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Old diesel wrote: »

Would love to spend a day in the mind of someone who takes something like a Skoda Yeti 170 tdi 4 x 4 on test.

And then decides - I know - lets buy 1.7 Hyundai i40s

A 4x4 would require members to undergo the 4x4 course. Won't work for those on chiefs or who have the standard car course done.

This is the one that was doing the rounds.

foreign wrote: »

A 4x4 would require members to undergo the 4x4 course. Won't work for those on chiefs or who have the standard car course done.

No worries - I would have thought if a 4 x 4 course would have to be done - it would be for a Land Cruiser type machine.

Yeti is basically a normal car with the 4 x 4 type look - and with 4 wheel drive on some versions.

How do the powers that be define when a 4 x 4 course needs to be done.

For example - would you need to do a 4 x 4 course to drive an Audi A4 saloon with Quattro.

I realise obviously that if the latter was been used in traffic youd need training for that obviously - but is the 4 x 4 course needed simply because its 4 wheel drive

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I can see the logic behind it in that the car will handle differently on account of it been 4 wheel drive rather then 2 wheel drive.

Just courious as to how you can drive a car with 2 wheel drive with no training whatsowever - but its necessary to be special 4 x 4 training in the same model of car when its 4 x 4.

Would an untrained driver be safer (I wonder) in say an Audi A4 with Quattro rather then a 2 wheel drive Avensis.

Not having a go - just wondering out of couriousity

Bilko, that Volvo has a decorative star in the rear window so probably not a patrol car.

Capri

foreign wrote: »

Bilko, that Volvo has a decorative star in the rear window so probably not a patrol car.

Looks like an old picture, the Vectras must have been pensioned off by now

kub

Capri wrote: »

Looks like an old picture, the Vectras must have been pensioned off by now

They are not Traffic in Cork city still have one. I cannot make out the sign in the background but
that place looks like the N71 westbound, ie Cork to Bandon before the Ballinhassig turn off.

Mister Jingles

Still plenty of vectras about some 05 to 07. Seen some yesterday and another today both traffic and regular.

D Trent

Re: carzony post yet it will still get repaired at a higher cost than it would to purchase a new car considering the mileage that would be on that ('08 focus)

D Trent

Re: carzony post yet it will still get repaired at a higher cost than it would to purchase a new car considering the mileage that would be on that ('08 focus)

carzony

that's a 10 focus. don't see many of them that shape in an estate version..

kub wrote: »

They are not Traffic in Cork city still have one. I cannot make out the sign in the background but
that place looks like the N71 westbound, ie Cork to Bandon before the Ballinhassig turn off.

Cork traffic have one on the road even anpr still in it so bit mileage in here even tho they got two new mondeos last couple months

It's was near ballinhassig alrite

carzony wrote: »

that's a 10 focus. don't see many of them that shape in an estate version..

There only one 10 marked focus estate purchased in 2010 station in DMR

Nothing writing off in the Gardas anymore everything is repairable even when the cost out ways the value of the car

POGAN wrote: »

There only one 10 marked focus estate purchased in 2010 station in DMR

Nothing writing off in the Gardas anymore everything is repairable even when the cost out ways the value of the car

I personally think the way forward - is for the maintenance budget - to be changed - so it could also be used to buy some cars.

put 12 grand into cars with 250,000 miles - and you are a long way towards the cost of a new car with 300,000 kms life left in it.

Do it really cleverly - and someone could "accidentally" buy decent a traffic car to replace the 2011 Avensis traffic corps car with 280,000 miles on the clock

I mean yes commissioner - the Audi A4 Quattro Estate really was the only car we could get in on short notice

Consy90

Any sign of anything new out on the roads yet, or pic of the fiat in cork?

Consy90 wrote: »

Any sign of anything new out on the roads yet, or pic of the fiat in cork?

No pictures yet of nothing new. Il try get photo of the van it's like the new PO van in DMR great light package

carzony

POGAN wrote: »

There only one 10 marked focus estate purchased in 2010 station in DMR

And that must have been it so?

carzony wrote: »

that's a 10 focus. don't see many of them that shape in an estate version..

It was one of the trial cars befor we went with the Avensis.

carzony

foreign wrote: »

It was one of the trial cars befor we went with the Avensis.

would they have been better than the avensis? I drove a 1.6 turbo diesel focus a few weeks ago and thought it was a nice little drive.. not very reliable though..

carzony wrote: »

would they have been better than the avensis? I drove a 1.6 turbo diesel focus a few weeks ago and thought it was a nice little drive.. not very reliable though..

Yes they would have been the better buy

Mister Jingles

POGAN wrote: »

Yes they would have been the better buy

Was there any reason why the petrol Avensis was not chosen, even for the regular units ? Probably cheaper per unit compared to diesel, more reliable, less expensive to maintain no worries of DPF, DMF.

Diesels are only cheaper to run when they are driven and looked after properly and many of the diesels I see been driven are drove as if they were petrols i.e engine screaming. Which is a bit pointless as their power range is different to that of a petrol.

Also regarding the 1.6 focus's, it would be a hard one to call imo, those peugeot/citroen engines are known to be very troublesome.

http://youtu.be/jUs7yglqd_Y

nice shots of cork city traffic corp mondeo 2,0 and 2,2 mondeo estate

Mister Jingles wrote: »

Was there any reason why the petrol Avensis was not chosen, even for the regular units ? Probably cheaper per unit compared to diesel, more reliable, less expensive to maintain no worries of DPF, DMF.

Diesels are only cheaper to run when they are driven and looked after properly and many of the diesels I see been driven are drove as if they were petrols i.e engine screaming. Which is a bit pointless as their power range is different to that of a petrol.

Also regarding the 1.6 focus's, it would be a hard one to call imo, those peugeot/citroen engines are known to be very troublesome.

unmarked cars are 1.6 petrol mostly along with pearse street marked traffic car is petrol 1.6 estate.

all goes down to money

Mister Jingles wrote: »

Was there any reason why the petrol Avensis was not chosen, even for the regular units ? Probably cheaper per unit compared to diesel, more reliable, less expensive to maintain no worries of DPF, DMF.

Diesels are only cheaper to run when they are driven and looked after properly and many of the diesels I see been driven are drove as if they were petrols i.e engine screaming. Which is a bit pointless as their power range is different to that of a petrol.

Also regarding the 1.6 focus's, it would be a hard one to call imo, those peugeot/citroen engines are known to be very troublesome.

While the 1.6 PSA engine has had a reputation for been troublesome - some of this is down (imo) to the sheer volume of cars it was fitted to.

Its been used in Volvo S40, BMW MINI, Ford Focus, Mazda 3, Peugeot 307, 407, 308, 508 Citroens - Berlingo Van (and Pug Partner), C4, C5, and others i probably can't think off.

The fact that the Focus uses it accounts for a huge amount of them on its own given how popular Focuses are.

They aren't the best engine ever made tbh - but the Internet probably makes them sound worse then they are in reality

Old diesel wrote: »

While the 1.6 PSA engine has had a reputation for been troublesome - some of this is down (imo) to the sheer volume of cars it was fitted to.

Its been used in Volvo S40, BMW MINI, Ford Focus, Mazda 3, Peugeot 307, 407, 308, 508 Citroens - Berlingo Van (and Pug Partner), C4, C5, and others i probably can't think off.

The fact that the Focus uses it accounts for a huge amount of them on its own given how popular Focuses are.

They aren't the best engine ever made tbh - but the Internet probably makes them sound worse then they are in reality

I still wouldn't have specced that engine for Garda cars though tbh.

Do Ford do the 2.0 PSA engines used in Mondeos - on the Focus estate in right hand drive.

That would have been a much better option in the Focus estate if available - even if they had to be special order.

Which is something that should be possible to do - i recall that the army bought Nissan Patrols at one stage at a time - mid 90s if i recall - when Nissan had stopped offering Patrols to the general public - this been at around the time they bought out the Terrano over here.

Think the fact theres a 1.6 diesel Focus on traffic says it all really :rolleyes: about the attitude of garda management towards the vehicle fleet.

Speaking of 1.6 Focuses - another option to consider would be the 180 ps Ecoboost petrol engine.

Could have been a nice option

medic112

@ POGAN

that's the laois/offaly NAS rrv, so probably not cork police motors.

Happy & safe Christmas to all ES personnel & their families.

BC1987

@EIREGUN:

In your picture of the M1 Motorway Checkpoint, you point out the Trooper. There is a marked Traffic trooper in the DMR Blanch afaik. Also, is the white focus in front of the motor signage truck an official vehicle?

BC1987 wrote: »

@EIREGUN:

In your picture of the M1 Motorway Checkpoint, you point out the Trooper. There is a marked Traffic trooper in the DMR Blanch afaik. Also, is the white focus in front of the motor signage truck an official vehicle?

Trooper???? :eek:

latest plate ive ever seen on an Isuzu trooper in Ireland was an early 05 plate - 04 seems to have been the last year Troopers seemed to have been sold here.

What mileage limits are on the jeeps????