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  • #122
    kub
    Registered Users Posts: 6,528 ✭✭✭kub


    POGAN wrote: »
    Well there be no quickly replacement, have manage with what they have currently.

    Yes I have seen traffic Garda on the beat on sat night.

    Yes it was seized very nice car should be done a lot more tbh

    Today i thought I saw a brand new....yes new, traffic motorbike. So I am now wondering do these new bikes allow for pillion passangers/ prisoners?

    Just imagine it :D


  • #123
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    kub wrote: »
    POGAN wrote: »
    Well there be no quickly replacement, have manage with what they have currently.

    Yes I have seen traffic Garda on the beat on sat night.

    Yes it was seized very nice car should be done a lot more tbh

    Today i thought I saw a brand new....yes new, traffic motorbike. So I am now wondering do these new bikes allow for pillion passangers/ prisoners?

    Just imagine it :D

    No Pillons alowed a wise man told me :-)


  • #124
    goldie fish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    kub wrote: »
    Today i thought I saw a brand new....yes new, traffic motorbike. So I am now wondering do these new bikes allow for pillion passangers/ prisoners?

    Just imagine it :D
    Honda won the most recent tender for supply of Garda Motorcycles. The only way i'd carry a prisoner on a bike is tied to a ten foot rope, running behind the bike.


  • #125
    kub
    Registered Users Posts: 6,528 ✭✭✭kub


    goldie fish wrote: »
    Honda won the most recent tender for supply of Garda Motorcycles. The only way i'd carry a prisoner on a bike is tied to a ten foot rope, running behind the bike.

    :D Pure Class- just imagine the civil liberty brigade howling on about that, mind you i suppose it could be said that AGS had no choice due to cutbacks etc.

    I am sure the general populace of this land would think this a very fitting way to transport a scumbag.


  • #126
    kub
    Registered Users Posts: 6,528 ✭✭✭kub


    Hooch wrote: »
    No its not. As stated above there is an unmarked ST220 attached to a Traffic Corps and still is attached to them today.....but we won't mention where.

    I saw it in person today, in literally, traffic. Infairness outside of its own district/ division, may have been heading to a certain courthouse.

    Wow what a car :cool:.


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  • #127
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    kub wrote: »
    Hooch wrote: »
    No its not. As stated above there is an unmarked ST220 attached to a Traffic Corps and still is attached to them today.....but we won't mention where.

    I saw it in person today, in literally, traffic. Infairness outside of its own district/ division, may have been heading to a certain courthouse.

    Wow what a car :cool:.

    Have to say marked 3l cars look great for 07s


  • #128
    kub
    Registered Users Posts: 6,528 ✭✭✭kub


    Well to the untrained eye, one traffic marked Mondeo looks the same as the next.

    But that unmarked one is a sexy beast. I am just imaging some boy racer out and about in his souped up 85 Toyota Starlet, with the chunky tyres, big exhaust, extended aerial and thick head.

    He is motoring along some dual carrageway/ motorway and he notices this beautiful machine and decides to tease the driver as he wants to have a race.

    Now thats a chase video I'd say would not last too long.


  • #129
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    kub wrote: »
    Well to the untrained eye, one traffic marked Mondeo looks the same as the next.

    But that unmarked one is a sexy beast. I am just imaging some boy racer out and about in his souped up 85 Toyota Starlet, with the chunky tyres, big exhaust, extended aerial and thick head.

    He is motoring along some dual carrageway/ motorway and he notices this beautiful machine and decides to tease the driver as he wants to have a race.

    Now thats a chase video I'd say would not last too long.

    I know what u mean :-) won't be long happening


  • #130
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    Lads does this traffic unit have two Fast forward buttons on the doors

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77471270&postcount=1184

    WTF ...do they light up ??


  • #131
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Is that a joke question? :pac:


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  • #132
    Bosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 414 ✭✭Bosh


    Zambia wrote: »
    Lads does this traffic unit have two Fast forward buttons on the doors

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77471270&postcount=1184

    WTF ...do they light up ??

    If you look at the direction they are pointing they are actually rewind buttons... :p

    Magnetic stick on & yeah they do light up.


  • #133
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    Bosh wrote: »
    Zambia wrote: »
    Lads does this traffic unit have two Fast forward buttons on the doors

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77471270&postcount=1184

    WTF ...do they light up ??

    If you look at the direction they are pointing they are actually rewind buttons... :p

    Magnetic stick on & yeah they do light up.

    They look really well, seen used couple times at MAT checkpoints.

    Ps have to say for 07 car it looks great


  • #134
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    No they go in the direction of the car so fast forward ....

    Bugger never seen that before good little piece of kit that


  • #135
    Terrontress
    Registered Users Posts: 3,888 ✭✭✭Terrontress


    Bosh wrote: »
    Zambia wrote: »
    Lads does this traffic unit have two Fast forward buttons on the doors

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77471270&postcount=1184

    WTF ...do they light up ??

    If you look at the direction they are pointing they are actually rewind buttons... :p

    Magnetic stick on & yeah they do light up.

    Would Battenburg markings not provide the same function but not require an additional piece of equipment carried round?


  • #136
    source
    Registered Users Posts: 5,266 ✭✭✭source


    Terrontress wrote: »
    Bosh wrote: »
    Zambia wrote: »
    Lads does this traffic unit have two Fast forward buttons on the doors

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77471270&postcount=1184

    WTF ...do they light up ??

    If you look at the direction they are pointing they are actually rewind buttons... :p

    Magnetic stick on & yeah they do light up.

    Would Battenburg markings not provide the same function but not require an additional piece of equipment carried round?

    No battenburg are squares of yellow and blue, which highlight the presence of the vehicle. The arrows are directional signs, telling motorists they must drive a certain direction.


  • #137
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Terrontress wrote: »
    Would Battenburg markings not provide the same function but not require an additional piece of equipment carried round?

    Battenburg are just squares. The arrows show a driver which way to move. You sometimes see them on checkpoints showing when a lane is closed.


  • #138
    Hooch
    Registered Users Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭Hooch


    foreign wrote: »
    Battenburg are just squares. The arrows show a driver which way to move. You sometimes see them on checkpoints showing when a lane is closed.

    And the LEDs within each arrow light up in sequence indicating the direction of travel required.


  • #139
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    Suppose it beats standing there and pointing...


  • #140
    Bosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 414 ✭✭Bosh


    And they will still ask:

    "Can I not go down that way Guard?"

    or

    "Is there something going on Guard?"

    As the Guard stands there in the pisses of rain... :rolleyes: :P


  • #141
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    Silver regular car, thre was two of them in wilkar being kitted out, dont like them with regular markings at all

    1.6 petrol were being used for unmarked cars when the first lot were bought, I know there is a traffic estate 11 reg avenais based in Dublin that's 1.6 pertol that def has no power


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  • #142
    d3exile
    Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭d3exile


    POGAN wrote: »
    Silver regular car, thre was two of them in wilkar being kitted out, dont like them with regular markings at all

    1.6 petrol were being used for unmarked cars when the first lot were bought, I know there is a traffic estate 11 reg avenais based in Dublin that's 1.6 pertol that def has no power

    Supposedly our supt is trying to put this one in traffic which is a bit daft as our traffic unit has about 3 working at any one time but they have 1 unmarked avensis, 2 marked mondeos, a land cruiser and 5 bikes... We'd get one of the ex traffic 06/07 mondeos by default...

    I reckon silver looks well with either markings but does this mean they've made up their mind on the colour of AGS fleet?

    1.6 is brutally underpowered... It's a big heavy car


  • #143
    kub
    Registered Users Posts: 6,528 ✭✭✭kub


    POGAN wrote: »
    Silver regular car, thre was two of them in wilkar being kitted out, dont like them with regular markings at all

    1.6 petrol were being used for unmarked cars when the first lot were bought, I know there is a traffic estate 11 reg avenais based in Dublin that's 1.6 pertol that def has no power

    Maybe the powers that be, are being optimistic, thinking perhaps that the scumbags which these 1.6 petrol Toyotas are pursuing, will stick to the speed limit.

    Infairness in general and in the mechanical world, engineers always specify something which will perform better than what is acceptable. But Garda vehicles with 1.6 petrol engines?
    I think the Toyota dealers service departments will be busy.


  • #144
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    d3exile wrote: »
    POGAN wrote: »
    Silver regular car, thre was two of them in wilkar being kitted out, dont like them with regular markings at all

    1.6 petrol were being used for unmarked cars when the first lot were bought, I know there is a traffic estate 11 reg avenais based in Dublin that's 1.6 pertol that def has no power

    Supposedly our supt is trying to put this one in traffic which is a bit daft as our traffic unit has about 3 working at any one time but they have 1 unmarked avensis, 2 marked mondeos, a land cruiser and 5 bikes... We'd get one of the ex traffic 06/07 mondeos by default...

    I reckon silver looks well with either markings but does this mean they've made up their mind on the colour of AGS fleet?

    1.6 is brutally underpowered... It's a big heavy car

    They haven't yet as there is a black octiva vrs in the college at mo being tested so no colour agreed

    That bull with taking the car to traffic really batterburg markings are traffic, regular need a good car


  • #145
    savagecabbages
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭savagecabbages


    Not sure if here is the appropriate place to discuss, but the repossessed X5 got me wondering how many repossessed vehicles AGS would have in the fleet?

    Saw an unmarked car recently which def didn't look the same as all other unmarked cars, even though it was the same model as one used. Basically it looked like something a traveller might have had beforehand:p

    *Dont think i'm going into opsec territory here as it was a car on what seemed to be patrol with the occupants wearing fluorescent jackets and chatting to uniform gardai, rather than it being an undercover car which i doubt anyone would notice(or mention here;))...


  • #146
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    savagecabbages wrote: »
    Not sure if here is the appropriate place to discuss, but the repossessed X5 got me wondering how many repossessed vehicles AGS would have in the fleet?

    Saw an unmarked car recently which def didn't look the same as all other unmarked cars, even though it was the same model as one used. Basically it looked like something a traveller might have had beforehand:p

    *Dont think i'm going into opsec territory here as it was a car on what seemed to be patrol with the occupants wearing fluorescent jackets and chatting to uniform gardai, rather than it being an undercover car which i doubt anyone would notice(or mention here;))...

    Tangos ( traffic) have a lot of different unmarked cars...we won't say what or where they are keep them as a surprise for some pillars of the community ;-)

    I think they should be using the seized or even section 41 cars a lot more but they seem to like making money off cars


  • #147
    gardatrafficop
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭gardatrafficop


    D3exil


    Take a look at that Sliver car again in the yard
    Its 2ltr. :)


  • #148
    kub
    Registered Users Posts: 6,528 ✭✭✭kub


    gardatrafficop wrote: »
    D3exil


    Take a look at that Sliver car again in the yard
    Its 2ltr. :)

    How can you tell from that angle? Is it the alloys?

    Also that Mk 3 Ford Cortina, I have heard a rumour that AGS management are currently scouring museums and scrap yards in order to get them back on the fleet :D


  • #149
    gardatrafficop
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭gardatrafficop


    kub wrote: »
    How can you tell from that angle? Is it the alloys?

    Also that Mk 3 Ford Cortina, I have heard a rumour that AGS management are currently scouring museums and scrap yards in order to get them back on the fleet :D


    There Hub Caps & i know as i was looking under the bonnett of that exact car when it arrived :):):):)


  • #150
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    kub wrote: »
    gardatrafficop wrote: »
    D3exil


    Take a look at that Sliver car again in the yard
    Its 2ltr. :)

    How can you tell from that angle? Is it the alloys?

    Also that Mk 3 Ford Cortina, I have heard a rumour that AGS management are currently scouring museums and scrap yards in order to get them back on the fleet :D

    Police spec cars only way to go to be honest


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  • #151
    Mister Jingles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭Mister Jingles


    If that Avensis is a 1.8 I would hardly call a 147 bhp petrol under powered (think these are only Auto btw). The 2.0L diesels I would though.


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