Private parking companies handed UK drivers with a record-breaking 13million fines last year – that’s 36,000 every single day, double what it was five years ago.

And it’s not just about catching genuine parking offenders. Countless drivers are being fined for "keying errors"—where machines fail to register full license plates, or cut off numbers entirely.

🚨 A driver in Nottinghamshire was fined £282 after a parking machine "[jumped forward](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdeln2ly1z0o)" and only recorded two letters of her plate. She had no idea.

🚨 In another car park, over 100 drivers received £100 fines after machines cut off parts of their registration numbers—even when they typed them in correctly.

🚨 London councils are now making things worse—[hiking fines by 25%](https://www.timeout.com/london/news/parking-fines-are-about-to-go-up-in-all-33-london-boroughs-heres-when-and-by-how-much-021925), meaning a £130 fine could soon be £160. There was a public consultation. Nearly 50% of residents opposed it. They did it anyway.

Meanwhile, private parking firms are raking in millions:

* Euro Car Parks made £10m in profit (2023)
* ParkingEye made £27m, up 20% in a single year

**I Got a £195 Fine – Here’s What Happened**

Last year, I was blindsided by a £195 fine—no warning, just a letter through the post demanding payment that I pay.  I was super stressed out as I had go no other previous correspondence about a fine, and it was on top of having a stressful time at work and the price of everything going up 

After spending countless hours researching, I challenged it and got it reduced to £65—but the process was deliberately frustrating, long and complex.

This whole experience made me realise: the system isn’t designed for fairness—it’s designed to make you give up.

**So I Built Resolvo – A Completely Free Tool to Help Drivers Fight Back**

Most people don’t challenge fines, not because they’re guilty, but because the process is exhausting. That’s why I built [Resolvo](https://resolvo.uk/)—a free tool that helps drivers appeal unfair fines in minutes.

You just tell it what happened and it will write an appeal for you based on parking regulations. I trained it on quite a lot of information and it's been successful for other people. It's 100% free and nearly 1000 people have used it. 

**Why Are We Letting This Happen?**

With 13million  fines issued last year, this isn’t about keeping car parks in order—it’s an industry designed to profit off people who are too busy or stressed to fight back.

🚗 Have you ever been fined for a "keying error" or some other ridiculous reason? Did you fight it, or just paid it to escape the stress?

🔗 Check out [Resolvo ](https://resolvo.uk/)here if you need help

