E30 Zone

Hey guys, i spotted a e30 in a private car park that has been dumped (been there for months with no tax and dvla check says not sorn),
anybody know how i can take it as i would quite fancy it for a racer project or parts? cheers guys

A mate of mine did exactly the same with a MK1 Golf GTi, I'll ask him if i see him tonight and let you know unless someone beats me to it.

ok cheers mate, would be good if i could get it. thanks

I hope it's not the one i have stored in a private car park, leave notes on it removal without consent is theft.

where abouts are you from? dont plan on taking it without consent. am going to try and get in contact with the owner to see if it is there for a reason or if it is unwanted. just spoken to a mate in the police force and he is gonna try and get a VIC on it.

VIC??? Dumb question but what is it? lol

Vehicle information check, just brings up the registered keeper, insurance and mot etc...

as far as i know, if the car is left and is causing a hazard for obstuction you can lift it after 28 days...my mate with the workshop at the back of mine lifts broken down cars all the time and sells them on etc.. just applies for new v5... he is a bit dodgy though lol..

ah cool cheers mate, thats what i shall do i think, still waiting for the owner of the car park it's in to get back to me, cops say when he says i can take it i can, apparently it becomes his property. I might carry on trying to find the owner tho just to be curteous! cheers guys

lol why would you store a car in a F***in Car Park lol in the first place just have it mate , the police will probably help you take it if its been there ages and in the way.
ive seen alot dumped recent other ppl keep just weighing in lol me mate had a caravan free the other week. was dumped now the race control on the moto x

yeah i think that could be the plan, just worried that the owner get's peed of if he see's his project pull out of the car park on the back of a wagon! only other thing is how do i break the steering lock? there is a set of keys on the seat but i haven't been cheeky enough to open the door yet!ha ha

You can take dumped cars!? If I knew that I would have had the dumped Cabby I saw in a Brighton car park a while back!

yeah, just to do it legaly it's not quite so simple, but if it's dumped who's gonna know who it belongs to anyway!!ha ha, just take them

steering lock can be broken by hand or with a crook lock as a lever

Not that ive ever done it, and by me telling you doesnt make it legal... get 2 of you to pull the wheel as hard as possible, if this doesnt break it then use more bodies or a scaffhold tube to lever it Be careful..........

Ha ha cheers guys, i was thinkin maybe just pull the ignition barrel off with a hammer, hopefully the keys on the seat are the 1's for it! cheers guys

Don't break into it until you've got it home. Rent a van and a trailer, cut the handbrake cables, winch it on and away you go. Get it stripped and weighed but make sure the scrapyard will take it witghout a V5 as not all of them do.
As for keeping it - well, possession is 9/10ths of the law but what's to stop the owner taking it back off you once you've got it going?

That reminds me, I spotted a lonely 4 door in Kwik fit car park recently

Jamie , the keys are hidden in the NSR inner arch. Bring a magnet, you will find them easily as they are the only thing metal in the vicinity !

Cheers for the hint.

Only problem with that is having to bend over to slip my in between the gap, you know what it's like around Sutton

I wondered why Andyboy insisted i told you where the keys were hidden !

Apply to dvla for ownership , If the owner does not dispute new ownership with 14 days you will recieve a new logbook in your name
Its stupid that they send a letter to the owner and if they are abroad on holiday they cant dispute ownership , Good luck

...........and if they do dispute ownership, you need to explain to the courts why you were applying for the V5 for a car you don't own.

Andyboy wrote:...........and if they do dispute ownership, you need to explain to the courts why you were applying for the V5 for a car you don't own.

Correct , I remember a story a while back of a guy who did this as he found a escort cosworth parked up on private property by flats with no tax , The guy applied for ownership and recieved a logbook , Apparently the guy was off in iraq fighting , Think fuzzy or someone whos on passionford will correct me .

I wouldn't worry too much. A bloke once left a 405 outside a friends house for a week and found us trynig to fill it full of bathroom. Couldn't say much since he'd had the gaul to dump it...

cheers guys for all the advice, will aply for v5. thanks guys

Steve E30 is right, i got hold of a jag XJS about 4 years back when me and a mate claimed for the jag which when the logbook got sent to my old address after trying to contact the owner so the car ended up officially mine so i had to break into the car to claim it by changing locks e.t.c., anyway 2 weeks later the geezer who owned the car got hold of my address thru DVLA and of course DVLA told me that the owner wanted to contact me so i felt bad in the way but he couldnt do nothing about his car as its mine so he came round he laughed about it and turned around and said if you wanted it i would have given you the keys and log book and i got abit quizzed about it, anyway the owner turned out to be the lead singer of Led Zeppelin (robert plant) in hertfordshire, so went round his house ang got his keys, must admit i felt stupid doing it and offered to give it back and said keep it, he had 2 other jags and a new delivered bently, after all that he was away on solo tour!! and sweet to say we keep in touch as well.. how sweeeeeeeeet is that!!! year later after drinking gallons or petrol sucking the petrol station dry i flogged it and made a mint..... thinking now ill wait till he goes on tour again and get his bently.... wouldnt need to work after that!!


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if it is a private car park then speak to the owner he is legally entitled to remove abandoned property from his land and can empower you to remove it for him ...then apply to dvla they will issue a v5 in less than a month as long as the owner does not object

just one other point a v5 is not proof of ownership its just who the vehicle is registered to