right,
company car.. you need to appeal right away so they have your name. If you dont the lease company will almost certainly bill you for admin. This in itself is recoverable, but a massive hassle
so appeal the ticket saying something like
Insufficient signage
Not a genuine pre-estimate of loss
Didn’t attempt to mitigate loss (if the attendant saw you and pounced after you left)
They will almost certainly not allow your appeal however you should get a code to go to the independent service POPLA
some of the less scrupulous company’s have bailed from POPLA appeals and set up there own “independent” service so you might need to read up on this
Appeal to them mainly using the “its not a genuine pre estimate of loss”
other points can be included as well, but they generally only find on a single point
There are time limits this has to be done in, for both you and them
pepipoo is quite a good resource for info on this.
good luck