A friend received a PCN while parked at a hospital in Autumn last year. After reading on here she ignored the first salvo of letters and after a long quiet spell as received a letter from Philips. The letter is asking for payment in 7 days or the case being passed to their Enforcement Departemnt for recovery procedures. She hasn't replied to any letters or made any contact with them. Is the advice to continue to ignore or pay?

Is this legal and fair and can it be challenged? I visited a business park today and the business I was visiting was particularly busy. Customers cars had filled their parking lot and had spilled out onto the access road. This happens every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday without fail and there is no congestion or obstruction to the traffic as everyone parks onthe curb and there is hardly any through traffic. This morning however a bunch of clampers turned up and clamped over 20 cars then sat there taking payments and releasing them. The signs were slapped up overnight and placed literally 7-8ft up on telegraph poles. This is the best bit! The clamping fee is £130...the release fee is £200 for cars, so £330 total! And its more for vans. There were no phonenumbers to call, just a PO Box number. The clampers had wireless card machines to take payments. Apparently the landlord sends these clampers and their signs out once or twice a year. Surely if this was private property and he wanted to stamp out people parking on the road side then the signs and the clampers would be there every day of the week? Sounds highly suspect to me, but they seem to be getting away with it....

I'd say continue ignoring. I got a similar type PCN and stupidly paid it! £50 down the pan. 4 months later I got another one and followed the advice on here and ignored it. I parked there again (I shop there regularly) and as I was walking into the shops I saw the car park attendant making note of all the car regs. His eyes lit up when he saw mine, something must have flashed up on his little PDA - unpaid ticket? Anyway, that was at least 2 months ago and still nothing has come through the letter box.

I parked up briefly at a ECP while running some errands. I left and then returned about 45 min later. When I returned about an hour later I had a PCN on the car stating that I had been there for two and a half hours. I hadn't. Anyway, from reading here it seems the advice is just to ignore this and it will go away. Correct?

Have you spoken to them (LBL) and explained your situation?

Kwoo, wearecarless has good advice. Don't sell the car to your friend, they will find it in the end and will get it, only leading to more bother down the line. Have you spoken to them and explained you were out of work? Have you made them the £700 (arrears you say?) and advanced payments offer? What did they say?

I read that a while ago and laughed! As jon says, must be a wind up.

I had a similar loan with these guys but my repayments were nothing like yours timpo1981. It was a while ago but from memmory it was more like £25/week. Are you sure its log book loans and not someone else?

Andrew h: I had a loan with these guys some months back and like you paid everything on time and that was that. Traded the car in afterwards and it went through with no issues so I guess they deleted their interest.

As I mentioned in another post, I believe its meant to be a flag to show other financial institutions of their interest in a particilar vehicle. Can you imagine the nightmare of buying a vehicle then realising that it had finance on it and it was not recorded, or worse still that you couldn't even check!?

I last dealt with them a few months ago and have since sold the vehicle. It didn't show up on HPI at the garage, so I figure they remove the marker when the loan is complete? I was aware they would regsiter it with HPI because the chap said it had to be done to stop fraud...doing the loan then selling the car and disappearing, and apparently Welcome etc do it to? Is it their way of saying "we have an interest in the car" incase it;s traded in?

There is some good advice in here, but I'm not sure changing the car into your mothers name will do any good other than aggrevate them further (the V5 only shows the keeper not the owner), and involve more people.