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Abandoned cars

  • 24-05-2020 07:26PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16


    Hi all,

    I’ve a couple of old cars left at a private house I’m working on.
    The owner of the house wants them gone but guards, county council or scrap car guys don’t want to know!
    One scrap guy says he’ll take them if he’s given a letter stating we gave him the cars etc as there’s no log books.
    I just don’t want the owners coming back at some stage looking for them or causing hassle.
    As far as I know this house was a repo and sold at auction.

    Any help would be very much appropriated


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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    I dont think you will get legal advice on a motor forum,.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭redcup342


    Move them to the street and take the number plates off then call the council to report it. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,777 ✭✭✭Isambard


    if you buy a house you buy it and it's contents. So if they were there when the house was bought at auction, they belong to the buyer and they're entitled to dispose of them. (In my non-legal opinion)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭Tr_18


    What kind of cars are they? People may be interested in them for breaking


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭Sam Quentin


    Tr_18 wrote: »
    What kind of cars are they? People may be interested in them for breaking

    Or even restoration project.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Isambard wrote: »
    if you buy a house you buy it and it's contents. So if they were there when the house was bought at auction, they belong to the buyer and they're entitled to dispose of them. (In my non-legal opinion)

    So if I leave my car in my mates garage overnight, and he sells his house, the buyer of the house now owns my car?

    What a load of shíte.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,560 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    So if I leave my car in my mates garage overnight, and he sells his house, the buyer of the house now owns my car?

    What a load of shíte.

    If you don't have the logbook /proof of insurance then... then yes


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,718 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    What sort of cars are they OP?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,777 ✭✭✭Isambard


    So if I leave my car in my mates garage overnight, and he sells his house, the buyer of the house now owns my car?

    What a load of shíte.

    he'd do well to sell his house overnight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,126 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Isambard wrote: »
    if you buy a house you buy it and it's contents. So if they were there when the house was bought at auction, they belong to the buyer and they're entitled to dispose of them. (In my non-legal opinion)

    Nope; that is lawfully the case for “fixtures”, ie something so affixed to the property as to become part of it. Usually, the contract for sake of the property would provide that such items were not to be left in the property and the vendor would be liable for the costs of removal. In the circumstances, I would expect that they are abandoned. Were they hidden items, the owner of the land might have a better claim than the person who excavated them. In this case, they are registered and if the owner abandons them, I imagine bona vacant is might, if they were valuable, mean they belong to the State. In reality, it will be up to the landowner to dispose of them at his/her own costs.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,863 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Any chance of there being a twincam with the pockets mint on her lad or an old cossie in the collection.
    WHAT CARS ARE THEY OP????


  • Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Near where I walk the dog, in Tallaght, there is a garden with TWO Rolls Royce rotting in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,863 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Near where I walk the dog, in Tallaght, there is a garden with TWO Rolls Royce rotting in it.




    Rust in peace


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,527 ✭✭✭TrailerBob


    When we moved a couple of years ago there was 2 abandoned cars in the field. The vendor said someone would be back for them, so I waited 6 months, then tough luck. One went to the metal recycler, crushed in front of my very eyes.. the other as a donor car for a mates project (Morris Minor). Nobody ever came.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭neddynasty


    Fuzzy1980 wrote: »
    Hi all,

    I’ve a couple of old cars left at a private house I’m working on.
    The owner of the house wants them gone but guards, county council or scrap car guys don’t want to know!

    Surely it's the owner of the house's problem to get rid of the cars and not yours?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,110 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    A lot of reckless advice being given on the thread and somebody's non legal opinion is not always great in these situations. I'm assuming the cars are end of life worthless scrappers. If not then the Vendor of the house should probably have a bit more cop on with his property but thats besides the point.

    I'd imagine a lot of Guards would view this as wasting their valuable time, in particular if the cars are parked on private property and I don't particularly view it as something the Guards need to be involved in under the circumstances. Assuming the home owner bought through an Estate Agent in the recent past it may be worth the owner getting in touch with the Estate Agent again to ask them to get in touch with the Vendor to ask if they want the cars are wanted by them anymore. Might be the quickest way of removing the guesswork.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭crossmolinalad


    What I did , just moved an old car to a local supermarket and left it on the parking with plates left on it
    Parking was a pay and display
    Car was gone within one week , who took it I don't know and don't care


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,776 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    redcup342 wrote: »
    Move them to the street and take the number plates off then call the council to report it. :pac:

    That would be dumping, which would be illegal but if the prior owners don't come back about the cars, I would recommend ringing the council about the pile of cars that were dumped outside your mates house house with no number plates, or if they have number plates, then the gardai for no tax :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,723 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    What I did , just moved an old car to a local supermarket and left it on the parking with plates left on it
    Parking was a pay and display
    Car was gone within one week , who took it I don't know and don't care

    So you dumped it on someone else's property because you couldn't be bothered to dispose it properly youself? :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,863 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    WHAT CARS OP??????????????


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    WHAT CARS OP??????????????

    OP already stated....

    R34 Skyline GTR
    Toyota Corolla Twin Cam
    Audi S8
    1992 Toyota Celica
    Honda Integra Type R
    BMW E30 M3 RHD

































    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,863 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    This thread should be shot.op mentions abandoned cars and then fcuks off without telling us what cars they are
    Lordy lord


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Lurching


    I'm going to guess:

    Ford Cortina,
    Rover 214,
    Ford Fiesta Van.

    All rotting in to the ground.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,527 ✭✭✭TrailerBob


    Fiver on 1st Gen Hyundai Accent and a Fiat Uno


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭mgbgt1978


    Ah, he's sucked you all in now, hasn't he ??? :D:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,863 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    TrailerBob wrote: »
    Fiver on 1st Gen Hyundai Accent and a Fiat Uno



    I’d say there is a clio somewhere in the mix.
    Every ditch and farm yard in the country had a clio abandoned in it at some stage.
    That or a white berlingo with rusty roof bars on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭Muppet Man


    Nah... Panda... or gen 1 micra.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,776 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    My money is on an early 90s Opel Kadett or Ford Escort.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭corsav6


    90's Corsa, always 1 rotting away in a field somewhere.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭TheBoyConor


    1st generation Hyundai accent
    Daewoo Lanos
    N16 Nissan Almera
    Ford Focus
    Opel Corsa

    Worthless crap, always was and always will be.

    A person I know once had an abandoned car on their property from an absconded tenant and they packed it to the roof with as much rubbish as possible and then parked in a neighbouring estate.
    Residents there reported it to the council and it was removed after a while.


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