Clamp Removal

unknownguest

I was told if you can remove a clamp without damaging it, you don't have to pay a fine.

Is this true?

If so, why aren't there any services to remove it?


Would it be hard to remove without the aid of a specialist does anybody know?

The Clown Man

No.

Tampering with it is an offence. They do take a record of who is clamped you know. That's how they know which car to unclamp when you pay.

Slap whoever told you this for being silly.

Victor

I hear there's this company that does it for €80.

Damaging the clamp will having you paying over €1000.

Tommy Vercetti

I know a lad who got clampled because the ticket on his van expired by a few minutes who got the clamp off with the help of a friend and an angle grinder, they took it all the way to court but he denied everything and got away with it.

rander00

Class!!!

Seth Brundle

Tommy Vercetti wrote:

I know a lad who got clampled because the ticket on his van expired by a few minutes who got the clamp off with the help of a friend and an angle grinder, they took it all the way to court but he denied everything and got away with it.

You mean he purjered himself? :eek:

Cake Fiend

I remember seeing a website somewhere dedicated to various techniques for removal of different types of clamps in the UK - a number of them can be removed with very little damage at all.

rymus

wasnt there a piece on Men & Motors one day about this guy in a part of the UK that goes around in a van wearing a superman costume removing clamps with an angle grinder? No charge for it either iirc.

That's a real superhero!

Eurorunner

AngleGrinderMan

duridian

By the looks of the apparatus at his feet, that guy should instead be called "Con Saw Man"

ambro25

I used to carry one of these (bottom one), 110V model with a 12/110 transfo in the boot, when I was repping these around in the UK.

Came in handy once ( ). The clampers tried to sue me based on pics, but who would believe that someone has a portable carbide-saw cutting tool that can be used in the street, I ask you ?

Unknownguest - damaged or not makes not one bit of difference. If you're going to remove it, better be prepared for some grief & have a plan to deal with it.

Boggle

In fairness - you'd have to wonder about the exact lagality of interfering with somebody's property... A fine is fair enough but a clamp is over the top.

Thats like handcuffing somebody to a rail until they pay a fine!

Gilgamesh

Boggle wrote:

In fairness - you'd have to wonder about the exact lagality of interfering with somebody's property... A fine is fair enough but a clamp is over the top.

Thats like handcuffing somebody to a rail until they pay a fine!

shush!,

don't give them Ideas, ROFL

fjon

Something to take pain out of clamping on the cards

DUBLIN'S new clampers are trying to take a kinder, gentler approach to clamping through de-clamping cards available at several 24-hour city-centre shops.

Park Rite Ltd, the parking firm that won the city's clamping contract from Dublin City Council in November, is running a pilot project that it hopes will take some of the sting out of being clamped.

Since the end of November, disgruntled "clampees" no longer have to take a taxi or bus down to the company's pound on East Wall in order to have their cars released if they want to pay cash.

Instead they can now buy a special scratch card at four city-centre Centra shops that enables the user to pay their €80 fines in cash and release the clamp by ringing a special clamping hotline.

Park Rite CEO Grainne Kelliher said: "We're really aiming to make the experience less painful."

The scratch cards are currently available at 24-hour Centra shops on St Stephen's Green, Westmoreland St, O'Connell St and College Green and plans are under way to expand the service. A furore erupted last year over claims of heavy-handed tactics employed by the previous clamping contractor, Control Plus.

Fianna Fail MEP Eoin Ryan claimed he was forced to pay the €80 fine because the clampers failed to see his parking disc and even charged him after he pointed out that it was valid.

In June, a Dublin bar manager was clamped for parking in a disabled bay - which was painted around his car by Dublin City Council as he slept.

Dublin District Court Judge Murrough Connellan recently convicted a clamper of dangerous parking noting the man believed he had a "God-given right" to break traffic regulations while doing his job.

Allison Bray

ambro25

Whilst we should be thankful for not having to go here & there to get our cars back with this sytem, those scartchcards mean you still have to pay (to release the clamp) before you're able to challenge the clamping, if it is wrongful...An improvement in commodity but a big loss on likelihood of challenges to the excesses of the practice.

IMO, this scratchcard system has just been devised for clampers to avoid having having to face motorists, none of that PR bullsh*t.

Get a WIMUTEC saw, 5 seconds job, it's like a hot knife through butter: no recoil, vibrations or sparks, precision cut down to the millimeter...

ToxicPaddy

ambro25 wrote:

Get a WIMUTEC saw, 5 seconds job, it's like a hot knife through butter: no recoil, vibrations or sparks, precision cut down to the millimeter...

You still on commission

Tox

rymus

how much do plasma cutters go for these days?

Cake Fiend

Re. the clamp paycard things - what a bone-headed idea. Surely the whole point of clamping is to discourage people from parking in the clamping-covered areas?? So what's the point of making the experience easier on people?

Before anyone berates me, I don't drive, so I don't have to put up with the evil of clamps

Victor

Its a conflict avoidance method.

Bogger77

Got clamped, want to get it removed quikly after paying over fone by credit card?

Get a female to call the clampers, make out that you are scared to be outside waiting for them to come,(works best after dark), ask them to come as soon as they can.

Got my car unclamped less than 3 minutes from finishing call !