Best Friend Stole Car and Went on Joyrides Stealing Fuel and Thrashing The Car

NEEDHELP on 09/09/2019 - 13:38
Last edited 09/09/2019 - 15:14 by 1 other user

Long story short best friend of 25 years was given car to do mechanical repairs and some other audio upgrades in his garage and a workshop where he does work with his family friends. While my brother was overseas the friend stole fuel from multiple stations, got the car impounded 6 am in the middle of Flinders Street, used the toll services all over Melbourne, got a speeding fine, and who knows what else is going to be coming in the mail.

It's my brother's car and he has A1 comprehensive car insurance with RACV. The friend is now a full time junkie as I've been told and his brother told me the car was leaking full oil on his driveway. The car was most likely used for drug runs, fraudulent activities and who knows what else that was done to it. The car was eventually reported stolen and the detective working the case thinks the car isn't stolen because it's apparently at the workshop.

This situation has left our whole family devastated as the car was looked after almost brand new, has $10,000 worth of upgrades, so lots of time/love/effort went into modding up the car for some idiot to ruin all that in a couple month period. Car is a FG XR6 Turbo with a sunroof, full cream leather interior, full engine mods and tune. All its life the car has had BP Ultimate 98 put in and the friend stole fuel putting in the incorrect fuel that it wasn't tuned for which is Caltex and Shell.

How can a car get taken out of impound without the proof of ownership details? Just need some advice as my brother does not have a car to get around in for the past 3 weeks. What are everyone's thoughts?

Automotive

Comments

      • KaTst3R on 09/09/2019 - 15:46
        +26

        Goes to show BP is extremely successful in marketing their product. Just FYI, my body is only tuned for Voss water. It gives me more hydration and horsepower.

        • mattyman on 10/09/2019 - 17:38
          +1

          Brawndo's got what plants crave.

        • GregMonarch on 11/09/2019 - 02:45

          Goes to show BP is extremely successful in marketing their product.

          There IS another explanation… ;-p

  • FireRunner on 09/09/2019 - 15:34
    +15

    stole fuel from multiple stations, got the car impounded 6 am in the middle of Flinders Street, used the toll services all over Melbourne, got a speeding fine

    That's very serious and you should definitely have strong words with him. But I'm sure a 25 year friendship is strong enough to …

    putting in the incorrect fuel that it wasn't tuned for

    He's gone too far! Cut him out of your life now

    • pegaxs on 09/09/2019 - 15:47
      +4

      This situation has left our whole family devastated

      Wont someone think of the family??

  • Baysew on 09/09/2019 - 15:40

    You best friend is in need of a best friend right now.

  • ihbh on 09/09/2019 - 15:51
    +1

    Best Friend Stole Car and Went on Joyrides Stealing Fuel and Thrashing The Car

    Ex-Best Friend?

  • weezlebub on 09/09/2019 - 15:52
    +11

    Regarding the car:
    - BP ultimate is 98 octain, most premium fuels are 95 octain
    - 10k in upgrades means the guy loves his car and has probably dumped all of his cash into it

    So that leaves a few things:
    Criminal - a friend wouldn't do that, he's someone that your bro use to know who is now a criminal who has stolen and destroyed your brothers pride & joy, treat it exactly the same as if you took it to a reputable mechanic and if they did the same with your vehicle

    Police - report, press charges, otherwise insurance won't even consider any sort of compensation, let them chase the junkie, not your problem, not your friend

    Insurance - they'll need the police report otherwise they'll assume your brother was in on it … insurance will also send it to a repairer and say that all engine damage etc is wear & tear … basically, if it's running, it's fine

    Friend - if this junkie is actually a friend, the only way he can make things right is to do the right thing … take the car out and torch it … at least then the insurance company will pay to replace the car

    Car - it'll never be the same again, it's been thrashed and mistreated

    • NEEDHELP on 09/09/2019 - 16:57

      What you said just summed up everything that's happened and is perfect.

    • [Deactivated] on 09/09/2019 - 18:07
      +3

      Are you saying BP is the only provider if actual 98 octane?

  • Kaz0551 on 09/09/2019 - 15:59
    +28

    Posts like this make my life feel so boring… the most interesting thing in the last week was my 2-year-old pooing 3 times in the morning instead of his 1 - 2

    • crentist on 09/09/2019 - 16:17
      +7

      they grow up so fast.

      • freakatronic on 10/09/2019 - 14:25
        +2

        Won't be long before he's up to five poos per morning.

    • kahn on 09/09/2019 - 18:31
      +15

      Please create a new forum post.

      • Andard on 11/09/2019 - 09:43
        +1

        Best 2-year-old Shat Thrice and Went on Bouncer-rides Spitting Food and Thumping The Cat

    • poboy on 09/09/2019 - 20:12
      +1

      I assess the grammar and details. I enjoy making a judgement call on whether the whole thing is fake before clicking on the user to see their post history.

    • chriise on 10/09/2019 - 00:36

      How'd it go this evening?!

      • Kaz0551 on 10/09/2019 - 09:39
        +2

        This morning he slept through til 6:15 and yesterday 5:30! This surpasses his usual 1-2am yelling for me to wake up! Winning life.

        • ssquid on 10/09/2019 - 18:43
          +3

          Extra poops can really take it out of you.

  • holdenmg on 09/09/2019 - 16:06
    +4

    In fact, they even left you a note here… "Thanks for the F-shack. Love, Dirty Mike and the boys."
    The Other Guys (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386588/?ref_=ttls_li_tt

    • dogboy on 09/09/2019 - 16:55
      +5

      Cop: From bodily fluids and hair samples we determined that… a bunch of old homeless dudes had an orgy in there.
      Allen Gamble: Oh God.
      Cop: It's called a 'soup kitchen'. …A mama raccoon came along and gave birth on the floor, placenta blew out all over the back window there

  • JimmyF on 09/09/2019 - 16:22
    +3

    All its life the car has had BP Ultimate 98 put in and the friend stole fuel putting in the incorrect fuel that it wasn't tuned for which is Caltex and Shell.

    OMG really this keeping you up at night!?

    • Herbse on 09/09/2019 - 16:30

      When you spend thousands on your car tune. This can cause the engine to ping and completely destroy the engine. So yes, it would keep him up at night.

      • HighAndDry on 09/09/2019 - 17:03
        +7

        How tightly tuned does an engine have to be to be affected not by the RON but just the brand of fuel?

        • Herbse on 09/09/2019 - 17:25
          -3

          It's an actual thing. Qualities and Ron levels do vary and tunes can be made to specific companies. Usually not an issue unless the car is tracked and seeing high revs most of its life.
          But if you've spent thousands on a car you love, you'll hate the person who puts the wrong stuff in

  • bdl on 09/09/2019 - 16:50

    fark this sounds like an episode of Highway Patrol :(

    • Wallyt99 on 09/09/2019 - 21:16
      +2

      His friend is just “Waiting for a mate”.

  • [Deactivated] on 09/09/2019 - 16:53
    +2

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • bobbified on 09/09/2019 - 16:53
    +2

    It's my brother's car and….

    and

    How can a car get taken out of impound without the proof of ownership details? Just need some advice as my brother does not have a car to get around in for the past 3 weeks.

    You say it's your brother's car but he doesn't have proof of ownership to get it out of impound? You sure your brother owns this car?

    • HighAndDry on 09/09/2019 - 17:04
      +4

      I think it was impounded, but the "best friend" managed to get it out of impound to keep the crime spree going and OP is asking how he (best friend) managed that without proof of ownership.

      • bobbified on 09/09/2019 - 17:05

        ah right.. that makes more sense. thanks!

        • HighAndDry on 09/09/2019 - 17:07
          +6

          Only after my nth read-through did I now just realise that apparently OP's brother has already gotten the car back and it's now in the workshop, which is why it's not classified as "stolen". I think. The narrative seems to dislike linear structure…

          • bobbified on 09/09/2019 - 17:12

            @HighAndDry: I just re-read the OP again and I'm still confused. My understanding of the location is like what qwerty has pointed out earlier - the car is either leaking oil on the driveway, at the impound lot or at the workshop.

            Next post! lol

            • HighAndDry on 09/09/2019 - 17:15
              +1

              @bobbified: Oh I'll post a Tl'dr (of what I think happened. But it's really stupid - just forewarning…)

  • [Deactivated] on 09/09/2019 - 16:57
    +2

    Plot twist - there's a hidden stash somewhere in the car. OP is trying to get to the stash or else he owes someone a stack of cash.

    The car got impounded. How does he get the car out without proof of ownership and without getting implicated.

  • myusername on 09/09/2019 - 17:01
    +4

    yeah but it's a ford

  • johnno07 on 09/09/2019 - 17:07
    +1

    At least it wasn't your dad's Ferrari…

    • lachhelix on 09/09/2019 - 19:55
      +1

      Could always put it on bricks and reverse it for a bit to wind the Ks back

  • HighAndDry on 09/09/2019 - 17:17
    +1

    Ok, so reading OP and comments and replies, Tl;dr:

    1. OP's brother gave the car to a friend to work on in their garage.

    2. The friend took the car on a joyride, and got it impounded.

    3. Friend managed to break the car out of the impound, and continued the joyride.

    4. Car was eventually returned to the brother, who found out about the joyrides.

    5. Brother has now taken the car to the workshop to have it looked over/fixed.

    OP is asking what they or their brother can do about the joyrides.

    • NEEDHELP on 09/09/2019 - 17:47
      1. and workshop
      2. yes
      3. yes
      4. car was never returned
      5. it's supposedly at the workshop

      My or my brother don't want the car back because who knows how many people drove it, what other activities happened, which enemies he or others made with the car then those enemies later on thinking it was my brother if he accepted the car back.

      • Yummy on 09/09/2019 - 17:57
        +17

        who knows how many people drove it

        Burn it. Car ain't virgin no more.

        It might be used as Fake Taxi too. Yeah, you are in sticky situation.

        • HighAndDry on 16/09/2019 - 13:55

          Burn it. Car ain't virgin no more.

          Completely unrelated tangent - how's your dating life? =P

      • zuuutoootuuu on 09/09/2019 - 21:59

        Once you get it back, you can sell it…

      • Bargain80 on 12/09/2019 - 13:02

        is 1 & 5 are the same workshop?
        a bit confused.

  • shaybisc on 09/09/2019 - 18:12
    +5

    Your brother's best friend of 25 years is a junkie but your brother was completely unaware of it? I don't get it.

    • NEEDHELP on 09/09/2019 - 18:49
      -1

      He became a junkie just recently after hearing more about it later on.

      • [Deactivated] on 10/09/2019 - 09:28
        +1

        I know this story all too well. I have a few former friends in the same boat.

        They have had a habit for a bit, usually good stuff like cocaine. It's an expensive habit and once their savings is drained, they turn to cheaper crap, ice being the rock bottom.

        Once their on ice, their habit unravels overnight.

        Cut ties, offload the car, cut your losses. You're not going to get compensation from someone who isn't just broke but likely owe a shitload of cash to a shitload of people.

  • johno3456 on 09/09/2019 - 18:18

    Car reported as stolen. Insurer pays up. Buy a new car. Why care about the rest.

    • [Deactivated] on 09/09/2019 - 19:04
      +2

      Because police does not consider the car stolen and without that police report, insurance won't pay up.

  • BinnyC on 09/09/2019 - 18:21

    R u sure he is your best friend?

  • Pluto88 on 09/09/2019 - 18:55

    TIL I'm a terrible judge of character…

  • Dreamcast on 09/09/2019 - 19:14
    +3

    I like your bro, as I too only fill BP 98.

  • Zachary on 09/09/2019 - 19:56
    +1

    unlucky, I'm just here for moral support….

  • NEEDHELP on 09/09/2019 - 19:58
    +8

    So many negative and sarcastic comments, some which have no relevance whatsoever!

    • ssquid on 09/09/2019 - 20:01
      +4

      You're not new here, not sure why you'd expect anything else.

    • PopCounty on 09/09/2019 - 20:38

      Not some. It’s most of comments have no relevance here (include mine).
      It’s b***y cheap place. Literally. Ppl talk mostly cheap. Ignore those. Maybe, whirlpool can help u. GL.

      • pegaxs on 09/09/2019 - 21:02
        +2

        Lol @ WP… the roasting here is funny. Over of WP it would be a bloodbath. Those guys have no chill.

        • Andard on 11/09/2019 - 09:47

          😂 was gonna say the same thing, WP is even worse..

          • Bargain80 on 12/09/2019 - 13:03
            +1

            @Andard: the post will be deleted in an hour at WP.

    • sund00bie on 10/09/2019 - 21:07

      Fully SIKH bro

  • ozoner on 09/09/2019 - 20:05

    You need to set higher standards on who you class as a "friend".

    • NEEDHELP on 09/09/2019 - 20:06
      +2

      You don't expect a friend of 25 years to go on and do what he did, he was also my friend as well.

      • bmerigan on 09/09/2019 - 20:25
        +2

        Not any more I hope

    • PopCounty on 09/09/2019 - 20:41

      You mean the same moral as Gerry is s**t as he Opposed amazon. Don’t buy from HN.

      Next day, $5 worth of photo frames for $3 and every one goes crazy about it.

      • GregMonarch on 11/09/2019 - 03:03

        Not me. I went to buy some books last night… Amazon US price for one I noticed was $30 AUD. So I checked the Amazon AU price: $80. For the same book, from the same company, located in the same country, sent to same address, because no-one in Australia stocks it. Gerry Harvey is pond scum.

  • burningrage on 09/09/2019 - 20:06

    It's always hard to have buddies who have turned for the worst. I can't imagine what your bro has gone through.

    I don't have a solution but your brother's cannot be everyone's hero and someday there will be priorities to be met.

    I always wonder why parents are quite bothersome of who we make friends with, now we know why.

  • ahly92 on 09/09/2019 - 20:11
    +4

    What are everyone's thought?

    Need a better script…at best i give this a 3/10

  • bmerigan on 09/09/2019 - 20:24

    FYI Other brands make 98 RON as well. Vortex, V-power.

  • gk0r on 09/09/2019 - 21:02

    It's good to have good friends like that

  • Davo1111 on 09/09/2019 - 21:45
    +1

    surely the impound lot could assist with proof of ownership.

    IMO registration papers would be a good indication

  • nurbsenvi on 10/09/2019 - 03:22
    -6

    Cut ties with everyone around you
    Get out of the what ever the shithole town your are living

    Get educated in finance and… Uh

    You know what?

    Go on a cocaine binge until you overdose

    Have fun and do society a big favour by not passing on your gene.

  • murkywater on 10/09/2019 - 05:04
    +1

    With best friends like that, who needs enemies?

  • Lockieasy on 10/09/2019 - 09:25
    +1

    Why would you trust a junkie with your car in the first place?

  • eXo on 10/09/2019 - 09:41

    dude, your car is done. like others said.

    • once a junkie, don't expect any money back
    • the fact that you tried to report to police burns your chances of insurance job or anything
    • your brothers/whoever didn't report it makes it worse. the closest thing you got is claiming it via his workshop insurance (assuming he is registered)

    • you can take it up as a civil matter just to put something against his name, but in the end it will cost you money just for them to make note that he's a bad guy, and it might get you out of paying up for the drive-offs etc

    • get your car back, part it out and turf the rest of it.

    the
    end

  • skyva on 10/09/2019 - 09:44
    +1

    It seems the main issue is the loss of street cred value of the car. Your issues about fuel, theft etc and being involved in crime seem important only because your brother and his "best mate" were running with the wrong crew anyway.

    99% of people don't worry about this. If my car is used in a robbery, no-one cares. No-one is coming after me. But here it seems that the car is well known to the criminal element, druggies etc, and your brother was so intimately connected to the car and the lifestyle that no-one will believe him if he says it wasn't him.

    This is a wake up call. Time to get a new car, new life and new friends.

  • netjock on 10/09/2019 - 09:45

    Proof your brother was overseas: boarding pass, you can get movement record (enter / exit country) from border force. Proof he wasn't here to commit the crimes

    Hope above helps.

  • myusername on 10/09/2019 - 10:01
    +8

    that's pretty methed up

  • Zondor on 10/09/2019 - 10:57

    Why is everyone here in this convo so hostile?

    • Lunatic on 10/09/2019 - 11:09
      +2

      Typical for a OzB thread that involves cars

    • Bacons on 11/09/2019 - 22:01
      +2

      Unsure. this is becoming like reddit where there's always someone in the comments that feel like they have to be funny or edgy to try get internet points

  • Eeples on 10/09/2019 - 11:22

    How do you get a car out of impound without rego and without proof of id?

    (I have a few 'errands' to run this afternoon)

  • zooter on 10/09/2019 - 11:27

    two words:

    mspaint please

  • NEEDHELP on 10/09/2019 - 11:53
    +2

    For those wondering the agreement was some mechanical repairs and audio system upgrades to be done in his garage and at the workshop and for them to be completed by the time my brother came back from overseas. Me and my brother have a clean record and never been in trouble before, this flog has gone off the rails and lucky for us we're still on the straight path. The culprit is Lebo which probably makes it worse and understanding now for most people.

    • HighAndDry on 10/09/2019 - 12:16
      +2

      Honestly after all this, the first thing you need to decide is what end goal you want to happen.

      Do you want the car to go back to its pre-joyride condition? Effectively impossible.

      Get compensation for the damage to the car? You'll first need to quantify how much damage it was, and then figure out how to get blood from a stone because the friend won't have it.

      Closure? See a therapist and make better friend-choices? I got nothing for you there.

    • brendanm on 10/09/2019 - 13:18
      +3

      Das racis

      • GregMonarch on 11/09/2019 - 03:07
        -1

        You misspelled 'reality'. Must be because you're German. ;-D

    • SnakeCasablanca on 10/09/2019 - 13:45

      I've given you a sympathy + vote to try and keep you above water. But by referencing the cultural background of the culprit and implying that the stereotype of this type of person will make other people understand, is going to result in a wave of downvotes from the OzBargain woke-scolds. Good on you though for giving them all a chance to virtue signal. It really makes their day!

      Good luck. Take a deep breath.

      • weezlebub on 10/09/2019 - 14:18
        +6

        Really? stereotyping and learning from experience is how humans learn …

        If a dog bites you, you're more cautious around dogs …
        If you have a car acciendent, you'll generally be a more careful driver …

        BUT, if you get screwed over by a dozen people of a particular regional ethnicity, all of a sudden, you're a racist for pointing out your learnt caution?

        That's just naive, and I say that as a member of an ethnic minority that I have learnt to be cautious around …

      • Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 11/09/2019 - 10:11
        +1

        I've given you a sympathy + vote
        implying that the stereotype of this type of person
        OzBargain woke-scolds
        Good on you though for giving them all a chance to virtue signal

        Ironic oblivious virtue signaller has a crack at others purportedly virtue signalling by downvoting a racist comment.

        • SnakeCasablanca on 11/09/2019 - 11:06

          You think I was oblivious to my irony? Fair enough :)

    • ssquid on 10/09/2019 - 18:45

      So he's a lebo, what are you?

      • Zachary on 17/09/2019 - 12:41

        whats a lebo?

  • jonkvh on 10/09/2019 - 12:12

    Can sympathise. Spent some coin on one of the last Territory's out of the factory. Changed the leather(standard pinhole leather was crap)LPG, sunroof and lightbar. Can't get it tuned but fussy on the petrol it runs, gas doesn't matter…

    But why would you waste the money on a 'high rise Falcon'? Maybe I'm a former Ford Club member, plan on keeping the vehicle for many years and they're just so damn cheap to service.

    Yeah I get it, Ford's aren't aspirational, especially mine. But there's no way I'm buying a new car every few years.

    Meant to add: Got stung using a 'home based' mechanic over 20 years ago, never again. Apparently, I was rooting his wife!… oh the insanity…

    • AdosHouse on 10/09/2019 - 23:47

      …….Were you?

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