parking4you.co.uk

Tried to scam us out of £500+

Unfortunately the rate is for the business that I used via the parking4you website.Go parking Stansted or safemeet located at Stansted they are one and the same tried to scam me out of £500+.Booked a meet and greet and paid £37. Met the pick up driver at the orange car park and handed over the keys. I had a 10 minute walk to the terminal and then a 1.5 hour wait until I boarded my plane.When I arrived at my destination, now 4 hours after I dropped off my car, I received a text stating that they had did a check on my MOT status and found it had ran out - my mistake I own that. However, they stated that the driver could not drive the car as they would not be insured, so they parked it on the short stay car park and it would cost £18 per hour. Forgot to mention that I only got to speak to them at 10am the next morning.I stated why they only checked the car after they had driven it, surely that check should be carried out on booking to make sure they are not wasting their time travelling to pick up a car that may not be taxed or MOT’ed.I also told them that I had a tracker on my car and could see that the car was parked on a nearby farm and was not in the car park at Stansted. They then stated that to get the car MOT’ed it would cost £220.So £18 an hour from 17.30 to 12.00 the next day plus £220 MOT. Do the maths.They were extremely rude on the phone and said that the situation was as it was and that I had to pay.I asked them why they did not check the card status before picking up. They said that they cannot be expected to check every car they pick up, which contradicts their whole reason for being. I also said that was o just lucky that you checked my car, which they said the driver did after we dropped it off to him.This makes no sense as surely if he was checking for the sole purpose of making sure the car was legal to drive you would do that at any point before getting in the car. Also they had up to 2 hours to call me before I got on a plane to let me know, but instead waited for me to get on my plane before texting me.So the upshot was that my brother lived nearby and I got him to drive to where the car was kept, where he found around 70 cars parked in a farmers field that had a portacabin with no one to be seen in attendance. We had fortunately spoken to a different person from the company who had no idea of the £18 charge the previous person had mentioned.My brother was able to obtain the key from someone who finally turned up and retrieved my car with no charge.Straight to a local garage who charged £60 for an MOT.Parking4you you need to vet and take action by removing companies that have terrible reviews, which this company has many from your site.

Date of experience: Feb 06, 2026