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    #4022
    Sgt. Bilko 09
    Registered Users Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭Sgt. Bilko 09


    POGAN wrote: »
    😂 funny because it’s so true!

    The job aye....!


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    #4023
    Sgt. Bilko 09
    Registered Users Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭Sgt. Bilko 09


    d51984 wrote: »
    What are they like to drive? Would of liking to see more mondeos.

    Shocking, I can’t imagine a Mondeo will be in the fleet for sometime unless the CAB lads seize something worth buying. I seen today they seized an estate 520D wouldn’t be surprised if that ends up being bought


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    #4024
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    Sgt. Bilko 09 wrote: »
    Shocking, I can’t imagine a Mondeo will be in the fleet for sometime unless the CAB lads seize something worth buying. I seen today they seized an estate 520D wouldn’t be surprised if that ends up being bought

    5 162 bmw 530 estates RPU in the college since new used on cbd3 RSU training less than 10K on most of them

    No Q drivers and no courses


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    #4025
    Sgt. Bilko 09
    Registered Users Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭Sgt. Bilko 09


    POGAN wrote: »
    5 162 bmw 530 estates RPU in the college since new used on cbd3 RSU training less than 10K on most of them

    No Q drivers and no courses

    I seen that two weeks ago, seems a waste having them for training although it seems to be the trend considering nearly 6 years ago they had the 3litre mondeos doing courses


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    #4026
    Capri
    Registered Users Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭Capri


    Black unmarked Honda CRV / Toyota RAV4 on blues along the Quays this morning, only caught the back of it from a distance hence the question of its ID


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    #4027
    punisher5112
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    Capri wrote: »
    Black unmarked Honda CRV / Toyota RAV4 on blues along the Quays this morning, only caught the back of it from a distance hence the question of its ID

    Fire maybe? What year.


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    #4028
    [Deleted User]
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    Capri wrote: »
    Black unmarked Honda CRV / Toyota RAV4 on blues along the Quays this morning, only caught the back of it from a distance hence the question of its ID

    Tuscon?


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    #4029
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    foreign wrote: »
    Tuscon?

    Was thinking the same!


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    #4030
    punisher5112
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    Don't forget they've a few Skoda Kodiaq.....


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    #4031
    Sgt. Bilko 09
    Registered Users Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭Sgt. Bilko 09


    It was a Tucson and a landcruiser
    Unmarked focus hatchback was proudly pushing a ahead of them


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    #4032
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    Sgt. Bilko 09 wrote: »
    It was a Tucson and a landcruiser
    Unmarked focus hatchback was proudly pushing a ahead of them

    Hardcourt cars...


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    #4033
    Sgt. Bilko 09
    Registered Users Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭Sgt. Bilko 09


    POGAN wrote: »
    Hardcourt cars...

    Yeah, struggled to keep up with the landcruiser on the N4. Through sandymount pearse street then on to the quays


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    #4034
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Seen that land cruiser few times, moves when it needs to.

    Seen 2 days in a row running through Rathgar at speed. Similar time both days funnily enough.


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    #4035
    Sgt. Bilko 09
    Registered Users Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭Sgt. Bilko 09


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Seen that land cruiser few times, moves when it needs to.

    Seen 2 days in a row running through Rathgar at speed. Similar time both days funnily enough.

    Training maybe, it has serious pull considering the weight it has to carry. (The equipment that is not the occupants)


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    #4036
    Capri
    Registered Users Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭Capri


    Sgt. Bilko 09 wrote: »
    It was a Tucson and a landcruiser
    Unmarked focus hatchback was proudly pushing a ahead of them
    Down by the Brazen Head and along the quays? All I saw in the distance was what I took to be a CRV judging by the amount of chrome around the reg plate area..... Have to go to Specsavers !


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    #4037
    Sgt. Bilko 09
    Registered Users Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭Sgt. Bilko 09


    Capri wrote: »
    Down by the Brazen Head and along the quays? All I saw in the distance was what I took to be a CRV judging by the amount of chrome around the reg plate area..... Have to go to Specsavers !

    Yeah i wasn’t so far away from it, we turned at watlin st, they are specialist units. we were just special in our own little bubble 1.8tdci hatchback there was a collision at the turn we were suppose to take earlier than that. It’s why it went down further.


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    #4038
    Duke O Smiley
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    I passed an 07 unmarked red Mondeo saloon in Dublin 8 today. Had the usual lights on the front bumper, but curiously only 1 ariel and an NCT disc in the window, as well as a long out of date tax disc. I thought Garda cars were test exempt?


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    #4039
    Sgt. Bilko 09
    Registered Users Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭Sgt. Bilko 09


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    I passed an 07 unmarked red Mondeo saloon in Dublin 8 today. Had the usual lights on the front bumper, but curiously only 1 ariel and an NCT disc in the window, as well as a long out of date tax disc. I thought Garda cars were test exempt?

    Patrol cars are exempt from mandatory testing.


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    #4040
    Sexual Chocolate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sexual Chocolate


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    I passed an 07 unmarked red Mondeo saloon in Dublin 8 today. Had the usual lights on the front bumper, but curiously only 1 ariel and an NCT disc in the window, as well as a long out of date tax disc. I thought Garda cars were test exempt?

    Could of being customs.


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    #4041
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    I passed an 07 unmarked red Mondeo saloon in Dublin 8 today. Had the usual lights on the front bumper, but curiously only 1 ariel and an NCT disc in the window, as well as a long out of date tax disc. I thought Garda cars were test exempt?

    They do this to look ordinary, many at this over the years as single tax disc holder stood out s mile.


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    #4042
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,739 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    I passed an 07 unmarked red Mondeo saloon in Dublin 8 today. Had the usual lights on the front bumper, but curiously only 1 ariel and an NCT disc in the window, as well as a long out of date tax disc. I thought Garda cars were test exempt?


    Running the plate through motortax.ie will usually yield what it is, no find for the rate is generally a legit Garda car. Normally they have full current tax disc as otherwise car will be clamped or towed.


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    #4043
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    They do this to look ordinary, many at this over the years as single tax disc holder stood out s mile.

    With lights on the bumper though?


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    #4044
    punisher5112
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    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    With lights on the bumper though?

    Oh yes, old school they fitted bumper lights to near all 2006 and all 2007


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    #4045
    punisher5112
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    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    With lights on the bumper though?

    Clear lense, quite big like rectangular size.


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    #4046
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Clear lense, quite big like rectangular size.

    That’s right, they looked quite big


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    #4047
    punisher5112
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    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    That’s right, they looked quite big

    That's the typical era Mondeo, focus, Vectra etc....

    Not seeing as many these days but they have held up well compared to the 2010 avensis and I30/i40.....

    Dirt them Hyundai


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    #4048
    BaronVon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭BaronVon


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    I passed an 07 unmarked red Mondeo saloon in Dublin 8 today. Had the usual lights on the front bumper, but curiously only 1 ariel and an NCT disc in the window, as well as a long out of date tax disc. I thought Garda cars were test exempt?

    Might it have been an Insurance Disc? All cars should be displaying an insurance exemption disc beside the tax disc.

    Also, cars can be NCT'd voluntarily if there are concerns about its roadworthiness. Not sure if they get issued a disc though, but I presume they would....


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    #4049
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    BaronVon wrote: »
    Might it have been an Insurance Disc? All cars should be displaying an insurance exemption disc beside the tax disc.

    Also, cars can be NCT'd voluntarily if there are concerns about its roadworthiness. Not sure if they get issued a disc though, but I presume they would....


    Garda vehicles are exempt from all the above...

    They are issued a tax disc but exempt is printed on them as they are a state vehicle....

    I don't really understand your post.

    The state covers any liability.


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    #4050
    BaronVon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭BaronVon


    Yes, but now they are issuing insurance discs of exemption for the cars. Same way they are exempt from car tax, but they display tax discs, they are now doing it with insurance discs. Probably some sort of optics thing for Joe Public....


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    #4051
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    No, it was an NCT cert. There was a 3 cert holder in the windscreen.

    Noteworthy too, there was an 08 Mk4 Mondeo estate behind it, with heavily tinted front and back windows, that had small LEDs in the grille. The car was a Ghia spec with alloys. My first thoughts were that it was a removal hearse, but maybe not?


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