Rudiger All round good guy! Lifetime Members 1,122 Member For: 16y 8m 17d Gender: Male Location: Greenvale, Victoria Posted 29/12/10 10:20 PM Share Posted 29/12/10 10:20 PM Geez paazo, dont say that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saleen Big Gun Donating Members 4,170 Member For: 22y 3m 16d Gender: Male Location: NSW Posted 29/12/10 10:33 PM Share Posted 29/12/10 10:33 PM Rudiger, How did you drive a car that would deter you from buying one yourself? Don't worry, I'm not from a current affair.Btw your post makes my contribution to this forum have some value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudiger All round good guy! Lifetime Members 1,122 Member For: 16y 8m 17d Gender: Male Location: Greenvale, Victoria Posted 29/12/10 11:00 PM Share Posted 29/12/10 11:00 PM Good point saleen.Look, theres more than just the treatment. I actually looked after my cars as they were generally my office. Yeah gave it heaps and did some things that probbly shouldn't have been done.In those days the fitment of radios and interior gear was really rough. and when they pulled all the crap out there were holes and scrathes and you really knew it had been something else other than a private car. Now, the contractors in Vic do an excellent job in not leaving tell tale signs.When you weigh up the servicing, and fault fixing I can definately see the benifits over say a 19 year old who does burnouts every Friday night. But just in the back of my mind if I was looking at a car in a lot and it looked good, fealt good and was just what I was after, if they came to me and said it was an ex highway car, I'd have to find out more. Like I said, where it was based, who had been driving it. All easy to find out. Once I was sure of all that stuff, then yeah, I may buy it.All I'm really saying is, they have a hard life.Having said that, theres a couple of pluses over and above the servicing and issues being fixed.First, they rearely cool down. This is a plus as oil never leaves the upper part of the cylinder. Good for wear. Second, they are, more often than not, properly run in. You could always tell which sergeant fromt he transport branch had run in a car by how good or bad it went. I'm serious. Some had the gift, others just had no idea. To this day I can't tell you whats right and wrong, but you just knew.Thirdly, anything that was gunna brake had either already borken and been repaired, or wasn't going to break as they had been given heaps on numerous occasions.So now I'm sounding like I would buy one.The biggest issue for me though, and its not something you guys have to worry about is, I spent nearly 20 years driving police cars. I don't wanna sit in one again.So having said all that and weighing up my own argument, if you get a good one, do you research, go for it. If in doubt, leave it be.John has had sensational luck getting pics of his in its previous life. THAT I would love to have. Anyway, enough of my ramblings.But I will never look at you if you have an ex "chaser" and call you names. If you get a good one, excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordboy1981 Donating Members 2,075 Member For: 22y 8d Gender: Male Location: Sydney, NSW Posted 30/12/10 02:42 PM Share Posted 30/12/10 02:42 PM lol, exactly.bahaha! I know both my BA and BF were mod'ed and thrashed day in and day out...having said that, coppers are horribly brutal to their cars, idling them for hours on end (probably the worst thing you could do), ringing it's neck when it's bone cold, running up curbs, servicing them to absolute minimum, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 2m 12d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 31/12/10 01:20 AM Share Posted 31/12/10 01:20 AM I really dont understand this continual argument about whether a vehicle has been owned by a government body or a private entity ANY second hand car is a monopoly, hell for that matter a brand new vehicle is just as prone to problems as that of a second hand vehicle. There is about a thousand or more posts on this site alone to prove that point.Just remember not to break the speed limit when you go to look at it because you'll more than likely die or have more than two beers before you get behind the wheel or smoke a big fat doobie or forget to put your seatbelt on the millisecond your fat ass hits the drivers seat and make sure you wear a hat and 2 inches of sunscreen if the vehicles sitting more than a meter from a covered area even if its only slightly overcast outside if it's in an open space with other moving vehicles around it put on a High Vis top of some sort if you have to inspect under the bonnet always wear eye protection and hearing protection and maybe some gloves if you go for a swim before you go to look at it always wait an hour before getting in the water because you'll drown!!...and make sure you ALWAYS wear a condom if having sex with a strange person.Or just dont buy the bloody thing and go crawl into a hole...or maybe not as that will open up a whole different can of worms..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saleen Big Gun Donating Members 4,170 Member For: 22y 3m 16d Gender: Male Location: NSW Posted 31/12/10 01:23 AM Share Posted 31/12/10 01:23 AM Sorry dags, but you're gunna need to be more specific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 20y 9m 1d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 31/12/10 06:51 AM Share Posted 31/12/10 06:51 AM WOW! You go girlfriend.I'd still buy one just for the chaser-chip if nothing else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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