my car has been impounded while on its way to a MOT

[rich.]

any luck with this??

[mr rusty]

This does seem a bit odd- what's the whole story and what paperwork did they give you- if there's one thing I know about coppers it's that they don't do anything without lots of paperwork. Even when I was stopped for speeding, a minor offence which didn't even affect my insurance renewal I still had to read and sign stuff and was given paperwork.......

There are only very limited situations where police can seize and impound your car- quoted straight from the governments own website- and I've seen so many of those traffic cop shows where I've been yelling at the screen 'why don't they just impound the car!!!!!!' ........ well this is why,

Part 5: When the police can seize your vehicle

The police can seize a vehicle they think is being driven carelessly or inconsiderately.

They can also seize a vehicle if they think it is being driven by someone who doesn’t have a proper licence or insurance.

.........and that's it!

So what's the story, what happened?

[Lord Tolly]

This has also been discussed here....

http://popularclassics.forumcircle.com/ ... hp?t=20082

[hillmanimpman]

still got my car found out what try to do me for ???
i got done for having tools in my car " well my car need fixing sometimes "and car parts my own from my lock up " going prepared to rob i think try to charge me with " go back friday to police station

but i feel the police arent doing there job properly five minute talk to my landlord " do you know this person does he have a lock up here " ???
in the heartbeat days they would of done this why not now ???
all mess up and they wonder why people have mistrust in them :S
MAYBE PRACTICAL CLASSICS CAN WRITE SOMETHING ON THIS IF MATTER NOT SOLVED ON FRIDAY

[JPB]

Going equipped? In a very distinctive example of a fairly scarce old car? Yeah, 'cos if you were going equipped, you'd want to make yourself as identifiable as you possibly could just so that the Police didn't have to do too much work....

Pull the other one!

[hillmanimpman]

see my point slowly gain mistrust in them now. Being in gene hunt type to deal with me he would throw it out tell me not too dont it again

[JPB]

see my point?

Not really, no.

[Lord Tolly]

Mmmm.........

having read through the various forums you seem to change your mind on serveral details John.

come on chap tell us what is really going on

[rich.]

were you carrying something illegal?

[jimmyybob]

500 hundred packs of sudafed and a gallon of diesel isnt illegal is it.