Where can I leave my car for a week?

[Harb505]

Well me and a few friends are off for a week hiking/backpacking in Scottland in a coulple of months or so. It's my intention to drive up there. This presents a problem that I need somewhere where i can leave my car for a week. Our destination will probably be the Galloway forest but maybe as far up as Aviemore. In the past I have called camp sites in advance and come to an agreement about usning their car parks but my luck seems to of run dry on that front.
Any suggestions would be really appreciated thank you.

 

[John Fenna]

Rip off a wiper, go to a garage and ask them to replace it.
Let them know that you are in no hurry and will leave the car with them ... if the job is not done by the time you return pop it back on yourself a few yards down the road.
The cost of the job will justify the security of the parking!
Cheaper than long term parking at an airport!

 

[Harb505]

Good idea...but I think leaving my car at a garage for a week might be push it a bit

 

[Retired Member southey]

Try hotels or pubs, youth hostles and atrractions lots of these will have CCTV,

 

[John Fenna]

Good idea...but I think leaving my car at a garage for a week might be push it a bit

It takes my local garage that long to do minor jobs!

 

[santaman2000]

Pawn it. Then reclaim it at the end of the week.

 

[MikeLA]

Dont bother take a train or Coach. Much less hassle and you will not spend the time worrying about the car

 

[demographic]

Could you not just leave it in a close (ish) village?

If there's no specific parking restrictions for that area then your road tax covers its space on the road surely.

 

[cbr6fs]

Could you not just leave it in a close (ish) village?

If there's no specific parking restrictions for that area then your road tax covers its space on the road surely.

+1

I've been hiking and mountain biking many times for 1 week 2weeks etc and never had any problems leaving my car at the start of the hike.

 

[Harb505]

Could you not just leave it in a close (ish) village?

If there's no specific parking restrictions for that area then your road tax covers its space on the road surely.

Sounds good would get the train but the fuel cost are a fraction of the ticket cost especially as we will be sharing fuel costs.

 

[Toddy]

Tie things down a little tighter; so that you give a fair idea of where you're going, and maybe folks in the area would let you leave the car next to their house or know of a safe place near to where you're going.
Country wide is too large a scope.

cheers,
Toddy...........on street here is safe, but we're not near anything you'd really want to climb/camp and we're the wrong side of Glasgow for the Trossachs.