Vehicle Gallery - Discussion Thread

POGAN

Are you talking about the compol one? It has just Garda written on it

source

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118862670#Comment_118862670

Nope, full blue and yellow battenburg. But no Roads Policing written on it.

POGAN

What station in LK?

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I saw it around the city centre so I'm presuming Henry St.

Sgt. Bilko 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118862154#Comment_118862154

It’s still being rolled out in Dublin afaik on the regs cars, but not all have the new battenberg though. The R dist got a new batch Tucson’s that are all battenberged. Coolock is using the white Tucson’s with blue writing too(compol). Donnybrook have new motors and they are battenberged but Irishtown don’t(both same dist) so i think it’s whatever way they are purchasing them.

Witcher

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118862154#Comment_118862154

Yes

The regular units are getting battenburg. The white ones are supposed to be community vehicles. They replaced the covid rental fleet. They are probably just getting deployed wherever needed as any DMR station I've seen is overrun with vehicles.

POGAN

as foreign said policy hasn’t changed on battenburg hasn’t being anything new recently anyways! I know stations are running the compol car as there second car as lack of other fleet

Sgt. Bilko 09

Seen a photo on the AGS Facebook page for cork Kerry limerick, they pulled over a gti golf in a Skoda superb. I hope they become a regular site. I was in the 530D estate yesterday. She’s a fast one, an absolute tank

POGAN

That was cork rpu Skoda 182 reg

bmw on rpu are great machine

The Black Oil

Calm, indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHEjqrNksSI&ab_channel=PoliceActivity

flazio

OK, converting an old fire truck into a mobile kitchen is a cool idea.

Keeping the siren and the blue lights working on a decommissioned emergency vehicle however is not IMO.

https://fb.watch/dZOGbwt68U/

Sgt. Bilko 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119273629#Comment_119273629

yeah that’s wrong and it’s illegal. I reckon the will getting a visit for it.

flazio

I've seen the truck at a few events around Galway for a few years now, well before the pandemic. I just assumed they had done enough, like disconnect the flower pot lights and pull out the sirens, to operate on the road in the early morning get to their venue, set up trade, then leave after everyone was gone and the money made would go towards finishing the conversion around the cab.

The cab area is completely untouched and this is where the problem lies. Looking at the truck face on it still looks like a functional fire appliance. Yellow hi viz band "FIRE" branded on the grille. I would have thought this would have been an issue at the CVT.

California Dreamer

http://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1544355069910552580

Looks good, is the Audi preferred over the BMW?

Sgt. Bilko 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119295199#Comment_119295199

I think they are still using both, the Audis where ran into the ground

carzony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66kuYdL36eA

Interesting to see all the old vehicles, bikes and vans in the background.

Sgt. Bilko 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119386938#Comment_119386938

Cavaliers, vectras and mondeos the good times before the job went down the swanny

carzony

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119386995#Comment_119386995

Before the ''economics'' of the fleet was considered I'd say. Notice the Cavaliers didn't seem to have any blue lights fitted, just sirens

Sgt. Bilko 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119387359#Comment_119387359

Ultimate unmarked car. Nothing but sound lol.

Dohvolle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119386995#Comment_119386995

There aint no cavalier there. If its not a Vectra its an Ascona.

Transit was a novelty for the time though, most wagons were still Hi-Ace in the mid 90s. A few Ford Orions still in use too.

The BMW K75LT-P was only found in Dublin, due to the only Approved BMW motorcycle workshop being in Bray. They weren't even in the College, as the DMA did their own advanced bike courses in HQ. Everyone outside the DMA was using the CBX750,(The GT 550 was the standard course bike) which brings me to the CBX.. puzzled by its presence in Green St, but given the subject there is a chance the individual was being held in a prison a long long way from the reach of the Dublin based criminals.

Interesting times.

Sgt. Bilko 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119389941#Comment_119389941

nearly sure she comes back as a vecky but it’s a cavalier chassis. Could be wrong but the reg is is vectra. I though i seen a green older cavalier in there.

I loved those transits, I think they brought in the astras with those.

You are spot on about the BMW a mule just left was giving me the old story about those motorcycles.

Have you ever driven any of motorcycles at all?

Dohvolle

Never did the course (colourblind) but did own a GT550 for years (before bouncing it off a ditch in the midlands) and helped the unit motorcyclist out on many occasions with technical issues the GT was known for.

One day, he was called back 10 minutes after heading out, left the Bike on the road outside the station(thinking it was a dispatch to be delivered), but was told he had to escort a prisoner to Mountjoy (not on the bike) and left in another vehicle.

Sgt smirks and says "if we leave that out overnight it'll be damaged" so I volunteered to put our bike into the yard around the back.

So yes I have driven a garda motorcycle.

Vauxhall were never officially imported here once GM took them over, So the UK Vaux Cavalier was the same chassis as the Opel Vectra. It was odd because A Vaux Corsa was an Opel Corsa (though It had initially been A Nova before 92), A Vaux Astra was an opel astra (Katett before 1995) and A Vaux Senator was an Opel Senator.

Best of the Vectra in Polis use was the shortlived Traffic Corps Vectra B 2.5L V6 .About 220BHP apparently. Advanced driving course only. (never marked) One caught up with me on the Gixer600 doing ~87mph(thats 50Kph over the limit in new money) in a 55. It went from parked to large in my mirrors in less than a mile. Because I stopped they let me off with a ticket. After it was replaced with the awful Alfa 156 3.2V6 which thankfully fell apart long before it killed anyone.

Sgt. Bilko 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119393135#Comment_119393135

haha I can imagine you jumped at that opportunity “Taking the bike out on chiefs be back in an hour”. Ah brilliant would of loving to try one of those units while I was in it.

I heard about that Alfa was that in cork by any chance? I think the traffic lads in cork had an ST hatchback mk 7 or 6 at one stage, I believe they were the first to have something like.

Was that the same Vectra the psni gifted to the depot, well by gave I mean bought for nothing. I think it still had Vauxhall on it. I remember seeing responding to an incident that we were also heading too in a mondeo left us for dead at a standstill and it made me look to the UK for my own personal VXR lol, great to drive but only in straight lines.

Dohvolle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119393503#Comment_119393503

Bike on Chiefs. That'll be the day. I even had a white arai Helmet, (superstition-my only wound inducing crash was when I wasn't wearing a white helmet.)and was wearing the standard summer motorcyclists uniform of the time. I.E Garda shirt, garda trousers, FT Boots (sheepskin lined) with the Radio slung around your neck on some sort of nylon strap that you had to use.

I never saw it close enough in daylight but I'm pretty sure it was an Opel. There were a few doing the rounds.

Yeah, all were in Cork, before Traffic was split amongst the divisions. From Memory, 94-96 Toyota Camry 2.2L, 96-98 Vectra 2.5, 98-unknown Alfa 156. Cork got the nice cars because of the Motorway (back when only Dublin and Cork had motorways, it was 2000 before Limerick got a Dual Carriageway!)

The ST was relatively recent, 2009 onwards. A great car but the drivers airbag lid was covered with important safe working limits for oil pressure & temp, written in sharpie. Those dials were not for decoration.

Having had a Mk3 2L TDCI with a spectacular Turbo Lag, I can imagine what the ST220 was like. It was shared around the division for a while, last time I saw it was probably 2015 or thereabouts.

POGAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119393503#Comment_119393503

Alfa was crash on mallow road remember that story 😀

POGAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119394109#Comment_119394109

ST220 was north corn Fermoy traffic but shared to mallow and Midleton due lack of cars at the time

Sgt. Bilko 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119394109#Comment_119394109

jeez do you remember the Camrys, I got to head out in one when I finished up in the college it was retired about a week after that, the Subaru forrester was still about at the time it was moved from santry to the castle then. Instructions in sharpie surely that couldn’t be the gards 😂. Those TDCis had serious power in them and a lovely car too.

Serious road rash coming off a bike with just that clothing on.

Sgt. Bilko 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119396006#Comment_119396006

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119395987#Comment_119395987

Ah crap, as the saying goes you never really are a petrol head until you drive an Alfa.

Was that crash in or around 2010? I have been lucky enough to have been on a unit with one of the most genuine petrolheads I’ve ever met(I’m hugely into cars), he told me about the Alfa Romeo but I actually cannot recall what happened to it.

Is there an article anywhere I can read up on it?

Thats beauty of a mondeo alright, I’ve sweet spot for the mondeos, the gards kept them in serious condition.

Ive moved into another type job(law enforcement not the gards) and had to visit my old station for something, I was shock/horrified to find they have an Iconiq EV patrol car. The job is well and truly gone. Eamonn Ryan’s response car.

POGAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119396290#Comment_119396290

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119396290#Comment_119396290

it was on the N20 was crashed on in around then

alfa 156 was my second car 😀

mondeos best car in the Gardas latest during shortage of funds

unmarked still in hardcourt street