Missing* Dyane

[colino]

The dealer will be, rightfully, crapping themselves and not just the immediate bad press.  Most buyers know that the Consumers Rights Act makes the dealer responsible for the car being fit for purpose, satisfactory quality and as described, but right up there with those magic three, they must be able to demonstrate that they have the right to sell it. If there is anything missing from the car log, like details of who sold it to them, receipt and paper trail. Trading Standards will hear the public outcry and stomp all over them. 

[jim89]

36 minutes ago, colino said:

The dealer will be, rightfully, crapping themselves and not just the immediate bad press.  Most buyers know that the Consumers Rights Act makes the dealer responsible for the car being fit for purpose, satisfactory quality and as described, but right up there with those magic three, they must be able to demonstrate that they have the right to sell it. If there is anything missing from the car log, like details of who sold it to them, receipt and paper trail. Trading Standards will hear the public outcry and stomp all over them. 

Especially if they were assisted* to sniff out this foxshit...

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I'd love to know what the owner's daughter has done about all of this. Let's hope she managed to get to the seller before he tried to return it to his sketchy mates the original purchaser of the car, rather than hang around and ask the police to sort it. 

[chodweaver]

14 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Theres zero info online about 'A8 Property Solutions', and I knew what Id find next.

Ive done some snooping on the sellers FB page and focused on those with the same surname. There are a lot of pictures of them in mobile homes/of caravans, and one has a very fancy car in a large walled yard.

I'll not say any more, you can have a look yourselves if you want.

@Split_Pin I don't think the van logo is A8 - I think it's AB, or possibly A2B...

Would there be any local significance to A8 ?

I've tried searching on that mobile number (or, as close to what it seems to be) but not turned up anything. Just taking a look at Companies House for AB/A2B Property Solutions...

[jim89]

34 minutes ago, chodweaver said:

@Split_Pin I don't think the van logo is A8 - I think it's AB, or possibly A2B...

Would there be any local significance to A8 ?

I've tried searching on that mobile number (or, as close to what it seems to be) but not turned up anything. Just taking a look at Companies House for AB/A2B Property Solutions...

Companies House... as in Ltd companies? .... splutter 😅

[chodweaver]

3 hours ago, jim89 said:

Companies House... as in Ltd companies? .... splutter 😅

Fair point

🤦

[goosey]

I hope I’m wrong but I have a feeling that car will just disappear now never to be seen again. I really do hope it’s been sorted and returned to the owner 

I doubt the Police will take much interest in what they would see as a worthless uninsured old car that’s possibly just been given away* in a he said/she said situation, even if they did it would be days/weeks later after the dust has settled 

 

* I know it’s not worthless and it has been taken probably by deception 

[captain_70s]

21 minutes ago, goosey said:

I hope I’m wrong but I have a feeling that car will just disappear now never to be seen again

The best case for getting the car back intact would have been buying it back from the dealer I reckon.

I suspect it's burnt out remains will crop up eventually if it's gone back to the original "buyer", police won't deal with a nicked car at the best of times. Let alone where travellers are involved.

[sierraman]

It’s not much use to the thieves now, the cat is out of the bag so apart from breaking it up it’ll probably get taken somewhere and fired. 

[Bear]

I am not so pessimistic. I think that a nicked car is not that interesting to police, but "people targeting vulnerable elderly people" can be as it becomes possible to link many crimes together.

And  it may be easier to return the car as "a misunderstanding" and avoid the scrutiny than dispose of it and keep attention focused.

For example the dealer involved may not hear the end of it on socials if they were daft enough to put the car back where it will be guaranteed to be destroyed...

And this thread is on the visible part of the site should anyone be curious about Reilly Classic Cars - who does seem to have been dealing in higher end things for some time and is followed by the likes of Paul Cowland on insta, so if any underhand shit was proven the wider community would very rapidly hear about it and be checking that dealer if anything interesting goes missing in the area...

[Bear]

As for buying it back from the dealer, bollocks to that - the thing was being marketed for £2995 four days after selling on Facebook with zero providence or background checks, no effort to tidy it or make it functional.

They'll be lucky to get out of this with an intact reputation if anything other than the car landing back with the owner in the same condition it was when removed happens.

[Split_Pin]

I'd love to see a picture of it back where it belongs in the original garage. It looks a dry place and it will not be eating a piece in there for another 20 years after which, hopefully, someone genuine will buy it.

[sierraman]

I don’t know what the deal is with the trader so I can’t speculate. But if it’s been took by the the people it’s eluded to further back on this thread then you’d be very, very naive to imagine for a minute they’re going to get pangs of guilt and whip it back round to the garage with a bow wrapped round it and a letter of apology. 

[sierraman]

1 minute ago, Split_Pin said:

I'd love to see a picture of it back where it belongs in the original garage. It looks a dry place and it will not be eating a piece in there for another 20 years after which, hopefully, someone genuine will buy it.

I would but unfortunately that’s doubtful would be the case. Lesson if nothing else to make sure your security is good and elderly relatives are kept an eye on.

[N Dentressangle]

18 hours ago, colino said:

The dealer will be, rightfully, crapping themselves and not just the immediate bad press.  Most buyers know that the Consumers Rights Act makes the dealer responsible for the car being fit for purpose, satisfactory quality and as described, but right up there with those magic three, they must be able to demonstrate that they have the right to sell it. If there is anything missing from the car log, like details of who sold it to them, receipt and paper trail. Trading Standards will hear the public outcry and stomp all over them. 

He won't give a toss:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/8MMDjzhh7aYZjylcxkW_cxQcOIM/appointments

He's one of them.

It's not the foreigners who come across the Channel in rubber boats I'd be deporting...

[Bear]

Hmm

Interesting micro accounts. Most of the stock visible on Instagram for the periods shown is rather more valuable than implied there.

[Split_Pin]

Theres nothing remarkable about his Company activity or the micro accounts. They just show that fuck all is put through the busines.

I see that the accounts are overdue though which isnt good. I can see they were due to be struck off the register a couple of years ago as well but somehow got redemption.

[richardmorris]

Nothing new today from Will.  It’s all rather fishy and sad for the family.

[Knotty Ash Towers]

The car dealer deserves to go to prison for this, especially for being stupid enough to get involved with caravan dwellers 

[Split_Pin]

He certainly does but unfortunately the police won't do anything.

Karma will catch up with him, probably via a big bill for his L322 Range Rover 🤣

As for the travelling people (don't worry my inside head voice is calling them many other things), they'll piss off another family eventually who will drive their Transit pickups through all their mobile homes in retaliation. Or shoot them. Something like that anyway!

[Knotty Ash Towers]

Surely it can't be that difficult for him to give the car back to the owner's family?

[alcyonecorporation]

What a depressing result. 

[Crackers]

[Split_Pin]

16 minutes ago, Knotty Ash Towers said:

Surely it can't be that difficult for him to give the car back to the owner's family?

Personally I don't believe hes given it back to anyone, it will still be in his unit. He'll be best buds with the people who originally took it and none of them will give a fuck. This situation will just be an occupational  hazard to them, they'll nick hundreds of items.

 

2 minutes ago, Crackers said:

🤣🤣 I saw that!!

[Bear]

https://w3w.co/stable.nail.hello

I wondered where he was operating, after seen a video pop up for a Renault 5, checking Facebook to see if it was stolen from somewhere, and finding his alter-ego, Darren Martin, advertising it...

[Bradders59]

If it was taken from a member of my family, I would simply visit the dealer and demand the return of the stolen property.

If he refuses, there are various consequences that can follow. It can start with the Police, and if no results................go the other way.

[rusty_vw_man]

There is not a chance that the dealer didn’t know exactly what he was doing - you don’t trade that level of cars without being able to do basic checks on who you’re buying from. 

There is also no way the initial seller would return it - experience shows that they will have many witnesses willing to swear blind they were no where near when it happened, if indeed it happened, which it definitely didn’t. 

If you’re an optimist the ‘best outcome’ I can see is it gets chopped up and keeps a few more on the road.

Police have little chance of successful prosecution here so probably won’t get involved - see above about witnesses. 

I’d love to be proved wrong, but I lived in an area for many years with several permanent ‘camps’ and have seen far too often how it works and what they got away with.

We all need to keep an eye on our old people - families are more fragmented, and live further apart, so are less around to see stuff, so it’s up to the rest of society to pop round if they see rogue traders or ‘travellers’ having a chat with old Mr Higgins at number 6…. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

On 06/10/2025 at 20:59, richardmorris said:

Edit. Turns out it’s on eBay at the moment!  Will at Cambridge 2cv is trying to get in touch with the daughter to get more info. 
 

Looks like Reilly Classic Cars have vanished from Ebay. As @Bradders59 mentioned, why haven't the family gone ape shit about the whole thing? Literally daylight robbery...

[captain_70s]

1 hour ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Looks like Reilly Classic Cars have vanished from Ebay. As @Bradders59 mentioned, why haven't the family gone ape shit about the whole thing? Literally daylight robbery...

Would you want to antagonise the caravan folk when they know where you live? Their modus operandi is daylight robbery and getting away with it.

The dealer has clearly decided to go with the "I bought it in good faith, take it up with them" approach and will presumably return under a new business name once this blows over.

[sierraman]

Until it involves them everyone is emboldened enough to go round and challenge the travellers to a fist fight with some sixty year old blokes out the pub armed with a slipper and a broom handle like an episode of Minder crossed with a Brian Rix farce.