I'm glad I do not live in Victoria. In NSW our equivalent is a blue slip. It took 20 minutes and about $50 to get mine through and cosmetic issues are not relevant here. There are also mechanics qualified to provide blue slips everywhere in the state.
We had what I con only assume was a tweaker try to steal 4 bikes at my appartments. 2 were dropped, mine had the ignition broken and the cover stolen. No bikes stolen. Every sense I keep it in the garage with motion sensor that txts me, 2 different locks for the back and front wheels, shock alarm, GPS tracker, and bike cover. I have to unlock/deactivate 2 different key fobs before I can sit or it goes mad. $400 of security is still cheaper than some fenders replaced.
How was he not responsible for the cost associated with the damage and repairs? My boys bike got stolen in the States and the thief was on the hook for all of it, or he'd be back in court. He didn't pay, more charges were filed and his wages ended up being garnered. Australia sounds like a giant pia.
Insurance didn't even pay for a vehicle rental while the bike was being repaired. Amazing. When I got rear-ended (in the US) my car was out of use for 2 months before the parts could be sourced and the repairs completed (there was a parts shortage in the US at the time because of Covid). In the meantime I had a rental car and insurance paid for 100% of it. My rental was a much newer, much nicer, and more expensive car too lol
Basically not worth the effort. These people just keep dodging responsibility and living off social security while being protected by civil/legal rights. Unless you've got video evidence showing them causing the damage there is no way to prove they are responsible.
I worked 8 years as a car mechanic in Germany, we have one of the strictest regulations in the world regarding roadworthiness... This VIV check sounds like total corruption. A TÜV check every 2 years is like 150 euro and if you fail and you got 2 weeks to repair everything with the second checkup being 25 euros.
No argument that this was total bs, but VIV is different from MOT/TÜV. They make their money by shafting the insurance companies to make vehicles "repaired for roadworthiness", that's why it's so insanely expensive, and that's why the insurance company wanted to shaft Benny Surge's gf.
@youtubebaba3565 The insurance company wrote the bike off. As in they deemed it to expensive to repair. No vehicle insurance in not compulsory in Australia.
they do this on purpose because they want all 'old' vehicles off the road. vicroads wont let me rego by beloved car i have had since high school. roadworthy failure is similar to the viv failure in this video. i got dinged for things like 'door locks are too tight', and 'micro fractures on the side-marker lights'. i will need to essentially rebuild this car like new and just have a punt to ever get it on the road again.
@@easterworshipper5579thats some honestly gross shit. Ensuring panel gaps are up to spec to ensure road worthiness? like nah thats some fuckin nazi shit
@@ryanunderwood1798 hahaha you can grind though a chain easily portable battery operated grinder, try to do that with a disc lock screaming 120 decibels at you lol
The light scuffs and micro gaps are unreasonable for the viv check someone needs to start a petition or show up at the right meeting to get that shit changed.
If you’re going to install an air tag, the new ones allow anyone to set off the audible alarm, therefore making it really easy for thieves to locate them. You have to take the back off and disconnect the speaker and put it back together. Plenty of RUclips videos on how to modify them.
There’s multiple RUclips videos about how to disable the speakers and it takes like three minutes per tag to do. I’ve got 7 vehicles with AirTags in each and none make a peep😉
when i was 15, i worked part time to save up money to build a sick bmx bike that was around 1200$usd. a month after i got it together, a group of kids stole it out of the garage and covered the security cameras. about 6 months later i see it for sale on facebook and schedule a little meet with them to 'buy' it back. i called up my biggest friend to come over and on the way out my old man could smell there was trouble brewing and pressed me to figure out what was about to go down and eventually he made me call the police to go with. we all get there with the cops and check it over, and sure enough its my bike. i had every part written down with the vin and everything matched. the cops told me theres nothing they could do because i didnt register my bicycle with the police and report it as stolen so i had to give my bike back to the very person who stole it from me in the first place. on that day i lost a lot of faith in my parents and the police.
@@noahlenten8360 Where do you live? You don’t have to register bicycles in Ohio, but you do have to have some way of proving ownership of the serial number. I would think some pictures of you on it, or the original receipt, receipts for the parts would do it. That’s heartbreaking man.
@@wowfish-ob3ew probably get you for 3 too many molecules blocking the headlight. or the classic the tires have touched the ground before, not good enough.
No, it's the government and their mandated monopoly on inspections with no apparent regulations or oversights before they will let you register your vehicle again. Like the video said, why are any of those defects preventing safe operation on the road, the supposed intent of the inspection?
Is a conspiracy..Vicroads x insurance x VIV ,,money's maker's,,camera's checking inside you car ,,land taxes, petrol,food expensive..an more more,,, AUSTRALIA SUCKS
@@pontiacg445 errrr. Yes, the insurance company still offered well below market value. That’s why he went down the repair route. I do agree that the inspectors are ridiculous as well.
@@nisseost1 Yes, the thief should pay, but that is the insurance company's problem not the owners. That is why the owner has insurance. The offer should have been either fair market value of similar replacement and you don't get the bike or fair market value of a similar replacement minus the parts value of the bike and you get to keep the bike. I can't speak from other countries, but in the US negotiating that value is something most people have to do. The insurance company makes an offer, you look at bluebook value and adverts for similar vehicles, show those to the insurance company... You negotiate and if you can't come to a resolution then you might need to escalate. I have friends who have gone through that. I myself have only gone through it once and there was no need to negotiate. The insurance company gave me an offer that I thought was fair.
I went through a similar thing. Bought an XR6 Turbo at 18. Mong crashed into it. Car was essentially brand new. 62,000k’s on it, still had that new car smell, and not a scratch on it. Car was $22,000. Front bumper got cracked, headlight needed replacing, needed a new grill and a bonnet (could’ve got away with paint). Insurance made me take it to a specific repair shop, nobody else, for this review mind you. Total quote including, paint for $2,000 in parts? $24,000. A body shop, quoted $24,000 to replace pretty much a headlight and a front bumper. Obviously my car was written off, but here’s the kicker! I was given back $18,000 of that $24,000 because I’d opted to pay my insurance monthly. ($3,600 a year) at the time, and being 18 years old after spending 22k on a car, I didn’t have that laying around. So, it was taken out of the insurance return, as was the $1,200 excess. Funnily enough, within a week, my car was listed for sale at Pickles Auctions, Snapped up for a lovely sum of $7,500, and repaired for $2,800 by the new owner. Insurance is a scam.
They had the case handed to them on a platter - tracking and positive location ID with an address matching a known crim For a regular stolen vehicle gone without a trace, good luck.
Your both right. I went to new York. And we rented a small truck. And long story short. Everything down the street for blocks looks the same. So we were going to drive. As we're driving one of the days we were there. We discussed and parked 3 blocks up the road and decided to take the subway instead. When we got back we were walking and passed the car not knowing. When we get to the airbnb we thought the car was stolen. The cops blamed us when they got there and said that we were going to go to jail for lying and trying to clam insurance. Anyway long story short after them going 2 blocks up and 2 blocks back and not finding it. Enterprise got the GPS location. It was 1 more block up. Boy did we all feel stupid. But it proved most cops don't wanna try or care. They literally said it's a right off for Enterprise so we're not going to try when they first got there.
Here in NY, we have 2 separate things, the salvage inspection this would only be for a total loss bike with a salvage title, they just look for stolen parts, they don't care about safety at all. Then you have a safety inspection. They come out and see if the lights and horn work and the tires are decent. Thats the end of it.
So what we learn from this: 1: get the air tag. 2: let the cops catch the thief (even if it's just a slap on the wrist it still hurts the thief a bit) 3: if you have insurance LET THEM KEEP THE STOLEN VEHICLE, it will be cheaper to buy a new one than fucking making the stolen one legal to drive again. In the end getting robbed still sucks if you want to be a legally binding citizen. You will lose money and the vehicle. Alternatively you could do the illegal way and just steal it back, fix it back to the previous state and pretend it was never stolen. How would they know?
@@RenSugiura its funny, we live in a world where we talk about throwing less things away yet the governments make it almost impossible for you to repair anything. Oh your older car has slight damage? well since it ist from 2030 in the future the value is around 3 cheeseburgers and a hotdog so its a total loss youll get 500 bucks we scrap it for you
_This is the deal, you pay and never call us for anything, and maybe just maybe we lower the rate for you next time you renew though no promises. I mean inflation, and big data interpretation, who cans say. If we have to update your file with anything, well then you move to the high liability category. Sign here, or break the law._
@@bearwolffish Yeah, paying for insurance is like playing red on an all black roulette wheel. With the threat of arrest if you don’t play. There is no winning.
The owner cares about cosmetic damage because the bike was brand new. I would be upset to, even if I got the bike back. Can you imagine the cost to repair the bike?
I got treated like a criminal with my insurance claim. Now my bike wasn’t stolen, but when I crashed it, it was a total write off so made a claim over the phone. The person at the insurance company screwed up with a.m. and p.m. on the claim so it looked like I put the claim in before the crash happened and it got red flagged. The second that happened I had to jump through hoops and was treated like a criminal, and they sent an ex detective down to investigate the case as they didn’t believe my claim . Even after they were explained the situation it didn’t matter they had to do a full investigation. I had to provide proof of where I was why and how I crashed , phone proof of when I rang for help, had to provide hospital documents and proof I went there because of the crash etc etc they also had to do character reference through my work to see if I was a dodgy prick and make sure I had time off work, and that was the reason !! what an absolute joke. Long story short it took a few months but I got a full payout and went and bought the next model up. But just because of someone’s stupid mistake it was an absolute head fuck for a few months trying to get this shit so I feel your pain mate when you’ve done nothing wrong 👊🏻😁. Completely different story to your situation, but at least the comment will help the algorithm 👍🏻
@@Noksus or people could just proof read their work and not fuck up. Its not what time format they used, its the fucker at the insurance company that got it wrong. you cant blame time formats on a human error.
Lmao that reminds me, I got injured at work. Long story short, all the paperwork they had showed me not even working. I had to prove that I was in the building when I got injured. This was in 2012 and we had our hearing in 2017.
Not mine but a family member, had her Supra stolen from her garage last year. Was only found due to the airtag. Found dumped in Broadmeadows, unlocked, key in ignition still. She called the cops and told them she found her stolen car and they told her to just take it and go home. Clutch was rooted, engine has a light knock now and no longer holds boost, heaps of scrapes and dents. Was only MIA for about 12 hours. She hasn't touched it since getting it home. But that airtag saved the car from disappearing permanently.
iPhones will tell you if there's an airtag in the vicinity, I'm sure the thief's phone let them know there was an airtag and they dumped it for that reason
@@bagfumbler not just iphones but androids as well, one of my neighbours has an airtag near me and my phone goes "oi someone may have put a tracker on you, do you want to make it ring" so to be checky I set it off in the middle of the night
@@blakeoswald7840 If you're willing to make a simple mod to your AirTag, you can disable the speaker, so that its audible alert is silenced. Not a great option for a tag on something small like your keys, but excellent for a big item like a car. Do a good enough job of hiding it and the thief will be too paranoid to stay with it for too long and give up the search.
Pretty common thing. Receiving a stolen car back and not wanting to use it for months or even years. Seen it happen a hundred times, happened to me too. You feel violated and the car doesn’t feel the same…
if it happens again just steal the bike back and change the ignition switch as well as add an immobilizer switch somewhere hidden. Sorry this happened to you Zoe. good on you for keeping on!
Have been saying for years that insurance is legalised robbery. Here in UK insurance is mandatory and expensive but they will wriggle out of paying if they can and you never get the full value back. I've had two motorbikes and 5 pushbikes stolen but police don't care. None recovered 😢
It's exactly the same in the UK brother. £60 fine for stealing a £10,000 bike (from my own personal experience) - I've had 1 bike stolen and my new bike has had 2 attempts on it. Told the police it's exact location 4 times as it was spotted in my city several times, they never follow up. The punishment is so low it's a viable business here.. police are much more interested in jailing hippies for smoking. If you report your bike stolen and spot it, just tell them they have a joint in their hand and they will be there in 3 minutes.
I was always told by friends who rode bikes that the best defense against motorbike theft was a bike cover + good insurance. However, finding "good" insurance is either difficult or too expensive for most folks. At the end of the day, a loss is a loss. Insurance will do whatever they can to pay the least amount possible. But sometimes it's best to walk away with a small loss, a lesson, and try again with those experiences. With that said, it made me happy to see Zoe riding again at the end ain't nothing stopping the missus! :)
Seems like you guys in Australia are getting f-ed when it comes to insurance. Im 90% certain that in my area of the woods, insurance companies arent allowed to simply just give you these two options to choose from. If the insurance wants to write the bike off completely and just offer such a low amount of money - they would have to prove that you could get another one in the exact same condition for the amount offered. Also... that guy doing the VIV inspection - jesus christ
@@innominatum9906unless you live in Europe maybe, u are absolutely getting destroyed by insurance lol. You must have never made a claim. Whole thing is a scam.
@@SamCyanide I live in Denmark and while insurance certainly can be tricky - I've made a fair bit of claims over the years on both my house, car and motorcycle =) Im naive and we also get cases where insurance companies are out right wrong - but this video is just too absurd if thats a standard practice.
The best defence against motorbike theft is to keep it locked in a garaged when not in use. That's basically it. No bike is safe if it's parked outdoors. They are just too easy to steal. There's a reason why some underwriters just straight up refuse to even offer anything above third party coverage for non-garaged bikes. Also it's a good idea to NOT leave your bike unattended in a random location overnight. That helps quite a bit too. Insurers understandably do not cover thefts that occur in situations like this (where the bike owner brought unnecessary additional risk to themselves via a stupid decision). As much as insurers are an easy target to attack I genuinely don't think they are to blame here. Insurance doesn't exist to facilitate poor decision making or lack of care for your own property.
I had similar situation but my insurance agent help me to not register as "write off" and now knowing you history, I was blessed. Still is rolling the streets.
@@_Mutto_ They don't deserve a penny. Too much incompetence on their part. The only sensible idea was the installation of the AirTag. Why didn't he take a ramp, and pick the bike and her up in his ute?
Thank you for sharing, I hope everything will resolve soon. VIV guy is probably a one of a kind perfectionist, most likely he torques all the bolts every time he takes a ride on his car and that's why he never went home from work....
Mate I feel for you, the Viv process is definitely cooked! I've done 3 now, and they are all difficult, but that guy is totally taking the piss. I was warned off going to him by at least 5 different people in the industry, so much so that I cancelled and re-booked elsewhere. Glad I did. And you are right, but at least get third party so you're not bankrupted by stacking into a Rolls.
Wtf! This is like 2 streets away from me. Across the road from that milk bar and down Dairy lane is all commission housing full of meth heads and scum bags. Last year I caught one of them looking into my BMW out front of my house in broad daylight and told him to piss off. A few months later at 5 in the morning he came back high on meth and smashed it up with a metal bar to the point it was a write off. Cops got here pretty quickly but not quick enough to catch him. Since we installed cameras out front of the house we've had no issues yet. Glad you got the bike back aside from the insurance problems. Btw 7:18 I'd love to know exactly what house it was.
I bought an insurance write off bike with minimal cosmetic damage at auction here in NZ for cheap and had to put it through our equivalent of the VIV. Cost an absolute arm and a leg and the guy was completely useless. Luckily he didn't fail the bike for any of the repairs, but he wanted the frame measured by somebody else as he couldn't do it. I got my bike mechanic to do it and gave the inspector the measurements and he didn't like that the form the mechanic gave me wasn't the same as his measurement form. He didn't have a blank copy of this form to give me so he told me to go home and look it up online. I couldn't find it and started to think it was a form he had made because it looked really unofficial. I called him a few times to ask about it but he started just hanging up on me. I ended up making a replica of the form in MS Word based on a photo of another customers filled out form and fabricated some of the measurements that were missing. Took it back to the inspector and he glanced at it, then just handed me the repair certificate. The people who do these jobs seem to be corrupt or just don't care.
@@ThatThrowAwayAccount-tz8ly and even if you did, say it was recovered, the insurance company doesn't own your bike and can't say it was written off without your consent. Don't take money from them, and they can't do anything. The bad decision was taking the money from insurance without understanding.
@@ThatThrowAwayAccount-tz8ly wont matter, police still report it once they have ure rego and then the insurance company will find out and cancel your insurance. and then bam your black listed from having insurance for 5 years.
@@AridersLifeYT Ahhhh, the owner has their bike back. If they don't make a claim, on what grounds does the insurance company get to cancel insurance the owner has paid for? 🤔
Is it still a civil matter if you ram your own bike off the road?
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I'm from the UK and had the assistance of the police in a couple of stolen vehicle matters. They won't tell you its a civil matter at all. Why make up total bullsheet?
Ironically i would prefer to hear this than the police saying "oh you have no proof this belong to you? Well suck to be you, the thieves keep it, go kick rocks."
@@TwinShards That's pretty much what they mean when they say "it's a civil matter". As far as I know, theft in the UK is a criminal offense. Police just can't be bothered to do the detective work required to track down the vehicle, gather evidence of the theft and then prosecute, so they'll just fob you off by calling it a civil matter instead.
That VIV check made me want to barf. In NH in the US my bike literally just needs a brake light, headlight and one mirror. Don't even need turn signals
Bro most of the world * Minor defect, 2021 model * " Your car/bike is to old and not legal " VS USA " I wanna drive this rusty Nuclear Submarine around " " That will be 40c please " ( Your registration is also insanely cheap comparatively )
@@Nightmaretyrant the gov shouldn't make it impossible for hard workers to just live their life. which is what they are doing, the guy who stole it i bet had less in fines then they had to pay to drive it on the road again.
@@Nightmaretyrant In Texas as of next year you can just drive around in a 2.5 ton behemoth with a completely rusted out subframe because the inspection is just going completely away and being replaced with a simple fee.
Good delivery of a sad story. It wasnt a motorcycle but I had an insurance issue with my '79 F150 in 2006. We were camping and caught in a storm that produced a tornado, the hail from that damaged my truck. Insurance wanted to write it off and give me two thousand dollars. This was a clean title, family owned vehicle that my Dad bought new. They fought with me for two years, finally in the 11th hour they agreed to paint it and leave the title clean. I didnt want Rebuild on there or as you indicated in your video the value gets trashed. The whole process was completely disheartening, I felt so helpless. Our insurance here in my Canadian province is a Crown (provincial) Corporation but they still operate like any other insurance company.
That VIV check is a FU*KIN RACKET! In the UK, we have a similar test called an MOT test, and it mainly covers aspects like Emissions, Brakes, Tyres, Lights, and Structural Integrity, to make sure the vehicle is safe and roadworthy. You would not fail a test for scratches to paintwork, or rips in seats etc, unless it compromises vehicle safety. You are legally obligated to have this test done after the vehicle reaches Three years old, and every year thereafter. The test itself costs around £50, not sure what that is in AUD$. But if any defects are found, you are given I think, 14 days to repair them, with serviceable parts, (they don't have to be brand new) and no receipts are required. Then once repairs are done, the Re-Test is free, if you Re-test within the 14 day time frame, otherwise, its another £50. As long as the Vehicle is deemed safe and riadworthy, you are good to go, even if cosmetically, it looks like a wreck.
Back in 2008 I purchased a 1987 Month Carlo SS on ebay, but it was about 850 miles away from me. With a sales receipt and title from the seller (he mailed it to me) I was able to register and insure my car and get plates for it. There are no inspections in the state where I live. I flew to New York, took a train, and drove home. However, I was only 20 minutes into my trip when a New York cop pulled me over for "looking suspicious". He tried to write me up for an expired emissions sticker, but I pointed out my car isn't registered in New York, and isn't required to have one. He then claimed my registration was fraudulent, as no state would register it without an inspection. I sat for about 30 minutes with him trying to find something to ticket me with.
MOT is the same as an RWC.. VIV is a different beasts.. It's if you have to get a vehicle that was taken out of the pool of registered vehicles as a registered write off and put it back in... MOT is just a Road Worthiness Check... I don't know what the English equivalent would be.. But if you import a salvage bike and fix it up, you'd have to jump through those hoops too before you can get it on the road again... It won't just be an MOT at that point... It's MOT + type registration + registration licence + some more stuff. Also the checks will be way more rigorous than is the case with an MOT... The rebuild has to be as good as a new import... MOT is APK in the Netherlands, TüV in Germany, RWC in Australia... But that's just an annual checkup (starting 3 years after it was registered as a new car/bike)... Entering a salvage vehicle back in the pool of registered vehicles is a lot more difficult and a lot more hoops to jump through... It would be the same as getting a car that was a total write off back in registration... Just MOT is not going to do that.
@@jazzdirt Ah ok, it wasn't fully explained in the video. In the UK, if you want to recommission a crash damaged vehicle, there are certain criteria that also need to be met, as well as the MOT. Crash damaged vehicles are categorised depending on the severity of the damage, from registered as a TOTAL write off, which must be scrapped. Then REPAIRABLE write off, and then three other categories I think, designated by a letter, such as 'Cat N' depending on again, the severity of the damage sustained. And this categorisation stays with the vehicle for the rest of its life. Of course, there are some vehicles that are not reported to the insurers after a crash, by unscrupulous owners, who will seek to repair the vehicle at a back street garage, then sell it on as undamaged. I think this is rare, thankfully. But you should always be on you guard when buying a used car. And if it is economically viable, have it inspected by expert technicians prior to purchase. Otherwise, you could lose the vehicle, AND your money, if it comes to light that the vehicle is illegally registered at a later stage. So the onus is on the buyer to make sure the vehicle is legit, especially if it is a private sale or 'Sold As Seen' But buying RETAIL, from a dealership, DOES give you certain consumer rights. You can reject the vehicle for a FULL refund, for any reason, within the first 14 days. If any faults are discovered thereafter, up until the first 30 days, they must be repaired by the dealership, or if it deemed to be uneconomic to repair, then the dealer must offer a swap for an equivalent vehicle of the same value, or a refund. And after that, the normal terms of any warranty given with the vehicle applies. Normally, dealer warranties are anything from 3 months to 1 year, depending on the dealership and/or the vehicle.
The VIV is designed to prevent people putting written off vehicles back on the road, it is not like a RWC or MOT. The big problem is that insurance premiums are so high and repair costs are so high that any vehicle more then 5 years old typically becomes a write off if there is more then 2 panels of damage to it. In this case, the parts and labor would have been far more than the value of the bike so write off, that is just a financial write off, not an actual engineering one. A financial write should not require a VIV, just a RWC.
I'm from the uk and know about the m.o.t. I now live in new Zealand and the test here is exactly the same. Except it's called a w.o.f. warrant of fitness. You get 30 days for a re-check instead of 14. And are still allowed to drive the car on the road. But only to pick up parts to fix it or to take it to a mechanic. It's a load of shite. I drove mine around for a year with a failed w.o.f. heaps of people do it there because we don't have ANPR. and if you do get picked up by the police it's only a 100$ (£30 odd) compliance fine!
When mine got stolen from a carpark here in Auckland, I was told by the cops who had the CCTV footage that 4 guys jumped out of a van, lifted my bike up and chucked it in the back and drove off. It's not until 3+ years later they're doing a drug bust they found my bike behind a shed, rear tyres blown, engine worn out, fairing stickers taken off and they turn one of the digit off the plate form a 6 to an 8 with black electrical tape. I proceed to ride it for a bit more after I got it back, and then it conked out since the motor was knackered from the abuse the thieves did when they had it.
@@st3gosaurusNo insurance, it was a Yamaha R125, market value around $4,500, thought nobody in their right mind will steal something that weak, I guess I thought wrong.
VIV checks for motorbikes specifically are known for being the most pain in the arse pain in the arse fullstop. they require you to get the bike to 100% factory new condition with brand new OEM parts, which for older bikes is nearly impossible, and onto of that there's about 2 qualified VIV mechanics in the state, so there's no getting someone to do a loose one for you, and there's always a massive wait. my dad bought a repairable write off honda CBR1100XX blackbird about a decade ago and had to go thru the process. he wrote an article about the whole process for bikesales, incase anyone's interested in reading more about it.
They do this because bikes don't have GPS systems built in (older ones) and the cops have an extremely hard time catching them. For this reason, every household should buy one, like an enduro for bugout scenarios
I just watch your video and I am sorry for what has happened, I'm a retired Motorcycle roadworthy tester here in Vic. And as soon as the insurance company declared it as a repairable write off, it was all over. When is comes to the VIV check you are right there only three in the state, there was a four a couple of years and he was good and wouldn't picked half the crap that tester did. That tester should not have picked half the stuff he did, like the fairings misaligned by a couple of mm doesn't matter for the RWC. Anyway I wish you guys all the best for the future hopefully someday in the future you can laugh about.
My AE86 got written off, went to insurance and they offered me $1,400 because in their eyes it was just a corolla. Since then, third party and avoid if at all possible if accident occurs. Not worth it at all. Insurance companies only exist as companies, to build wealth, profit to them selves and stakeholders. End of the day and unless a situation meets a strict contract - you're throwing money against the wall.
@@WhitShiro I bought the AE86 back in 2009 before I had my license with the 4AGE already installed with some rust repair needed for $1,000 AUD/$600 USD. It was around 2014 when it got written off and even then they were only worth about $5-6k. I ended up buying another few for that amount but it wasn’t the same.
@@wadeturner3791 earth and we are talking aud and with a good body. they are worth that much thanks to the lack of them and the twin cams being high interest in a lot of initial d fan boys eyes as well as being one the best drift cars for ages.
Someone steals your bike and YOU are the one getting shafted by the law, insurance, and whatever the hell VIV is. It would have been infinitely better to just steal it back and then get a new key. You got the registration anyways...
Yes, a mate had a rather rare Euro super bike stolen, the dirtbags actually falsified purchase and ownership paperwork and the Magistrate had to make himmhand it over back to those who stole it. But the Magistrate also felt for him and suggested he just do what the thieves do and steal it back.
Cute girl with a matching Ute and bike ❤ that’s phukking epic 😂 The VIV was a rip off more of a scam than insurance. Road worthy should mean no leaks, no risk of fire, and matching VIN. The only real problem with that bike was the shifter.
I bought a brand new Bianchi bicycle for about $800. I went into a pharmacy to get my meds refilled, 10 minutes later, the bike was gone. There was a guy and a cop talking about my bike. The cop radioed it in since it just happened. After waiting around 15 minutes and no news from other squad cars, he had me fill out a police report and as I was walking away he shouted 'get in the car!'. That was my first and only in the back of a cop car (little known fact, those seats are plastic and super uncomfortable). We pulled up to the gas station where another squad car noticed my bike that fit the description. The cop that was with me had me stand behind a pillar as to not have any retaliation against me. He asked me to prove that the bike was mine. I pulled out my phone where I wrote down my vin. I got my bike back and when the cop asked if i wanted to press charges I said yes (it probably didn't do anything since there's a law in California where theft of property valued below $950 is considered a misdemeanor). 6 months later, that bike was stolen in front of my bedroom window on my porch. I keep my new bicycle inside now and bought a titanium rod theft device for it. And there's a happy ending to this story. I had renter's insurance and they paid for the bike in full since I had the receipts! Lessons learned: 1 get renter's insurance 2. Get one above $950 if you're already buying new 3. Keep the bike inside 4. Write down vin number and photos on your phone and save it in the cloud. 5. Pay the cops upfront $500 to find your bike. Jk about no. 5.
I had a road racing bike stolen 2x while in school. Stuck w/o transport, i walked to campus each day, perhaps 1.5 miles. On the last day of the semester, i walk out a final exam totally drained. I see a bike while walking and think wow, someone else’s bike has a sticker just like mine. Then i think, wow, that sucks - it’s even the same color as my bike. Then i realize it IS my bike. Nobody around so i stole it back ! BTW, also in California.
It’s not a bad idea, just a very bad implementation. It’s to make sure that chop shops aren’t just stealing people’s cars, using them for parts to make written off cars whole so they can sell them. It shouldn’t be used for minor scratches and things.
Definately some young person mistakes were made but that's how we learn. Receipts for all parts and the vin numbers of bikes they came from if 2nd hand protect us from rebithing and reduce motorbike theft. As an ex copper of 30 years it was great to see you got a high level of service from VicPol. Sadly that can be a rarity nowadays. The offender appeared to be a bit of a nuffy. That rego plate he made was only going to attract lots of attention and demand serious investigation by the highway patrol who take such matters personally.....
Three cases of comprehensive insurance ride. 1. I got hit by a car while parked in a car park, driver drove off but I got his plates - insurance wouldn’t cover it because it happened on ‘private property’ - safeways at the time 2. I got hit by a drunk driver doing over 100 in a 60 zone, his car was wrecked and leaking on the front end - left the scene with fake id, but had car rego, insurance didn’t help because I didn’t have his full details, need to talk to cops, but cops would not provide details. Had to fix my car at my own expense. 3. I was riding my motorbike around 45ks on hawthorn Rd, Burwood east, car came out of a side road without looking, I swerved and hit the brakes, high sided myself and avoided hitting the driver, she took off without stopping, insurance said it was my fault because I lost control, if I had hit her, I would had been covered, but she came right out in front of me and I did my best to avoid the situation, I didn’t get to finish Uni because of it and was totally out of pocket and a $6k write off (ZZR-250) 1 year old at the time.
"but cops would not provide details" I got in 2 accidents in the US in the last few years (neither my fault but i was blamed for the first one because of a bad cop who took the word of the person who hit me) and in both cases I was supplied with a paper that included the officers information and all the personal information of the person who hit me- name, address, car make/model/year/VIN, everything. This was provided to me on the spot. The cop literally printed it out on a waterproof piece of paper (which is great cuz it was raining in the 2nd accident) from a printer in his cruiser. I'm amazed you can't get that info from the police in Australia.
Quick run down, was in an accident on my motorbike. ( Uber driver doing a u turn and not looking). Month after the accident, i was able to get footage of the accident and is clear as day he is at fault. Went through insurance and after 8 weeks they turned around and tried saying both parties were at fault" Both parties agree" even though i supplied them with footage and police statement that stated he was at fault. That was 10 months ago, still chasing up $$$$ for the bike insurance.
Good luck bloke insurance don’t care I got done with a hit and run had rego and police reports Thankfully for me the panel better gave me my car back before insurance was settled they wanted me to pay the the excess. Stupidly they threatened to keep my car till I payed her voice dropped when I told her to bad so sad already had my car back Cancelled my insurance and changed insurer They tried to recope the money with the next year renewal hahah
Had to catch a train to school and back from Lilydale train station my entire high school years. Also used to play pool at the local billiards hall “Rack ‘Em Up”. The shit I saw in that suburb over the years is ridiculous. Absolute shit hole of a place.
My ke70 was stolen. I then saw it on marketplace so I called the police. They impounded it for 100 days because they realised that they had previously recovered it 20km from my house and cleared it for sale as abandoned I had too purchace the car back for $2000 as the police sold it at auction and the person that had it rightfully owned it now 😢 great video
that red kawi looks like a ducacti! really nice paint job. Also 2nd hand bikes sometimes have a tracker inside them, and is followed by the previous owner. Also if she takes it to work, i would park it directly in front of work under the camera.
One must wonder, did having the airtag actualy save you money? You would have been better off just losing the bike than getting it back and on the road again lol. Fair justice system i must say. Good on you for speaking out!
Yep would have been better off to lose it in this case of having insurance.. but if she didn’t have insurance it wouldn’t have been marked as a repairable write off, and she could have repaired it for $1080 causing it to still hold its market value since it wouldn’t need a VIV check and would remain road legal conclusion: think twice about having comprehensive insurance
@@BennySurge You are mad at insurance and not the government mandated monopoly with no oversight or appeals process? Amazing. Maybe auzzies deserve what they get.
Dude this sux big time. I had a situation many years ago with a house burglary. Through "contacts" I had back in the day I found out where some of our gear was, the main one being a large TV in a fancy cabinet. Told the cops and they recovered a lot the stuff and said they knew who did it but finger printing the TV would ruin the cabinet so they could not prove it. I asked the cop who it was, he said he could not tell me. For some reason he left the file open on his desk and said he had to do something and left the room. A few months later he came to seem me and asked if I knew anything about this guy getting the shit kicked out of him. I said no, he said ok I investigated and found nothing, seeya, and that was the end of it. You can't always relay on the cops for justice and they know it.
Wow the VIV is literally a scam. Not road worthy because of some cosmetics you don't even notice unless you're standing next to it? That's wild. Glad you got the bike back but damn what a scam that whole process is.
Going to work when your pride and joy is out there being wrecked by someone is the most gut wrenching feeling. For all riders I recommend an airtag + a cell connected GPS tracker hidden somewhere else on the bike. Airtags will notify the thief that they're being followed and won't take long for them to find it. Makes for a good decoy while the cell tracker is logging the actual location in the background
VIV seems wild. UK based here, had my car written off. Bought it back and was driving it around in that state for 3 months until I could repair it myself. Never had any check it was roadworthy until next MOT when it flew through. Aus is wild.
$100 is tough , a warning would be a better approach and a chat on why you need a tail reflector. Cops have been hot on this for a while now, and a bike without one is easy pickings. On a bike at night if your tail light fails for whatever reason it could save your bacon, you never know.
had a car stolen at a shopping centre in ferntree gully ,insurance gave me a hire car two weeks later that got stolen too. no fkn worse feeling feel for ya misses man!
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Idk how you constantly turn these random life events into entertaining content, but I'm here for it.
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It started out like any other day on earth...
Go fishing with this man
He always betrays them....
cant say i expected to see you here
the viv check mechanic was definitely brutally bullied throughout school
He's working as a mechanic ....... enough said.
I thought she went overboard buying new fairings... boy was I wrong.
Mechanic probably has a bigger wrench than his tool
He was probably wanting to pitch the ol' "I can fix all those things I wrote down if you want"
I'm glad I do not live in Victoria. In NSW our equivalent is a blue slip. It took 20 minutes and about $50 to get mine through and cosmetic issues are not relevant here. There are also mechanics qualified to provide blue slips everywhere in the state.
it's crazy how people can steal a bike/car/motorcycle for like 12 hours, and do more damage in those 12 hours than 5 owners could do in 20 years
Hell my bmx bike got stolen when I was 12, got it back within 2 or 3 hours, and it already had all the decals stripped, and a tire/wheel swapped out
Love the story just go to show justice is shit your better off being a criminal and getting a slap 😊 20:18
We had what I con only assume was a tweaker try to steal 4 bikes at my appartments. 2 were dropped, mine had the ignition broken and the cover stolen. No bikes stolen.
Every sense I keep it in the garage with motion sensor that txts me, 2 different locks for the back and front wheels, shock alarm, GPS tracker, and bike cover. I have to unlock/deactivate 2 different key fobs before I can sit or it goes mad. $400 of security is still cheaper than some fenders replaced.
for like? 🤔
@@PTMGsame with my sons bmx.
How was he not responsible for the cost associated with the damage and repairs? My boys bike got stolen in the States and the thief was on the hook for all of it, or he'd be back in court. He didn't pay, more charges were filed and his wages ended up being garnered. Australia sounds like a giant pia.
Insurance didn't even pay for a vehicle rental while the bike was being repaired. Amazing. When I got rear-ended (in the US) my car was out of use for 2 months before the parts could be sourced and the repairs completed (there was a parts shortage in the US at the time because of Covid). In the meantime I had a rental car and insurance paid for 100% of it. My rental was a much newer, much nicer, and more expensive car too lol
Basically not worth the effort. These people just keep dodging responsibility and living off social security while being protected by civil/legal rights. Unless you've got video evidence showing them causing the damage there is no way to prove they are responsible.
We're a proud convict country, punishing the victims of crime and treating crims as if they are the victims.
I’m surprised the VIV check building has any windows still intact. They would have a fancy rock collection though.
Good luck attacking a business which is part of an industry that is dominated by organised crime 🤦♂
@@scod3908 No problemo..
I worked 8 years as a car mechanic in Germany, we have one of the strictest regulations in the world regarding roadworthiness... This VIV check sounds like total corruption.
A TÜV check every 2 years is like 150 euro and if you fail and you got 2 weeks to repair everything with the second checkup being 25 euros.
No argument that this was total bs, but VIV is different from MOT/TÜV. They make their money by shafting the insurance companies to make vehicles "repaired for roadworthiness", that's why it's so insanely expensive, and that's why the insurance company wanted to shaft Benny Surge's gf.
@youtubebaba3565we have essentially 2x insurances. One for other peoples vehicles which is mandatory and one that protects your own vehicle.
@youtubebaba3565 The insurance company wrote the bike off. As in they deemed it to expensive to repair. No vehicle insurance in not compulsory in Australia.
@youtubebaba3565 In NSW it is compulsory to have third party insurance, but in other states (such as victoria, where benny is) it isnt.
Actually it's within the month of you bringing the car to an inspection, not two weeks
Sounds like the real thief is the VIV check
they do this on purpose because they want all 'old' vehicles off the road.
vicroads wont let me rego by beloved car i have had since high school. roadworthy failure is similar to the viv failure in this video. i got dinged for things like 'door locks are too tight', and 'micro fractures on the side-marker lights'. i will need to essentially rebuild this car like new and just have a punt to ever get it on the road again.
its almost as if the VIV wasnt adressed about the goal of the damaged bike.
@@easterworshipper5579thats some honestly gross shit. Ensuring panel gaps are up to spec to ensure road worthiness? like nah thats some fuckin nazi shit
I was surethe guy who did the VIV check, was going to give her a price to fix.
Yeah I'm glad there no check in my state.
First mistake: thinking insurance was there to help you
It was actually the Second Mistake the first one they should have bought a kovix disk 🔐 💯👍✌️
@@Bok2022st In the UK the biggest mistake is believing the police will do anything for you, even bother attending. They don't.
The first mistake was using such a crappy chain.
@@ryanunderwood1798 hahaha you can grind though a chain easily portable battery operated grinder, try to do that with a disc lock screaming 120 decibels at you lol
No locks stop a diamond blade grinder unfortunately @Bok2022st
This is why you do not report it stolen, find it with the airtag and go and get it back yourself.
The light scuffs and micro gaps are unreasonable for the viv check someone needs to start a petition or show up at the right meeting to get that shit changed.
If you’re going to install an air tag, the new ones allow anyone to set off the audible alarm, therefore making it really easy for thieves to locate them. You have to take the back off and disconnect the speaker and put it back together. Plenty of RUclips videos on how to modify them.
There’s multiple RUclips videos about how to disable the speakers and it takes like three minutes per tag to do. I’ve got 7 vehicles with AirTags in each and none make a peep😉
iPhone users get unknow airtag warnings. if the thief has an iphone they will know what ever they took has an airtag
@@kylemaradyn259They still have to find it. And in general, thieves tend to live in the android world.
@@JPTulo interesting statistic, did you pull it straight out of your ass?
@@JPTulo iirc android also get air tag warnings now too.
when i was 15, i worked part time to save up money to build a sick bmx bike that was around 1200$usd. a month after i got it together, a group of kids stole it out of the garage and covered the security cameras.
about 6 months later i see it for sale on facebook and schedule a little meet with them to 'buy' it back. i called up my biggest friend to come over and on the way out my old man could smell there was trouble brewing and pressed me to figure out what was about to go down and eventually he made me call the police to go with.
we all get there with the cops and check it over, and sure enough its my bike. i had every part written down with the vin and everything matched.
the cops told me theres nothing they could do because i didnt register my bicycle with the police and report it as stolen so i had to give my bike back to the very person who stole it from me in the first place.
on that day i lost a lot of faith in my parents and the police.
What a fucking joke. The thief must have thought he won the lottery. Why didn’t you report it stolen though??
Nothing to do with the police, that’s your lawmakers you should be mad at.
@@Sentientmad9m @jptulo i was 15, i didn't know you had to register your bikes Vin number with the county lmao
really bad luck mate, i dont think your parents or the police would begrudge a cheeky counter theft operation done well
@@noahlenten8360 Where do you live? You don’t have to register bicycles in Ohio, but you do have to have some way of proving ownership of the serial number. I would think some pictures of you on it, or the original receipt, receipts for the parts would do it. That’s heartbreaking man.
That's a genuine gap for the ninja 250 on the tail light. Mind had it, so did all the others I've seen. That's taking the fkn piss
Clearly a cash grab by the workshop doing the inspection, was a piss take for picking on the scuff marks on the bar ends 🤣
mine had the same thing, complete bogus they call them out on that LMAO
@@sugarbombs6884 No kidding, literally what they're there for.
It would be interesting to take a new bike in and see if it passes!
@@wowfish-ob3ew probably get you for 3 too many molecules blocking the headlight. or the classic the tires have touched the ground before, not good enough.
"And life went on" Great wrap up! So sorry you all had to experience this. Great lessons for the rest of us.
At least you've got police that actually do something when your property's been stolen, no chance of that in UK even with tracking.
Insurance company is the real criminal here!
No, it's the government and their mandated monopoly on inspections with no apparent regulations or oversights before they will let you register your vehicle again. Like the video said, why are any of those defects preventing safe operation on the road, the supposed intent of the inspection?
Is a conspiracy..Vicroads x insurance x VIV ,,money's maker's,,camera's checking inside you car ,,land taxes, petrol,food expensive..an more more,,, AUSTRALIA SUCKS
@@pontiacg445 errrr. Yes, the insurance company still offered well below market value. That’s why he went down the repair route. I do agree that the inspectors are ridiculous as well.
The thief should pay tho...
@@nisseost1 Yes, the thief should pay, but that is the insurance company's problem not the owners. That is why the owner has insurance. The offer should have been either fair market value of similar replacement and you don't get the bike or fair market value of a similar replacement minus the parts value of the bike and you get to keep the bike.
I can't speak from other countries, but in the US negotiating that value is something most people have to do. The insurance company makes an offer, you look at bluebook value and adverts for similar vehicles, show those to the insurance company... You negotiate and if you can't come to a resolution then you might need to escalate. I have friends who have gone through that. I myself have only gone through it once and there was no need to negotiate. The insurance company gave me an offer that I thought was fair.
I went through a similar thing.
Bought an XR6 Turbo at 18.
Mong crashed into it. Car was essentially brand new. 62,000k’s on it, still had that new car smell, and not a scratch on it.
Car was $22,000.
Front bumper got cracked, headlight needed replacing, needed a new grill and a bonnet (could’ve got away with paint).
Insurance made me take it to a specific repair shop, nobody else, for this review mind you.
Total quote including, paint for $2,000 in parts? $24,000.
A body shop, quoted $24,000 to replace pretty much a headlight and a front bumper.
Obviously my car was written off, but here’s the kicker!
I was given back $18,000 of that $24,000 because I’d opted to pay my insurance monthly. ($3,600 a year) at the time, and being 18 years old after spending 22k on a car, I didn’t have that laying around.
So, it was taken out of the insurance return, as was the $1,200 excess.
Funnily enough, within a week, my car was listed for sale at Pickles Auctions, Snapped up for a lovely sum of $7,500, and repaired for $2,800 by the new owner.
Insurance is a scam.
Six cops show up for a stolen $2500 motorcycle? Impressive. Here in the states, you can’t get one cop to investigate the theft of a $100,000 car.
They had the case handed to them on a platter - tracking and positive location ID with an address matching a known crim
For a regular stolen vehicle gone without a trace, good luck.
it depends bro, if they have to start from zero, they won't even bother
Your both right. I went to new York. And we rented a small truck. And long story short. Everything down the street for blocks looks the same. So we were going to drive. As we're driving one of the days we were there. We discussed and parked 3 blocks up the road and decided to take the subway instead. When we got back we were walking and passed the car not knowing. When we get to the airbnb we thought the car was stolen. The cops blamed us when they got there and said that we were going to go to jail for lying and trying to clam insurance. Anyway long story short after them going 2 blocks up and 2 blocks back and not finding it. Enterprise got the GPS location. It was 1 more block up. Boy did we all feel stupid. But it proved most cops don't wanna try or care. They literally said it's a right off for Enterprise so we're not going to try when they first got there.
Here in the UK you won't even get a cop to show up. Instead they will just give you a crime reference number and tell you to claim on insurance.
Depends where you live in the States. Where I grew up, they'd do that for a $500 bike.
Sorry about your lost. Really appreciate all the information you have shared.
loss.
Here in NY, we have 2 separate things, the salvage inspection this would only be for a total loss bike with a salvage title, they just look for stolen parts, they don't care about safety at all. Then you have a safety inspection. They come out and see if the lights and horn work and the tires are decent. Thats the end of it.
Hell, he wasn't ready for the Benny surge to be prepared. Looks like I might have to invest in an air tag
Okay, Viv requirements are complete bullshit man..
Moral of the story, even if you get your bike back, just buy a new one, VIV checks are bullshit.
@@aquilleswinkler5051 moral of the story, dont have insurance lmfao
So what we learn from this:
1: get the air tag.
2: let the cops catch the thief (even if it's just a slap on the wrist it still hurts the thief a bit)
3: if you have insurance LET THEM KEEP THE STOLEN VEHICLE, it will be cheaper to buy a new one than fucking making the stolen one legal to drive again.
In the end getting robbed still sucks if you want to be a legally binding citizen.
You will lose money and the vehicle.
Alternatively you could do the illegal way and just steal it back, fix it back to the previous state and pretend it was never stolen. How would they know?
@@RenSugiura its funny, we live in a world where we talk about throwing less things away yet the governments make it almost impossible for you to repair anything. Oh your older car has slight damage? well since it ist from 2030 in the future the value is around 3 cheeseburgers and a hotdog so its a total loss youll get 500 bucks we scrap it for you
lmfao your missus served me when i was nearly late for a wedding and forgot my belt, she was goated and pointed me to the rivers
Without watching the video yet the first part of that sentence sounded like you were getting sexual...
Rivers as in the store? Crazy bruh I work there, not at the one you’re talking about but down here in SA.
@@benjFPS Are you sure it wasn't your one? Maybe this guy can teleport.
@@benjFPS no he means rivers as in the body of water
@@TrippaTVOfficial No what he really means is some chicks house named Rivers
Why the fuck do they care about cosmetic damage?? What a fucking joke.
_This is the deal, you pay and never call us for anything, and maybe just maybe we lower the rate for you next time you renew though no promises. I mean inflation, and big data interpretation, who cans say. If we have to update your file with anything, well then you move to the high liability category. Sign here, or break the law._
@@bearwolffish Yeah, paying for insurance is like playing red on an all black roulette wheel. With the threat of arrest if you don’t play.
There is no winning.
The owner cares about cosmetic damage because the bike was brand new. I would be upset to, even if I got the bike back. Can you imagine the cost to repair the bike?
@@vtxdaryl Assuming this is bait but if not, they are talking about the VIV inspector, not the owners
@@me.2.. I have no clue what the VIV Inspector is, can you explain. What good are they besides costing the victims of crimes more money.
Mate you're one the best story teller, public speakers I've ever encountered. Keep it going. You're on your way 🎉😊
Bro honestly the way you explain your story like a narrator just intrigues me so much keep up the content bro ❤💯🫡
I got treated like a criminal with my insurance claim. Now my bike wasn’t stolen, but when I crashed it, it was a total write off so made a claim over the phone. The person at the insurance company screwed up with a.m. and p.m. on the claim so it looked like I put the claim in before the crash happened and it got red flagged. The second that happened I had to jump through hoops and was treated like a criminal, and they sent an ex detective down to investigate the case as they didn’t believe my claim . Even after they were explained the situation it didn’t matter they had to do a full investigation. I had to provide proof of where I was why and how I crashed , phone proof of when I rang for help, had to provide hospital documents and proof I went there because of the crash etc etc they also had to do character reference through my work to see if I was a dodgy prick and make sure I had time off work, and that was the reason !! what an absolute joke. Long story short it took a few months but I got a full payout and went and bought the next model up.
But just because of someone’s stupid mistake it was an absolute head fuck for a few months trying to get this shit so I feel your pain mate when you’ve done nothing wrong 👊🏻😁.
Completely different story to your situation, but at least the comment will help the algorithm 👍🏻
Everyone should use the 24 hour format.
@@Noksus or people could just proof read their work and not fuck up. Its not what time format they used, its the fucker at the insurance company that got it wrong. you cant blame time formats on a human error.
Name the insurance company so others can avoid them!
Lmao that reminds me, I got injured at work. Long story short, all the paperwork they had showed me not even working. I had to prove that I was in the building when I got injured. This was in 2012 and we had our hearing in 2017.
@@gregory8282Pretty sure they're all trash, mate.
Not mine but a family member, had her Supra stolen from her garage last year.
Was only found due to the airtag. Found dumped in Broadmeadows, unlocked, key in ignition still. She called the cops and told them she found her stolen car and they told her to just take it and go home.
Clutch was rooted, engine has a light knock now and no longer holds boost, heaps of scrapes and dents. Was only MIA for about 12 hours.
She hasn't touched it since getting it home. But that airtag saved the car from disappearing permanently.
iPhones will tell you if there's an airtag in the vicinity, I'm sure the thief's phone let them know there was an airtag and they dumped it for that reason
If she had insurance she should have taken it and brought the car back as it would have no wova title on it
@@bagfumbler not just iphones but androids as well, one of my neighbours has an airtag near me and my phone goes "oi someone may have put a tracker on you, do you want to make it ring" so to be checky I set it off in the middle of the night
@@blakeoswald7840 If you're willing to make a simple mod to your AirTag, you can disable the speaker, so that its audible alert is silenced.
Not a great option for a tag on something small like your keys, but excellent for a big item like a car. Do a good enough job of hiding it and the thief will be too paranoid to stay with it for too long and give up the search.
Pretty common thing. Receiving a stolen car back and not wanting to use it for months or even years.
Seen it happen a hundred times, happened to me too. You feel violated and the car doesn’t feel the same…
if it happens again just steal the bike back and change the ignition switch as well as add an immobilizer switch somewhere hidden. Sorry this happened to you Zoe. good on you for keeping on!
Paying Insurance on your bike and having a thief steal your bike is pretty much the same thing. You just went full circle my friend.
Came here after my handbag was stolen and wishing i had an airtag in it as well...as an Aussie myself, i love your accent, its especially unique haha
people are slowly realizing insurance is a scam, finally
the gov is to !!!!!!!!
Insurance is obligatory tax (scam)
@@cjjorge6636 The government taxing you so they can install red light cameras instead of roundabouts on the busiest of streets.
Have been saying for years that insurance is legalised robbery. Here in UK insurance is mandatory and expensive but they will wriggle out of paying if they can and you never get the full value back. I've had two motorbikes and 5 pushbikes stolen but police don't care. None recovered 😢
@@caz4582 luckily here in NZ its not compulsory, most people still look at ya funny when you say you dont have insurance though
It's exactly the same in the UK brother. £60 fine for stealing a £10,000 bike (from my own personal experience) - I've had 1 bike stolen and my new bike has had 2 attempts on it. Told the police it's exact location 4 times as it was spotted in my city several times, they never follow up. The punishment is so low it's a viable business here.. police are much more interested in jailing hippies for smoking. If you report your bike stolen and spot it, just tell them they have a joint in their hand and they will be there in 3 minutes.
i’d say the guy is threatening bystanders with a gun
@@baomao7243 then you would get jail time while the criminal laughs at you from outside
@@saradomim “but he had a gun…he must have tossed it when he saw the police. I’m not surprised they didn’t find it; they never do.” 😉
I was always told by friends who rode bikes that the best defense against motorbike theft was a bike cover + good insurance. However, finding "good" insurance is either difficult or too expensive for most folks.
At the end of the day, a loss is a loss. Insurance will do whatever they can to pay the least amount possible. But sometimes it's best to walk away with a small loss, a lesson, and try again with those experiences.
With that said, it made me happy to see Zoe riding again at the end ain't nothing stopping the missus! :)
Seems like you guys in Australia are getting f-ed when it comes to insurance. Im 90% certain that in my area of the woods, insurance companies arent allowed to simply just give you these two options to choose from. If the insurance wants to write the bike off completely and just offer such a low amount of money - they would have to prove that you could get another one in the exact same condition for the amount offered.
Also... that guy doing the VIV inspection - jesus christ
@@innominatum9906unless you live in Europe maybe, u are absolutely getting destroyed by insurance lol. You must have never made a claim. Whole thing is a scam.
@@SamCyanide I live in Denmark and while insurance certainly can be tricky - I've made a fair bit of claims over the years on both my house, car and motorcycle =)
Im naive and we also get cases where insurance companies are out right wrong - but this video is just too absurd if thats a standard practice.
The best defence against motorbike theft is to keep it locked in a garaged when not in use. That's basically it.
No bike is safe if it's parked outdoors. They are just too easy to steal. There's a reason why some underwriters just straight up refuse to even offer anything above third party coverage for non-garaged bikes.
Also it's a good idea to NOT leave your bike unattended in a random location overnight. That helps quite a bit too.
Insurers understandably do not cover thefts that occur in situations like this (where the bike owner brought unnecessary additional risk to themselves via a stupid decision).
As much as insurers are an easy target to attack I genuinely don't think they are to blame here. Insurance doesn't exist to facilitate poor decision making or lack of care for your own property.
I had similar situation but my insurance agent help me to not register as "write off" and now knowing you history, I was blessed. Still is rolling the streets.
Let’s get a go fund me for this lady. She deserves all of it. The fact that she got back on two wheels again, Hero!
Someone who can afford 3k on Ubers doesn't need a GoFundMe, they need lessons on how to save money.
@@TheGigashadow They should also spend more than £10 on a decent lock.
I mean, she left her keys on the ground, thats not something to gofundme over.
@@_Mutto_ They don't deserve a penny. Too much incompetence on their part. The only sensible idea was the installation of the AirTag. Why didn't he take a ramp, and pick the bike and her up in his ute?
@@sandgrownun66 True!
Now we all know that if your motorbike gets stolen don't look for it buy a new one
Or just go take the bike back and don’t bother ringing the cops.
@@odhranquinn8992nah ring the cops just don’t tell the insurance company
If u tell the cops then you become suspect #1 in the thief's mysterious disappearance
No, it's not to tell insurance. If the vehicle is anything but totaled DO NOT REPORT IT TO INSURANCE
@@markosparko240 key word: totaled. Make sure it's totaled.
i dont want to spoil the ending but that last scene is so good, perfect ending to the story
2 weeks later on a subreddit: How to get $6000 selling your bike and then stealing it back using this $50 AIRTAG!
Thank you for sharing, I hope everything will resolve soon. VIV guy is probably a one of a kind perfectionist, most likely he torques all the bolts every time he takes a ride on his car and that's why he never went home from work....
After taking her 2nd photo I assume she got seriously nailed!
Never tell insurance unless your car is legit undriveable
Did the cops hear the Weldy in the Ute? 😂
Thanks boys turns corner chuc chuc chuc
" This old ute sounds a little strange " *** Panik *** " OFFICER, OFFICER the case at hand please "
Be shitting myself if they were highways hahahaha
Mate I feel for you, the Viv process is definitely cooked! I've done 3 now, and they are all difficult, but that guy is totally taking the piss. I was warned off going to him by at least 5 different people in the industry, so much so that I cancelled and re-booked elsewhere. Glad I did. And you are right, but at least get third party so you're not bankrupted by stacking into a Rolls.
Same happens in NZ the bad lvvta techs get a reputation
Wtf! This is like 2 streets away from me. Across the road from that milk bar and down Dairy lane is all commission housing full of meth heads and scum bags. Last year I caught one of them looking into my BMW out front of my house in broad daylight and told him to piss off. A few months later at 5 in the morning he came back high on meth and smashed it up with a metal bar to the point it was a write off. Cops got here pretty quickly but not quick enough to catch him. Since we installed cameras out front of the house we've had no issues yet. Glad you got the bike back aside from the insurance problems. Btw 7:18 I'd love to know exactly what house it was.
Not only vehicle thief but also insurance and mechanics
I bought an insurance write off bike with minimal cosmetic damage at auction here in NZ for cheap and had to put it through our equivalent of the VIV. Cost an absolute arm and a leg and the guy was completely useless. Luckily he didn't fail the bike for any of the repairs, but he wanted the frame measured by somebody else as he couldn't do it. I got my bike mechanic to do it and gave the inspector the measurements and he didn't like that the form the mechanic gave me wasn't the same as his measurement form. He didn't have a blank copy of this form to give me so he told me to go home and look it up online. I couldn't find it and started to think it was a form he had made because it looked really unofficial. I called him a few times to ask about it but he started just hanging up on me. I ended up making a replica of the form in MS Word based on a photo of another customers filled out form and fabricated some of the measurements that were missing. Took it back to the inspector and he glanced at it, then just handed me the repair certificate. The people who do these jobs seem to be corrupt or just don't care.
which inspector?
100% she left the key in the ignition
They put a chain together to the bike so I'm pretty sure they would have checked there. That would be the first thing I'd do.
@@RedRabbit1996 She forgot the key in the bike, the thug pulled the key earlier and waited to see what she would do.
The best choice would have been taking the $700 and selling the bike as repairable write off or selling it's parts
Or just not notifying insurance that ur vehicle was stolen
Hindsight is a wonderful thing
@@ThatThrowAwayAccount-tz8ly and even if you did, say it was recovered, the insurance company doesn't own your bike and can't say it was written off without your consent. Don't take money from them, and they can't do anything. The bad decision was taking the money from insurance without understanding.
@@ThatThrowAwayAccount-tz8ly wont matter, police still report it once they have ure rego and then the insurance company will find out and cancel your insurance. and then bam your black listed from having insurance for 5 years.
@@AridersLifeYT Ahhhh, the owner has their bike back. If they don't make a claim, on what grounds does the insurance company get to cancel insurance the owner has paid for? 🤔
The new boat looks amazing. Zoe have fun and be safe.
I am so sorry you went threw such ball crap i am glad your miss has a new bike also mass respect for you stick up for her and helping her out.
We don't have a VIV in the Netherlands because they figured out that technical malfunction only accounts for 0.3% of all accidents.
credit to aussie police, it the uk they would have told you to get stuffed and "its a civil matter"
An entire nation of absolute quivering cowards at this point.
Is it still a civil matter if you ram your own bike off the road?
I'm from the UK and had the assistance of the police in a couple of stolen vehicle matters. They won't tell you its a civil matter at all. Why make up total bullsheet?
Ironically i would prefer to hear this than the police saying "oh you have no proof this belong to you? Well suck to be you, the thieves keep it, go kick rocks."
@@TwinShards That's pretty much what they mean when they say "it's a civil matter".
As far as I know, theft in the UK is a criminal offense. Police just can't be bothered to do the detective work required to track down the vehicle, gather evidence of the theft and then prosecute, so they'll just fob you off by calling it a civil matter instead.
That VIV check made me want to barf. In NH in the US my bike literally just needs a brake light, headlight and one mirror. Don't even need turn signals
Bro most of the world * Minor defect, 2021 model * " Your car/bike is to old and not legal " VS USA " I wanna drive this rusty Nuclear Submarine around " " That will be 40c please " ( Your registration is also insanely cheap comparatively )
@@Nightmaretyrantyea that’s the one thing we got it lucky here. (For now)
Here in Kansas, I just need 2 visible vin plates and I’m golden
@@Nightmaretyrant the gov shouldn't make it impossible for hard workers to just live their life. which is what they are doing, the guy who stole it i bet had less in fines then they had to pay to drive it on the road again.
@@Nightmaretyrant In Texas as of next year you can just drive around in a 2.5 ton behemoth with a completely rusted out subframe because the inspection is just going completely away and being replaced with a simple fee.
@@PURENT Good to hear, can't stand inspections. If she's road legal, she's road legal.
Good delivery of a sad story.
It wasnt a motorcycle but I had an insurance issue with my '79 F150 in 2006. We were camping and caught in a storm that produced a tornado, the hail from that damaged my truck.
Insurance wanted to write it off and give me two thousand dollars. This was a clean title, family owned vehicle that my Dad bought new.
They fought with me for two years, finally in the 11th hour they agreed to paint it and leave the title clean.
I didnt want Rebuild on there or as you indicated in your video the value gets trashed.
The whole process was completely disheartening, I felt so helpless.
Our insurance here in my Canadian province is a Crown (provincial) Corporation but they still operate like any other insurance company.
This is better than going to the movies, might as well grab some popcorn and sit back with the family to watch your documentary! 🍿 🎥
That VIV check is a FU*KIN RACKET!
In the UK, we have a similar test called an MOT test, and it mainly covers aspects like Emissions, Brakes, Tyres, Lights, and Structural Integrity, to make sure the vehicle is safe and roadworthy. You would not fail a test for scratches to paintwork, or rips in seats etc, unless it compromises vehicle safety.
You are legally obligated to have this test done after the vehicle reaches Three years old, and every year thereafter. The test itself costs around £50, not sure what that is in AUD$. But if any defects are found, you are given I think, 14 days to repair them, with serviceable parts, (they don't have to be brand new) and no receipts are required. Then once repairs are done, the Re-Test is free, if you Re-test within the 14 day time frame, otherwise, its another £50. As long as the Vehicle is deemed safe and riadworthy, you are good to go, even if cosmetically, it looks like a wreck.
Back in 2008 I purchased a 1987 Month Carlo SS on ebay, but it was about 850 miles away from me. With a sales receipt and title from the seller (he mailed it to me) I was able to register and insure my car and get plates for it. There are no inspections in the state where I live. I flew to New York, took a train, and drove home. However, I was only 20 minutes into my trip when a New York cop pulled me over for "looking suspicious". He tried to write me up for an expired emissions sticker, but I pointed out my car isn't registered in New York, and isn't required to have one. He then claimed my registration was fraudulent, as no state would register it without an inspection. I sat for about 30 minutes with him trying to find something to ticket me with.
MOT is the same as an RWC.. VIV is a different beasts.. It's if you have to get a vehicle that was taken out of the pool of registered vehicles as a registered write off and put it back in... MOT is just a Road Worthiness Check... I don't know what the English equivalent would be.. But if you import a salvage bike and fix it up, you'd have to jump through those hoops too before you can get it on the road again... It won't just be an MOT at that point... It's MOT + type registration + registration licence + some more stuff. Also the checks will be way more rigorous than is the case with an MOT... The rebuild has to be as good as a new import...
MOT is APK in the Netherlands, TüV in Germany, RWC in Australia... But that's just an annual checkup (starting 3 years after it was registered as a new car/bike)... Entering a salvage vehicle back in the pool of registered vehicles is a lot more difficult and a lot more hoops to jump through...
It would be the same as getting a car that was a total write off back in registration... Just MOT is not going to do that.
@@jazzdirt Ah ok, it wasn't fully explained in the video.
In the UK, if you want to recommission a crash damaged vehicle, there are certain criteria that also need to be met, as well as the MOT.
Crash damaged vehicles are categorised depending on the severity of the damage, from registered as a TOTAL write off, which must be scrapped.
Then REPAIRABLE write off, and then three other categories I think, designated by a letter, such as 'Cat N' depending on again, the severity of the damage sustained. And this categorisation stays with the vehicle for the rest of its life.
Of course, there are some vehicles that are not reported to the insurers after a crash, by unscrupulous owners, who will seek to repair the vehicle at a back street garage, then sell it on as undamaged. I think this is rare, thankfully. But you should always be on you guard when buying a used car. And if it is economically viable, have it inspected by expert technicians prior to purchase. Otherwise, you could lose the vehicle, AND your money, if it comes to light that the vehicle is illegally registered at a later stage.
So the onus is on the buyer to make sure the vehicle is legit, especially if it is a private sale or 'Sold As Seen'
But buying RETAIL, from a dealership, DOES give you certain consumer rights.
You can reject the vehicle for a FULL refund, for any reason, within the first 14 days.
If any faults are discovered thereafter, up until the first 30 days, they must be repaired by the dealership, or if it deemed to be uneconomic to repair, then the dealer must offer a swap for an equivalent vehicle of the same value, or a refund.
And after that, the normal terms of any warranty given with the vehicle applies.
Normally, dealer warranties are anything from 3 months to 1 year, depending on the dealership and/or the vehicle.
The VIV is designed to prevent people putting written off vehicles back on the road, it is not like a RWC or MOT. The big problem is that insurance premiums are so high and repair costs are so high that any vehicle more then 5 years old typically becomes a write off if there is more then 2 panels of damage to it.
In this case, the parts and labor would have been far more than the value of the bike so write off, that is just a financial write off, not an actual engineering one. A financial write should not require a VIV, just a RWC.
I'm from the uk and know about the m.o.t. I now live in new Zealand and the test here is exactly the same. Except it's called a w.o.f. warrant of fitness. You get 30 days for a re-check instead of 14. And are still allowed to drive the car on the road. But only to pick up parts to fix it or to take it to a mechanic.
It's a load of shite. I drove mine around for a year with a failed w.o.f. heaps of people do it there because we don't have ANPR. and if you do get picked up by the police it's only a 100$ (£30 odd) compliance fine!
When mine got stolen from a carpark here in Auckland, I was told by the cops who had the CCTV footage that 4 guys jumped out of a van, lifted my bike up and chucked it in the back and drove off. It's not until 3+ years later they're doing a drug bust they found my bike behind a shed, rear tyres blown, engine worn out, fairing stickers taken off and they turn one of the digit off the plate form a 6 to an 8 with black electrical tape. I proceed to ride it for a bit more after I got it back, and then it conked out since the motor was knackered from the abuse the thieves did when they had it.
which carpark...
@@fb3824 Skycity, not the main one but the side one next to ridges hotel, this was back on 2015 or whatever it was
did you have insurance? did they pay you out if so?
@@st3gosaurusNo insurance, it was a Yamaha R125, market value around $4,500, thought nobody in their right mind will steal something that weak, I guess I thought wrong.
VIV checks for motorbikes specifically are known for being the most pain in the arse pain in the arse fullstop. they require you to get the bike to 100% factory new condition with brand new OEM parts, which for older bikes is nearly impossible, and onto of that there's about 2 qualified VIV mechanics in the state, so there's no getting someone to do a loose one for you, and there's always a massive wait. my dad bought a repairable write off honda CBR1100XX blackbird about a decade ago and had to go thru the process. he wrote an article about the whole process for bikesales, incase anyone's interested in reading more about it.
Even more of a scam than the VASS system
They do this because bikes don't have GPS systems built in (older ones) and the cops have an extremely hard time catching them. For this reason, every household should buy one, like an enduro for bugout scenarios
I just watch your video and I am sorry for what has happened, I'm a retired Motorcycle roadworthy tester here in Vic. And as soon as the insurance company declared it as a repairable write off, it was all over. When is comes to the VIV check you are right there only three in the state, there was a four a couple of years and he was good and wouldn't picked half the crap that tester did. That tester should not have picked half the stuff he did, like the fairings misaligned by a couple of mm doesn't matter for the RWC. Anyway I wish you guys all the best for the future hopefully someday in the future you can laugh about.
Same crap happens here in the UK too mate :( Good on the girl for keeping up with it and getting her new ride :)
Plot twist, the black one at the end is just the same bike that Benny resprayed and swapped the tags on lolol
Amazing story, Bro.
Telling all my friends to never buy a repairable write-off.
You should have never let the insurance total the bike over some scratches. Letting them say the bike was totaled was where things went Wrong
My bike was stolen 2 months ago and this video pleases me so much ❤ keep it up bro
what an experience i feel bad for zoey she been trough much but she always keeps her smile have a nice day and have a rest nice day of ur life😄
Soooo…. Buy AirTag , don’t get insurance. Gotcha ❤
My AE86 got written off, went to insurance and they offered me $1,400 because in their eyes it was just a corolla.
Since then, third party and avoid if at all possible if accident occurs. Not worth it at all.
Insurance companies only exist as companies, to build wealth, profit to them selves and stakeholders. End of the day and unless a situation meets a strict contract - you're throwing money against the wall.
You need agreed value on a car like that mate cos yer they will try and shart ya when you go to claim
86? cxnt thats insane they said 1,400 thats cooked they are worth shy of 60k
@@WhitShiro I bought the AE86 back in 2009 before I had my license with the 4AGE already installed with some rust repair needed for $1,000 AUD/$600 USD.
It was around 2014 when it got written off and even then they were only worth about $5-6k.
I ended up buying another few for that amount but it wasn’t the same.
@@WhitShiro😂😂 on what planet are they worth 60k ??
@@wadeturner3791 earth and we are talking aud and with a good body. they are worth that much thanks to the lack of them and the twin cams being high interest in a lot of initial d fan boys eyes as well as being one the best drift cars for ages.
Someone steals your bike and YOU are the one getting shafted by the law, insurance, and whatever the hell VIV is.
It would have been infinitely better to just steal it back and then get a new key.
You got the registration anyways...
Yes, a mate had a rather rare Euro super bike stolen, the dirtbags actually falsified purchase and ownership paperwork and the Magistrate had to make himmhand it over back to those who stole it. But the Magistrate also felt for him and suggested he just do what the thieves do and steal it back.
Cute girl with a matching Ute and bike ❤ that’s phukking epic 😂
The VIV was a rip off more of a scam than insurance. Road worthy should mean no leaks, no risk of fire, and matching VIN. The only real problem with that bike was the shifter.
The smile and Zoe's face says everything love it
I bought a brand new Bianchi bicycle for about $800. I went into a pharmacy to get my meds refilled, 10 minutes later, the bike was gone. There was a guy and a cop talking about my bike. The cop radioed it in since it just happened. After waiting around 15 minutes and no news from other squad cars, he had me fill out a police report and as I was walking away he shouted 'get in the car!'. That was my first and only in the back of a cop car (little known fact, those seats are plastic and super uncomfortable). We pulled up to the gas station where another squad car noticed my bike that fit the description. The cop that was with me had me stand behind a pillar as to not have any retaliation against me. He asked me to prove that the bike was mine. I pulled out my phone where I wrote down my vin. I got my bike back and when the cop asked if i wanted to press charges I said yes (it probably didn't do anything since there's a law in California where theft of property valued below $950 is considered a misdemeanor). 6 months later, that bike was stolen in front of my bedroom window on my porch. I keep my new bicycle inside now and bought a titanium rod theft device for it. And there's a happy ending to this story. I had renter's insurance and they paid for the bike in full since I had the receipts! Lessons learned: 1 get renter's insurance 2. Get one above $950 if you're already buying new 3. Keep the bike inside 4. Write down vin number and photos on your phone and save it in the cloud. 5. Pay the cops upfront $500 to find your bike. Jk about no. 5.
Bicycles don't have a VIN.
I had a road racing bike stolen 2x while in school. Stuck w/o transport, i walked to campus each day, perhaps 1.5 miles. On the last day of the semester, i walk out a final exam totally drained. I see a bike while walking and think wow, someone else’s bike has a sticker just like mine. Then i think, wow, that sucks - it’s even the same color as my bike. Then i realize it IS my bike. Nobody around so i stole it back !
BTW, also in California.
@@Okurka.Serial number is pretty much the same thing for a bicycle
@@bbroken1 Serial numbers aren't unique.
Should’ve told them you paid a grand for the bike
VIV check? What the actual fuck... And i thought Denmarks vehicle rules were fucked
welcome to fuckstralia
@@psyolent. feel bad for you guys honestly.
It’s not a bad idea, just a very bad implementation. It’s to make sure that chop shops aren’t just stealing people’s cars, using them for parts to make written off cars whole so they can sell them. It shouldn’t be used for minor scratches and things.
yeah australia is a shithole
@@MarioGoatse "NoT A bAD iDeA" everyone has inspections bro its not different over there because of chop shops
15:55 TBH at this point ima be riding without a plate and ride it like its stolen lol
Definately some young person mistakes were made but that's how we learn. Receipts for all parts and the vin numbers of bikes they came from if 2nd hand protect us from rebithing and reduce motorbike theft. As an ex copper of 30 years it was great to see you got a high level of service from VicPol. Sadly that can be a rarity nowadays. The offender appeared to be a bit of a nuffy. That rego plate he made was only going to attract lots of attention and demand serious investigation by the highway patrol who take such matters personally.....
Never felt more grateful to be a motorcyclist in the USA
Three cases of comprehensive insurance ride.
1. I got hit by a car while parked in a car park, driver drove off but I got his plates - insurance wouldn’t cover it because it happened on ‘private property’ - safeways at the time
2. I got hit by a drunk driver doing over 100 in a 60 zone, his car was wrecked and leaking on the front end - left the scene with fake id, but had car rego, insurance didn’t help because I didn’t have his full details, need to talk to cops, but cops would not provide details. Had to fix my car at my own expense.
3. I was riding my motorbike around 45ks on hawthorn Rd, Burwood east, car came out of a side road without looking, I swerved and hit the brakes, high sided myself and avoided hitting the driver, she took off without stopping, insurance said it was my fault because I lost control, if I had hit her, I would had been covered, but she came right out in front of me and I did my best to avoid the situation, I didn’t get to finish Uni because of it and was totally out of pocket and a $6k write off (ZZR-250) 1 year old at the time.
"but cops would not provide details" I got in 2 accidents in the US in the last few years (neither my fault but i was blamed for the first one because of a bad cop who took the word of the person who hit me) and in both cases I was supplied with a paper that included the officers information and all the personal information of the person who hit me- name, address, car make/model/year/VIN, everything. This was provided to me on the spot. The cop literally printed it out on a waterproof piece of paper (which is great cuz it was raining in the 2nd accident) from a printer in his cruiser. I'm amazed you can't get that info from the police in Australia.
i'm more likely to think the thief saw her arrive, followed her and stole the keys
unless your missus is kinda clumsy about dropping stuff
Quick run down, was in an accident on my motorbike. ( Uber driver doing a u turn and not looking). Month after the accident, i was able to get footage of the accident and is clear as day he is at fault. Went through insurance and after 8 weeks they turned around and tried saying both parties were at fault" Both parties agree" even though i supplied them with footage and police statement that stated he was at fault. That was 10 months ago, still chasing up $$$$ for the bike insurance.
Good luck bloke insurance don’t care
I got done with a hit and run had rego and police reports
Thankfully for me the panel better gave me my car back before insurance was settled they wanted me to pay the the excess.
Stupidly they threatened to keep my car till I payed her voice dropped when I told her to bad so sad already had my car back
Cancelled my insurance and changed insurer
They tried to recope the money with the next year renewal hahah
I had the same thing happen to me. Just flat out refuse to take any of the blame. They will relent.
insurance is a scam,i stopped paying it 20 years ago after being ripped off, never again. been banking the money ever since.great vid !
Had to catch a train to school and back from Lilydale train station my entire high school years. Also used to play pool at the local billiards hall “Rack ‘Em Up”. The shit I saw in that suburb over the years is ridiculous. Absolute shit hole of a place.
That $50 tag got expensive, better off just losing the bike and pocket the $1400, lol
My ke70 was stolen. I then saw it on marketplace so I called the police.
They impounded it for 100 days because they realised that they had previously recovered it 20km from my house and cleared it for sale as abandoned
I had too purchace the car back for $2000 as the police sold it at auction and the person that had it rightfully owned it now 😢 great video
Life's s awful sometimes, glad she didn't get disheartened and still persisted and saved up for a new bike.
that red kawi looks like a ducacti! really nice paint job. Also 2nd hand bikes sometimes have a tracker inside them, and is followed by the previous owner. Also if she takes it to work, i would park it directly in front of work under the camera.
And the other lesson, always have a spare key accessible.
One must wonder, did having the airtag actualy save you money?
You would have been better off just losing the bike than getting it back and on the road again lol.
Fair justice system i must say.
Good on you for speaking out!
Yep would have been better off to lose it in this case of having insurance.. but if she didn’t have insurance it wouldn’t have been marked as a repairable write off, and she could have repaired it for $1080 causing it to still hold its market value since it wouldn’t need a VIV check and would remain road legal
conclusion: think twice about having comprehensive insurance
@@BennySurge Next video: I walled in the VIV Office for a wipe.
@BennySurge it is possible to just not notify your insurance company of the event?
@@harlemgreene3627Of course. But he couldn’t possibly have known that the VIV trash would cost so much
@@BennySurge You are mad at insurance and not the government mandated monopoly with no oversight or appeals process? Amazing. Maybe auzzies deserve what they get.
Dude this sux big time.
I had a situation many years ago with a house burglary.
Through "contacts" I had back in the day I found out where some of our gear was, the main one being a large TV in a fancy cabinet.
Told the cops and they recovered a lot the stuff and said they knew who did it but finger printing the TV would ruin the cabinet so they could not prove it.
I asked the cop who it was, he said he could not tell me.
For some reason he left the file open on his desk and said he had to do something and left the room.
A few months later he came to seem me and asked if I knew anything about this guy getting the shit kicked out of him.
I said no, he said ok I investigated and found nothing, seeya, and that was the end of it.
You can't always relay on the cops for justice and they know it.
Sorry for your loss ❤
i think this is the best vid i have ever watched in my entire life.
Wow the VIV is literally a scam. Not road worthy because of some cosmetics you don't even notice unless you're standing next to it? That's wild. Glad you got the bike back but damn what a scam that whole process is.
Govt tyranny to cuck the citizens in every way they can. Sad
aight we gotta video to watch
“Had to stop door camping “ had me rolling 😂
Going to work when your pride and joy is out there being wrecked by someone is the most gut wrenching feeling.
For all riders I recommend an airtag + a cell connected GPS tracker hidden somewhere else on the bike. Airtags will notify the thief that they're being followed and won't take long for them to find it. Makes for a good decoy while the cell tracker is logging the actual location in the background
VIV seems wild. UK based here, had my car written off. Bought it back and was driving it around in that state for 3 months until I could repair it myself. Never had any check it was roadworthy until next MOT when it flew through.
Aus is wild.
the VIV check is the craziest shit ive ever seen
she obviously left the key in the ignition
I got slapped with a $100 fine for NO REFLECTOR ON TAIL
i failed an mot due to no reflector on tail, the garage added a tiny one about the size of a 10p coin 🤣
getting my R3 roadworthy the mechanics slapped these 2 gay ass reflectors on my swing arm
@@sk1ppy2000 legally speaking, no size was specified so you're all good 😂👍
$100 is tough , a warning would be a better approach and a chat on why you need a tail reflector. Cops have been hot on this for a while now, and a bike without one is easy pickings. On a bike at night if your tail light fails for whatever reason it could save your bacon, you never know.
My brand new bike is getting delivered this week and this video popping up in my feed is a good Oman.
I'm definitely getting a mini GPS sender
this video was a great reminder to cherish the fact i do not live anywhere near victoria
had a car stolen at a shopping centre in ferntree gully ,insurance gave me a hire car two weeks later that got stolen too. no fkn worse feeling feel for ya misses man!
jeezus!!!