Vehicle Gallery - Discussion Thread

California Dreamer

The Jeep Cherokees were an end of line before the new model was released. I was working for a company that used 4 of the smaller engine and they were a ball of ****e. Like a chocolate hippo on skates in the wet!

Dohvolle

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=116348689&postcount=2242

Didn't a fire service in Ireland get one, only for there to be some difficulty around certificate of conformity, driving permits or similar?

CharlieCroker

Dohvolle wrote: »

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=116348689&postcount=2242

Didn't a fire service in Ireland get one, only for there to be some difficulty around certificate of conformity, driving permits or similar?

Yeah, Cork City had a couple of Ford F250s converted about 15 years ago. Conversion to RHD was poorly executed iirc, not very reliable

CharlieCroker

Edit, it was actually Cork County FB and they were F350's.

punisher5112

That's mad never knew they bought those here.

I know there are a few used for the Dublin parking services (clampers) but they left them left hand drive.

Sexual Chocolate

Capri wrote: »

Driving school.... NSW style https://youtu.be/Dcpti-nI0l0

I've noticed a few times that the Aussie police using tip tronic mode when on blues like in that video and in others. Maybe the ZF box in those Falcons hasn't got a sport mode which would be the better option I'd assume.

Are the 2.0l Tuscons over here manual or autos ?

Sexual Chocolate

Sexual Chocolate wrote: »

I've noticed a few times that the Aussie police using tip tronic mode when on blues like in that video and in others. Maybe the ZF box in those Falcons hasn't got a sport mode which would be the better option I'd assume.

Are the 2.0l Tuscons over here manual or autos ?

All standard vehicles are manual. Automatic is another course I believe.

Sexual Chocolate

https://youtu.be/ckrNhB7cQFc

Definitely worth watching from 17 minutes. Another +150 mph chase.

California Dreamer

Sexual Chocolate wrote: »

https://youtu.be/ckrNhB7cQFc

Definitely worth watching from 17 minutes. Another +150 mph chase.

Would love to see an i40 estate go flat out.

Anyone hazard a top speed?

Dohvolle

California Dreamer wrote: »

Would love to see an i40 estate go flat out.

Anyone hazard a top speed?

on all four wheels or sliding sideways?

ratracer

Great radio commentary of the chase between the cars. Very calm, clear and concise description and narration of the chase. How does that compare to AGS commentary, say for example on the M50 chase last week, would it be similar?

punisher5112

California Dreamer wrote: »

Would love to see an i40 estate go flat out.

Anyone hazard a top speed?

Put it this way, they wouldn't have even seen or caught that car at all.....

Even an S3 golf R etc would leave them like they were going the opposite direction.

Sgt. Bilko 09

California Dreamer wrote: »

Would love to see an i40 estate go flat out.

Anyone hazard a top speed?

The most I seen it go was 180kmh...and it struggled to get there and was a very quiet on the N11

heroics

Sexual Chocolate wrote: »

https://youtu.be/ckrNhB7cQFc

Definitely worth watching from 17 minutes. Another +150 mph chase.

Didn’t realise those mazdas were that quick and with a boot full of tools!

Love the commentary about the marked unit taking the lead and then the unmarked unit having to take over because the bmw was maxed out at 155 and couldn’t catch them

heroics

heroics wrote: »

Didn’t realise those mazdas were that quick and with a boot full of tools!

Love the commentary about the marked unit taking the lead and then the unmarked unit having to take over because the bmw was maxed out at 155 and couldn’t catch them

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/motors/the-well-hidden-power-of-mazda-s-mps-1.1294552

There's another episode of Traffic Cops or Interceptors with Derbyshire RCU. They have a Cupra, S3, Golf R and M1. Along with the usual marked bmw's.

Ish66

Sexual Chocolate wrote: »

https://youtu.be/ckrNhB7cQFc

Definitely worth watching from 17 minutes. Another +150 mph chase.

Some Mazda 3 that ! 160mph ?

Sexual Chocolate

[Deleted User] wrote: »

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/motors/the-well-hidden-power-of-mazda-s-mps-1.1294552

There's another episode of Traffic Cops or Interceptors with Derbyshire RCU. They have a Cupra, S3, Golf R and M1. Along with the usual marked bmw's.

Another one I was watching today had X3 M40i, Golf R, Cupra estate, S3 and M135i all involved in the one T-pac.

Bigus

Ish66 wrote: »

Some Mazda 3 that ! 160mph ?

257.495 kmh !

punisher5112

Ish66 wrote: »

Some Mazda 3 that ! 160mph ?

MPS Mazda... Quick machine

260 hp... That one could have been running more horses too....

punisher5112

Bog spec Tucson....

ratracer

Those Tucson’s are one of the ugliest new cars on the road IMO! Truely awful looking yokes.

Capri

1979 M62 Motorway police, no Health and Safety back then.. https://youtu.be/qvw9DNQWymo

Capri

'72 2.5PI Triumph and Victor 3.3 on the skidpan https://youtu.be/5WBoWpYcwa0

donvito99

Capri wrote: »

1979 M62 Motorway police, no Health and Safety back then.. https://youtu.be/qvw9DNQWymo

This is amazing. The mark 2 Transit coming in hot and nearly killing one of the policemen at the scene of an accident, and all involved laughing it off as it clips one of the parked Granadas (Cortina?) and comes to a halt in the snowy central reservation is perfection.

Dohvolle

Capri wrote: »

New Belgian Jetta, handy searchlight mounted on lightbar https://youtu.be/GgjpbZbacIs

New 9 years ago. All those searchlight options are available as standard when you get the lightbar, but our lot don't go for useful things like rear facing matrix signs (like RSU had on the Volvo) alley lights, directional flashing or useful things like that.

roadmaster

Have they ever considered removing the lightbars permanently like some of the US police forces . I read some where that apparently where they where removed there was a big fuel saving cost over a year

Capri

Dohvolle wrote: »

New 9 years ago. All those searchlight options are available as standard when you get the lightbar, but our lot don't go for useful things like rear facing matrix signs (like RSU had on the Volvo) alley lights, directional flashing or useful things like that.

Surprised there's alloys, carpets, cloth seating in them... Remember the old Cortina mk 5 'base' and the Corolla DE (deleted equipment? ) , they must have been rock bottom £??

Dohvolle

Taking the standard radio out these days does more harm to the electrics than good. If they left it in the members might be able to use the onboard bluetooth to ring PULSE instead having every scrote in the country posting photos on facebook of gardai with the phone up to their ear.
I'm not old enough for Cortina but I do remember the district mondeo having the electronic siren(& PA), but the sub district car having the 2 tone. Which do you think had more chance of being used? The official driver spent all his tour out at the edges of the district, far enough from town that anything requiring siren was long finished before he got to a place he needed to use the siren.
I have a big bugbear with the placement of radio on the BMW bikes also. Someone has stuck a cowl on the dash to hold the head unit, when BMW from the factory will actually provide a head unit (for Tetra) that sits on the yoke out of eyeline.

Dohvolle

Dohvolle wrote: »

Taking the standard radio out these days does more harm to the electrics than good. If they left it in the members might be able to use the onboard bluetooth to ring PULSE instead having every scrote in the country posting photos on facebook of gardai with the phone up to their ear.
I'm not old enough for Cortina but I do remember the district mondeo having the electronic siren(& PA), but the sub district car having the 2 tone. Which do you think had more chance of being used? The official driver spent all his tour out at the edges of the district, far enough from town that anything requiring siren was long finished before he got to a place he needed to use the siren.
I have a big bugbear with the placement of radio on the BMW bikes also. Someone has stuck a cowl on the dash to hold the head unit, when BMW from the factory will actually provide a head unit (for Tetra) that sits on the yoke out of eyeline.

The radio units have been left in since 2018.

Dohvolle

foreign wrote: »

The radio units have been left in since 2018.

Finally. Some commonsense prevailing at last.