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by **dontpannic** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:05 pm

Well you'll have to pay the £260 if you want to keep the car is the only thing you can do - or let them take it and scrap it.

At the end of the day, the car could be on the road for 30 seconds and its still illegal. Leaving it 3 whole days was a bit silly though to be fair.

by **Gus!!** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:10 pm

Just cut the clamp off!!

by **dontpannic** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:15 pm

I'd rather pay the £260 than cut the clamp off and the DVLA sending you a £1000 fine to be honest.

ft-com-members-map-vt190192/ · by **Michael!** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:17 pm

id rather just leave it as a shell and make enough money selling my s**t to buy a working one...

by **jonyb4** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:49 pm

whats the point, you remember this one was a perfectly working car, untill.. well you know

by **Tweek** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:55 pm

Needs a valid MOT and insurance to tax it.

If it's clamped on a front wheel, dismantle the front hub and remove it that way, then phone them up telling them it's lying in the road doing nothing and that they should collect it before someone nicks it :lol:

by **jonyb4** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:57 pm

take it off and weight it in

by **sam-si** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:32 pm

Tweek :Needs a valid MOT and insurance to tax it.

If it's clamped on a front wheel, dismantle the front hub and remove it that way, then phone them up telling them it's lying in the road doing nothing and that they should collect it before someone nicks it

+ 1 but leave the number plate tucked under in. and seeing the'll cruch it (the wheel and number plate) you won't be able to put it on the road again. seeing the cars dead i'd strip it leave a wheel with untouched clamp, numberplates and cut chassis number out and put that with it put in a cardboard box and give it to them.

by **russ-RST** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:45 pm

Have had my car clamped before , remove the clamp but do not damage it. From memory I just popped the wishbone out and slid the chains off but there are different types of clamps, then I'd leave the clamp there with a letter saying due to you not fitting the clamp properly I have moved my car back to a secure off road parking until such time as it is fully legal to be on the road. I'd take the clamp off and stick the car back in the lock up especially if they don't have the address of the lock up

Russ

ft-com-members-map-vt190192/ · by **Michael!** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:06 pm

I've had advice off a lot of people now and it's ranged from criminal damage to surrendering the car...

Anyway, this happened.

Don't give me s**t, I'm annoyed enough as it is.

by **jonyb4** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:16 pm

what happened??? someones smashed it up?

by **Tweek** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:29 pm

Looks like he bottled it?

by **jonyb4** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:38 pm

or already had before this whole post begun

by **rsturbonutter** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:49 pm

Just the take the clamp off and put it back in the garage problem solved

by **Gus!!** on Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:59 pm

I think if you really want to you could get out of this, but you have been looking for an excuse to get rid of the fiesta for ages!! :lol:

by **dontpannic** on Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:57 am

After seeing those photos, what was stopping you parking it outside the garage off the road? There's enough space between the door and the pavement there.

ft-com-members-map-vt190192/ · by **Michael!** on Fri Apr 12, 2013 8:17 am

No there's not nick

by **sam-si** on Fri Apr 12, 2013 9:30 am

Gus!! :I think if you really want to you could get out of this, but you have been looking for an excuse to get rid of the fiesta for ages!!

hahaha gus! you can't say that!

ft-com-members-map-vt190192/ · by **Michael!** on Fri Apr 12, 2013 10:09 am

i havnt mate, just not had the time for a project.

its gone, they were meant to come after 1 today so i could surrener the car to them, but instead they've come this morn, obviously to try and swindle some more money out of it. which they will never get now the c**ts.

by **Gus!!** on Fri Apr 12, 2013 11:26 am

I'm not trying to upset you, i'm just saying that if it had been my fez, the most they would have got out of me would be one pepperpot!!

i thought these baxtered clamping companies where a thing of the past??

by **DanFraser** on Fri Apr 12, 2013 11:28 am

Michael! :i havnt mate, just not had the time for a project.

its gone, they were meant to come after 1 today so i could surrener the car to them, but instead they've come this morn, obviously to try and swindle some more money out of it. which they will never get now the c**ts.

Calling them c**ts is like Mick Philpott calling the cops c**ts.

You broke the law, and it's their fault?

ft-com-members-map-vt190192/ · by **Michael!** on Fri Apr 12, 2013 12:17 pm

Not in that context it not - have you read what I put?

They were supposed to collect the car after lunch at 1-2 but came this morning. That's why theyre c**ts.

by **dontpannic** on Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:37 pm

Does sound quite dodgy to be fair.

According to the government guidelines you could have paid a £100 release fee and got it off the road. If it is going to be stored on the road then you have to present a tax disc. I'm not sure where £260 comes from, and if it was only clamped yesterday then it wouldn't be crushed until next week - it should only be impounded...

https://www.gov.uk/getting-vehicle-back ... el-clamped

by **jonyb4** on Fri Apr 12, 2013 2:15 pm

ugh who cares the guy got what he always wanted!

and if you use "i never have any time for it" one more time ima start swinging, its complete nutsack!

because let me tell you there is far busier people out there!
take mark stewart for example, the man does like 60 hour weeks, yet he still manages to travel to his parents and gets so much done to the fiesta project

your just lazy and dont want to work on it, now your glad its been taken away aint you

ft-com-members-map-vt190192/ · by **Michael!** on Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:13 pm

That may be what the guidelines say nick but that's not the case.

You 100% HAVE to tax the vehicle and pay the £100 release fee or pay £250 to get the clamp taken off.

I definitely got what I wanted yeah jony, I wanted to spend a lot of money on a car for it to be taken away. Nice.

by **Gus!!** on Fri Apr 12, 2013 7:58 pm

You shouldve just cut the fucker off imo!!

by **sam-si** on Fri Apr 12, 2013 8:02 pm

Michael! :That may be what the guidelines say nick but that's not the case.

You 100% HAVE to tax the vehicle and pay the £100 release fee or pay £250 to get the clamp taken off.

I definitely got what I wanted yeah jony, I wanted to spend a lot of money on a car for it to be taken away. Nice.

did you spend much money on it then? as when i came on this forum here to see this i never saw it in one piece