Picked up a new beater
I was kicking around picking up a new beater, and yesterday I was coming home from a doctor's appointment and 3 blocks in there it was: 09 Crown Vic Police Interceptor. Retired Wall Township car. Has the mandatory spot lights and push bar. Called the number and the gentleman came out and we went for a ride. Everything is kosher except the radio doesn't work. The fella dropped it off last night and I'll get it on the road tomorrow. And it's fun seeing people slow down on my street when it's parked in front of my house.
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Good for you, I've been tempted to buy the same thing
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I want a caprice like the NJSP are using. Do they still make those or did they die with holden?
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I've seen some used police caprices on craigslist with the 6.2. Not a bad choice for a DD |
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Would love a caprice for dd commuting
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I have an old '10 hemi Charger cop car, its fun, was well kept by my home town. 78k miles. at work we have '11 and '14 hemi chargers, the 11's are getting pretty beat from city work and have just under 100k miles but over 18k engine hours
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Didn't you just say you bought a 2003 Buick Century from a little ole lady?
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Yea, as JoeyD said, I have been driving a 2012 Chevy Caprice for the last 5 years as my work car. My coworkers are more fans of the charger, but I have enjoyed the caprice all this time so they let me keep using it. It has 115,000 miles on it, and the rear and trans are untouched. However, the engine is now on its 4th camshaft. each time it began with a lifter related issue. according to our townships dpw garage (who sends out the car for big repairs) one or several of the lifters rotate in their bores and get hung-up enough to round out the lobe(s) on the cam. each time the car is down for about a month because they had to ship parts from Australia ! aside from that, the car is great. It has the shifter on the console and not on the column. no bump steer issues either, but it is a bit sketchy at high speed cornering. even though you turn the traction control off, the damn computer still has some control over it and you cant power through snow or terrain, so that also sucks.
we still have three remaining ford crown victorias but they are soon to be retired. as was said here, those cars were great for getting the job done. they aren't the fastest thing out there, but they are dependable. the final few years of those they made the seats uncomfortable and dis a very weird thing where the headrest was angled forward in a painful position. I never had any major issues from my time driving them. one time a mechanic must have left a spark plug loose during maintenance and I was driving around and heard a pop, a ding, and a loud exhaust misfire. opened the hood and the spark plug and its boot were laying across a bracket. the ding was when it hit the underside of the hood !! nice purchase bob. enjoy it. ! |
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Should just go with link bars :nod:
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And finally a car I can get parts for at the junkyard! Needed a spare tire so went to Absolute in Middlesex and a wrecked South Plainfield cruiser gave it's life so I could have a spare tire. Lol
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The later 5.4 3v used a special spark plug that extended alittle into the chamber and would get loaded up with carbon and stuck into the head. |
Getting snow tires installed today. And the trunk is already weighed down with tools and sandbags. This will be my first RWD winter in many moons so I want to be prepared.
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