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This is long please bear with me lol I'm crying with laughter writing this, its unbelievable.
So, on Monday my BIL goes to Bluewater shopping with his other half, they parks up and do the usual, a bit of shopping, lunch and so on, a few hours later they go to pick up the car and bingo the car is gone, big panic, they find the security officer who says I'm sure you've just forgotten where you've parked it Sir, we've never had a car stolen from here ever, my BIL says 'I can assure you, I remember perfectly where I parked it, its been stolen', so the coppers are called, the coppers say 'no ones ever stolen a car from here, you must have forgotten where you parked it', after much too-ing and fro-ing, they establish that the car is in fact gone.
The car in question is a two year old Jaguar XF, he paid over £40 K for it, its seen on the CCTV going in to the car park but its not seen coming out, its now been assumed that the car has been targeted and the number plates have been changed and its on its way in a container to Abu Dhabi or whatever other place they go to. In the car is my BIL North Face jacket, his prescription sun glasses and the clicker to open the gates where he lives.
He lives in a gated complex of apartments with security gates/security guards, plus security doors that only open for a couple of hours in the morning to give access to the postman to the little boxes downstairs, the milkman and any workmen.
On Tuesday he reports the incident to the insurers, he knows as an ex owner of an insurance brokers that he's not going to get paid out the full value to replace the car so is not in the best of moods.
Today he got a letter from Newlyns, saying that they lifted his car on Monday and have taken it to Northampton that he has to pay £1,035.00 to recover the car. So he phones them apparently....
Sometime last year (I've no idea of dates) he rushed my SIL to her uncles hospital as he was seriously ill, apparently my BIL drove down a bus lane, since then he has had no correspondence at all, no phone calls no nothing.
Tomorrow he's going up to Northampton to pay the bill, collect the car and then go to the court and swear on some document that he's never received any contact at all from Newlyns. Although they are saying that they knocked on his door at different times of the day, pretty impossible as the place is more secure than Fort Knox so we know for sure that Newlyns are lying through their teeth.
But it gets better.... lets just say he lives at 103 St Giles Court, Newtown, New England, he looked at the letter he received today and the letter has his name and St Giles Court, Newtown, no number, so he went to the local sorting office, spoke to them and they say that the only reason he got the letter is because today he had another letter addressed to him so the postman put the two letters in the little cubby hole thing where each apartment has their own little locked box for post. The post people said that any post with no door number would be automatically returned to sender.
Wait it gets ever better again, he has to take his driving licence and log book with him to collect the car, proof of ID and all that and he notices that the log book has St Giles Court, Newtown, no number, he phones the car dealers and it seems that when they sold him the car they didn't put the number on the paperwork.
Now apparently Bluewater has automatic numberplate readers which flag up any 'wanted' cars, that's how Newlyn's knew where the car was, and they sent in the removal firm, they say they stuck a note on it and went back four hours later, but how the hell did they get it out without it showing on the CCTV, surely they'd have noticed it on the back of a truck ?
Now apart from the fact that my BIL is ok for money, that we can see the funny side of this (I'm strange like that), he is going to appeal against the charge by the way but what I want to know is can he 'go after' the car dealer for not filling in the paperwork properly in the first place, because if it had been none of this would have happened. Also if there is any damage at all to the car, excessive mileage or anything missing can he claim.
So, on Monday my BIL goes to Bluewater shopping with his other half, they parks up and do the usual, a bit of shopping, lunch and so on, a few hours later they go to pick up the car and bingo the car is gone, big panic, they find the security officer who says I'm sure you've just forgotten where you've parked it Sir, we've never had a car stolen from here ever, my BIL says 'I can assure you, I remember perfectly where I parked it, its been stolen', so the coppers are called, the coppers say 'no ones ever stolen a car from here, you must have forgotten where you parked it', after much too-ing and fro-ing, they establish that the car is in fact gone.
The car in question is a two year old Jaguar XF, he paid over £40 K for it, its seen on the CCTV going in to the car park but its not seen coming out, its now been assumed that the car has been targeted and the number plates have been changed and its on its way in a container to Abu Dhabi or whatever other place they go to. In the car is my BIL North Face jacket, his prescription sun glasses and the clicker to open the gates where he lives.
He lives in a gated complex of apartments with security gates/security guards, plus security doors that only open for a couple of hours in the morning to give access to the postman to the little boxes downstairs, the milkman and any workmen.
On Tuesday he reports the incident to the insurers, he knows as an ex owner of an insurance brokers that he's not going to get paid out the full value to replace the car so is not in the best of moods.
Today he got a letter from Newlyns, saying that they lifted his car on Monday and have taken it to Northampton that he has to pay £1,035.00 to recover the car. So he phones them apparently....
Sometime last year (I've no idea of dates) he rushed my SIL to her uncles hospital as he was seriously ill, apparently my BIL drove down a bus lane, since then he has had no correspondence at all, no phone calls no nothing.
Tomorrow he's going up to Northampton to pay the bill, collect the car and then go to the court and swear on some document that he's never received any contact at all from Newlyns. Although they are saying that they knocked on his door at different times of the day, pretty impossible as the place is more secure than Fort Knox so we know for sure that Newlyns are lying through their teeth.
But it gets better.... lets just say he lives at 103 St Giles Court, Newtown, New England, he looked at the letter he received today and the letter has his name and St Giles Court, Newtown, no number, so he went to the local sorting office, spoke to them and they say that the only reason he got the letter is because today he had another letter addressed to him so the postman put the two letters in the little cubby hole thing where each apartment has their own little locked box for post. The post people said that any post with no door number would be automatically returned to sender.
Wait it gets ever better again, he has to take his driving licence and log book with him to collect the car, proof of ID and all that and he notices that the log book has St Giles Court, Newtown, no number, he phones the car dealers and it seems that when they sold him the car they didn't put the number on the paperwork.
Now apparently Bluewater has automatic numberplate readers which flag up any 'wanted' cars, that's how Newlyn's knew where the car was, and they sent in the removal firm, they say they stuck a note on it and went back four hours later, but how the hell did they get it out without it showing on the CCTV, surely they'd have noticed it on the back of a truck ?
Now apart from the fact that my BIL is ok for money, that we can see the funny side of this (I'm strange like that), he is going to appeal against the charge by the way but what I want to know is can he 'go after' the car dealer for not filling in the paperwork properly in the first place, because if it had been none of this would have happened. Also if there is any damage at all to the car, excessive mileage or anything missing can he claim.
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