"Car Friday" in Gauting: Police target autoposers

Created: 04/20/2022Updated: 04/20/2022, 16:17

By: Andrea Graepel

The tuner scene is repeatedly targeted by the police.

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See and be seen, hear and be heard, is the motto of the so-called autoposers, who have chosen Good Friday as "Car Friday", according to police chief Andreas Ruch.

The complaints are increasing among the officials in Gauting.

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Inspired by certain series formats and relevant internet videos, "Mann" wants to show what "Mann" has and can do.

After all, many of the mostly young car posers have invested small fortunes in their bodies, as Gauting's police chief, Chief Inspector Andreas Ruch, knows. During his time as deputy police chief in Germering, the Allguth petrol station in Gilching also had a scene meeting place in his area of ​​operations.

With the higher rising temperatures, complaints from noise-plagued residents are now also piling up in his new service area at the Gauting police station.

"We don't have a meeting point here," he says, "but we're a transit route."

Especially for trips to Lake Starnberg, as they took place on the Easter weekend.

There are therefore two colleagues in his office who have dealt with the topic in more detail.

"In addition to squeaking tires, roaring engines and excessive speeds, we are increasingly dealing with illegal modifications to vehicles," he says.

That is why the Gautingen police set a priority for appropriate control measures on Good Friday.

Police discover unapproved undercarriage

"Car Friday" is a corruption of the church holiday Good Friday and the English word car (car).

According to Ruch, the tuning scene had already experienced a revival before Corona.

And he has her on the Kieker.

Rightly so, as it turned out: For example, on Hauser Strasse in Königswiesen, a 29-year-old motorcyclist from Gilching was found to have tampered with the silencer on his KTM and his machine was therefore correspondingly loud.

In addition, the minimum tread depth of the tires was not reached.

The next road user stopped by the patrol shortly afterwards on Reismühler Straße was a 31-year-old man from Hohenpeissenberg in his Audi A5.

Signs of abrasion were clearly visible on the flanks of both rear tires.

In addition, the driver was unable to provide any evidence of the admissibility of the installed coilover suspension and the spacers on the front and rear axles.

Since the vehicle also emitted a strong smell of marijuana, the car was searched and lo and behold - the Hohenpeissenberger had a small amount of cannabis with him - and also intus.

On the way to a support operation by the Fürstenfeldbruck traffic police in Gilching at around 8.40 p.m., a Gautinger patrol also caught the eye of a 25-year-old BMW driver from Inning, whose car rims and tires did not legally fit together.

Maybe the inning was on its way to Hurlach.

Because the Gautingen police were also asked there for support because an unauthorized tuning meeting was held there by "several dozen" participants in a "Car Friday trip to Lake Starnberg".

According to Ruch, manipulations of the exhaust systems and engines were found in eight “highly individualized cars”.

A BMW M2 was not only shut down, but also seized.