Yeah but when you see the greasy vultures like Watchdog featured last night such as the private parking firms who drive in front of you to block you in (and prevent you from leaving their property) before you've even taken the car out of gear and clamp you with you still in the car and shove a bill in your face is why nobody has any sympathy for any of these firms or their clients.

Its also a prime example of why the Protection of Freedoms bill must never be allowed to be passed as that only plays into the hands of unreasonable apes and vultures in the private parking business who go out of their way to extort fines and actually have no interest in preventing people parking on that land. Companies who use these firms dont realise these firms have no interest in solving your parking problem, they WANT people to park on your land, so as they can block them in and extract money from them.

Why clamping isnt banned in England yet is beyond me.

Hi, Yesterday I found a parking ticket from UKPC slapped on my car window whilst were parked in a UKPC supervised multi-storey car park above a shopping centre. It was in a bright yellow and black plastic sticky envelope glued to my windscreen saying "warning - unauthorised persons must not remove or interfere with this ticket". My main question is this. The ticket (parking charge notice) that I was given has typed in it the correct number plate but the wrong make of car. Does this make the ticket invalid? I looked on their website and they have taken photographs of the car from which you can see the number plate but not the make. I have not made any attempt to pay yet or to appeal.

The full story of the situation is this. When we arrived I found I had only a £20 note and not quite enough small change to pay the fee. There was nowhere to get change for the machine (which did not itself give change) and as far as I remember it did not take notes. (It did however "politely" say on the machine that overpayments would be accepted!). The only way to get change was to use the lifts go down into the shopping centre buy something wait in the queue to be served (xmas shopping queues) wait for the lift and go back to the car. I did this but when I got back to the car I had a parking ticket stating I hadn't displayed a parking ticket for the period of 13 minutes.

Obviously upset by this I went home to call the shopping centre manager who said he was sorry about this as they do not want to lose customers to the local large retail centre where parking is free and unlimited but that he couldn't do anything about it as they were using a private parking company.

As mentioned earlier my question is - is the fact that the ticket is incorrect enough for this to be thrown out of court if it comes to it when I refuse to pay?

I called the DVLA and they said that they would not give my address to UKPC if the make and number plate did not match. However I presume that UKPC could work out the actual make of car from their photographs.

Any advice would be appreciated.

You're right Ethan but i think the question is if UKPC were to take him to court (extremely unlikely) will the fact the ticket is inaccurate count in his favour?