Vehicle Gallery - Discussion Thread

Sexual Chocolate · 09-03-2021 12:48am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/motors/the-well-hidden-power-of-mazda-s-mps-1.1294552

There's another episode of Traffic Cops or Interceptors with Derbyshire RCU. They have a Cupra, S3, Golf R and M1. Along with the usual marked bmw's.

Another one I was watching today had X3 M40i, Golf R, Cupra estate, S3 and M135i all involved in the one T-pac.

Bigus · 09-03-2021 1:04am

Ish66 wrote: »

Some Mazda 3 that ! 160mph ?

257.495 kmh !

punisher5112 · 09-03-2021 1:49am

Ish66 wrote: »

Some Mazda 3 that ! 160mph ?

MPS Mazda... Quick machine

260 hp... That one could have been running more horses too....

punisher5112 · 14-03-2021 5:53pm

Bog spec Tucson....

ratracer · 14-03-2021 6:58pm

Those Tucson’s are one of the ugliest new cars on the road IMO! Truely awful looking yokes.

Capri · 15-03-2021 1:56am

1979 M62 Motorway police, no Health and Safety back then.. https://youtu.be/qvw9DNQWymo

Capri · 15-03-2021 2:32am

'72 2.5PI Triumph and Victor 3.3 on the skidpan https://youtu.be/5WBoWpYcwa0

donvito99 · 15-03-2021 10:11pm

Capri wrote: »

1979 M62 Motorway police, no Health and Safety back then.. https://youtu.be/qvw9DNQWymo

This is amazing. The mark 2 Transit coming in hot and nearly killing one of the policemen at the scene of an accident, and all involved laughing it off as it clips one of the parked Granadas (Cortina?) and comes to a halt in the snowy central reservation is perfection.

roadmaster · 16-03-2021 1:15pm

Have they ever considered removing the lightbars permanently like some of the US police forces . I read some where that apparently where they where removed there was a big fuel saving cost over a year

Capri · 16-03-2021 2:22pm

Dohvolle wrote: »

New 9 years ago. All those searchlight options are available as standard when you get the lightbar, but our lot don't go for useful things like rear facing matrix signs (like RSU had on the Volvo) alley lights, directional flashing or useful things like that.

Surprised there's alloys, carpets, cloth seating in them... Remember the old Cortina mk 5 'base' and the Corolla DE (deleted equipment? ) , they must have been rock bottom £??

16-03-2021 4:24pm

Dohvolle wrote: »

Taking the standard radio out these days does more harm to the electrics than good. If they left it in the members might be able to use the onboard bluetooth to ring PULSE instead having every scrote in the country posting photos on facebook of gardai with the phone up to their ear.
I'm not old enough for Cortina but I do remember the district mondeo having the electronic siren(& PA), but the sub district car having the 2 tone. Which do you think had more chance of being used? The official driver spent all his tour out at the edges of the district, far enough from town that anything requiring siren was long finished before he got to a place he needed to use the siren.
I have a big bugbear with the placement of radio on the BMW bikes also. Someone has stuck a cowl on the dash to hold the head unit, when BMW from the factory will actually provide a head unit (for Tetra) that sits on the yoke out of eyeline.

The radio units have been left in since 2018.

CharlieCroker · 16-03-2021 5:01pm

There's even sat-nav and android auto these days!

POGAN · 16-03-2021 6:30pm

CharlieCroker wrote: »

There's even sat-nav and android auto these days!

The new vans have rear reseves camera

16-03-2021 7:07pm

Dohvolle wrote: »

Any Coincidence that the Garda fleet manager job became civilian around the same time?

No. The role has been a civilian for a while now.

Sgt. Bilko 09 · 17-03-2021 4:52pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

No. The role has been a civilian for a while now.

When the cash got tight pretty much...(still is)

punisher5112 · 17-03-2021 5:13pm

Mad to see the old Mondeo's, avensis still around at Harcourt

Sir Galahad · 17-03-2021 6:05pm

Anyone here old enough to remember Oliver Hanlon in the Garage in Phoenix Park ?

POGAN · 17-03-2021 6:30pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

Mad to see the old Mondeo's, avensis still around at Harcourt

Still Mileage on them... keep them going. Remember OPC vectra

punisher5112 · 17-03-2021 10:00pm

POGAN wrote: »

Still Mileage on them... keep them going. Remember OPC vectra

Certainly, I guess it's more senior lads and lassies driving them anyway as sitting up most of the time.
Better cars then what is coming in anyway.

2.0 Mondeo were sweet to drive.

17-03-2021 10:44pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

Certainly, I guess it's more senior lads and lassies driving them anyway as sitting up most of the time.
Better cars then what is coming in anyway.

2.0 Mondeo were sweet to drive.

You'd be surprised the units that are driving them.

Senior ranks all have Tuscons

Bigus · 17-03-2021 11:12pm

foreign wrote: »

The radio units have been left in since 2018.

Had this something to do with structural integrity of the dash safety and was brought about by a personal injuries claim to a member (make up your on puns ).

Sgt. Bilko 09 · 17-03-2021 11:14pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You'd be surprised the units that are driving them.

Senior ranks all have Tuscons

The silver 3 litre mondeo showed up a scene there last week I was like wtf is that doing here lol

punisher5112 · 18-03-2021 1:53am

Sgt. Bilko 09 wrote: »

The silver 3 litre mondeo showed up a scene there last week I was like wtf is that doing here lol

Haven't seen a V6 in a long time....

Loved the zetec s in red with the 17" alloys, they looked the bizz

POGAN · 18-03-2021 7:37am

Bigus wrote: »

Had this something to do with structural integrity of the dash safety and was brought about by a personal injuries claim to a member (make up your on puns ).

Doesn’t Hyundai want to build in active mobility / ANPR in to the onboard computers anyway?

18-03-2021 12:03pm

Bigus wrote: »

Had this something to do with structural integrity of the dash safety and was brought about by a personal injuries claim to a member (make up your on puns ).

I'd heard the first part but not the second.

18-03-2021 12:04pm

POGAN wrote: »

Doesn’t Hyundai want to build in active mobility / ANPR in to the onboard computers anyway?

Don't know about ANPR but the phone will link with the on board computer with USB I believe. I don't have access to either

Aaron1416 · 19-03-2021 11:06pm

I have an active mobility device...a phone... it does connect to the Hyundai but only as far as android auto. So google maps, Spotify (for nights) and phone calls but the interior car speaker is connected to tetra so can’t speak on calls only listen.. great thinking.

I sent active mobility section an email just enquiring into possibly having a screen mirror Type system. Where as anpr/vehicle checks show on the in car screen. So being able to do anyway with 3rd party anpr screens but they didn’t bite

CharlieCroker · 20-03-2021 12:53am

Aaron1416 wrote: »

I have an active mobility device...a phone... it does connect to the Hyundai but only as far as android auto. So google maps, Spotify (for nights) and phone calls but the interior car speaker is connected to tetra so can’t speak on calls only listen.. great thinking.

I sent active mobility section an email just enquiring into possibly having a screen mirror Type system. Where as anpr/vehicle checks show on the in car screen. So being able to do anyway with 3rd party anpr screens but they didn’t bite

Must be an issue with your car. Android auto and bluetooth work fine in all of ours.

POGAN · 20-03-2021 9:34pm

Aaron1416 wrote: »

I have an active mobility device...a phone... it does connect to the Hyundai but only as far as android auto. So google maps, Spotify (for nights) and phone calls but the interior car speaker is connected to tetra so can’t speak on calls only listen.. great thinking.

I sent active mobility section an email just enquiring into possibly having a screen mirror Type system. Where as anpr/vehicle checks show on the in car screen. So being able to do anyway with 3rd party anpr screens but they didn’t bite

You didn’t get the laptop?

POGAN · 20-03-2021 9:35pm

CharlieCroker wrote: »

Must be an issue with your car. Android auto and bluetooth work fine in all of ours.

It’s updated... ask the lads in local garage to sorted it if stick message me

CharlieCroker · 20-03-2021 9:56pm

POGAN wrote: »

It’s updated... ask the lads in local garage to sorted it if stick message me

Ours works fine. My only issue is other people's problems with my fantastic spotify playlists

POGAN · 20-03-2021 10:21pm

CharlieCroker wrote: »

Ours works fine. My only issue is other people's problems with my fantastic spotify playlists

It depends on the car when it was last updated.

Single crewed playlists for you ðŸ˜‚

Aaron1416 · 20-03-2021 10:49pm

POGAN wrote: »

You didn’t get the laptop?

They have another fancy name for that too! I got the Dex but havnt found much use as of yet. I’m sure it’s brilliant in smaller stations and one mans

Sgt. Bilko 09 · 21-03-2021 12:29am

Aaron1416 wrote: »

I have an active mobility device...a phone... it does connect to the Hyundai but only as far as android auto. So google maps, Spotify (for nights) and phone calls but the interior car speaker is connected to tetra so can’t speak on calls only listen.. great thinking.

I sent active mobility section an email just enquiring into possibly having a screen mirror Type system. Where as anpr/vehicle checks show on the in car screen. So being able to do anyway with 3rd party anpr screens but they didn’t bite

Needs updating, it’s not syncing correctly

POGAN · 21-03-2021 9:02am

Dohvolle wrote: »

The boss and I shared a car back from the far end of west cork and she had issues with my playlist. She found the live (24 minute with the synthesised whale noises) version of Pink Floyd's Echoes a bit weird. Up to then we had her playlist of mostly culchie music. Songs about baling hay and that kinda nonsense. Music people in Tullamore listen to.
However she soon fell asleep. Job done.

ðŸ˜‚ long road in west cork

Capri · 21-03-2021 9:44am

punisher5112 wrote: »

Haven't seen a V6 in a long time....

Loved the zetec s in red with the 17" alloys, they looked the bizz

That ZETEC S was treated like a baby, always polished up any time I saw it. Wonder if he's got one of the Vignale ones now?

punisher5112 · 21-03-2021 10:02am

Capri wrote: »

That ZETEC S was treated like a baby, always polished up any time I saw it. Wonder if he's got one of the Vignale ones now?

Yes it was probably the cleanest Garda service vehicle I've ever seen.

POGAN · 21-03-2021 1:26pm

Aaron1416 wrote: »

They have another fancy name for that too! I got the Dex but havnt found much use as of yet. I’m sure it’s brilliant in smaller stations and one mans

Lapdock

Sir Galahad · 21-03-2021 4:01pm

This is like reading Back Channel Chat . . . . . . .

Hogzy · 26-03-2021 5:39pm

Saw a video of an unmarked Audi S3 saloon doing the rounds on whatsapp. Anyone know if its an official garda car? Cool looking thing

Sgt. Bilko 09 · 26-03-2021 7:03pm

Hogzy wrote: »

Saw a video of an unmarked Audi S3 saloon doing the rounds on whatsapp. Anyone know if its an official garda car? Cool looking thing

Anti Burglary Unit

POGAN · 26-03-2021 8:11pm

Sgt. Bilko 09 wrote: »

Anti Burglary Unit

Gucci car unit I should say

punisher5112 · 27-03-2021 11:46am

As it 2017 have they only acquired it or is it with them since new, I've never seen it....

They are a stunning looking motor.

27-03-2021 12:25pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

As it 2017 have they only acquired it or is it with them since new, I've never seen it....

They are a stunning looking motor.

Probably a seizure put into the fleet.

Sgt. Bilko 09 · 27-03-2021 12:35pm

foreign wrote: »

Probably a seizure put into the fleet.

That’s what I’ve been told, it’s not the regular S3 exhaust

punisher5112 · 27-03-2021 12:53pm

Dohvolle wrote: »

They tried Audi A6 and A8 officially in the early 2000s, as potential patrol cars but nothing came of it. They didn't meet test criteria. In a running brake test they veered widely off course. The Driving school had one for a while after. I think a few ended up in the ministerial pool.

A8 were widely used for that EU thing back in 2004....

There have been a few Audi bought and in service, unmarked.

Silent Running · 27-03-2021 3:28pm

Dohvolle wrote: »

They tried Audi A6 and A8 officially in the early 2000s, as potential patrol cars but nothing came of it. They didn't meet test criteria. In a running brake test they veered widely off course. The Driving school had one for a while after. I think a few ended up in the ministerial pool.

I think you'll find that it was a duck pond. :P

The Maverick · 27-03-2021 5:07pm

Seeing as there's two fire engines in the background of the video, I would say it's the personal car of someone in the fire brigade. Some ranks can have blue lights fitted to their own car.

POGAN · 27-03-2021 6:49pm

It’s AGS

27-03-2021 6:50pm

The Maverick wrote: »

Seeing as there's two fire engines in the background of the video, I would say it's the personal car of someone in the fire brigade. Some ranks can have blue lights fitted to their own car.

I don't think any Fire Officer would want something so obvious on the rear.

And it looks like a fit out garage rather than a fire station. Looks to be a couple of white pick ups in rear of the video.

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