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    • Morning, I purchased a car from Big Motoring World on 10th December 2023 for £14899.00. On the 15th December I had a problem with the auto start stop function of the car in which the car would stop in the middle of the road with a stop start error message. I called the big assist and the car was booked in for February. The BMW was with them for a week and it came back with the auto stop start feature all fine and all error codes cleared on the report from big motoring world. within 5 days I had the same issue. Warning light coming on and the car stopping. I called big assist again and the car was again booked in for an other repair in May. Car was taken back in may, they had the car for a week and returned with the report saying no issue with the auto stop start feature and blamed my driving. Within 5 days of having the car back it broke down again. This time undrivable. I had the rac pick my car up and take to Stephen James BMW for a full diagnostic. The diagnostic came back with the car needing a new fuel system as magnetic swarf was found.  I have sent big motoring world a letter stating all the issues and that under the consumer rights act 2015 I have asked for a replacement vehicle. all reports from Stephen James BMW have been sent over to big motoring world. Big motoring world have come back and said they will respond to my complaint within 14 days for the date of my complaint letter. I am not feeling confident on the response from them, what are my next steps?   Thanks in advance. 
    • That is really good is that a mistake last off "driver doesn't have a licence" I assume that should be keeper? The Court requested me to send the Court and applicant proof of my sons disability from their GP this clearly shows he has Severe Mental Impairement, he is also illiterate.  I naively assumed once the applicant received this that they would drop the claim.  It offends me that Bank has asked the Judge to throw the case out at the preliminary hearing and to make us pay up.
    • Hi, we are looking to get some opinions on weather or not to bother fighting this PCN. This comes from a very big retail park parking where there are restaurants, hotel, amongst other businesses. The parking is free but I suppose there must be a time limit on it that I am not aware of. We were in the area for around 4 hours. Makes us wonder how they deal with people staying in the hotel as the ANPR is on what appears to be a publicly maintained street (where london buses run) which leads to the different parking areas including the hotel.  1 Date of the infringement 26/05/2024 2 Date on the NTK  31/05/2024 3 Date received 07/06/2024 4 Does the NTK mention schedule 4 of The Protections of Freedoms Act 2012? [Y/N?]  YES 5 Is there any photographic evidence of the event? Entry and exit photos however, based on the photographs we are almost sure the photos are taken on public street. This is the location I believe photos are taken from.  https://maps.app.goo.gl/eii8zSmFFhVZDRpbA 6 Have you appealed? [Y/N?] post up your appeal] No Have you had a response? [Y/N?] post it up N/A 7 Who is the parking company? UKPA. UK Parking Administration LTD 8. Where exactly [carpark name and town] The Colonnades, Croydon, CR0 4RQ For either option, does it say which appeals body they operate under. British Parking Association (BPA) Thanks in advance for any assistance.  UKPA PCN The Collonades-redacted.pdf
    • Thank you for posting their WS. If we start with the actual WS made by the director one would have doubts that they had even read PoFA let alone understood it. Point 10  we only have the word of the director that the contract has been extended. I should have had the corroboration of the Client. Point 12 The Judge HHJ Simkiss was not the usual Judge on motoring cases and his decisions on the necessity of contracts did not align with PoFA. In Schedule 4 [1[ it is quite clearly spelt out- “relevant contract” means a contract (including a contract arising only when the vehicle was parked on the relevant land) between the driver and a person who is—(a)the owner or occupier of the land; or (b authorised, under or  by virtue of arrangements made by the owner or occupier of the land, to enter into a contract with the driver requiring the payment of parking charges in respect of the parking of the vehicle on the land; And the laughable piece of paper from the land owners cannot be described as a contract. I respectfully ask that the case be dismissed as there is no contract. WE do not even know what the parking regulations are which is really basic. It is respectfully asked that without a valid contract the case cannot continue. One would imagine that were there a valid contract it would have been produced.  So the contract that Bank has with the motorist must come from the landowner. Bank on their own cannot impose their own contract. How could a director of a parking company sign a Statement of Truth which included Point 11. Point 14. There is no offer of a contract at the entrance to the car park. Doubtful if it is even an offer to treat. The entrance sign sign does not comply with the IPC Code of Conduct nor is there any indication that ANPR cameras are in force. A major fault and breach of GDPR. Despite the lack of being offered a contract at the entrance [and how anyone could see what was offered by way of a contract in the car park is impossible owing to none of the signs in the WS being at all legible] payment was made for the car to park. A young person in the car made the payment. But before they did that, they helped an elderly lady to make her payment as she was having difficulty. After arranging payment for the lady the young lad made his payment right behind. Unfortunately he entered the old lady's number again rather than paying .for the car he was in. This can be confirmed by looking at the Allow List print out on page 25. The defendant's car arrived at 12.49 and at 12.51 and 12.52  there are two payments for the same vrm. This was also remarked on by the IPC adjudicator when the PCN was appealed.  So it is quite disgraceful that Bank have continued to pursue the Defendant knowing that it was a question of  entering the wrong vrm.  Point 21 The Defendant is not obliged to name the driver, they are only invited to do so under S9[2][e]. Also it is unreasonable to assume that the keeper is the driver. The Courts do not do that for good reason. The keeper in this case does not have a driving licence. Point 22. The Defendant DID make a further appeal which though it was also turned down their reply was very telling and should have led to the charge being dropped were the company not greedy and willing to pursue the Defendant regardless of the evidence they had in their own hands. Point 23 [111] it's a bit rich asking the Defendant to act justly and at proportionate cost while acting completely unjustly themselves and then adding an unlawful 70% on to the invoice. This  is despite PoFA S4[5] (5)The maximum sum which may be recovered from the keeper by virtue of the right conferred by this paragraph is the amount specified in the notice to keeper under paragraph 9[2][d].  Point 23 [1v] the Director can deny all he wants but the PCN does not comply with PoFA. S9 [2][a] states  (2)The notice must— (a)specify the vehicle, the relevant land on which it was parked and the period of parking to which the notice relates; The PCN only quotes the ANPR arrival and departure times which obviously includes a fair amount of driving between the two cameras. Plus the driver and passengers are a mixture of disabled and aged persons who require more time than just a young fit single driver to exit the car and later re enter. So the ANPR times cannot be the same as the required parking period as stipulated in the ACT. Moreover in S9[2][f]  (ii)the creditor does not know both the name of the driver and a current address for service for the driver, the creditor will (if all the applicable conditions under this Schedule are met) have the right to recover from the keeper so much of that amount as remains unpaid; You will note that in the PCN the words in parentheses are not included but at the start of Section 9 the word "must" is included. As there are two faults in the PCN it follows that Bank cannot pursue the keeper . And as the driver does not have a driving licence their case must fail on that alone. And that is not even taking into consideration that the payment was made. Point 23 [v] your company is wrong a payment was made. very difficult to prove a cash payment two weeks later when the PCN arrives. However the evidence was in your print out for anyone to see had they actually done due diligence prior to writing to the DVLA. Indeed as the Defendant had paid there was no reasonable cause to have applied for the keeper details. Point 24 the Defendant did not breach the contract. The PCN claimed the Defendant failed to make a payment when they had made a payment.   I haven't finished yet but that is something to start with
    • You don't appeal to anyone. You haven't' received a demand from a statutory body like the council, the police or the courts. It's just a dodgy cowboy company trying it on. You simply don't pay.  In the vast majority of these cases the company deforest the Amazon with threats about how they are going to divert a drone from Ukraine and make it land on your home - but in the end they do nothing.
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hi everyone, not sure if this is the rights spot to put this but couldn't find anywhere better.

 

hopefully you can help me with my issue and let me know wether i aint got a hope in hell, or dammit i should be fuming and be completely reimbursed.....

 

a couple of weeks ago i went to buy some carpet and pulled onto the car park of walsall carpets,

i then realised they were closed and so carried on driving across the car park and "**crunch**" i stopped,

reversed back a few feet and found a pipe sticking out of the ground approx 1 1/2 feet high, dark grey in clour,

no warning sign, no cone to point it out, not wrapped in any flourescent colouring etc etc...

it had damaged the lower front end of my car it had a nice crack in the bumper,

the lower grill was broken, and have since found out that my radiator is bent.

i reckon approx £1500 worth of damage.

 

question is

 

 

do i have a right to claim compensation to pay for the repairs thru walsall carpets?

as it was their car park and the pipe was too small to see and shouldn't be there in the first place...

...or am i having a laugh and should just make a claim on the insurance and look where im going in future??

 

please help, and if i have a claim, what letter should i send?

 

 

have a few piccies to help you visualise....

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That pipe is so photoshopped that it's untrue! :)

 

:D

 

Looking at the damage to the underside of the car, it is quite remarkable that the pipe is still sticking up. With all due respect to the O.P, should they be driving without glasses ;)

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It has to be said that in order to drive over that pipe the driver of the vehicle actually had to mount the pavement the pipe is sticking out of...

 

The driver had no reason to drive over the paved area and therefore has to bear full responsibility for the damage caused to their car...

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Sorry to play Devils Advocate, but you drove into it and not the other way round. There does not appear to be anything obstructing the view of it and could be described as careless driving.

 

As a driver, you are expected to be able to see what's in front of you.

 

You give no indications of the light conditions either.

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It has to be said that in order to drive over that pipe the driver of the vehicle actually had to mount the pavement the pipe is sticking out of...

The pipe is quite clearly sticking out on the edging bricks of the car park, NOT the pavement, therefore is on the carpet shop's land. However, as the pipe is right next to the kerb, it could be argued that you were moving too fast, especially to cause that much damage.

 

I would submit your claim, along with the photos to your insurance company and let them decide whether to pursue the carpet shop.

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The pipe is quite clearly sticking out on the edging bricks of the car park, NOT the pavement, therefore is on the carpet shop's land. However, as the pipe is right next to the kerb, it could be argued that you were moving too fast, especially to cause that much damage.

 

Wherever the pipe is sticking out from the ONLY way you are going to be able to drive into it is by mounting the pavement in some form or other...

 

Any claim by you for driving into the pipe will be countered by their claim that you are guilty of careless driving...

 

And anyway... you have freely admitted you were on their property after they closed... Trespass anyone?

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Wherever the pipe is sticking out from the ONLY way you are going to be able to drive into it is by mounting the pavement in some form or other...

 

How do you know this?:confused:

 

It is a shop and clearly there is, in the photo, room for car parking outside, so one would imagine there is an entrance which just isn't shown on the pics.

 

What if somebody drove in to the car park and then reversed to park?

 

And then hit the pipe?

 

At night? (Which one can reasonably assume happened to the OP as he said the shop was closed, maybe after 5pm? or even later? and it is winter and dark at about that time)

 

In a 4x4? (Where the driver is raised and the pipe is only, by estimation from the pic, about a foot)

 

Any claim by you for driving into the pipe will be countered by their claim that you are guilty of careless driving... See above. Also, regardless if the OP was reversing or not there is clearly a hazard here.

 

And anyway... you have freely admitted you were on their property after they closed... Trespass anyone? No:confused:

 

It is a shop that looks as though there are no shutters when closed.

 

There are sale notices abound and also notices on the door.

 

Are people only allowed to read these notices 9 to 5 or whatever?:confused:

 

 

 

 

Take this further OP and write to the store in the first instance.

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Take this further OP and write to the store in the first instance.

 

The damage is to the offside of the vehicle, and whatever direction or reversing movement took place, the only way that damage could have been caused would be to have driven with the passengers side on the pavement; unless the driver was approaching the pipe, in which case he/she should have seen it.

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Wherever the pipe is sticking out from the ONLY way you are going to be able to drive into it is by mounting the pavement in some form or other...

Nope. The pipe is quite clearly IN the car park NEXT to the pavement. Its perfectly possible to hit that pipe WITHOUT mounting the pavement. The OP should contact his insurers especially as he states he has legal protection.

 

The shop might counter that in order to cause that much damage, the OP was driving too fast, but even so, an obstruction is an obstruction. Probably best to let insurance deal.

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The damage is to the offside of the vehicle, and whatever direction or reversing movement took place, the only way that damage could have been caused would be to have driven with the passengers side on the pavement; unless the driver was approaching the pipe, in which case he/she should have seen it.

I don't think so. Look at the photographs (3rd one in particular) and it appears to me there are two car parks, separated by a strip of pavement, one belonging to the carpet shop and the other, perhaps a different shop. Why would the OP enter the other car park, then drive over the pavement to get into the carpet shop's car park?

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just to clear a few things up,

the pipe is not on a pavement,

the part you mention just seperates two car parks,

 

 

one for the petrol station

behind where the photo is viewing.

 

 

the entrance is at the far end of the car park furthest away from the pipe.

 

 

it was dusk at the time of the accident, (day after boxing day, therfore quite dark at arount 5pm-ish.

was not going 'fast' at all,

had actually stopped just short of said pipe,

and when realised was closed pulled away and immidietely hit the pipe.

it could not be seen over the end of my bonnet.

 

 

the pipe did not bend in any way it is made from very thick metal,

and is infact still facing towards the angle where i hit it,

hence the amount of damage as it went through the grill into the rad.

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just to clear a few things up, the pipe is not on a pavement, the part you mention just seperates two car prks, one for the petrol station behind where the photo is viewing. the entrance is at the far end of the car park furthest away from the pipe. it was dusk at the time of the accident, (day after boxing day, therfore quite dark at arount 5pm-ish. was not going 'fast' at all, had actually stopped just short of said pipe, and when realised was closed pulled away and immidietely hit the pipe. it could not be seen over the end of my bonnet. the pipe did not bend in any way it is made from very thick metal, and is infafact still facing towards the angle where i hit it, hence the amount of damage as it went through the grill into the rad.

 

Quite right OP.

 

It's fair to say that this is a hazard.

 

If one can imagine this car park full of shoppers and then you happen to wait for somebody pulling out of the parking space which also happens to be the one space where that pipe is.

 

It is entirely reasonable that whilst then reversing into the vacted parking space, which contains the pipe hazard, one could easily not even notice it due to the small height of it, in darkness, in a raised driver's seat etc etc.

 

I can see you were not reversing, however, the point I am putting forward is to establish that there is a hazard. That is needed for a successful claim.

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The premises freeholders (not necessarily the shop proprioters?) have a duty of care to to all and sundry and a reasonable person could rightly suggest that the pipe is a hazard to any person on those premises. For example someone with impaired sight could come a cropper!

 

Defective Premises Act 1972 springs to mind!

 

Given that you had reasonable grounds to be on the premises and suffered damage to your property, a claim on your car insurance citing property holder as defendent is not unreasonable. As we have seen, perversly even intruders are owed the same duty of care in law.

 

Only last week ASDA was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive for an horrific accident at a store in South Wales when a car park barrier slammed into a chaps moving car causing his tragic loss of life. Companies are responsible for their premises regardless. I appreciate this is a slightly different scenario.

 

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Conniff,

 

I would suggest that damage IS consistant with being hit by said pipe.

 

Car panels are designed to deform in low speed impacts and the valence would temporarily deform inwards allowing the pipe to puncture the plastic grill and impact the radiator foils.

 

...............................

 

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just to clear a few things up, the pipe is not on a pavement, the part you mention just seperates two car prks, one for the petrol station behind where the photo is viewing. the entrance is at the far end of the car park furthest away from the pipe. it was dusk at the time of the accident, (day after boxing day, therfore quite dark at arount 5pm-ish. was not going 'fast' at all, had actually stopped just short of said pipe, and when realised was closed pulled away and immidietely hit the pipe. it could not be seen over the end of my bonnet. the pipe did not bend in any way it is made from very thick metal, and is infafact still facing towards the angle where i hit it, hence the amount of damage as it went through the grill into the rad.

 

And I will say again that the only way you could hit this pipe, and from the damage caused to the car, is if you mounted the pavement...

 

From your picture 2: Showing the pipe, and from your picture 5: Showing the front of the car...

 

Picture 2:

If you were driving from left to right in the picture, your drivers side wheel would be on the pavement...

If you were driving from right to left then the car would be straddling the pavement...

If you were driving towards the viewer of the pic then you were about to bounce over the pavement...

And if you were driving away from the viewer of the pic then you have already bounced over the pavement...

 

By all means you should write to the store or the petrol station to point out the hazard nature of this item but as your car shouldn't have been in any position to hit it in the first place, bsically, you only have yourself to blame...

 

(For example... would you blame the store if you'd punctured a tyre by bouncing up on the pavement you so obviously hit?)

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And I will say again that the only way you could hit this pipe, and from the damage caused to the car, is if you mounted the pavement...

 

From your picture 2: Showing the pipe, and from your picture 5: Showing the front of the car...

 

Picture 2:

If you were driving from left to right in the picture, your drivers side wheel would be on the pavement...

If you were driving from right to left then the car would be straddling the pavement...

If you were driving towards the viewer of the pic then you were about to bounce over the pavement...

And if you were driving away from the viewer of the pic then you have already bounced over the pavement...

 

By all means you should write to the store or the petrol station to point out the hazard nature of this item but as your car shouldn't have been in any position to hit it in the first place, bsically, you only have yourself to blame...

 

(For example... would you blame the store if you'd punctured a tyre by bouncing up on the pavement you so obviously hit?)

 

I think not, if you were travelling from right to left in a circular motion, ie to get back to entrance/exit, you would impact the pipe as it is clearly sticking out at an angle into the car park.

 

 

 

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I think not, if you were travelling from right to left in a circular motion, ie to get back to entrance/exit, you would impact the pipe as it is clearly sticking out at an angle into the car park.skb

 

What?? Have you seen where the damage is on the car?

 

WHICHEVER way you approach the pipe the ONLY way you can physically drive into it would involve part of your car broaching the paved area...

Especially with the damage as evidenced...

 

You *could* cause damage to the car if you nudged into it when parking your car at a right angle to the paved area, either forward, or in reverse... But you certainly wouldn't cause THAT amount of damage...

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Must admit that it looks like a raised (two curb) separation island. I would take another pic to show that it is just one sided and get that letter off to the company. Have you informed your insurance co yet?

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