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an unmarked 06 5series BMW was spotted on nassau st last night with two tango members conducting a very low key PSV checkpoint

never new traffic corps has such high powered unmarked motors for such low key work

D Trent

Scouser wrote: »

an unmarked 06 5series BMW was spotted on nassau st last night with two tango members conducting a very low key PSV checkpoint

never new traffic corps has such high powered unmarked motors for such low key work

Wow. Spotted by who?

D Trent wrote: »

Wow. Spotted by who?

Arnie Pye in the Sky for Channel 6 News

Scouser wrote: »

an unmarked 06 5series BMW was spotted on nassau st last night with two tango members conducting a very low key PSV checkpoint

never new traffic corps has such high powered unmarked motors for such low key work

May not be traffic was it estate?

Capri

Could be an old Ministerial escort car, saw a 07 one yesterday outside Gov't buildings.

They'd be usually well cared for and serviced I'd say (can't see them chasing anything but so as easy as buying a s/h one as discussed here before ??

POGAN wrote: »

May not be traffic was it estate?

not estate -saloon. blue lights in grill, nowhere else from what i could see (none on dash, cant remember if there were wingtips or not)

was on patrol by the looks of it, two uniformed members conducting a PSV checkpoint

Markcheese

Was or is there a pool of unmarked traffic Corp vehicles ?
A few year ago a Subaru was doing speed traps outside my house (saw it in midleton station later) , and I got pulled over by a silver BMW about 4 years ago, lately all i see is the same Mondeo ...

between midelton & fermoy circa 99 , they had 2 alfa 155 2.4v6 s in traffic a silver & black one , remember them well as i had fiat marea at the time and would see them regulary at the fiat alfa garage in glanmiire

DAVE1972 wrote: »

between midelton & fermoy circa 99 , they had 2 alfa 155 2.4v6 s in traffic a silver & black one , remember them well as i had fiat marea at the time and would see them regulary at the fiat alfa garage in glanmiire

They were north cork traffic cars remember one of them was in crags during chase in n20 cork to mallow road

Lucky to have mondeos now

Markcheese wrote: »

Was or is there a pool of unmarked traffic Corp vehicles ?
A few year ago a Subaru was doing speed traps outside my house (saw it in midleton station later) , and I got pulled over by a silver BMW about 4 years ago, lately all i see is the same Mondeo ...

Ya in bigger station you maybe have pool cars but most station you take any keys you'd be lucky to get

i know its shocking, theyre used to be 2.5v6 vectra on mallow rd aswell at the tiime, great car , i see youghal up to last summer were using a red 04 mondeo , the age of cars ive seen around cork is shocking especially unmarked , in blackpool ive seen 2 06 avensis , 1 05 mondeo and an 04 focus , all unmarked , oh and 03 vectra as i mentioned earlier, ,, wonder when all those new hyundai/focuses arrive

Markcheese

The age wouldn't really bother me ... Condition and cost of maintenance would though... A 2.5 /3 litre might last massive miles don't know you'd get the same out of a 1.6 with turbo,dmf,dpf ect ect . Not to mention being driven by people with heavy boots ....

top of the range sporty diesels like insignia , audi a4s would be suitable and safe plus maintainence be reasonabe , last well to 300km im sure you 100km on timing belts on those models

just a thought , there was a similar recession in the 80s to now, probably worse , and the garda fleet was awful aswell at the time , i remember they had a huge number of those austin montegoes & maestros , dreadful yokes , everytime i passed johnson& perrott motor dealers in emmett place cork you would see about 4 montegos in getting repaired they then starting replacing them with better cars eventually like carina e , bluebird & sierras and nissan sunnys ,, can anybody remember the cars in their area during that time ,, for me i remember the blue talbot avenger, green mazda 323 , gold 2.0hl montego , blue maestro , nissan sunny , the 2.0l cortina automatic .

Old diesel

DAVE1972 wrote: »

top of the range sporty diesels like insignia , audi a4s would be suitable and safe plus maintainence be reasonabe , last well to 300km im sure you 100km on timing belts on those models

The modern diesels (generally) aren't always up to the pace - and Insignias aren't always perfect for reliability - and neither are Audis.

Its not they are bad - Audis anyway - but you wouldn't be buying them simply on the basis of awesome durability

That's not having a go at Audi or Opel - because - from where im standing - many modern cars are like that.

Now if you want a decent traffic type car with good performance and roadholding than an Audi A4 or A6 with Quattro would have fine potential on paper.

Issue with the Fords (imo) is how they are specced over here - for garda use.

For example in Uk you can buy a 2 litre 163 ps Focus estate.

In saying that - some of the new garda Mondeos came with a 197 bhp 2.2 diesel engine.

If that's not powerful enough - you can have a Focus ST estate - with 240/250 ps type of power.

Ford in the Uk actually had built one police spec Focus ST estate - for showroom/demo purposes.

So theres a decent range on offer in the Ford range in terms of performance

Old diesel

DAVE1972 wrote: »

just a thought , there was a similar recession in the 80s to now, probably worse , and the garda fleet was awful aswell at the time , i remember they had a huge number of those austin montegoes & maestros , dreadful yokes , everytime i passed johnson& perrott motor dealers in emmett place cork you would see about 4 montegos in getting repaired they then starting replacing them with better cars eventually like carina e , bluebird & sierras and nissan sunnys ,, can anybody remember the cars in their area during that time ,, for me i remember the blue talbot avenger, green mazda 323 , gold 2.0hl montego , blue maestro , nissan sunny , the 2.0l cortina automatic .

I remember the Bluebirds been used as Garda cars - but they mustn't have been that great - as they only seemed to ever have bought one batch in early 1987 and didn't buy anymore.

They used lots of Sierra Sapphires - they were some of the first cars i really started noticing as Garda cars - and i remember all the Carina IIs.

I can only assume that someone was feeling generous with the kitty in 87 for garda cars - because in 87 they seemed to buy a lot of Carina IIs and Sierra Sapphires and of course the Bluebirds.

Does anyone know why why some of the Sierras and the odd Bluebird were white rather than the normal blue.

WHITE CARS BACK THEN WITH BLUE STRIPE WERE TRAFFIC CARS, SOME HAD ORANGE STRIPE, IN DUBLIN CITY CENTRE ALL SIERRAS WERE 2.0GL, REMEMBER BEEN UP FOR ALL IRELANDS, ALSO THEY HAD THE OLD STYLE MARKED UP TOYOTA CAMRYS 20GLI ZG REG WHICH WOULD HAVE MADE THOSE 86, THEY LASTED ALONG TIME I RECALL

Consy90

Seen a nice blue 08 BMW today. Hardly the new one in dmr. Was unmarked saloon? Any pics of the hyundais yet?

EireGun

The other day I saw a newish dark coloured unmarked BMW 5 Series tearing down the N7 from the Red Cow towards Newlands Cross, interesting thing was it had red/blue lights on the sun visor (like below, drivers side I think), guessing it was Special Branch. No chance of a capture at that speed.

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Another Special Branch BMW 5 Series (2007) spotted in Wicklow a few months ago...
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Consy90 wrote: »

Seen a nice blue 08 BMW today. Hardly the new one in dmr. Was unmarked saloon? Any pics of the hyundais yet?

If you know one in Carlow they have one I40

anyone have any info on my spot of an unmarked 06 BMW being used by Tango mules?

Scouser wrote: »

anyone have any info on my spot of an unmarked 06 BMW being used by Tango mules?

Yes it's based in DMR the green one ya?

kub

DAVE1972 wrote: »

just a thought , there was a similar recession in the 80s to now, probably worse , and the garda fleet was awful aswell at the time , i remember they had a huge number of those austin montegoes & maestros , dreadful yokes , everytime i passed johnson& perrott motor dealers in emmett place cork you would see about 4 montegos in getting repaired they then starting replacing them with better cars eventually like carina e , bluebird & sierras and nissan sunnys ,, can anybody remember the cars in their area during that time ,, for me i remember the blue talbot avenger, green mazda 323 , gold 2.0hl montego , blue maestro , nissan sunny , the 2.0l cortina automatic .

The Nissan Bluebirds, very nice looking patrol cars, but apparently they were not suitable for 24hour duty cycles.
What always struck out in my mind in those days was, why was it that traffic cars and urban patrol cars used to have 2 plant pot lights on their roofs while the rural patrol cars only had one on top of the Garda roof sign.
Anyone know why?

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Scouser wrote: »

anyone have any info on my spot of an unmarked 06 BMW being used by Tango mules?

What do you need to know other than the info you already gave?