This chap has some interesting land rover parts for sale. dserieswhitey | eBay I'm sure it's all above board and everything, obviously.

You know, i think you all might be right.

Which bit of this is from 1967 do you think? Land rover 90 defender, hybrid on/off roader | eBay

Indeed, you're obviously buying the ID, not the chassis, because surely if you wanted the chassis it would be because you had a vehicle requiring a chassis, and surely that vehicle would have an ID already? Not sure whether it's within the letter of the law to do what he's doing, ebay clearly...

Ask yourself why anyone would want a chassis with an ID. In the unlikely event that your 02 disco had a rotten chassis, you might want another chassis, but you don't need the ID, maybe you have a crashed disco with a bent chassis, as above you wouldn't need the ID. If you wanted to build a...

Oh look Land Rover Discovery Td5 2001 51-Reg Chassis with Id | eBay

I can't blow the pictures up enough to see a vin tag on the servo, it could be there. Our hero isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, he says in the listing he gave £800 for it but it's in his feedback that he bought it for £720, just for starters. To be fair, he hasn't nicked it, if...

There are several pictures of the engine bay in the auction, they're not very good pictures though, where abouts is the vin tag in the engine bay?

no they didn't get anything, it was only by chance i went back to the house to get something, i was in the kitchen and i heard someone running down the stairs, if he hadn't of panicked and run i'd not have realised he was there and gone back outside. I wasn't particularly brave, just very...

With ours, in hindsight they'd been sneaking around the farm at night for couple of days before hand checking things out. the land rovers were normally parked right outside the house but on that particular night i'd left them both out of the way at the top of the yard because we had a friend...

I think the problem is that ebay don't really care, i've reported loads of people for blatantly selling vin tags for land rovers, either defenders or tax exempt vehicles. One of the forum's favourite sellers ('no fear' of me naming him here obviously, oh no) had an advert for a 90 rolling...

That's what i was thinking to be honest. I don't think these are random opportunist thefts but organised gangs stealing vehicles to order, probably to export. You have my sympathies, I lost two landrovers in the same night in similar circumstances to you, I'm not that far away from you...

Interesting that they took the roof rack off, it would suggest they intended to put it inside a container or tilt lorry. Likewise burning any personal stuff, are they stealing these to order for export?

Landrover Defender 90 | eBay "I don't know why it's got no ID?" could it be something to do with the steering lock having been smashed off, do you think?

Unless things have changed recently, i believe the limit for the small claims track is £5000. I think, as Fanatic is suggesting, the way to go is ask for a full refund and if he refuses, get a quote for full repair to your satisfaction at a reputable garage, and sue for this amount plus any...

The blatant selling of vin tags on ebay really boils my ****, i've reported no end but from experience, ebay will only take them down if the seller is listing the V5 and tags only, if they include a rotten bit of the vehicle then they won't cancel the auction even though it's obvious what is for...

Yes, it's a different type of paint which will only be available as two pack or the more modern water based stuff. brush paint is synthetic, it's a lot thicker than cellulose or two pack or the modern water based paints, you can apply synthetic paint with a spray gun, it goes on in one coat and...

No, you'd need to spray paint metallic. It generally comes in a flat matt base coat onto which you spray a clear lacquer to get the shine. Or at least that's how it was done in the days of cellulose and two pack paints, now water based paints are the industry standard it may be different. I...

I think that's spot on, pretty much what i do myself.

Good luck taking a broken car boot ratchet back to the snap on man if you're not a regular customer (or at the very least, know someone who is so you can get them to take it back for you). There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, there's al ways a catch, with halfords, all you have to do is...