Anyone know what the cost is to pick up an impounded vehicle, been in a week?

im not sure but ive seen cars impounded and the person has been told its usually the price of the fine + towing fees + car storage

nah no towage or anything, just the storage fees i need to know, car was driven in

i had my car impounded for a week.. dunno what the costs are because the cop in charge said i could take the car back no charge... fuck knows why?

thats how it usually is in every other country ive lived in
and if you dont pay by such n such a time they crush it
they should do it in aus they would get lots of hoons off the roads

no they wouldnt get lots of hoons off the roads there would be a ton more fatalities and cop chases if i knew my car had the potential to be crushed just for "Hooning" i would try to lose the cops at all costs because at the end of the day you lose it anyway.

Free would be cool, LOL. Might make a call tomorrow

when mine got done i just had to pay for towing...

i think they only charge you if you leave it in after the day you can pick it up.... if ya get me ...

thanks Nich

they will do it , and they will bring in the 6month W.O.F for all cars over 12 months old, watch when half of the cars wont be on the road.

lol dude i didnt say they wont do it but when they do look out for lots of cop chases cause i wont b letting the pigs crush my car not at any cost even if that means i wrap it around a tree especially if i know they are going to crush it.

I was actually asked this question by a copper recently.

I told him if it looked like i was loosing my car for good,Ild run for sure....I know they cant give chase,as high speed pursuits arent allowed in tas....

anyone know the rules as far as radars are concerned??? 2 cars side by side with 1 radar is that possible?

As far as i know they cant do anything as they cant prove who was doing the speed

Guy on gold coast knew his car was down to be crushed, and after a long pursuit he lost the cops. Took his car to a mates place and literally - stripped every damn thing he possibly could of the car and then moved those parts elsewhere. When he got home cops were waiting for him with a truck - he was only too happy to advise where they could go pick up the car from - imagine the look on their faces opening the garage and seeing a shell ?
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I don't agree with the crushing thing, Impounding fair enuff but since when did Australia become a Communist Society? A licence remains a privellege given to you by the State yes fair enough take that away but somebodys car is there own hard earned property and what gives them the right to take it away and crush it on the basis of "Accidental loss of traction + Cop having a bad day" syndrome. Next thing you know we'll be getting our houses bulldozed for having weeds on our lawn. It's bullshit and has to be a breach of the True Aussie Values and Dreams we all live and grew up by. If they really must crush then at least give you the cash for the car/parts (real value not redbook).

i just lost my license because of this because You cant prove who wasnt speeding and who was

How did you get them to let you drive it in?? When i got done i knew id be charged a fortune for the tow so i pleaded with them to let me/my girlfriend drive it or even let the copper drive it there and they wouldnt have a bar of it. I wasn't charged any storage though and it got the royal treatment being parked under cover inside the workshop

Probably when the offender does it for the 3rd, 4th or 5th time

the UK USA NZ and most of europe all crush cars if you can not pay hooning fees and fines , they should def bring it here
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oh and ofcourse if you run and get caught its instant 6months jail

on the note of the speed cameras, I have both australian standards that relate to radars etc if anyone wants to purchase a copy, they're worth about 100 bucks each, but I'd be happy to make copies for a small charge for anyone, on that note any standard can be had at a price

haha i remember that, it was huge in the papers at the time, smart guy if you ask me (well not too smart for street racing enough times to get his car taken)

its pretty ridiculous tho that they have the funds to buy $60k fpv/hpv pursuit cars, pay officers overtime to work at night etc etc to cath ppl who are the only ppl on the road "hooning" late at night

but when cars are broken into or things stolen they send out a guy or two and your incredibly lucky to get your stuff back.

i live on campus at the uni up in lonnie and in the space of about 2 weeks 4 or 5 rooms got broken into and laptops were stolen. couple of coppers rocked up each time and only 1 person got their laptop back and it was only cos they did a raid on some druggies house and they happened to have stolen one of them

its all pretty mess up if you ask me, why dont they put s few grand into making an area ppl can chill out at, maybe have a few cops there to prevent ppl smoking it up and being dickheads but know that the police aren't gonna come through and start defecting ppl like they do on the gold coast

i think the police are missing the big picture and its far too easy to blame a minority of road users for the states/nations road toll

Yeah but not crush and say "too bad so sad" it's not like i going to have it happen to me but i still think it's wrong. How would you feel if your $100,000 whatever got crushed? I do however think it impound thing is fair enuff, kinda like jail for cars (and Australia doesn't support Capital punishment)

+1 usually when the big crashes happen they involve normal everyday cars and a regular road user that's usually in a hurry, and out of town for that matter. Since when have you seen a 5000kw Skyline drift up and down a city street and wipe out a poor family on the way to a multistory carpark. It just doesn't happen because we all have too much respect for our rides!! Yet we all the same it's our fault

Mine was confiscated for 48 hours - released at no charge. Even managed to talk the nice copper in to allowing me to drive the car to the impound lot to avoid the 140 buck tow cost.

At the end of the day the people that have their cars crushed are for a reason, its not like they take your car off you because you got done 10km/h over the speed limit, its to keep the people who are actually dangerous to themselves and others off the road. Some dudes $100,000 car or your life? - pretty easy decission to me!

Juddie, Have you been a naughty boy?

i agree 100% mate. if you wanna fuck around get on the track. i would love to but im sure my forester wouldnt haha

i disagree 100%,take their license not their property.Give people six months jail for driving without a license and increase police presence on the road then we will see a decrease in stupidity and most likely fatalities.

Thats like putting a murderer in jail but letting them keep their gun.....

um.no its not.By your logic they would be a potential murderer anyway.

Thats right, they are a potential murderer. All it takes is one mistake, I don't care what you say, manslaughter and murder are the same thing in my book.

glad you're not a judge and hope you never gain any political power.
You ever hear of an accident? And no i don't mean street drifting into a family of four,how about mechanical failure causing death? Jailed for life for an accident,sound reasonable.....

My point is,do you think a serial hoon,one that is a potential murderer will give a fuck if his $500 corolla gets crushed?He will grab another car and start again but think about it from the perspective of someone who has for example 1;chirped his tyres round a corner=1 week impound then 2; a year later hits an oily patch on the road and accidentaly gets crossed up which plod sees= 3 months impound.Now after this you are branded.3;Cop doesn't like you anymore= car crushed.This scenario could happen to any of you,whether in a $500 corolla or $100 000 w427 and imo the punishment does NOT fit the crime.

There is no excuse for taking peoples property,we don't live in China or any other communist regime.
Take their fucking license and if they get caught driving without it then Jail time.Keep it up more jail time.

Simple,but alas not as much revenue

Seriously mate no offense to you but NFI at all, First off No1 that has a car worth 100k that has worked their ass off for it would Hoon / Race it on purpose at the risk of loosing it. I think you will find most 100k cars out their that have been confiscated are A. Drug Dealers or people involved with illegal money making or B. Fell victim to a cop on his rags. Most illegal street racers also have a new car within a week of getting it crushed and race without a licence anyway.

Basically your saying its ok for the cops to confiscate / crush your car you have worked your ass off for on a piece of legislation that is based on Australian Slang and you being charged lies totally upon the individuals perception of this legislation. To me that is not right.



Completely Agree with you there mate. Impounding maybe crushing = NO

it all starts from chirping tyres and noone else , but as i see alot , its always someone elses fault

thats a pretty silly comment , you never seen two guys in nice cars never race? ofcourse you do its everywhere o nthe roads

Ah mate driving in the wet in my rodeo sometimes my tyres chirp if i am turning up a hill now i back off straight away in most cases until i gain traction now i dont purposly try to make them chirp and yes i can drive its just what happens sometimes now if a cop saw me in this scenario it would be totally up to his choice/attitude/feelings that day what he would do even if i was trying to do the right thing by back off as soon as i felt the tyres spinning.

Oh and if there was oil spilt on the road i dont see how that is the drivers fault if you can please lets get some oil a road and show me how to drive through it

Ah no not ilegally street racing, traffic light battles sure IN MY OPINION NOT YOURS NOT THE QUEENS NOT KRUDS BUT MY OPINION theres a big difference between aggressive acceleration to the next set of lights and actualy street racing. AGAIN the "HOONING" falls upon how the copper is feeling i dont see how the fuck you can get done for hooning if you accelerate aggresively without wheel chirping up to the speed limit. A cop could see it let it go or charge you for it its Bullshit.

we all see hoon bogans on the road and we all know which ones we are talking about its not really the majority itll be a minority who are wreckless

lets be sensible , spinning tyres on a ute is one thing but sideways up a road with kids and ppl walking around is just plain stupid and you see it all the time in hobart , its these ppl who should have their cars taken away and crushed

Taken away yes crushed no.

I bet there were less crashes and fatalities in the 60 - 70s and bak then (apparentaly) cops didnt mind you doing skids n nuts n shit aslong as it was on an old road that was never used away from houses and people. Instead now cops are just wankers like at gazzanats they were pulling over all the modded cars on the way their giving them canaries and the poor bastards were on their way to the track to do the "right" thing if thats the cops mentality no wonder people use the street as their track.

So did we find out how much they charged to return the car?

after all that no we didnt panda

Thats exactly right..... the coppers aren't completely oblivious as to who the 'serial hoons' are, its the serial hoons who are the targets, not people who cant maintain proper control of their vehicle around a corner in their ute

Cough cough....Bullshit.
Ive seen it on a few occasions,was in a car with a mate...got it confiscated coz he used to root the coppers neice.
I dont see how that is fair....

Funnily enough,I used to root a different coppers neice...and I bet if he seen me,he would confiscate my ride too....

And im a prime target for any johnny hopper with his man rags....I chirp around every corner....bloody spools.

i always get pulled over in my maloo with just a tight lsd no spool so i offer a cop to turn a corner slowly and see him chirp around corners and all ways been let of ! and personaly i drove 5 years with suspend licence and never got caught and drove like a bogan so ppl that get caught for hooning must be hooning past police station or are blind as there is time and place for hooning !!

and don't say you's never hoon ethier as most of us are males and it's fun theres my 2 cents worth .... i'll be a hoon till the day i can't drive i recken

called up today, they only charge if the cars there longer than the specified impound time. Please keep this thread going mods as its interesting to read, but keep it clean guys, notice most threads start with IMO, so it may not be the same as yours but respect it, this topic is something thats gonna affect us all more and more in the coming years.

Yes mr kennedy, I was naughty, but the sums dont add up on the cops statement, worked it out today and I would have to have been driving a 1000hp supercar to accelerate in the distance and the amount of time he reckons. I can assure you an rb30e r31 is no supercar

x2.. i seriously doubt there is anyone on this forum who doesnt hoon occasionally when the coast is clear.. so nobody get up on their high horse saying how anyone who speeds or does the occasional skid should be treated like a baby killer.


i agree with webbey.. confiscate dont crush.. unless the car was caught doing something bullshit stupid like 200 in a 50 zone or gutter to gutter drifting in a residential area.


and to anyone who honestly thinks that cops never target people or treat people harshly wake up to yourself... sure its not all the time but performance cars get cops attention and there are those out there that seem to enjoy fining us. plain and simple.

Come on now mate, We all know that R31's are super cars!
Just got to spend a bit on em..
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