Missing* Dyane

[Split_Pin]

I hope the dealer ends up with a max £1500 penalty for late filing of accounts. HMRC won't be aware of the type he fraternises with so will levy it regardless.

Don't be afraid to be a curtain twitcher, it could stop this sort of thing happening. Shite tinkering on the drive is a sure fire way of seeing and hearing stuff thats out of sorts.

[Bear]

As far as I can see the best thing is to just make sure the "sells stolen cars" just keeps following him.

He has 10K followers on Insta - including Paul Cowland. He clearly wants to be a serious classic dealer...

[loserone]

They're back and they have an MI16?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/406359702049

[Snipes]

6 minutes ago, loserone said:

They're back and they have an MI16?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/406359702049

No v5 naturally (for what it's worth).

[sierraman]

6 minutes ago, Snipes said:

No v5 naturally (for what it's worth).

Couldn’t find it in the middle of the night. 😂

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 hour ago, loserone said:

They're back and they have an MI16?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/406359702049

Have you asked if they have any Dyanes in stock? 

[GeordieInExile]

That 405 is filthy, has it been hiding in a hedge for a few months?

[Split_Pin]

That was in the background of the Dyane pictures. Looks a total heap IMO.

[Bear]

The Dyane listing reappeared (as a cancelled one - not a new one). I assume that the predictions were right and the dumbass dealer not only bought a stolen vehicle, he was sufficiently thick as to return it to the thief and not the owner...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/406262996596

 

[jon.k]

6 hours ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Have you asked if they have any Dyanes in stock? 

They could do with lots of this and similar enquiries .

[richardmorris]

On 24/11/2025 at 07:40, loserone said:

They're back and they have an MI16?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/406359702049

No V5!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

On 24/11/2025 at 12:34, Bear said:

The Dyane listing reappeared (as a cancelled one - not a new one). I assume that the predictions were right and the dumbass dealer not only bought a stolen vehicle, he was sufficiently thick as to return it to the thief and not the owner...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/406262996596

 

I'd love to know what the owner's family have done about this. As mentioned previously, I wouldn't be able to let it go. 

I'm assuming the radio silence suggests the family have drawn a line under it and the light-fingered shitbag has pulled it apart and thrown it in the bin. What a waste. 

[goosey]

2 hours ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

I'd love to know what the owner's family have done about this. As mentioned previously, I wouldn't be able to let it go. 

I'm assuming the radio silence suggests the family have drawn a line under it and the light-fingered shitbag has pulled it apart and thrown it in the bin. What a waste. 

I think when it comes to having to actually approach people to get their property back when they find the Police don’t want to get involved most ordinary people don’t want to get into intense situations and that much loved family classic becomes just an old car they could do without 

[Matty]

On 14/10/2025 at 22:29, sierraman said:

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. 

I made the mistake of locking the gates when they came into our place nicking scrap. In the resultant face to face, ive maybe been more scared in my life, but im buggered if i can remember when 🤣

[Bear]

Going after the dealer would have made sense when the car was there. I would have done that if it were mine, hell, I'd have done it on their behalf had I still been local.

But not travellers. You can usually scare people who cross the boundary but are basically legal/want to live within legal protections.

Anyone who has opted out, who thinks they're untouchable rather than known, or protected as the root of confidence?

You've no cards to play. Here be dragons, as they say. You'd have to be prepared to go further than they would, and most people are sensible and don't, and that's how they get to act like this 😕

[New POD]

On 09/10/2025 at 13:47, sierraman said:

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.

Note that The Land Registery have a Warning System in place. You can register any address in the UK and get a warning if someone tries to transfer the deeds. If you've paid off your mortgage or your Grandparents are perhaps vulnerable, then it is worth 4 minutes of effort.  You don't have to prove you have an interest in the property either to sign up. 

 

[N Dentressangle]

9 hours ago, Bear said:

Going after the dealer would have made sense when the car was there. I would have done that if it were mine, hell, I'd have done it on their behalf had I still been local.

But not travellers. You can usually scare people who cross the boundary but are basically legal/want to live within legal protections.

Anyone who has opted out, who thinks they're untouchable rather than known, or protected as the root of confidence?

You've no cards to play. Here be dragons, as they say. You'd have to be prepared to go further than they would, and most people are sensible and don't, and that's how they get to act like this 😕

This all over. Best just avoided entirely.

I've said it before, but if people were really bothered about lawless immigrants...

[Dick Cheeseburger]

9 hours ago, Bear said:

Going after the dealer would have made sense when the car was there. I would have done that if it were mine, hell, I'd have done it on their behalf had I still been local.

But not travellers. You can usually scare people who cross the boundary but are basically legal/want to live within legal protections.

Anyone who has opted out, who thinks they're untouchable rather than known, or protected as the root of confidence?

You've no cards to play. Here be dragons, as they say. You'd have to be prepared to go further than they would, and most people are sensible and don't, and that's how they get to act like this 😕

I wasn't suggesting going near the travellers to be fair. I'd have stood at the dealer's unit when the car was still there and insisted on staying onsite until I had the keys back in my hand. 

[goosey]

8 hours ago, New POD said:

Note that The Land Registery have a Warning System in place. You can register any address in the UK and get a warning if someone tries to transfer the deeds. If you've paid off your mortgage or your Grandparents are perhaps vulnerable, then it is worth 4 minutes of effort.  You don't have to prove you have an interest in the property either to sign up. 

 

Bloody hell, wish I’d known about this back in 2017 when unbeknownst to myself my younger brother transferred ownership of my fathers house into his name. I only ended up finding this out last year when my Father passed away 

[Bradders59]

Its unbelievable / infuriating / saddening, how people will stitch up their own nearest & dearest when money is involved.

I have had similar myself, and I dont know how they can look at themselves in the mirror or sleep easy at night.

People can be cunts, even (or maybe especially ?) families.

[comfortablynumb]

Unfortunately many family loyalties vanish as soon as money/inheritance is involved 😕

[Split_Pin]

Get a trustworthy local solicitor to draw up a will and take their advice regarding Powers of Attorney etc. List any items of interest/value specifically.

Dying intestate can be a messy business. You'd be amazed at who comes sniffing around when someone dies.

[UltraWomble]

14 hours ago, Bear said:

But not travellers. You can usually scare people who cross the boundary but are basically legal/want to live within legal protections.

Ive (in the last 5 minutes) read on a patients case notes that travelers have "offered" him £3000 for his camper van (which he bought for £30000 in the summer) or have told him they will just take it off him.

[Knotty Ash Towers]

9 minutes ago, UltraWomble said:

Ive (in the last 5 minutes) read on a patients case notes that travelers have "offered" him £3000 for his camper van (which he bought for £30000 in the summer) or have told him they will just take it off him.

They really are scum. I don't understand why some people in this country refuse to hear a word said against them...

[Bear]

2 minutes ago, Knotty Ash Towers said:

They really are scum. I don't understand why some people in this country refuse to hear a word said against them...

The thing is the 'they' who are 'scum' isn't travellers per se, it's criminals, and they're just as quick to abandon travelling and set up businesses and THEN be different kinds of criminals, but always with the criminal bit. I'm not comfortable claiming everyone in a group is automatically assigned the behaviour of the worst ones in the group, for example.

Travelling criminals /= travellers, but you can't blame everyone assuming the appearance of travellers means the appearance of some travelling criminals, and then finding the distinction is too damn long to verbalise when your bikes have been nicked from a locked shed the same weekend the local B&Q became a mini Pontins.

[EightMegs]

I went to school with a few travellers and in my experience there's good and bad in them, same as any other community, but people aren't primed to notice the former and tend to tar them all as the latter.

[Pieman]

Just get rid of all humans, then the problem goes away.

[green200b]

https://www.facebook.com/share/1ALpoDh9KV/

 

This just popped up when I was looking for something else.

[Knotty Ash Towers]

3 hours ago, green200b said:

https://www.facebook.com/share/1ALpoDh9KV/

 

This just popped up when I was looking for something else.

At least it has survived and no longer appears to be in the hands of caravan-dwellers...

[sierraman]

6 minutes ago, Knotty Ash Towers said:

At least it has survived and no longer appears to be in the hands of caravan-dwellers...

How has he come by it though?