"...it's says nowhere park at your own risk..."

It may not use those words, but that could be the gist of it - liability may be severely limited. You wouldn't get Tesco to cough up if it had happened in their car park!

If the car had been damaged by something falling off the building, that could be another matter.

There is a negligence angle here as I haven't written the whole story to don't look like the Bible.

The incident could have happened during 2 weeks (Easter holidays) and of the 14 days only 5 of them CCTV was recording. The technician that got called to rescue the recordings wrote that in an email to the company in charge of the property management.

The porters in the property have never used the word: it was not recording at all. They've tried to hide something and it's not very clear what it is. I've asked twice: was the camera recording or not? Answer: the technician has looked into it and can't find anything, sorry.

I chased for those tapes from minute 1 and all were kind words but no action whatsoever from anyone, just let the time pass, now tapes got deleted as they record over and over again and if there was any proof, now is gone. The situation is so annyoing that I was even suggested by the porter I did it myself without noticing it.

I can proof with the only CCTV footage they have shown me that I came and I parked the car on the day I told them: that was the last day I used the car. So my car was there. I can show the flight tickets showing I wasn't in the UK for a week. Somehow I can proof this must have happened whilst in there.

Now the company running the block management want me to claim my car insurance, but I've done nothing and the damage happened on a private property with CCTV not working due to people negligence and there is a delinquent in the building they are trying to hide. Why should I claim my insurance?

Loads of frustration on this tbh

Edited by jsancho on 19/05/2015 at 13:40

I'd suggest you go and talk to a solicitor.

A lot of us have told you the same thing, but you don't seem to want to listen.

If a solicitor tells you that as well, then you'll probably not want to listen to that, and go see another solicitor, and then anther, until you finally get some dodgy solicitor who can see how to make a load of £££ out of a desperate person who just won't accept reality.

Yes, it sucks. However, if it happened over easter then a lot of people/companies would be on holiday, so the CCTV taking a bit of time to get fixed isn't unreasonable : parts may have needed to be ordered, for example.

The only person being unreasonable seems to be you ... but again, that isn't what you want to hear, you want to hear that it's someone else's fault, you can't find who actually hit your car, but that's ok, take the building owner to court instead. Sadly, reality is a bit different.

Edited by RobJP on 19/05/2015 at 14:33

It's a 1973 2.4L, a proper beauty ... has no alarm fitted. It's almost a fully original car

You have two hopes of getting the building management to pay for the damage to your car and one of them is Bob.

Your post sums it up very well indeed