About DVLA

Not really, you have to pay £19 too!

What did the police have to say?

They say that it is happening a lot, mainly so that the perps can clone the details onto a stolen version of the car! It is not illegal to apply for the log book!

Breaking into the garage is the bit they are interested in, from the box of rubbish that appeared in the garage it appears to be something to do with the purchasers of the nearest house, SOCO took various bits and pieces and fingerprints. DVLA won't tell me the details of the perp. The soco guesses that someone is hoping to take over the garage!!

mrcheerful

mrcheerful. ( snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Look, this may be a silly question, but why on earth are you paying for a lockup for a diseasel Metro?

Harsh, that is. Harsh. You'll be suggesting no-one should be preserving four-cylinder Visas next. As if!

Good question, but I own the lock-up, the metro only needs a headgasket and is perfect, two lady owners very low mileage.

mrcheerful

I'm sure that they will be flattered. :-)

Confused? Mrscheerful?

Er - bought a Visa X new for my then wife - a very good car apart from the paintwork (resprayed so many times under warranty that there was more paint than metal).

Only problem was its perceived image. My commute in those days involved a wonderful carve-up as the M25 attached itself to the A30. In my daily driver (AlfaSud 1500 ti) there was no problem slotting in, but if I used the Visa it seemed everyone was out to run me off the road - it was just a little shopping car, wasn't it, and had no business mixing it with the Cortinas and Baader Meinhof Wagens.

Loved the baked bean can which operated all the minor functions. Citroen used to go their own way and made some extraordinary cars which took some getting used to. Nowadays they take a Eurobox, paint Picasso on the side and claim it's innovative.

Geoff MacK

More likely they think they got the garage with the property and have been told that anything abandoned in it by the former owners can be claimed by them. Now they are wondering who stole their new lock and why the police are knocking on the door.

Well the deeds of the house are pretty clear, I got them off the land registry, my garage is shown separately.

mrcheerful

At 18:40:03 on 03/09/2005, PC Paul delighted uk.legal by announcing:

How many people would see 3 locks on a door and immediately come to the conclusion that what lies behind that door is ownerless?

The message from "Alex" contains these words:

Quite a few of the residents round here.