towing company broke my car alarm system?
September 4, 2010 by
Filed under american alarm company
i live in apartment complex where parking is real bi*ch… there is like 3 towing cars around midnight towing cars without parking permit. So yesterday i had a baby shower and needed couple parking temp. passes from the leasing office. i had my husband use one of the temp pass because i wanted my sister to use the main car port parking. ( she arrived late and no more parking spcaes) well long story short my husbands car was towed WITH a parking permit.. we were clueless and when we got to the towing yard and saw what was wrong.. the parking permit taped on his window had came off.. i didnt wanted make things difficult so i paid whole amount 265 dollars to get my truck back.
Yes and that was not it. My truck would not start…. so this guy who is not even a mechanic lifts my truck and goes underneath the truck with few tools. this was all done behind the gate so my husband and i had to peak thru the gate to see what he was doing. I yelled telling him not to touch my truck.. ( i was angry already about the pass falling off and did not want this driver guy just touching my truck WITHOUT my permission. so truck starts and i ask this guy nicely what he did to it. he did not explain himself and denied that he had tools on his hands. he drove the truck out to the parking lot. i told him that we were not going anywhere unless he tells us what he did to the car. i tried calling the police and they said it was a civil matter… geeezzz… this driver guy from the towing yard kept on wanting us to leave to property.. weird huh? what was i suppose to do to protect myself ???? ( we ended up just leaving he towing yard…)
now truck alarm isnt working … resetting doesnt work.. what should i do???
Sue the mother effing towing company!! They should not have towed the car in the first place!! I’ve had this happen to me as well. They did like three hundred dollars of damage. After speaking to the manager and the police department, they paid for everything (the tow company).
Basically, it is he said she said. Here is my question to you. Why did you not hear the alarm go off when they were towing it away???? To me, that says it was not working in the first place. Or, let me guess, you did not set the alarm!
Anyways, the police are correct. It is your responsibility to make sure that the temp. permit is on the vehicle. It was not. Therefore, it was towed. So, you are going to have to take the towing company to small claims court (as the police officer told you). Then, you are going to have to prove to the judge that it was working. Remember the question I asked you before….I am sure the judge is going to ask the same question!