Dumped cars in your area

[andy18s]

Maybe to stop people peeping if those windows are right on the footpath?

[Talbot]

Would the airbags go off if it was parked and that was the corner of a wagon trailer that hit it?

Would have to have been reversing at a fair lick, although you're probably quite right, with the ignition off, airbags would not be active.  Someone I used to know many years ago was killed while sat in her parked car when someone hit it rather hard head on.  Had she had a seatbelt on and active airbags it's most likely she'd have survived, but you don't wear seatbelts and leave the ignition on when you're parked in a car at the side of the road.

[DodgeRover]

Here in the Thames Valley we have a better class of dumped car and location.

This is on a public footpath in the middle of nowhere and has been there at least a couple of years.

It's beside a converted barn and seems to have CCTV cameras facing it.

MOT ran out at the end of 2013. Photo taken this summer but car still there.

 

Looking it the picture I'm guessing the car is on private land which just happens to have a footpath running over it, that looks more like an access track to the side or rear of the building. It's also probably blocking access for any other uninvited vehicles down there.

[Coprolalia]

Went back to a childhood stomping ground to check these out this weekend, deep in a wood on private land. It's all been there 10+ years. It was maintained to a fashion for a long time, with a garden and the weird bottle house, but is now fully abandoned. May have belonged to a pleasant simple tramp (in the old meaning of the words) who used to frequent the area, but he's sadly dead now.

[Split_Pin]

What a place! I am surprised those Minis, one or more of which looks to be from the 1960s are still identifiable at all.

[Talbot]

Still less rot on the body panels of those Minis than the half-the-age SD3 Rovers posted up recently...

[Frogchod]

This has been here over a week, hopefully there be an AV notice on it soon

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Those Minis are oldies. The ancient one is Farina grey, an Austin Seven around 1959-61. That would still yield some small parts. The beige one is a 1972/3 (K/L reg) 850 in Harvest gold and the green one is Almond green, pre Hydrolastic so 1962-4. 

 

Not a great deal of value on any of them alas. No Cooper stuff for sure. 850 engines are worthless.

[lesapandre]

I photograph clamped cars in my area - I'm looking at why cars get clamped and how soon. Here is one.Seems at first sight the usual DVLA operation. Except someone has driven it there recently with the car SORN and out of MoT. Sad note inside asking it to be taken away as they can't  pay the clamping fine. On a quiet backroad but nowhere round me escapes the clampers notice They will still get sent the fine. 

[lesapandre]

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[lesapandre]

Logbook and key in the car 

[wuvvum]

If you were going to deliberately dump a car like that, surely you'd send the trader's section away in some made-up name just to get it out of your name?

[lesapandre]

Yes. I think they were just caught running about in an ilkegal car and could not pay. I have not seen it there before.

[DodgeRover]

£130 a ton at the moment and you have the keys and log book get it weighed in!

[Split_Pin]

Strange why the owner didnt just weigh it in themselves. Could have potentially paid some of the fine off if scrap is as much as £130 a ton.

 

I really don't want to generate 13 million additional replies to this (excellent) thread but, assuming the car has been rescinded, couldnt you just fill out the new keeper section of the logbook, sign* it and send it in, sans the green slip. Where would you stand if the PO resurfaced?

 

It seems a higly unusual situation and a bit odd imo, but if I saw something that I thought I could/would want to take on such as an old Rover 75, Mondeo, Corolla or something with a few shite credentials then, in this scenario, Id really want to stuik the key in the ignition and have a go.

[DodgeRover]

Personally I would be Hiabing it away into a corner of the yard and applying for a logbook or running it straight into the frag yard minus cat battery and alloys, the clamp can stay in the boot..

 

Yes. I think they were just caught running about in an ilkegal car and could not pay. I have not seen it there before.

If they were stopped by the police with no tax/ test/ insurance they would have taken the car...

[Split_Pin]

Oh aye, forgot about the clamp issue, d'oh!

[DodgeRover]

Oh aye, forgot about the clamp issue, d'oh!

There aren't many variations of the keys they use allegedly.....

Given time and a slim ratchet most of dvla clamps I've seen could be removed without damage. I think they must just chuck them on as quick as poss in case someone takes offense.

[UltraWomble]

There is an 02 Plate Renner Clio near Kirkham HGV testing station- been there since before Xmas.

[DodgeRover]

Audi and Festa in Tesco extra at Gatwick, got 14 days from the 20/1

[lesapandre]

Yes if this was rarer it might be worth bothering about. Log book would have keepers possible address etc. But I think to get the clamp off a deposit is needed..it may be £300 so not worth investigative effort.

[lesapandre]

There are always clamped cars around here in London. Quite a nice little earner as the are mostly pretty new cars and very few 'abandoned'.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Oh aye, forgot about the clamp issue, d'oh!

Easy to get off. A friend did this when private clamping was legal. Just popped bottom ball joint off then took clamp off. Easy enough

[hpi_matrix]

Weren't battery angle grinders invented because of wheel clamps?

[Split_Pin]

Its the fines that follow it around that would be the sticking point for me.

[lesapandre]

Yes. A whole world of grief. If it was something rare might be worth it...

[DodgeRover]

Its the fines that follow it around that would be the sticking point for me.

The fine is a penalty for the current registered keeper not a lien on the vehicle?

[uk_senator]

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[robinmasters]

 

Can they do this? Council notice on this (and a few other) cars on this unadopted road, stating it's illegal to abandon a vehicle. How do they know they're abandoned? They're just parked on a private road, shurley?

 

Admittedly there is a scraper round the corner, but it's still an assumption.

 

NB. I may* have used said scraper, and left a car there for weeks/months. Point remains.

[DodgeRover]

If it's an unadopted private road then no, they're trying their luck.