How can I get my neighbour to have his car checked?

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1. Wait until night and pour a small puddle of oil under his car.

2. Just tell them you’ve found a brake pad where they park and to check the brakes incase its a problem with theirs. If they dont listen then so what, not your problem.

3. Put the brake pad on his car with a note saying you saw it fall off

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5. Wait, so you found a brake pad there, but do you know it’s definitely from his car? That might be why he’s ignoring you.

   But yeah, it’s generally difficult to get people to do anything like that if they don’t know you. Something like a brake light, something that the police would pull you over for: that might get checked if pointed out by a stranger (even then, no guarantee. The person is just as likely to wave it off and say “yeah whatever, I don’t care”), but anything else and they’ll dismiss it. In these times of inflation, people will avoid confronting a problem until they have no other choice. One brake pad coming off can be ignored. All four wheels falling off, not so much.

6. I’d do an MOT lookup on the car and report it if it’s expired.

7. It’s pretty hard for a single brake pad to fall off a car. It sounds more likely that someone did an on-street brake pad change and dropped (or forgot to pick up) one of the old pads when they finished.

8. Report him if he continues to ignore it.

   Putting other peoles lives In danger not just his own.

9. If you’re really that bothered, look at his brake pads, if he’s missing one then tell him.

10. Add the app- know your car. Punch his number plate in. It will tell you all the mot history, advisories, what it failed on last time. Percentage likely to pass next time, service history, jobs performed etc etc- gives messages to you when stuff liky to go wrong. The lot-