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Originally Posted by Gavin
I thought clamps covered the lugnuts so you can't undo the wheel? I'd guess if you deflate the tyre to empty you could roll most the car and wheel out of the clamp together, assuming the hub is small enough to fit through the braces.
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The latest clamps prevent you from accessing the lugnuts and therefore stop you from taking it off. Up until these were introduced you could indeed get away with it as long as no damage occured and you didn't take the clamp with you (some people used to just leave them at the side of the road).
There are other methods to deal with over-zealous parking rules. When I lived in Oxford in 2001 I used to leave my car in a carpark where the rules were always changing without telling people so by way of a protest I used to park my car with the front right up against a wall, with the number plate literally touching it. I'd remove the rear plate and partially cover up the registration on my tax disk.
This meant they could not give me a ticket as they couldn't record my registration. I wouldn't encourage anyone to try this obviously however a few others copied me at the time and it spurred Oxford council to admit they'd messed with the rules and they sorted it all out a few weeks later.