The video shows the defendant beside the victim's white Toyota Hilux while admitting the theft.
The owner of the truck allegedly overheard someone pinching the wheels outside his Dunedin home.
"Did you f**k my running boards in from jacking it up?" a man can be heard asking in the video.
"Yes," Harbrow responds sheepishly.
"Did you just drop it on the brakes?" the videographer continues, to which the defendant said he didn't.
The filmer later called the man a "f**king muppet" and an "oxygen thief".
He claimed to have found Harbrow in 30 minutes "using his local networks".
The video, Sefton said, was posted on Facebook and had been shared more than 5000 times.
"[Harbrow] has since received a significant amount of harassment and abuse," she said.
She told the court her client had no previous convictions and a punitive sentence was not required because of the online vitriol he had received.
Judge John Macdonald said there appeared to be "an element of envy" in the offending.
He also noted Harbrow painted the stolen items soon after taking them to try to hide the theft.
But the victim tracked him down to his work, the court heard, and he agreed to refit the wheels.
Along with the reparation, Harbrow was ordered to pay court costs of $130.
