Thread: Wheel Clamper Damaged My Car - Do I Have Any Redress?

First post here, hope it's in the right place. Hello everyone.

In short, I was clamped last week by a private firm, on private land. My visitors parking permit got blown off my dashboard into the footwell when I shut the drivers door. It cost me a hundred and twenty pounds.

Whilst I don't think I can appeal against the violation itself, I am asking if anyone has had any experience of their vehicle being damaged by the wheel clamp?

The 'operative' has managed to leave a 3 inch gouge down a spoke of the alloy wheel to which the clamp was attached. It was definitely not there before the clamp was put on and it is definitely not caused by 'kerbing' the car whilst parking.

I have sent the photo's with a letter of complaint registered post the morning after the afternoon it happened and I am waiting to hear back.

I doubt I'll get anywhere, but hoped someone here may have some advice.

Thanks for your time

Almost certainly you'll have to take legal action. If you do, take it jointly against the land owner as the clamper is the agent of the landowner.

Have you carefully read the clamping "sticky" to see whether the rules were properly followed. You should have been given a receipt with certain info on it, for example, and appropriate signs should have been present.

Thanks Steve M.

I'll await their response and decide where to go from there, but I suspect, as you suggest, I'll have to look at legal action.

Something I should also have mentioned, the 'receipt' I was given states my vehivle was 'detected' at 10:40, then 'immobilised' at 10:56. This is impossible, as I was 30 miles away at the time, and can prove that. I didn't even arrive to the 'scene of the crime' until 12:30.

I wonder if this is perhaps an effort by the clamper to avoid being caught out, in so much as he should have been patrolling that area at the time he put on the form, but didn't arrive until much later? Either way, I have to question if this error ionvalidates the document?

Thanks again for your response Steve, much appreciated.