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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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      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
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My daughter was going over a toll bridge and the barrier was down, she paid the fee to cross the bridge.

 

The sun was directly upon the windscreen and she got distracted and tried to drive off hitting the barrier and knocking it off.

 

The company that owns the toll booth sent my daughter a letter stating they want to claim of her insurance.

 

My daughters insurance as cost nearly 2000 pounds which she paysmonthly by direct debit as she is 19 and not been driving for a full year yet.

 

I genuinely fear for her as she is pregnant and this claim would send her insurance astronomical upon renewal.

 

Can we offer to pay the damage outside of the insurance? How do we go about that?

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You will have to write to the company and suggested and that you may want to deal with it directly.

 

The company may be reluctant to do this because they might sense that there will be complications.

 

I suggest that you couch your letter in a way which suggests that if you settle directly then they will be less delay and it will be more straightforward all round.

 

You need to ask them that an assessment of the value of the damage. However, you will probably be in for a surprise that it is going to cost much more than you think.

 

You might find that when you have all the figures in front of you, that the insurance is the only way to go

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My daughter was going over a toll bridge and the barrier was down, she paid the fee to cross the bridge.

 

The sun was directly upon the windscreen and she got distracted and tried to drive off hitting the barrier and knocking it off.

 

The company that owns the toll booth sent my daughter a letter stating they want to claim of her insurance.

 

My daughters insurance as cost nearly 2000 pounds which she paysmonthly by direct debit as she is 19 and not been driving for a full year yet.

 

I genuinely fear for her as she is pregnant and this claim would send her insurance astronomical upon renewal.

 

Can we offer to pay the damage outside of the insurance? How do we go about that?

 

Bear in mind that she will still be obliged to inform the insurance company of an accident causing damage if asked, and it would be asked for at renewal.

 

Thus she could expect an increase in premium as she will be viewed as being "a higher risk" than if she hadn't had an accident.

Failure to declare an accident could lead to her insurance being voided if the non-declaration was discovered. This, then, would make her even worse off as she'd not only risk having any claim rejected but also have to declare having insurance cancelled on any later applications, too.

 

So, she should inform her insurers.

 

It will then become "which is more costly, settle it myself having declared it" and "let the insurers sort it out", for which you'll need to know how much the claim will likely be for, as Conniff has noted.

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If she had paid the toll why was the barrier down? Had she moved off too quickly or was there another reason? I am asking to see if there was any contributory factor that was under the control of the bridge company or even a malfunction of their equipment which would mean that they played a part in the damage being caused.

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If she had paid the toll why was the barrier down? Had she moved off too quickly or was there another reason? I am asking to see if there was any contributory factor that was under the control of the bridge company or even a malfunction of their equipment which would mean that they played a part in the damage being caused.

 

 

That's the first thing that jumped into my mind EB.

I regularly use the M6 toll road and as soon as the payment clears the barrier opens. In fact it opens before you get your card back. I'd be asking for the CCTV footage as they are all recorded.

 

 

Personally I'd be asking to see the evidence that she did do something wrong. I wouldn't be rolling over straight away.

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Thanks from what I can gather she paid the toll then the guy who took her money was talking and after about half a minute she assumed he'd raised the barrier but obviously not and she hit it, she couldn't see it due to dun dazzling the windscreen.

 

what's more worrying is she as an excess on the policy of 750 which she has no means to pay as she only works part time.

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Half a minute is 30 seconds which is a long time waiting for the barrier to move up. Does your daughter remember seeing a green light?

Plus I have a feeling some of these barriers have proximity sensors for Toll Tags. I don't get this and am beginning to think the employee might be equally to blame here.

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Half a minute is 30 seconds which is a long time waiting for the barrier to move up. Does your daughter remember seeing a green light?

Plus I have a feeling some of these barriers have proximity sensors for Toll Tags. I don't get this and am beginning to think the employee might be equally to blame here.

 

The employee is equally to blame? :D

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That's the first thing that jumped into my mind EB.

I regularly use the M6 toll road and as soon as the payment clears the barrier opens. In fact it opens before you get your card back. I'd be asking for the CCTV footage as they are all recorded.

 

 

Personally I'd be asking to see the evidence that she did do something wrong. I wouldn't be rolling over straight away.

 

Unless the barrier went up, and back down as she was moving forward, it would be seen as her fault.

 

It's like rear ending a car and blaming it for being in front of you.

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Personally I don't see how she could blame the company or the employee. Ultimately she drove into a stationary object.

 

Normally I would say keep everything in writing. But in this case is it worth giving them a call? This won't be the first time someone has driven into a barrier so you might be able to get an informal estimate of how much it usually costs. The person dealing with it should be able to tell you fairly quickly whether you are looking at a few hundred or a few thousand, and whether there is any scope for dealing with it outside the insurance.

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there was no light system on this barrier it's a on a hill on a country road and there is a little booth in the middle of the road which there is either one or 2 man in it taking money off motorists from either side of the road.

 

The irony in all of this is that it costs just 12p to go through the barrier.

 

However I think I would agree with the general consensus on here in that I'm afraid she will have to bite the bullet on this one and put it down to experience and learn from it.

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