Dumped cars in your area

[Kiltox]

Just tried the ukvehicle.com site, interestingly, I put the reg of my 1991 MX5 in, as it spent it's life in Jersey until 2013, when it was first used in the UK, it says it doesn't need an MoT (as it's less than three years old as far as UK is concerned) which would be at odds with DVLA then!

Seems it guesses from the date of first registration - I have a 2008 Vectra in stock at the moment that was registered in 2013 (on an 08 plate) and it says the same

[saucedoctor]

That website is not great. It says that my Merc was first registered in Belfast (it was London), and was first used on the road in 1970. Says the same for other GB-reg'd cars that I have had over the years, and re-regged in NI. It also says my sister's Scenic is a Laguna.

[D Spares & Tyres]

That Fiesta in Malvern is a nice colour and not many of that shape left!

[chaseracer]

Shocking! An abandoned fiesta...

 

http://m.malverngazette.co.uk/news/14231050.Abandoned_car_turning_heads_in_Malvern/

Only the 9th most read story in Malvern...

 

I grew up in Malvern, and have a cutting somewhere from a mid-80s Gazette of a Citroen GSA wrapped round a tree on (very steep) Edith Walk after the driver forgot to apply the handbrake properly.  Yes, the journos tracked down the rather sheepish owner for an interview.

 

Good to see that this sort of this still constitutes 'news'...

[Billy - Medhurst]

Dumped since November - Still taxed and tested

1999 HYUNDAI 1341cc ACCENT V892EJU by JOHN, on Flickr

Been there about 6 months - no interior or fuel tank

ABANDONED CHRYSLER SEBRING LEFT HAND DRIVE CONVERTIBLE - LEICESTERSHIRE UK 13.11.2015 by JOHN, on Flickr

[AlabamaShrimp]

I've driven one of those seabrings in America. Most gutless noise machine I've ever been in but would still have one

[myglaren]

Haven't seen a dumped car around here for years - not a posh area either.

[Richard]

I grew up in Malvern, and have a cutting somewhere from a mid-80s Gazette of a Citroen GSA wrapped round a tree on (very steep) Edith Walk after the driver forgot to apply the handbrake properly.  Yes, the journos tracked down the rather sheepish owner for an interview.

 

Good to see that this sort of this still constitutes 'news'...

 

 

It's the same around here http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/newport-folk-have-seen-enough-of-car-stationed-on-the-brae-since-march-1.899599

[Arthur Foxhake]

The fiesta I posted is still there untouched with no notices on.

 

The mister two and passat have destruction notices.

 

The 206 is still the same.

 

Thankfully, the 205 appears to have been fixed and moved off under its own steam.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I'll have the seats from the Fiesta then please

[greengartside]

I'll have the whole Fiesta

[Philyc]

i have posted this before: a ford sierra rs cosworth. has been sitting at work for 5 years, mot and tax ran out in 2007, was towed here and left.

 

 

 

 

i have managed to make contact with the owner, who now has decided he doesnt want to sell. he assured me on 06 december that he was taking it into his garage to start recommissioning. it is now the start of febuary so i may have to press him again for a potential deal.

 

i have also spied two mk1 golfs on camp, both belong to the same person but i havnt seen them move for a while. unfortunately our soldiers are fairly switched on and also keep a look out for abandoned cars on camp too. last year they managed to get their hands on a capri which had been sat for 8 years. this had been left by a guy who sadly didnt come back from afghan. they got hold of it, got it back on the road and sold it with all the cash going to the guys mother who donated it to H4H.

[Lord Sterling]

I've started to park my car in a small cul-de-sac around the corner from me, it's the only place near to me where parking spaces can be found as it's an unrestricted road.

 

There have been a couple of cars there, a Focus and previously a lowered Saxo. I met the young chap who lives across the road from me who owns them. They are both not completely legal but do have tax and MOT. I'm unsure but seemingly around here people do sometimes leave their cars 'unused' for a while until they need them again or can find off-road parking, I've seen a few, so not completely abandoned but some do get looking that after a while.

[Lacquer Peel]

[panhard65]

There is a Zafira turned up in the layby just off the M5. It is minus number plates so I wonder how long before it is stripped and torched. I will try and get a pic tomorrow if its still there.

[Arthur Foxhake]

The fiesta is still there untouched.

No notices or anything.

I can confirm it is locked and unenterable.

Must be something up with it.

Still tempting.

[Pillock]

I've been cruising the mean streets of Acton, trying to find back roads to work. The number of cars with flat tyres, covered in dust, not moved for months is unreal - it seems on road parking, even in industrial areas, is so sought after people would rather leave the car there and walk or cycle everywhere. Soon as you move the car, you lose the space as it's all 24/7 factories and units.

[robthedonkey]

Yes-ish, Zafira was in Cradley Heath, just off Powke Lane. There is Steve Tolkien there, the old tat car hoarder.

 

 

Brilliant! Cheers for that. I was thinking of picking it up and stashing it away.

Steve tolkien? I live a mile away from there...

 

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[fatharris]

The HRV I post about in December(?) Is still on the side of the A30 with police tape on it.

 

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[panhard65]

The Zafira is still there and no one has torched it yet.

[Angrydicky]

There's a Y reg Rover 75 (Y934CCE if anyone wants to check it out) that used to be sat on a front garden around the corner from my digs. It's now been dragged out to the road opposite and has been sat there for a few weeks now, complete with flat tyres. It's been off the road a few years I think.

[PiperCub]

I grew up in Malvern, and have a cutting somewhere from a mid-80s Gazette of a Citroen GSA wrapped round a tree on (very steep) Edith Walk after the driver forgot to apply the handbrake properly.  Yes, the journos tracked down the rather sheepish owner for an interview.

 

Good to see that this sort of this still constitutes 'news'...

 

I spent eight years working in local TV news so I can say yes, this probably does constitute news to some reporters!! 

[noseypoke]

Remember when scrap prices were high? Theiving bastards would dress up as roadside furniture and drag stricken vehicles away.

Yep. I even stopped a tealeaf stealing the steel post I was tasked with fitting a road sign to.

Passed the spot couple of days later and post and sign had gone.

Called in by police to identify road furniture found in a scrap yard around Wavertree,All turned out to belong to Liverpool City Council,also in the cunts office they found a load of bronze grave placs...disgustin.Thievin twats.

[Bobthebeard]

True story!

When I first got the Porsche 944, (prior to it's restoration and subsequent swappage for the Prelude) I took some garden rubbish to the local tip. Nowhere convenient to park, so had to leave the car round the back of all the skips and carry the rubbish. Ended up chatting to a bloke I hadn't seen in a while for ten minutes or so.

Returned to the car and one of the council tip blokes was there, convinced the car had been dumped! Was proper annoyed! I thought it looked ok.

[noseypoke]

By 1970, there may be 700,000 cars a year being junked:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P-f1mssUeI

Back in 1968,bought a Ford Pop for £2.00 and it cost me £1. 30shillings to insure the bugger.Ran it for 12months then sadly give it a VIKINGS funeral at Waterloo tip,took the red ford grill badge off first,still got it, 

Wish I'd had a garage I'd have kept it(but I think that after all my cars have moved on) I've never actually scrapped a car tho.

"What was that big car all the friggin bystanders were watchin get crushed,A Buick/Army staff car or what? It looked in roadworthy nick.SHAME.

[Alexg]

This is rather too modern to be abandoned, and still shows MOT & Tax, but it appears dumped due to its random location and hasn't moved from this spot for about 6 weeks. It's on the road to Headcorn from Maidstone and I see it each morning. Looks like something has caught it recently as the headlamp damage and dent to side are new.

 

[Billy - Medhurst]

We've got a RAV4 dumped at the side of the M1 J22 roundabout - life expectancy low, since they're widening the roads and it's right on a bit that's getting dup up imminently. And just round the corner, there's the remains of a Ford Focus that's been burned out in a Travelodge car park. Scrap man's had neither, which just shows the price of metal.

Travelodge carpark still has that car - Been there since around Christmas. Its a Nissan Primera.

[Pillock]

Yeah the Rav4 has gone but the Primocus (it was dark, and that's a known dogging spot soon wasn't hanging around to look too closely...) was there today when I went past.

 

Are you very local to me then?

[Billy - Medhurst]

Are you very local to me then?

Leicester - but often over the "Ville" area.

[Pillock]

I think you'll find it's spelled Vile.