*URGENT* please help me find my car *URGENT*

pixiestix

hi, i need help to find my car, i left it outside my old house in Grange Walk, Stamullen in Co Meath. I had to leave it there cos it would not start when I was moving house so I could not bring it with me at that time, but when I went back out to get it, it was gone and the road was re-surfaced. I have contacted the police, dead end, I have contacted the county council, dead end. I have even rang my old landlord to see if she has heard anything about it....dead end. I was wondering if anyone can help me, I miss my little car, and I don't think it was stolen, it wouldn't start, I think it was just moved to let the builders do the road, but I can't locate the builders either. It's a little wine/red Renault Clio and it's a 99D reg, if you think you can help and need the rest of the reg please PM me, I don't know if it would be a great idea to leave the details here.
Any help at all would be great, I am totally heart broken over this.
Thanks

ronnie3585

Did you check your pockets?

beerbaron

Have you tried anywhere besides that Dead end ?

craiginireland

Is it behind the couch?

Zebra3

Did you check 1 World Trade Centre Plaza?

CamperMan

it could have been collected by one of those recovery trucks and taken straight to the scrap yard to be crushed!

javaboy

Moved from After Hours.

eth0_

When exactly did you abandon your car and when did you go back to get it?

TechieEddy

I am totally heart broken over this.

PI >> http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=127

Hazys

Its nearly always the last place you look...so try there

furtzy

Were its tax and insurance up to date. Out of date tax could mean it was removed by the council

DubArk

Hazys wrote: »

Its nearly always the last place you look...so try there

I'm sorry you have lost your car but these guys are cracking me up!!!

pixiestix

eth0_ wrote: »

When exactly did you abandon your car and when did you go back to get it?

i left it there in october and went back at around christmas and the road was re-surfaced and the car was gone

Ste.phen

Someone probably reported it as abandoned, especially if it didn't belong to anyone who was (At the time) living there?

pixiestix

Ste.phen wrote: »

Someone probably reported it as abandoned, especially if it didn't belong to anyone who was (At the time) living there?

where would it be taken to if reported abandoned?

Singer73

Social Services would have taken it to a little car orphanage.

DubArk

Try here! http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/diecast/images/miscellaneous/pilen-renault2.jpg

Cookie_Monster

pixiestix wrote: »

where would it be taken to if reported abandoned?

To be crushed:eek:

The council would take it and presumably hand it over to a local scrap yard

HashSlinging

Found it.

http://www.adverts.ie/showproduct.php?product=88800&cat=2

eth0_

pixiestix wrote: »

i left it there in october and went back at around christmas and the road was re-surfaced and the car was gone

You left it there for 2 months and assumed it would still be there when you got back?

I imagine it was either vandalised and taken away by the council, or local residents complained to the council/gardai and they had it towed away. If they couldn't contact you (out of date address on your tax or vehicle registration certificate) I think they crush the car after a certain amount of time has elapsed.

Ring the gardai, council, find out who is responsible for picking up abandoned cars etc.

Why are you only posting about this now, 5 months on??

Have you informed your insurance company that the car is missing? If it's stolen and involved in a crash, you will be responsible.

pixiestix

eth0_ wrote: »

You left it there for 2 months and assumed it would still be there when you got back?

I imagine it was either vandalised and taken away by the council, or local residents complained to the council/gardai and they had it towed away. If they couldn't contact you (out of date address on your tax or vehicle registration certificate) I think they crush the car after a certain amount of time has elapsed.

Ring the gardai, council, find out who is responsible for picking up abandoned cars etc.

Why are you only posting about this now, 5 months on??

Have you informed your insurance company that the car is missing? If it's stolen and involved in a crash, you will be responsible.

i was hoping someone would know the developers/builders so i could contact them, or might have seen the car, perhaps it was moved to some ones garden for safe keeping. i was hoping perhaps a neighbour might know something. i was keeping my hopes up, its my car. i didnt post here to have people laugh at me and make fun of me. i posted here to enquire about my car. but i wont be posting on boards anymore, whats the point when all that happens is people make me feel worthless and stupid...not you eth0, but the other people that replied.

jim o doom

pixiestix wrote: »

i was hoping someone would know the developers/builders so i could contact them, or might have seen the car, perhaps it was moved to some ones garden for safe keeping. i was hoping perhaps a neighbour might know something. i was keeping my hopes up, its my car. i didnt post here to have people laugh at me and make fun of me. i posted here to enquire about my car. but i wont be posting on boards anymore, whats the point when all that happens is people make me feel worthless and stupid...not you eth0, but the other people that replied.

well people told you what the standard thing that happens to abandoned cars - they get towed and eventually crushed..

And you can't blame people for having a bit of a laugh when you decide to abandon a vehicle in a public place for such a ridiculous amount of time and then are surprised when it may have been crushed..

DubArk

Well as one of those posters I'd like to apologise if that’s the way I made you feel, I’m sure it was a joke that just got out of hand.


Sorry

11811

Nicole has it.

waraf

pixiestix wrote: »

i left it there in october and went back at around christmas and the road was re-surfaced and the car was gone

Did you check under the new surface of the road?

daithip

Your car wouldn't have been towed by the council unless the number plates had been removed, then it becomes litter which they then have responsibility for and I'd say if you contact the local Gardai they'd be able to fill you in on the local recovery services, so you could start trying them.

eth0_

pixiestix wrote: »

i didnt post here to have people laugh at me and make fun of me. i posted here to enquire about my car.

Hardly anyone made fun of you, most gave you good advice and told you what might have happened to your car. You have to face facts that it may well have been crushed..

eth0_

daithip wrote: »

Your car wouldn't have been towed by the council unless the number plates had been removed, then it becomes litter which they then have responsibility for and I'd say if you contact the local Gardai they'd be able to fill you in on the local recovery services, so you could start trying them.

This happens a lot though. There was a car parked in the road behind my old house for about 6 months, never moved, nothing in it, out of date tax and insurance. It sat there until one day someone smashed a window and took the plates off. It was removed by the council the next day.

I am assuming something similar could have happened the OP.

vmg

U should just probablly ring shannon and register the car as destroyed at this stage so nobody tries to use it for anything else if it is still alive and in wrong hands


some off the replys were very funny and cracked me up

Animalistic

Singer73 wrote: »

Social Services would have taken it to a little car orphanage.

:eek:

LMFAO!!!!

fig mclough

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Did you check your pockets?

LOL u jus made my day!!!!!!!! :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::p



some auld lad probly brought it to keep turkeys in it for the christmas!!!:cool:

Carter P Fly

LOL Seriously funny responses in this mail..


To answer the origional posters question a few years back I had a Mondeo outside my house iin the public parking spacefor ages in Village Park that had a blown engine. Had Pikeys call in every week for ages till I just gave it to them. Feckers stripped and abandioned it in galway of all places.

So after the my neighbour had a Escort parked in the same place as he was using his company car and it was lying idle with the tyres going down and getting a bit green around the edges. Pikeys kept calling into me asking about that one as well...Anyways last week they turned up with a transit van and just towed it away.

SO chances are the pikeys took it, And molested it and left it naked in a ditch.

jazoo

I know where it iiiissss....

amyloo

contact the dvla they will be the ones who will have the power to move it they keep them for 28 days then they crush or send them to auction depending on age and condition

Access

Can a MOD close this please?

I feel sorry for the OP and all but i stopped laughing a long time ago!

Sleipnir

From Dublinwaste.ie

Burnt out and abandoned vehicles are deemed to take priority and would be collected before Domestic Vehicles. Generally, the removal time is within 5-10 days. However, priority is given to the removal of vehicles which are deemed to pose traffic hazards to the public, and therefore the removal of these illegally abandoned/burned-out vehicles may delay the removal of domestic vehicles.

so it may have been removed by the Meath County council.

Oh and it should be noted that the abandonment of vehicles is an indictable offence under the 1996 Waste Management Act with fines of up to €12,700 on prosecution.!