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Rootes75 · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2025 9:48 am Post subject: The Perils of Car Storage...

We store our big Hillman at a farm about 15 minutes away from us. It's general undercover storage so there are some cars, some Caravans and a couple of vintage Fire Engines.

We are booked into a show today, we drove over with a charged battery and some fresh fuel only to find when we got there that some clever clogs has parked a caravan right in front of us, put its legs down and had all it's wheel locks on...to say I'm fuming is an understatement.

So, no chance of getting the car out to get to the show. Our early Sunday morning start being totally in vain.
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Ray White · Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 7140 Location: Derby

ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4242 Location: South Cheshire

I rent some storage, its on a farm, fortunately if this situation arises, which it has once, there is plenty of heavy farm machinery to get just about anything lifted and or moved Smile

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22790 Location: UK

I assume the caravan has an alarm, so maybe rocking it vigorously might set off its alarm and get the owners over pronto? Pretty poor form to leave it in the way like that, I'd be miffed too.

RJ
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MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2713 Location: South Cheshire

I sympathise, one of my previous neighbours was prone to leaving his van in the way of my door. Fortunately he left last year and the new neighbours are the ideal "we're hardly ever here" type.
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consul 57 · Joined: 09 Nov 2017 Posts: 584 Location: somerset

bad news, not very helpful,
was it langport you were going to?
tbh a very much smaller show than when we last went in 2023 sadly.
i doubt we will go next year.

Rootes75 · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2025 12:03 pm Post subject:

Rootes75 · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2025 12:06 pm Post subject:

Tbh, the caravan was parked across us the last time we went to use the car. The owner of the sheds came out and said to us to just move it out of the way, he was happy with that.

Our issue Sunday was that the legs were down and it had a wheel lock on it...

Perhaps the caravan owner didn't appreciate us moving his van about without his permission??

Pretty crap whatever.
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consul 57 · Joined: 09 Nov 2017 Posts: 584 Location: somerset