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brian54

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Wheel Clampers are out.
« on: Aug 16, 2017, 09:01:42 PM »

I drove through a council estate tonight.
I noticed about a dozen cars were clamped tonight for no tax.
I also saw 1 being lifted for no insurance.
This is good as it will raise some money.

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Re: Wheel Clampers are out.
« Reply #1 on: Aug 16, 2017, 09:10:54 PM »
A 'council estate'...So damning!....How do you know why they were being clamped? Did you stop, get out and look? Or did you know somebody?
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Re: Wheel Clampers are out.
« Reply #2 on: Aug 16, 2017, 09:16:15 PM »

A 'council estate'...So damning!....How do you know why they were being clamped? Did you stop, get out and look? Or did you know somebody?


There was a DVLA van a bit in front of them which I know is usually used for untaxed vehicles.
The car being lifted had a sticker on the back window which said '' No insurance No car ''.

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Re: Wheel Clampers are out.
« Reply #3 on: Aug 16, 2017, 09:16:35 PM »
Wow Brian,   I'm surprized that you drove through a council estate.    Considering that cars no longer have tax discs , someone must have told you.  Or perhaps you secretly go round checking up on cars in council estates , looking them up on your computer and then report any that are not taxed and / or insured.

Why would you put a sticker on a car that was being 'lifted' - to remind the DVLA why they lifted it ?

I'm sure we are all grateful that the streets have been made a safer place.
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Re: Wheel Clampers are out.
« Reply #4 on: Aug 16, 2017, 09:22:53 PM »
I think the DVLA van has like an ANPR camera on them which checks cars are taxed.

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Re: Wheel Clampers are out.
« Reply #5 on: Aug 16, 2017, 09:25:40 PM »
I drove through a council estate tonight.
I noticed about a dozen cars were clamped tonight for no tax.
I also saw 1 being lifted for no insurance.
This is good as it will raise some money.

Crikey!!!!!!!!!!

In all my years doing investigations I've driven round many of the roughest estates on the face of the UK & I never actually witnessed a car that had been clamped or being lifted & you see a dozen clamped & one being lifted during just one journey.
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Re: Wheel Clampers are out.
« Reply #6 on: Aug 16, 2017, 09:35:53 PM »

When I drive in Birmingham I must see on average 3 clamped cars a week.
I would not be surprised if the clampers had run out of clamps.

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Re: Wheel Clampers are out.
« Reply #7 on: Aug 16, 2017, 10:17:27 PM »
Only Brian would make a point of it being a council estate. ::)
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Re: Wheel Clampers are out.
« Reply #8 on: Aug 16, 2017, 10:27:18 PM »
Why would you be driving around what used to be called a council estate Brian? You lead a very strange life I have to say.
Did you have the dogs with you by the way? Did they approve of the clampers?
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Re: Wheel Clampers are out.
« Reply #9 on: Aug 16, 2017, 10:34:40 PM »
Hmm......

I've never seen a wheel clamp. Ever!
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Re: Wheel Clampers are out.
« Reply #10 on: Aug 16, 2017, 10:38:21 PM »
Neither have I and I live in the same City as Brian! ::)
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Re: Wheel Clampers are out.
« Reply #11 on: Aug 17, 2017, 10:51:07 AM »

Neither have I and I live in the same City as Brian! ::)


Obviously you never go through Perry Barr, Witton or Kingstanding.
There is at least 1 clamped car most of the times I drive through.
Oddly I spoke to a gent a while ago and he said the clampers clamped a car in front of his drive.. He was not pleased.

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Re: Wheel Clampers are out.
« Reply #12 on: Aug 17, 2017, 11:54:15 AM »
They should do what they do in Tenerife stick them on the back of a lorry, and no message left to say where they have been taken. Watched a dozen being taken this way and they were all park illegally close to an empty car park.

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Re: Wheel Clampers are out.
« Reply #13 on: Aug 17, 2017, 12:05:21 PM »
As an assitance to Brian in checking up on his neighbours...


To check insurance - https://ownvehicle.askmid.com/  (you need to lie and say it's your car)
To check tax and MOT  - https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/


I use both to report the annoying cars parked near my house with for sale notices in them as they are using up the limited parking spaces.


We never see any clampers - perhaps it's because it's not a council estate. Mind you whenever I drive past them I never see any there either. In my neck of the woods the only clampers active are the private parking ones and they are rare too.

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Re: Wheel Clampers are out.
« Reply #14 on: Aug 17, 2017, 12:19:13 PM »

As an assitance to Brian in checking up on his neighbours...


To check insurance - https://ownvehicle.askmid.com/  (you need to lie and say it's your car)
To check tax and MOT  - https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/


I use both to report the annoying cars parked near my house with for sale notices in them as they are using up the limited parking spaces.


I used the site to check the tax on a car as it was parked in front of my drive.
Fortunately it had 2 entrances.
It had no tax and was towed.


I was also having some building work done and a lady phoned and asked me to take her to the hospital.
A visitor had parked on the opposite side of the road and I could not get out,
The person said she would move the car in 30 minutes. I told her it was urgent but she said if it was one of my friends it is not urgent.
We got somebody else to take her to the hospital. Sadly the lady died. I told the visitor what had happened but she said the patient was only an oik.