stolen car (a car abandoned outside my house in Oglander Rd)

[oglander]

There has been a car abandoned outside my house in Oglander Rd for nearly 3 months now & I'm getting a bit sick of it. The council are not interested in responding either by phone or email & the police don't seem interested either. It's a blue Ford Focus, unlocked & taxed. It's a perfectly good car & much newer than mine, so I presume it's been stolen & dumped.

If anyone has any bright ideas please let me know. If anyone would like to do something with it, it's YJ82 MHD & it's between Marsden & Muschamp.

Oglander

[nxjen]

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[Robert Poste's Child]

Maybe ask James Barber on his thread?

[ed_pete]

If it's taxed then I don't think the council can touch it.

[jimlad48]

Ultimately there is nothing you can do. Its legally parked and taxed and parked in an area without a CPZ in force. Accordingly I'm afraid you're stuck with it for as long as people can park where they want. The only point you'll get interest is when the tax runs out.

Yet another reason why CPZs are so valuable!

[kford]

No CPZ please. Just hop in it and roll it down the road.

[ianr]

DVLA says of registration number YJ82MHD "Vehicle details could not be found".

[uncleglen]

That does not look like a valid registration because of the '82'. The numbers started at '51' and we are currently on '17' i.e. April 2017.

September last year was '66'

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/content/advice/how-does-the-number-plate-system-work

[rendelharris]

If you've given the correct reg it's not a valid one - possibly reporting it to the police as a false plate might increase their interest? Also, how do you know it's taxed? If it has a tax disc showing that it has tax up to date, that's fake too - nobody's had a paper disc issued since September 2014, so maybe that might interest police as well.

[kford]

YJ52 MHD

✗ Untaxed

Tax due:

24 January 2005

MOT: No details held by DVLA

Vehicle make: FORD

Date of first registration: October 2003

Year of manufacture: 2002

Cylinder capacity (cc): 1388 cc

CO₂Emissions: 158 g/km

Fuel type: PETROL

Export marker: Yes

Vehicle status: Not taxed

Vehicle colour: SILVER

Not taxed since 2005, according to this, unless the plate has been cloned

[flocker spotter]

This could be a valid plate if the J is a 1. Before 2001 year of registration was indicated by a letter at the start of the numberplate. This would then be a Y reg car from the year 2000. However, the 8 may be a 5 as mentioned above.

[rendelharris]

flocker spotter Wrote:

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> This is a valid plate - but old. Before 2001 year

> of registration was indicated by a letter at the

> start of the numberplate. This is a Y reg car

> from the year 2000.

Think not - Y was March to August 2001, but anyway when they had that system there was a single letter age identifier, then three numbers, then three letters, e.g. Y 123 ABC.

ETA Cross-posted before your edited explanation.

[JohnL]

Looks invalid to me

Check on something really old

My dads first car was ECY 605K in 1974 - "Morris Orange" - and it was too, a Marina.

[kford]

flocker spotter Wrote:

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> This could be a valid plate if the J is a 1.

> Before 2001 year of registration was indicated by

> a letter at the start of the numberplate. This

> would then be a Y reg car from the year 2000.

> However, the 8 may be a 5 as mentioned above.

I checked Y152MHD. Not on record.

[rendelharris]

kford Wrote:

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> I checked Y152MHD. Not on record.

Funny, I checked that (can't resist these detective efforts) on isitnicked.com and got a 2001 Peugeot 206 which hasn't been taxed since 2016 - plate lifted from a breaker perhaps (if the J is a 1).

[rendelharris]

JohnL Wrote:

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> Looks invalid to me

>

> Check on something really old

>

> My dads first car was ECY 605K in 1974 - "Morris

> Orange" - and it was too, a Marina.

My folks had exactly that model - brown vinyl seats to sear the skin of beshorted children in hot weather!

[oglander]

It's Y782 MHP, I think I typed it wrong & when I contacted DLA it was taxed. Am I stuck with it then? It could be there for ever!

[oglander]

I thought of that but if the steering's locked I could get into trouble! Maybe I should get it to the part of the road where there's CPZ & then perhaps the council would do something.

[Siduhe]

Is the ref Y782MHD (not P)? If so looks like it is taxed but will be out of MOT on 17 September. They will have to move it for an MOT or it will be out of MOT and the police/council should then act.

[oglander]

Ah! Thank you. It shouldn't be very important really, it's just a car, but this street is now so full of people with several cars & big ones at that, that we're all getting a bit possessive about space. Silly really to be so petty but - -!

[hammerman]

Can understand how you feel oglander about dumped cars, taxis, lorries etc. and space. It sounds like you need a CPZ in your area!

[Lynne]

We only got rid of one that had been right outside our house for months (a newish BMW too) when the council re-did the surface of the road and towed cars away. So probably some-one else is cursing it now. I tried to get rid of it, but failed

[kford]

hammerman Wrote:

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> Can understand how you feel oglander about dumped

> cars, taxis, lorries etc. and space. It sounds

> like you need a CPZ in your area!

Sigh. If it had a valid parking permit, it could sit there for 12 months.

If you've ever lived in a CPZ, you'd be glad we don't.

[B&G]

If it's untaxed call the parking violations team. We've had a dumped car outside our house for 8 weeks. I called them and they removed it within 48 hours. Pretty impressive from the council!

[ianr]

Siduhe Wrote:

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> Is the ref Y782MHD (not P)?

It is. On both front and back.