@@josebedolla9831 being a cop is not a service they are part of the problem ruining this country

Not where I live. They use a shop who is contracted to do it because they don't have their own like that. So basically, if something breaks they get first served before a "regular" customer.

What’s sucks about buying police cars. Regardless about mileage they have huge amounts of run time. Running with engine idle

​​@mysixfo8805 runtime or mileage means nothing coming from a guy that's owned over 300 cars new and old

Some interceptors are trubo FWD? How can I tell by looking? Trying to decide between this and the SUV. I will just keep an eye out and buy when I find a deal.

Not all places have all that full-time stuff you’re talking about.. Our dept. goes to a garage just like you do.. but have a contract to service our vehicles asap.. and If you live a good ways away from the Dept. ya’ass will probably not be driving a unit home, just because of that funded Gas Card! When Covid hit & gas prices were up so much, they made us evenly spread out & sit at a gas station.. intersections.. or in the middle of both lanes and just try staying away from the Constantly patrolling of the roadways as much as possible!

yes!!!

Yes an ECU Tune These are Fast

Thermostat is a waste. 3bar and a tune. The thermostat has been proven over and over again to not help at all with these cars. Thermostats are money makers for tuners to sell you yet another item. I have ran all the different thermostats out there for these cars and there has been zero gains on the dyno and no change on datalogs either.

Don't forget gut the thing to tuna can on wheels👻

Check the fuses for that horn and siren. Also, the siren may have just been unplugged to make it saleable.

It's not that simple I have a 2011 police charger with the 5.7 hemi and it has 8335 engine hours and 2759 engine idle hours and I had a mechanic go through the entire car like literally everything and he said it looked like it had about 60k miles on it and it had 107k its all about the maintenance

878 idle hours equates to 365.75 days (a little over a year of idling) of run time!

Yes, Ford does say that. However, I don’t believe that it’s an actual indication of wear on the engine. Ford came up with that spec so that fleet managers knew when to properly change the oil. Because even if the car is only driven a few thousand miles, the oil is still getting worn out as the engine is idling. Still higher idle hours, can mean issues for certain engines. This car is about average with 8000-ish total engine hours and only 4600 idle hours. That’s about the average range for used cop cars. It’s not been beat excessively but it’s no spring chicken either.

Im a deputy and wouldnt trust a used police car lmao, the amount of things my charger as been drug on just cause the ground clearence is terrible

I was always told that is was 40?

Usually they have a switch so you can have a horn or a siren. At least that’s the way I did them.

@@FoMoCo1903 my 2014 police interceptor utility's horn did not work when I received the car. The loop under the dash was intact. Found the splice at the horn. So the horn button on the steering wheel controls the siren or horn and the different siren modes.

Exactly. They connected the tap function to the horn button. With no power to the siren, the relay wont activate, thus no horn. Theres usually a relay off the battery positive, under the hood. ( at least when i built them, thats where i put it). They disconnect the siren, so that they can assert liablity to the new owner, if he uses it.

Probably a detectives car or Lt.

Or a take home car .. when they get to take a car home they tend to take even better care of it

Most likely a supervisor's take home car. They take really good care of them.

I'd think it's a detective car. It's nice though.

Yeah the average cars like this one same year are very dirty and has lot of body scratches and the seats are very worn this one look like new

You really should remove the siren. It can be illegal to just have it installed on a car. Why don't you make this your daily driver??

@@eyalbarmitzvah It's not illegal to have on the car. Same with red and blue lights. You can have them, just can not use them on any public roadways. But perfectly legal to have on the car.

@@Goober10584love to see people know the law 😂. And they may have cut at the power point or even popped/pulled the fuses. Depends how cheap the shop felt when they uninstalled the equipment.

Good to meet you! I had a blast with this one. I ended up getting the siren and lights to work in another video. This car is actually being traded for a foxbody in a few days but I appreciate you leaving a comment.

Yeah but they are also driven extremely hard and sit idling for hundreds of hours. Same with the old Crown Vics that were used as taxi cabs and police interceptors.

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Randy’s like a kid in a candy store with this car. 😂😂😂

He said the neighbor that’s a cop knows who he is, no big deal.

Do not get rid Of this car you will never find another one I would keep it anyway just for a toy

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Stock they run mid 13s. Tune and 3bar map puts them in the 12s. With a few others goodies 11s are possible. 2 people have got into the 10s but they were all stripped ad running on the brink of destruction.

I agree

Not really. Turbos got a lot of miles, water pump, engine, and transmission have a lot of miles. I bet that will be in need of some major repair bills soon. Good luck. There is a reason police departments are phasing these out and ford no longer making them. I sold mine at 80k before shtf.

Idle hours are 4633, and the other mileage was about 155k, using the 33 miles per idle hour thing that comes out to about 308126 miles, really high for a turbo V6. But cop maintenance appears to treated it well so far and I expect it'll keep going for a long time. It just shows exactly how long many cars will last with proper maintenance.

Yeah pretty scummy to "auction" a car off but then have the option to just not give you the car

It probably had a reserve. If it's not met then sometimes the "winner" and seller will try to work out a deal rather then have to deal with taking the car back or running it through auction again.

obviously, there was a reserve.

The old owner better just sell it for $5000 instead of auction.

I’d say around 5.2 seconds .. with a tune 3-4 bar map and intake it can do high 4 second 0-60s

They have Halogen projectors like the 2011-2015 Explorers. They get really bad as the bulbs age. My company had a clapped out 2012 Explorer in our fleet and the headlights were barely visible.

The "cop effect" isn't just limited to Crown Vics with spotlights either. My parents have a spruce green 2004 Grand Marquis with no exterior modifications except the damage where the previous owner smacked a tree. It's obviously not a cop car in daylight, but at night cars will fly up behind it and then drop back for a while thinking it is. People from Tennessee know that the dark blue plate is civilian, the rest of the country doesn't.

@@Stephen-hg6ps Yes,any panther platform will do except for maybe the Town Town car. Where I'm at and most anymore,its a Police Interceptor Explorer or Charger. Most people who aren't a car person see a CV or a GM still act cautious while driving when near. Mine has the actual wheel covers( brake dust is bad until I change the pads )and not the dog dish covers.

It is not 33 miles of wear, that is how to calculate oil change intervals in vehicles

As a fleet mechanic who's worked for 3 different cities, all of which were exclusively ford products, I can assure you that they do in fact consider it wear. We calculate oil change intervals either by the oil life monitor or odometer readings for light use vehicles, and for the heavy use vehicles(i.e police cars) we change the oil every 30 days because the cars run almost 24/7. My current city garage has a mix of chevy, dodge and ford and they are all treated the same. "Ford Motor Company defines idling as follows: Over 10 minutes per hour of normal driving, frequent low speed operation, and sustained heavy traffic less than 25 mph. It is important to note that idle hours include low speed driving and don't mean that the cruiser is sitting still that entire time. ​Times that a police cruiser may accumulate idle hours include: 25 mph town road patrols, running radar, having pulled over a vehicle, accident scenes, while an officer is on a call, details, winter operation, and while searching an area via patrol car. All of those activities require either low speed driving or remaining stationary. Ford says that one hour of idle time = approximately 25 miles of driving. One hour of engine time = 33 miles of driving."

Thanks for the info