nick172sport

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thinking off throwing my scoob in for one off these wanna buy a new zetec s fiesta for wife ive owned a 2ooo x reg before and was a great car are they well lookd after or should i buy one with low miles how does the 3.2 compare to the 2.5 model sri 170

Andy M3

ex-police car's are a bit of a lottery. Yes they get serviced regular, but they get beaten continuously, often damaged etc etc. Like anything, if it is cheap enough go for it!

kingofturds

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There is suprisingly little difference in mpg between the 3.2 and 2.5. That said if it is the auto expect some pretty poor figures around town. 208 bhp iirc

nick172sport

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i know there pretty poor round town not having auto dont like them i gurrently put 35.00 a week in my scoob to do a 50 mile motorway trip 5 days a week will i see a big hike in fuel

The Zohan

+1

s70rjw

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Like this one?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2006-VAUXHALL-...item19bbf21317
Although the car will have been serviced, cheap oil and copy / recon parts are used. In days gone by they were serviced every 6months irrespective of mileage. Those days are long gone.
They are thrashed from cold, the mileage is not a true indicator of the use the car has had as they spend an age ticking over. Vauxhall handbooks have sections regarding this.
The majority will have seen damage at some stage.
The wiring can cause problems once the police eqiuipment has been removed. These can be difficult to fix. I know of a SEAT that cost £1700 to repair at the main dealer when it was decommissioned.
When I had my T5 ( not expolice) I met a bloke with an ex police V70 T5 which had a "broken" sunroof. When he pulled back the headlining, he found the car had a redroof, which ad been resprayed white. He thought it may have been to replace the holed one.
Tyres are normally premium brands, Goodyear being favoured.
As already posted, you might be lucky and find a good one at a reasonable price.

nick172sport

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had a 3.0s capri off gmp good car think ill leave a ex police one now

LC Geezer

The Met used the 3.2s as area cars for a while. Utterly unreliable and didn't take the punishment. Perfectly OK for day to day use though.

nick172sport

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thanks as said what mpg would i get on a 50 mile round trip

Stryder

Is that not the model used by the copper testing to a 159mph and never got done!!

Bealescooby

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I had a Volvo T5 ex police car only probs i come up against were the screw holes on the dash from equiptment and the holes in the roof from the sirens
This was bk in 04 so they might of changed the way they fit stuff , other than that the car was faultless

Timwinner

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The only real problem I would look out for is engine knocks. The cars are used 24 hours a day, when one shift finishes another takes the car so they can spend a lot of there life running.
Services are done well, they have to be as the car is tool they use so there is little merit in skimping on its upkeep.
The county forces favour BMW's and Fords but they do a lot more long fast drives, City forces are obviously more prone to damage due to the nature of the policing.

The main good point is you will know exactly what your buying as the history will need to be perfect to tick all the police red tape when the car was in service.

Anything over 120k could well have been used after its police service as I believe this is the mileage police cars are retired at.

fatherpierre

Old police cars are a gamble, as mentioned.

They are guaranteed to have been driven HARD, very hard, and without care in terms of mechanicals. I used to drive mine at the absolute limit when the situation allowed!

They are looked after, though. And the driving of such a car should have been on motorways unless it was a city car.

Bonehead

Personally I wouldn't go near anything that was used as an Incident response vehicle, cause I know how hard they're driven!

Some of the Traffic stuff tends to get used a bit more sympathetically but the best stuff tends to be the unmarked pool cars which just get used to pootle round from place to place. They get well serviced but generally dont get used for the faster driving.

RB5 Boyo

Ive had a few ex cop cars including Omegas and a cavalier 4x4 turbo and to be honest they never gave me any trouble, and were all stacked up with goodies like bilstien suspension, xenon headlights etc

As said, only things i didnt like were the holes in the dash from the radios or whatever and maybe a few scrapes in below from mounting kerbs etc

As said above, take a good look at the car, inspect it all over and in below, take someone with you that knows what they are looking for and you should be fine....you could get a lot of car for not much money if you look carefully