car problem - tire burst

[coeternity]

i dont know what to do now so hope somebody can tell me

my car's tire burst and i have to leave the car stranded just outside ubc. i parked it at no-parking area so i guess it already got towed away now.

i am home now but how can i find out who towed it? :cheesygri

[dashit]

911

seriously.

[ah802]

i dont know what to do now so hope somebody can tell me

my car's tire burst and i have to leave the car stranded just outside ubc. i parked it at no-parking area so i guess it already got towed away now.

i am home now but how can i find out who towed it? :cheesygri

The police should know who is under contract for this... depending on the area.
I suspect.. once seen that you have a tire problem, you may get lucky and they will have it towed to the closest garage station...

[coeternity]

911

seriously.


u serious? :-0

[Arrow]

Call the RCMP responsible for the area, and they should know.

i dont know what to do now so hope somebody can tell me

my car's tire burst and i have to leave the car stranded just outside ubc. i parked it at no-parking area so i guess it already got towed away now.

i am home now but how can i find out who towed it? :cheesygri

[dashit]

u serious? :-0

I got my ride towed once. Panicked, called 911 and the lady told me who and where to contact the towing company.

Just make sure u payup to get ur car. The towing places are usually full of scary looking ppl, crazy looking rots/pitbulls....

[islandboy_007]

Do not call 911,its for EMERGENCIES. I can just imagine people having real emergencies and not getting thru cause people want to know if starbucks is open.
Every city has a non-emergency line you can call, look it up in the whitepages in the blue section. You can also try a random towing comp. and ask if they have (or can tell you who has) jurisdiction there.

[dashit]

Do not call 911,its for EMERGENCIES. I can just imagine people having real emergencies and not getting thru cause people want to know if starbucks is open.
Every city has a non-emergency line you can call, look it up in the whitepages in the blue section. You can also try a random towing comp. and ask if they have (or can tell you who has) jurisdiction there.

i may be crazy, but i dont carry around a whitepages with me just in case.

and if i did, i would leave it in the car.......call me crazy

[islandboy_007]

i may be crazy, but i dont carry around a whitepages with me just in case.

and if i did, i would leave it in the car.......call me crazy

thats nice to know.....btw the post was for coeternity, who stated that he was already home. Also you could've called 411 in YOUR situation, to get the non-emergency line.

Cheers :D

[coeternity]

thanks guy. i called ubc parking and they told me its under RCMP so i tried to call buster, drake and unitow but none have my car. so i think its still stranded there. i am going back to see now and try to change to spare tire. :|

[islandboy_007]

I volunteered for the rcmp in surrey and i know that they use unitow. Good news that they dont have it there.....

[gilboman]

i may be crazy, but i dont carry around a whitepages with me just in case.

and if i did, i would leave it in the car.......call me crazy

you are not crazy..just plain stupid for calling 911 to ask where your car gets towed to.. :mad:

[stealth]

you are not crazy..just plain stupid for calling 911 to ask where your car gets towed to.. :mad:

Agreed. 911 is for emergencies only, not information. Any local police station can tell you. Ask them if they know if your car was stolen/towed. When mine was towed they gave me directions to the impound yard.
Get it out fast, they charge by the hour for storing it there.

[coeternity]

thanks for the suggestion guys.

i went back and the car is still there so i called buster to tow it to my place :cheesygri

[bobaroo]

what the.... so thought it *might* be towed without actually making sure it wasn't still there?

what a waste of a thread...

[Arrow]

thanks for the suggestion guys.

i went back and the car is still there so i called buster to tow it to my place :cheesygri


You're very lucky it's was still there.

[dashit]

Agreed. 911 is for emergencies only, not information. Any local police station can tell you. Ask them if they know if your car was stolen/towed. When mine was towed they gave me directions to the impound yard.
Get it out fast, they charge by the hour for storing it there.

Disagreed. 911 lady said its the right place to call since car could be either stolen and towed.

[bluetroll]

The towing places are usually full of scary looking ppl, crazy looking rots/pitbulls....

that is sooooo true.

[googoo]

I would have just changed the tire and been on my way !!!! maybe 15 minutes worth of work WHHOPPPEEEE!!

You walked home?? you could have changed the tire in much less time.

Brent

[gh05t]

thanks guy. i called ubc parking and they told me its under RCMP so i tried to call buster, drake and unitow but none have my car. so i think its still stranded there. i am going back to see now and try to change to spare tire. :|

I really must ask this for it seems so obvious. Why didn't you change the tyre immediately as you got the flat seeing that you have a spare. Initially i thought you left the car because you did not have a spare. Most people would change their tyres or call for help immediately. why didn't you. I understand if you are a girl you may not know how but you just said you are going back and you may change the tyre. Just curious as there may be a twist to this story we are missing. :cheesygri

[coeternity]

the problem is i dont have spare tire. i didnt know that till yesterday when i went back to the car :confused:

and i was on my way to do my exam when that happened so i have to leave the car there.

[gh05t]

Man that sucks. Hope you get your car back and remember to pack that spare next time or if your car is very old take out a CAA membership. Hope it works out fine. ;)

[coeternity]

Man that sucks. Hope you get your car back and remember to pack that spare next time or if your car is very old take out a CAA membership. Hope it works out fine. ;)

ya its sux. how come there is no spare tire. i didnt know that when i bought the car haha. anyway its all fine now. thanks.

[islandboy_007]

coeternity, since you dont have one, instead of the regular spare tire, you can get a cheap rim and a used tire for about $40-50.

[islandboy_007]

Disagreed. 911 lady said its the right place to call since car could be either stolen and towed.


Bottom line you are tieing up a line that could be used for more important situations. Now there are more than one line, but say a freak accident happens on the freeway, how many people are calling?
You said that you knew your car was towed. Prob b/c you parked in the wrong spot or the meter ran out, you do that and chances are your car got towed. Also a stolen car is not an emergency, it is different if you see someone breaking in or driving off.

[TrevorK]

Disagreed. 911 lady said its the right place to call since car could be either stolen and towed.

911 isn't the right place to report a stolen car.

[dashit]

Also a stolen car is not an emergency, it is different if you see someone breaking in or driving off.

Agreed. My bad. Did some research and T.O. 5O says to call 416-808-2222 for non-emergency bniz.
I guess the 911 lady didnt know her shiets.

interestingly: all insurance companies recommend calling 911 immediately! In case your vehicle is stolen, the loss can be reported at once to the Police at 911 from http://www.aighawaii.com/advice_autotips.asp