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Anonymous09/29/25, 19:59No.28647823PoliceCar Appreciation Part Deux
Used cop car just a money pit or a good investment?
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Anon09/29/25, 20:20No.28647844
budget for a cam swap and top end rebuild or get a detective's cara georgia policeman once told me that the chargers are very well liked performance wise but they just aren't very durable and the idle hours fuck the cams. on the other hand they are otherwise better taken care of than a crown vic because they spend more time in the shop.
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Anon09/29/25, 20:56No.28647913
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Anon09/29/25, 21:08No.28647933
>Part Deux
wait where was part 1?
anyway yeah they're great. r*dditors like to cry about high idle hours but it's actually not that big a deal (exception to some big city dept's that put truly unholy amounts of idle hours on cars).
5.7 chargers are great. It's likely already had cams done already if they were an issue, and if they weren't an issue then they're unlikely to go bad. The who idle hours eating cams is a bit misinformed, Chrysler had a batch batch of lighters that affected virtually all cars & trucks with 5.7 engines (something like 2.5-5% of all engines were affected in total).
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Anon09/30/25, 11:43No.28648794
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Anon09/30/25, 16:05No.28649113
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Anon09/30/25, 20:12No.28649635
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Anon09/30/25, 20:17No.28649646
As a follow-on to the Yugo Florida and Zaporzhets from the last thread, here is an Oka police car.
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Anon09/30/25, 20:37No.28649670
>t. tyrone
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Anon09/30/25, 20:40No.28649674
Chauvin did nothing wrong
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Anon09/30/25, 20:57No.28649690
it depends
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Anon09/30/25, 22:57No.28649869
YOU THINK COPS TAKE CARE OF THEIR CARS
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Anon09/30/25, 22:59No.28649870
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Anon10/01/25, 00:47No.28649984
Bad idea. The days of buying a ex-police tricky vicky and driving it for another 10 years are long gone. By the time a modern police cruiser hits the auction block the thing is going to be all clapped the fuck out and not worth putting any money into. Any dodge is going to be fucked. The Fords are mostly all ecoboosts and will be all fucked up. Your best bet would maybe be a Tahoe but you're going to have all the AFM bullshit that you get with a modern GM but amplified by the abuse the vehicle has seen.
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Anon10/01/25, 13:24No.28650556
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Anon10/01/25, 15:54No.28650726
>Used cop car just a money pit or a good investment?
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Anon10/01/25, 16:03No.28650736
Ive seen some good looking charger AWD v8's, if the interior is a radio and not a striped cop set-up, does that mean it was just a government putter and not a police vehicle?
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Anon10/01/25, 21:30No.28651182
Late 80s/early 90s playboy style french mag Newlook had a puce about some small town us police pursuit car that looked like an f1/indy car and an f117 had a baby. It had a matt black slim, angular body, closed single seat cockpit, and massive external wheels. It also had a gun batrel protruding from the nose.
Anyone has any idea what I'm talking about (chatgpt hasn't)?
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Anon10/01/25, 22:22No.28651272
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Anon10/01/25, 22:26No.28651283
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Anon10/01/25, 22:27No.28651286
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Anon10/01/25, 22:28No.28651288
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Anon10/01/25, 23:32No.28651402
Found the pedo
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Anon10/03/25, 23:21No.28654495
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Anon10/07/25, 08:02No.28659839
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Anon10/08/25, 03:24No.28661178
wouldnt catched me dead in a fascists car
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Anon10/11/25, 11:03No.28665683
Mine was but that's me being an idiot first-time car buyer. Cost my $1100 up front I think, maybe $1400> Thrashed trans that was stuck in first
> gas tank wouldn't hold more than a couple gallons before dumping it's contents
> No AC, accumulator rotted out and nobody would touch it with a 10 foot pole so I deleted it myself (got parts to install a brand new AC system)
> blower motor resistor + harness fucked
> no horn or cruise control working
> headlights fucked
> cracked header panel
> Alternator was junk, previous owner thought using copper shavings on the lug was a brilliant idea (it was not)
> Driver side exhaust manifold held in exclusively with 45lbs of SILICONE CAULK
> Cats fucked
> spark plugs fucked
> coils fucked
> fenders rotted out
> no rocker panels (frame still good tho so at least there's that)And given it's my first car I'm hard pressed to just get rid of it. With the whole crypto thing going on with 401k's and the fact that I'm being asked to vote for a new chairman at the company managing mine, I'm tempted to just pull out everything, pay the tax and get a 4x4 vehicle so I can restore my vic.Feels like crazy talk though so I'm going to stew on it. maybe hop over to /adv/
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Anon10/12/25, 11:20No.28667123
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Anon10/12/25, 18:06No.28667516
I don't know what on earth would possess anyone to think buying a retired police car is a good idea.
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Anon10/14/25, 09:08No.28670295
>constable devereaux getting out of his chevrolet to write you a citation
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Anon10/18/25, 20:19No.28677738
Sometimes the perp takes the backroads
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Anon10/18/25, 22:57No.28677929
Money pits usually.