How do I find if my car has been given a parking ticket or similar?

Stansgran why don't you just phone the garage and say "my car appears to have 50 miles more on the clock than when it was taken to you for repair. I'm just wondering how this came about?" or something similar, and see what they say ...........

I'd forget it. In the unlikely event of a parking ticket/being used as a gettaway car/involved in a hit & run/drive-by shooting etc you have the receipt to prove it wasn't in your ownership at that time.

I agree with Anya unless the garage took a record of the mileage when
they took the car in and you have a copy then I'm afraid it might just be your word against theirs. In the (unlikely) event that a parking or speeding ticket does arrive then you have the perfect alibi, that the car was with the garage and therefore they are responsible.

I would definitely take it up with the garage! They can't just use your car just because it's in their workshop. Diabolical! Get on to them.

So there is a tiny bit of me that likes the idea of my staid and solid 4x4 being used as a getaway car or a drive by shooting( think of all the villains in downtown Newcastle )and it has got tinted rear windows........

You've been watching too much Vera Stansgran

Be quicker on a bicycle than my car!?

Oh Janea is it the ancient riding mac or the quilted gilet that's given me away?

Well if the cap fits, Stansgran........

If you haven't heard in a month, then it hasn't been parked anywhere it shouldn't have been.
I think the car park companies have three weeks in which to send you a request for payment of a fine.

I would inform the insurers. You don't know how many others have complained and it all adds weight to bad garages.

Jane I love Vera

Yes, I will watch anything that Brenda Blethyn is in Anya

I think it is worth mentioning it - if the garage realise that people are aware it might curb their enthusiasm in future.

I would ring the garage and ask the question. They could have an absolutely reasonable answer.

Or they might be horrified to realise that one of their employees has used your car and they'll give her/him a bollocking.

They may also say that the car had to go for a decent test run- a bit far I know but they in theory know best. It is your word against the garage owner/manager

I once did have a car used as a getaway car. I had traded it in but the garage had not sent the change of ownership details to the DVLC, so I got woken up late one night with the police on the doorstop asking about 'my' car.

There followed a long saga that lasted a year, which I will not bore you with, and which did not reflect well on the competence of the local police and ended with a phone call from the Sussex Police to say that my car was in their pound in Brighton (over 100 miles away), their investigations were complete and did I want to come down and collect it!

Stansgran, have you heard any more?