Post by Peter on Jun 20, 2021 13:06:55 GMT
I have, (had), a Mercedes A170CDi and the gearbox developed a fault, as they do, and I parked it up on the urbanisations parking area off the road,. Time went by and I moved it a few times as the repair was going to be about 1.000€ and as a 75 year old pensioner I was having a struggle finding that sort of cash, then along came Corvid, casual work dried up and things got worse as the wife became 65 and social security stopped paying but the pension doesn't kick in until 66 1/4 now, so just my humble 800€ a moth to live on.
Anyway, enough of the ridiculously low UK state pension and the governments attempt to block the only decent increase in 70 years..
The car disappeared last Wednesday leaving four drag marks which said a guea was involved not car thieves. We called the policia local and they said they had "been advised" the car was abandoned but I had checked the car was OK Tuesday and there was no statutory notice of 10 days notice as required, they just took it.
I am assuming someone, probably our urbanisations idiot president, reported it.
The car is is good condition and insured but no ITV, as obliviously I can't get it to the ITV station with a duff gearbox and the plan was to get it collected by Transmatic in Estepona for repair as soon as I could afford it..
I was informed by my hestor that as long as it was insured I didn’t need to worry about the ITV if it was “off-road”.
Now come Monday 21/06/2021 we will have to go the the police station in Estepona and get it back. I know there a couple of years tax due but surely that is no excuse to just take the car without notice.
Anyway, enough of the ridiculously low UK state pension and the governments attempt to block the only decent increase in 70 years..
The car disappeared last Wednesday leaving four drag marks which said a guea was involved not car thieves. We called the policia local and they said they had "been advised" the car was abandoned but I had checked the car was OK Tuesday and there was no statutory notice of 10 days notice as required, they just took it.
I am assuming someone, probably our urbanisations idiot president, reported it.
The car is is good condition and insured but no ITV, as obliviously I can't get it to the ITV station with a duff gearbox and the plan was to get it collected by Transmatic in Estepona for repair as soon as I could afford it..
I was informed by my hestor that as long as it was insured I didn’t need to worry about the ITV if it was “off-road”.
Now come Monday 21/06/2021 we will have to go the the police station in Estepona and get it back. I know there a couple of years tax due but surely that is no excuse to just take the car without notice.