrari is going on a 3 week cruise around the world you could get to be the registered owner?....

How do you work that out? The transfer would be exaclty the same as if you had bought it - speeding fines BEFORE you take ownership will not apply to you. The transfer date will be on the paperwork, as will the date be on any speeding offenses.

Also, speeding tickets must be issued within two weeks of an offense. If the car had been dumped for two weeks or more, any newly issued tickets would be too old to be valid.

I did say "I think" and also said - "you never become the legal owner".

The info is there for you to check out should you wish. The form is a V62 by the way.

if it has no ins then it can be removed by the police, if it is parked on the road, if they don't want to play then get the council to put a 7 day notice on it..

Find some pikeys and pay them £20 to dispose of it. Either that or a scrappy owner who's more concerned with paperwork that has the queens head on it - rather than the sort from the DVLA. :)

Not that i've ever done that of course... *whistles* ;)

Look in the local paper under "Cars bought for cash - any condition"

you could just put a trolley jack under the car and move it back to where it was from

yea trolley jack is probably the best idea, considering the current crop of replys :lol1:

Actually you'll find you need rust and aluminium powder to creat thermite, the magnesium is required only to light it.

As you're link does indeed tell you;)

Call Astraboy or FatherPierre !

Please elaborate :Suspiciou