Not if I only go out for 2 hours and park in the same spot. I’ll stop doing that.
Yes.
Yes. I know the rules. I want inoperable cars gone too. Mine isn’t. There’s no rule against immobility.
The problem isn’t with your truck, it’s with attitudes today, especially regarding anything even appearing to be old. Even if it is in respectable shape, as is your 1987(?) model year truck.
It sounds like it has a lot more curb (or space) appeal than that van I described several posts ago!
People nowadays gonna choke on their pride if they keep thinking in a manner that gets someone’s justified property taken away.
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Immobile means not mobile, so does inoperable, you keep saying how do they know, how do they know over and over again, so I will ask you this, how do they know?? Meaning, how do they know if the fuel pump is bad and the vehicle won’t start?? How do they know if the head is off the engine having a valve job done?? How do they know if it jumped timing?? THEY DON’T cause they can’t raise the hood or have a key to try to start it up.. Do they have super mechanics with a crystal ball that tell them if a car is immobile or inoperable as you keep arguing??
Or futuristic diagnostic equipment that allows them to run diagnostics without being able to hook up the equipment to check it out??
So I ask you again, HOW DO THEY KNOW either way if it is immobile or inoperable as you keep arguing???
If a vehicle has NOT moved in months, they don’t know… as Nevada stated, you can tell by signs if a vehicle has just been sitting there, even a month…
Is there any kind of security camera at the gate or entrance or wherever incase of a break in and a vehicle is stolen or damaged??
You seem to be so closed minded that you can’t see the company’s side of this… Remember as flat as a pancake is, there are still 2 sides to it…
Again, I can see your side of this, as well as theirs, but you are ONLY looking at your side of it…
Edited to add:
I have a 49 year old vehicle that is my fun car, it has a nicely built slightly modded engine lol, a built/modded transmission and a built rear-end, not rebuilt to stock specs, but built for speed, it is pretty quick… There is zero rust on the frame or chassis and only has surface rust (patina) on the roof and hood areas, it has good newish tires and wheels, low miles on them, the car has less than 120K miles on the car, but if I parked it outside you or most people would think it was a piece of junk and won’t to have it moved, even though I have a ■■■■ ton of money tied up in it…
So again I get it, but a 38 year old Toyota truck with a (didn’t you say roller) cheap paint job that hasn’t moved in a while looks like a piece of junk just sitting there…
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Here is what Mr Google has to say when I entered
“inoperable” “vs” immobile"
“Inoperable” means something cannot be operated or worked, while “immobile” means something cannot be moved. An inoperable car might be immobile, but a car could also be inoperable but movable (e.g., a car that can’t drive itself but can be pushed or towed).
Inoperable
- Definition: Not working or functioning as intended. It refers to a failure to operate.
- Examples:
- A car that won’t start because of a dead battery is inoperable.
- A computer that won’t turn on is inoperable.
- A medical condition that is not practically treatable by surgery is inoperable.
Immobile
- Definition: Stationary, unable to be moved, or fixed in place. It refers to a lack of physical movement.
- Examples:
- A building is immobile.
- A mountain is immobile.
- An object that is bolted to the floor is immobile.
The difference in a single scenario
- A broken-down car that cannot drive but can be pushed or towed is inoperable but movable.
- A car with a broken engine and missing wheels is both inoperable and immobile.
- Pulling the fuel pump fuse makes a car inoperable and can also make it immobile if it’s in gear.
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Are you certain there’s no rule on immobility? I once had a moveable, operable car towed from (my) apartment complex…. because the car had sat for two weeks, consecutively. Nthing wrong with the car at the time– I just hadn’t needed it. Apparently, they thought “no movement in two weeks== inoperable junk.”
Again, how old was the vehicle at the time this happened?
I would have to ask, is you “spot” a highly desirable spot, not too far back, not likely to be hit randomly, not in a dark corner, etc… Perhaps someone is aching to get your spot for themselves…
Immobile means not moving; inoperable means it can’t move.
They can ask. When I painted my bumper I applied 2 coats. I waited a day between. I masked off the license plate. I found a warning on it the next day that no valid plate was visible. The boot company and the tower both have bad reputations. They insist on payment in cash and don’t make change, charge to remove boots from wrongly-booted vehicles. I had to run around Saturday night looking for an ATM (I hadn’t used one in years, the close ones I used to use were gone or inaccessible.) They have only 20s, so I would have had to find change somewhere not to over-pay. I had to wait around Sunday for the tower to show up.
I am looking at it from their point of view. If my car were inoperable I’d think they could justly tell me to move it. How about they tell me to drive it to the tow lot? They don’t get to assume it’s inoperable. If they want to make a rule about how often a vehicle must move, I’ll obey it. I followed all the rules.
I wasn’t asking for your judgment but how to deal constructively with my situation. You-all chose to judge me.
What would happen? Would it be moved without warning you? I parked a friend’s car on a Santa Monica street and got a warning from the police, not towed, so I moved it. (And it was completely unfair: it said it had been parked there for 3 days, but it was less than 1. They accepted a neighbor’s claim, ignored me.)
There’s no rule on looks.
I don’t accept that. In terms of cars inoperable means it can’t be started or driven safely or legally. At the same time another person in the lot had an unregistered vehicle. They paid to get the boot off then parked on the street.
Yes.
38 years, as I posted above. There’s a 1950 Chevy pickup in the lot too. It looks nicer but has no bed.
No. It’s usually empty when I get back. I used to go on longer trips, a few weeks, and find it empty on return.
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I dunno, this just keeps getting more confusing. You hadn’t started the truck in nine months. So did you ride your bike to check out atms? The only machines I’ve seen that give out coins are at the casinos.
Now I’ve been on the other side too. We would tow a car the same day, not nine months later. Towed a friends car because he didn’t display the hang tag. At least I drove him to the impound lot. But gee nine months and a plate warning sometime before that? Should have been very clear on what you could do and couldn’t do. Maybe they would just prefer you not rent from them.
Unless I missed it all I know is that this is a private lot. But what kind of lot ? Apartment parking where RT is living - a lot where you pay a monthly fee to park - one that has window stickers that show you can park there ?
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If the tags are covered and not visible, by YOUR definition doesn’t that make it inoperable by being illegal to drive, and therefor you are NOT following all the rules??
Codes will come out and take pictures and send you a letter in the mail stating that you have 30 days to have it mobile, or out of site (garaged) or removed from the property, or they will remove it for you with an added hefty fine…and while they are at it, they will nitpick the heck out of you and make you clean everything up… lol
Are you not able to park your vehicle where you live on site??
Which yours was, you had to jump start it to get it running.
You should be happy they booted it instead of just towing it.
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From their point of view, you stopped driving the truck in February. Perhaps you have been observed performing repairs to the engine and painting parts of the truck. These things draw complaint from other tenants.
Perhaps the management assumed in haste that the truck is inoperable, but the truck was stored for so long the battery went dead. If the management had asked you to move the truck to a different parking spot and the engine failed to start, is it immobile or inoperable?
They will be watching you and your truck, you will need to appease them by making the truck appear to be a useful vehicle.
The people near where Random Troll either parks his truck, or parks his truck and lives, sound like they need some new hobbies, or attitude adjustments.
I had the hood up on my Honda every other month to check fluids, wipe dust off the engine, keep it clean and cool in there . Every other Sunday morning, checked the tire pressures.
Nobody complained about such activity where I lived!
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Big difference, you DRIVE your vehicle often, R-T only drives about a 100 miles a year and his truck sat unmoved for 9 months…
Checking oil and air pressure is not unusual, masking off and painting your vehicle in a parking lot and not moving it is unusual…
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Is it the principle of it. Isn’t it more expensive to pay for that Parking Spot, the Insurance on the Truck, the Registrations, the State Inspection, than the value of the Truck? Whether it is Immobile or Inoperable, you can’t get in and drive somewhere, so the best description of it is, “It’s Useless…”
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Security Camera? Dust on the car? Dust under the car? Chaulk marks by the tires?
If my truck sits around for just a few days in my garage it gets dusty and easily tell it hasn’t been driven for a while.
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Good thing you don’t live in Boston.
How so? How so? (repeated to satisfy “10 characters” rule)