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Are those coastgaurd avensis just company cars with blue lights on ?

foreign wrote: »

The manufacturer would have factory fitted the wiring for radios, lights and upgraded other parts for emergency services. Beats the way we do it with retrofitting cars.

Should also mean - in theory - that you have more comeback with the manufacturer if cars give issues.

Impossible for a manufacturer to stand over a conversion that was done AFTER the car arrived in Ireland - unless the converter was APPROVED as a converter by the manufacturer.

If I was a fleet manager theres NOT A HOPE id let someone NOT approved by the manufacturer go converting the cars - especially if an alternative maker was converting the cars from the factory

I think there the most expensive/capable looking patrol car the Garda have had in a long time..The hyundai's will start looking dated very soon.

Is there anyone that can comment on what the Hyundai are like and are they up to the every day work challenge?

How do they handle etc...

punisher5112 wrote: »

Is there anyone that can comment on what the Hyundai are like and are they up to the every day work challenge?

How do they handle etc...

The car will not hold up like the mondeos or focus did! But they are transport when lot of station had nothing

Regular cars are on the road 19+ Hours a day compare to traffic so the regular stuff will wear away first

D Trent wrote: »

Are all new traffic cars coming on stream fitted with ANPR.
If not why?

No not all on bases of operational! the i40 with anpr fitted is very nicely done

punisher5112 wrote: »

Is there anyone that can comment on what the Hyundai are like and are they up to the every day work challenge?

How do they handle etc...

Is it a trick of the camera or is there lights well under the bumper? Looks like it would get knocked out if driven over a sleeping police man.

Explain how you think a C reg Audi with no grille lights or dash lights or any indication of extra lights is an emergency vehicle?

WOO-HOO ,

'Police Set to Use New Trucks to Pursue Lawbreaking Motorists'

By Khuon Narim | August 13, 2015


Ahead of the enforcement of a stricter traffic law in January, the National Police have acquired a fleet of powerful new pickup trucks to pursue speeding motorists and other infractors, officials said Wednesday.

The new traffic law contains harsh penalties for speeding and drunk driving, and the 25 Mazda BT-50 trucks will be used to apprehend offending drivers when police begin enforcing the law, which was passed in December, said Run Rathveasna, director of the National Police’s order department.
“The 25 Mazda pickup trucks will contribute to policing traffic issues,” he said. “We will do as they do in the U.S.: When somebody violates the law, we will chase them and stop them.”

Lieutenant General Rathveasna said that the trucks—which arrived in Cambodia on Wednesday—were a gift from National Police commissioner Neth Savoeun and that the roughly $40,000 vehicles would be equipped with sirens ordered from China. He said he did not know whether General Savoeun paid for the vehicles out of his own pocket. :rolleyes:

In Australia, laws have slowly changed to limit the speeds at which police can chase another vehicle due to the danger posed to those involved and others on the road. In June, the state of Victoria completely banned the pursuit of motorists for traffic offenses, limiting police to engage only in “imperative pursuits” in which suspected criminals pose a serious threat to citizens.

Contacted Wednesday, Ear Chariya, director of NGO Handicap International, which deals extensively with road safety, said that police should use the new fleet of Mazdas cautiously.

The new trucks, he said, would assist police in hit-and-run cases, which have become all too common, but warned that chases could lead to more carnage on the road.

“This tool could be a positive or a negative,” he said of the Mazdas, adding that drivers of the pickups should be trained to chase other vehicles safely.

(Additional reporting by Matt Blomberg)

Must be one of the last marked Mondeos around?. I don't see many of them now..

Those Insignias really are the best looking car on sale right now?

Terrontress wrote: »

It is a difficult one to understand. Presumably the English forces don't want them any more as they are no longer suitable for the role for which they were bought. So why do AGS then take them?

It's probably good to get a car already marked and with blues and sirens, but buying second hand seems wrong to me.

It had under 100,000 miles on it, it's police spec car so it's not normal car that goes off the road 180,000 or 300,000 like the xc70

It was needed not best thing buying second hand cars but if helps the members on the ground all for it

Looks like BMW will get the RSU tender with x5 is the rumour

Terrontress wrote: »

100,000 of the toughest miles a Volvo is ever likely to see.

Why do the English not want them? Is it because they get rid of their cars, even though they are fully functioning?

It just seems to me that an English force make the decision that a car is not fit for purpose. Uneconomical maybe, no longer up to the job, or even dangerous. Get rid of it and who buys it?

UK forces lease most of their vehicles for 2-4 years so in all likelihood, that V70 was coming off lease and going back to Volvo UK. AGS prob made a bid to Volvo to then buy it, with the equipment in place.

That's one of the reasons UK forces can have some nicer vehicles, they're paying a set monthly/quarterly fee to the manufacturer for all inclusive maintinence instead of paying for the vehicle fully up front.

Would it be a precedent worth following - get hold of a few big engined- well maintained low milage,relatively cheap 06-07 cars , and use em to get over a hump -
Yes they'd have to be inspected properly but they be a better bet than fixing up a super high milage 1.6 diesel that's on it's last legs and needs thousands to get it back on the road-