I Dont ***in Believe It

[ex-static]

Imagine you owned a VL ambz.. heheh you could times that by 100 and have still gotten off lightly.

[ice180]

in the meantime this is happening while the cops hassle innocent people.... also so many rusting bombs on the road, have seen cars with metal on metal brakes, cane chairs for seats and a drum with a garden hose to the carby replacing a fuel line, also rust holes big enough for a whole family to fit into, tyres balder than (we won't go there) and more smoke than a james Bond special effect

THIEVES are stealing an estimated $100 million in cars annually to support the state's illegal vehicle rebirthing industry.

Gangs with strong links to other areas of organised crime are stealing up to 4000 late-model and prestige cars a year to feed the trade.

The rackets have defied a drop in the level of car thefts statewide to become the number one problem for specialist car theft investigators.

Det-Insp Paul Hollowood, of the Victoria Police stolen motor vehicle unit, said between 600 and 1000 cars, with an average value of about $40,000, were stolen for rebirthing in Victoria every three months.

Rebirthers use stolen vehicles and blend them with cheaply purchased written-off cars with legitimate chassis and engine numbers to transform them into an apparently legitimate product.

Buyers who pay big money for what they think is a new car find themselves with no right to keep it if the vehicle is found to be stolen.

Det-Insp Hollowood said buyers should ask as many questions as possible about a car's history and try, where possible, to buy from a reputable trader.

"You can't ask too many questions. You've got to be suspicious of cars with no service history," he said.

Det-Insp Hollowood said it was hoped a national register of stolen and wrecked vehicles would soon help put a major dent in the rebirthing industry.

He said the next major problem was expected to be stolen vehicles being imported into and exported from Australia.

Motor vehicle squad members recently uncovered four imported Ferraris worth $250,000 each which had been stolen in Japan.

Det-Insp Hollowood's comments came as official police figures revealed the central business district, St Albans, Preston, Dandenong, Sunshine and St Kilda were Victoria's worst places for car theft.

The statistics had 1980s Fords and Commodores filling the top-10 list of cars most stolen.

Police have made substantial inroads in cutting the state's rate of car theft in recent years.

Senior police said the reinstatement of a specialised stolen car squad and designated teams of local detectives, called Tomcat crews, had played a large part in cutting theft figures by 20 per cent.

The Tomcat teams had success working on opportunist thieves who steal cars to commit other offences or for joy-riding.

The crews have concentrated on places hardest hit by motor vehicle theft, seizing stolen cars, drugs and other stolen property worth millions of dollars.

Det-Insp John Noonan said some of the thieves had stolen up to 15 cars a night and more than 80 before being caught.

"Some of them can't remember, they've stolen so many," Det-Insp Noonan said.

Investigators have also noted an explosion in wheel theft around Melbourne. One gang arrested after a Tomcat investigation last year had allegedly stolen wheels valued at $600,000, which they unloaded at wheel and tyre outlets and a fast food restaurant.

Sets of Commodore HSV and SS wheels, valued at between $2500 and $6000, were allegedly favoured by the group of 14.

[Guest INASNT]

richie write an article to the paper man!

[ice180]

read todays herald sun traffic mgt cop got caught stealing goods out of a reported stolen car. it was a setup by internal affairs with video survellience but he still stole the stuff took it home and put it in his garage..... 1200 bucks worth of motorcycle gear..

[BATMBL]

FFS!!!!

hey DentonR33,

im getting a line just like yours, and although im from sydney, ive been go to melb often, and around that area too.

cant believe the ignorance of these f.ucken cops. i would have done/said just what you did, and then to get canaried?? f.uck that.

to some of these cops, being nice doesnt help, being rude, well you might as well say goodbye to your car.. i think you should report these f.ucks, so they are stuck in traffic duty or somethin, becuase some just dont belong on the road, pulling cars over for defects.

btw, did you get both cops names and stuff, coz im sure you can request them(after all you pay their salary, they are supposed to SERVE you)...and also tell the officer in charge that they speed off unecessarily hehe

well, good luck with it anyways dude!

cheers :burnout:

[ice180]

always be nice and aplogetic and recognise something you have done wrong... i got let off a potential dangerous driving charge by doing this.. which would have been expesnive and potential loss of license. also may perhaps avoid a full inspection of your car where they will try and dick you for your wiper washer fluid being too low etc...

just watch out for female highway patrol officers in cfm boots they have no mercy..

[Guest INASNT]

Originally posted by ice180

read todays herald sun traffic mgt cop got caught stealing goods out of a reported stolen car.  it was a setup by internal affairs with video survellience but he still stole the stuff took it home and put it in his garage..... 1200 bucks worth of motorcycle gear..

and that cop will prob be on the road again by next week booking innocent people!

Richie you should be the ambassador of sau vic and take this all the way to the press and to a current affair or today tonight.

[ice180]

hehheheh true when i get my line on the road. last letter I wrote re the cops driving unmarked Monaros got published heheheh.

Yeap can see the promo ad for aca.

"Innocent Skyline drivers being harassed by corrupt police!!!!

"Drivers of modified and immaculately presented Nissan Skyline late model japanese imports are being unfairly targetted by police in Victoria the report goes on to say..

true but if not happy take the c... to court and contest if everyone did that it would clog up the system totally and f... everything up

u know how many people just pay their fines without question. ..

[R31Heaven]

Guys havent you worked out it is easier to get money out of inocent people

[Guest INASNT]

richie u must have some lawyer friends dont u or sum afficilation with ray martin???

[ice180]

hahhaha yeah ray martin is my best mate..... he loves me I even style his hair for him and jeff kennet heheh..

lawyer mates yeah here and there.

if not happy put ina complaint as you guys have done if still no result contest it more than likely get thrown out of court cops will have costs awarded against them and then officer in question will be reprimanded for wasting taxpayers time and money and more than likely lengthen his time to promotion.

just hope you get a good magistrate. wear a suit and tie and look good speak factually and correctly and have everything documented and copies to prove it. sometime the police will even can the case and withdraw just before court if they know you are serious. take a witness as well.

[Guest INASNT]

what if i claimed sexual harrasment, they were undressing me with their eye while they were screwing me over???

[ice180]

that could work... hehehhe

[DJC]

Wow, just found this thread. It's soo disapointing that the Police in the state have such a bad reputation.

"most" of my dealings with cops have been dissapointing to say the leaset.

I too got epa'd recently on my stock as gtr. Ritchie has heard it many times and can vouch for it's Db level. I was just pulled over for a breath test, passed, said nothing and drove slowly away. A few days later, I got a epa letter in the mail. When I drove up to the testing centre in box hill, the test guy laughed and said, "Mate, your car is so quiet, where were you driving?"

He knows how it all works. He said he has even had brand new STOCK cars come in.

This state is out of control! STEVE BRACKS wont be getting my vote.

Ritchie - I remember that incident of yours! hahaha Lucky!

[predator]

ooo..scary, I better watch out as i had to do 2 breatho's in the last week.. But mine is pretty quiet, and i made sure not to rev it. Still that might not stop them.

[Guest INASNT]

Originally posted by DJC

Wow, just found this thread. It's soo disapointing that the Police in the state have such a bad reputation.

"most" of my dealings with cops have been dissapointing to say the leaset.

I too got epa'd recently on my stock as gtr. Ritchie has heard it many times and can vouch for it's Db level. I was just pulled over for a breath test, passed, said nothing and drove slowly away. A few days later, I got a epa letter in the mail. When I drove up to the testing centre in box hill, the test guy laughed and said, "Mate, your car is so quiet, where were you driving?" 

He knows how it all works. He said he has even had brand new STOCK cars come in.

This state is out of control! STEVE BRACKS wont be getting my vote.

Ritchie - I remember that incident of yours! hahaha Lucky!

y dont u get the name of the pig that reported u and then file an official complaint against him with the epa report saying he was talking out his ass like all cops do!

[meggala]

fark your gtr was so quiet .that should be grounds for complaint.

and the cop should be sent to have his ears clened out with a big drill

glad to see you sold it but sad to see it go

meggala

[DJC]

Yeah he was a real power tripper. As soon as I pulled up at the testing area he issued the breath test and another cop went over my car with a torch just trying to find something. My car has nothing out of place so the best they could come up with was the epa.

I think the test came back at 78Db which is nothing. Every 3Db is proprtional to double the audible volume. So a couple of Db is a LOT.

88Db is the limit for cars newer than 1985, (I think) and 90Db for older ones.

Yeah Meggala, sold it to a guy from Sydney who will look after it. Very sad selling the R but it's time to move on. Real-estate is my next game.

[Guest INASNT]

Originally posted by DJC

Yeah he was a real power tripper. As soon as I pulled up at the testing area he issued the breath test and another cop went over my car with a torch just trying to find something. My car has nothing out of place so the best they could come up with was the epa.

I think the test came back at 78Db which is nothing. Every 3Db is proprtional to double the audible volume. So a couple of Db is a LOT.

88Db is the limit for cars newer than 1985, (I think) and 90Db for older ones.

Yeah Meggala, sold it to a guy from Sydney who will look after it. Very sad selling the R but it's time to move on. Real-estate is my next game.

its 90db or less for cars newer than 1985 and 95db or less for cars before 1985.

[Sideways]

Originally posted by INASNT

its 90db or less for cars newer than 1985 and 95db or less for cars before 1985.

Just got back from having a noise test done on my car at an exhaust place (one of the listed on the epa nitice) . - just wanted to see just how loud it was (before going for my EPA test at Macleod next week)

89.99 db at 3200 rpm

it did go up to 90.1 but the revs had gone just over the 3200 mark...

He said he would have passed it, but agreed that EPA at Macleod would probably give me grief over it...

bugger !!

I have to change my muffer just for .1 of a DB !!!!

(also have to change it because they won't accept removable siliencer tips unless they are welded in... and I ain't welding the removable tip into a jasma muffler for anybody )

Getting a Truck muffler place to make me up a custom baffled muffler - nice hi flowing one - should shut it (and them) up once and for all (I hope)...

biggest problem we have with our Skylines is our turbos.....

You can make them 89db at 3200 rpm for a noise test... but there ain't no boost happening during the test.... get them on the open road with 14psi going through them and you are Way Over 89db

So if a cop hears you on boost - your probably going to get dicked...