if its a private company, they'll ignore all your letters and carry on sending you threaten letters till they give up.
as a private company they cant legally issue you with fines, they look like official fines from police/council traffic wardens, but they arnt.
they are issuing you with invoices. and as such they cant make you pay them.
send them a letter stating the facts about your 2 visits to halfords and tell them you wont be paying their invoice, and you will ignore all contact from them to you, until your in receipt of official court action papers reguarding their invoice.
keep a copy yourself. keep a copy of their standard responce letter to ALL people that challenge.
after about 3 letters and 6 months. you'll then get a letter stating their intention to start court action. about a month after that you'll get another letter from a b/s solicitors (usually roxberge or greyham white.) stating they are now handling the claim, and they intend to file court action.
if they can get hold of your phone number they ring you too!
they'll hastle you like this till either they or you give up, their invoice total will keep going up, but one thing that will NEVER happen is court action!
READ UP!
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