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  Where can I report harassment from a car parking company? 5 Feb 2011 (Ask HJ)
  A brief note to let you know that the parking gestapo has finally agreed to cease pursuing me for failing to display my valid ticket 'correctly'. It has...
• Shopping centre car park - legal advice 16 Aug 2009 (Forum)
  = entered then don't fine If no number plate entered send out fines for all drivers. It just sinks of a money making racket. There is lots and lots of shops here and this is the only car park, there is also lots and lots of offices. We about 8 years ago lost one big carpark for a block of flats
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  My car was towed while awaiting repairs - should the garage pay for the fine because they parked it on the road? 20 Apr 2018 (Ask HJ)
  My car has spent several weeks at the garage waiting to be repaired (parts coming from the US) in the mean time the tax and MoT had expired. I didn't think...
• Any - Forgot to Display Tax Disc 9 Sep 2012 (Forum)
  Oh dear, had new tax disc a fortnight and today I forgot to put it on.  I was in town and have gone past a camera that  I think checks for tax dodgers and I was also parked on street.  I read where traffic wardens can fine you the same as a parking fine and nothing has happened
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  Parking fine issued incorrectly 12 Apr 2011 (Ask HJ)
  We come from Cornwall. In february we went to Kent for my aunts funeral. My mother drove to Strood and parked in Netto car park. For ten minutes she...
• Legacy Electrics Susceptible to Interference 1 Dec 2008 (Forum)
  Hi-my car sudddenly doesn't like where I park it. The key fob won't open the door and whilst turning the key lights up the dash and air-con etc work fine, I can't start it. Had the RAC out and using a hand held device of some sort he found something was interfering with the signal from the fob
• Let off with parking fine - or not? 11 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  Was given a penalty notice by Scarborough Borough Council for parking on the cliff tops at Filey without displaying a ticket. A valid ticket was actually on the centre console having been blown off the windscreen. I know the offence was for not displaying. I wrote a letter explaining this politely
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  Issued with parking ticket whilst broken down at motorway services - can I contest this? 5 Jan 2013 (Ask HJ)
  Last Monday our car broke down in the car park of a Welcome Break motorway services on the M5. I called out the AA and they told me it wasn't safe to drive...
• How much tax does owning a car generate 13 Dec 2006 (Forum)
  of Driving license Initial Purchase New VAT on Purchase Price Vehicle Excise License Insurance Premium Tax Fuel Duty VAT on Fuel Duty Car Parking Car Parking Fines VAT on Service and Spare Parts Speeding Fines MOT Testing Benefit in Kind for parking at work ? Proposed Road Pricing ? Vehicle
• Mazda 6 - Parking sensor question (Mazda 6) 27 Jun 2011 (Forum)
  to my car in the morning they work fine...so the car has not moved all night. The reversing lights work fine wven when the parking sensors are not working, so there is no link there. I have tried to trace the cables, but all I can see is the 4 x cables coming out of the sensors
• Ford C-MAX - Parking fine from Armtac 26 Nov 2015 (Forum)
  of this year, we parked in a Penance car park to go to the beach. We got our 2 small children (3&5) out with buckets, spades, picnic, change of clothes etc. and I went some way down the beach, away from the car park, with all the equipment and the children, while my wife went to buy a ticket
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  Motorway services parking 'fine' from parking eye 4 Oct 2015 (Ask HJ)
  My wife and daughter met at the Welcome Break services at Charnock Richard North on 22nd September so my daughter could pass over some of her belongings...
• Parking Ticket - Parking on The Pavement 27 Sep 2007 (Forum)
  I have just received a parking ticket for parking on the pavement, ticket states "parked with 1 or more wheels on any part of an urban road other than a carriageway (footway parking)". The road was very narrow hence the parking on the pavement & there was no parking restriction signs. I wasn't
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  Supermarket parking rules - are you sure? 15 Dec 2013 (Ask HJ)
  I've just read an answer you gave regarding paring in a supermarket car park I can't believe the answer you have given. It's not any sort of offence to...
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  Ford Focus auto stuck in park 10 Nov 2014 (Ask HJ)
  I have a 2006 Ford Focus automatic; however, it won't disengage from park. The engine starts fine, and everything else works, but the car won't move. Any...
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  MET Parking Services have returned my part payment of a parking charge - what should I do now? 2 Nov 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I received a MET Parking charge (£100/£50 if paid in 14 days) for overstaying by 19 minutes in a McDonalds. I read your letter page every weekend and have...
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  Parking ticket issued while in my designated parking space 4 Jul 2011 (Ask HJ)
  For over a month, I have rented a flat which included an allocated parking spot in the secure parking garage. When I signed the contract, the agency gave...
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  Private property parking fine... 23 Nov 2012 (Ask HJ)
  A friend recently dropped off her family at Stansted airport. She went to the new express drop off area, and on to the pay station to find out how to get...
• Westminster "business" 22 Feb 2006 (Forum)
  pay in bulk once per week. Interestingly, they call them "customers" and there are criteries as to who can apply based on average number of tickets they get per week. I always assumed that a parking ticket was a fine for a parking offense... hmmm... I must've been mistaken. Kostic
• Parking Charges 17 Mar 2008 (Forum)
  , there was a sign across the street on a building that was set back from the road warning about the parking. Is there any recourse with these companies or is it a case of being stitched and swallowing the £80 fine?