Wheel blocking
Removal of wheel-blocking device
The removal of the wheel-blocking device is provided within 2 hours upon receiving the call from 6.00 a.m. until 23.00 p.m. only if all post-payment notices have been paid.
Contacts
You can apply for the removal of a wheel-blocking device by phone 8585.
A wheel-blocking device is put on the vehicle after the third post-payment notice is applied if at least two post-payment notices received after the 1st November 2018 have not been paid or in cases where no registration plate is attached to the vehicle.
The second unpaid post-payment notice warns vehicle drivers that next time a wheel-blocking device will be put on the vehicle.
See post-payment notices here.
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How to act if a wheel-blocking device has been put on the vehicle?
1. Pay the post-paid notices indicated:
- at a pay machine;
- at Rīgas satiksme customer service centres;
- at a parking controller.
2. book a wheel lock removal by phone 8585 or 20361862.
3. Wheel lock removal is provided within 2 hours of the call from 6.00 to 23.00, only if all post-paid notices have been paid.
If a wheel-locking device is applied to the vehicle, no reduced post-paid charges shall apply to unpaid notices.
The application of a wheel lock shall not exempt the user of the car park from paying for the use of the car park on subsequent days in the event that the removal of the wheel lock is not requested.