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APCOA Luton PCN has now been passed onto debt recovery
DIR By: skycherry
Date: March 11, 2026, 2:18 pm
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Hi,
I got a text message today informing me about a parking charge
on my car. I actually thought it was a spam/phish attempt. After
doing some searching online and this great forum, I now believe
it is related to Luton Airport drop off.
The bailiff is DRP. They are requesting £170. Parking charge
issued by APCOA.
I have not recieved any information about this until this
message today. Having looked through other forum threads, I
checked my V5C and its my prior address, not current. I am going
to get that changed asap. Do I have any chance to fight this? I
have no information to even understand what date it was meant to
be issued for.
Thank you for your time.
Kind regards
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Re: APCOA Luton PCN has now been passed onto debt recovery
DIR By: jfollows
Date: March 11, 2026, 4:27 pm
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Our experience has been that APCOA doesn’t “do” court, in which
case you ignore and do nothing.
Had you replied to APCOA within their appeal window, we could
probably have advised something which would have resulted in a
cancellation.
Now, you just have to ignore.
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Re: APCOA Luton PCN has now been passed onto debt recovery
DIR By: skycherry
Date: March 11, 2026, 4:37 pm
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Thank you for taking the time to respond, it is appreciated.
This has been a lesson for me for sure. I will ignore them.
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Re: APCOA Luton PCN has now been passed onto debt recovery
DIR By: InterCity125
Date: March 12, 2026, 6:44 am
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It is super important to point out that DRP are not acting as a
bailiff in this particular matter - I understand that they
deliberately avoid making that obvious in their letters etc.
DRP are merely acting as a debt collector in this instance.
Other areas of DRP's activities may include acting as a bailiff
but that is a very separate part of the business and would never
relate to a private parking charge which had never even seen the
inside of a court room.
They use words like 'bailiff' to imply that you are in 'deeper
trouble' than you really are - their wording is deliberately set
out to cause alarm to the recipient.
It should really be outlawed.
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Re: APCOA Luton PCN has now been passed onto debt recovery
DIR By: ixxy
Date: March 12, 2026, 6:51 am
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I would assume this is a scam. Debt collection companies will
contact you by post, they won't have your phone number. Even if
they did a credit check and worked out you had moved they would
then write to your new address. Ignore it. Anything important
that you need to respond to will come in the post like a letter
of claim.
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Re: APCOA Luton PCN has now been passed onto debt recovery
DIR By: DWMB2
Date: March 12, 2026, 6:59 am
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If your V5C has been wrong for a considerable amount of time,
one sensible (and free) step you can take is to send a Subject
Access Request
HTML https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/make-a-subject-access-request-to-dvla<br
/>to the DVLA to find out who (if anyone) has accessed your
keeper
details during the period of time between you moving and you
updating your V5C.
This will give you a bit of a heads up in case there might be
any other outstanding parking charges from other companies that
would have gone to your old address.
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Re: APCOA Luton PCN has now been passed onto debt recovery
DIR By: skycherry
Date: March 12, 2026, 12:36 pm
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InterCity125
Thank you for the clarification. This has been a new topic for
me, so that is good to know. You are correct the word "bailiff"
is not used, that came from me. I have not received letters.
Just a single text message.
ixxy
I would have agreed (and it might be), but they did have my car
reg, having used Luton about 4 times in the last 6 months and it
mentioned APCOA it did trigger my "I need to look into this..."
sense. But yes, sending a randon "Pay us now!!" from some mobile
number is a terrible way to do this.
DWMB2
This is very good to know, I will follow up on that. It has been
wrong for a considerable amount of time. One of those life
lessons - Update your V5C!!
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If there are any non personal details I can reveal to help I am
happy to do so.
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