Vehicle Gallery - Discussion Thread

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 .

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

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 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

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 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 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

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.

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

@ POGAN

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

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

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????