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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Teebee on 22 September 2010, 18:39:49
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Black undercover 03 plate, HYU I think. Most surprised as I really thought they would all be gone by now.
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Black undercover 03 plate, HYU I think. Most surprised as I really thought they would all be gone by now.
Seen a few unmarked round Slough, but all v6 vectras though. Not seen a sneaky omega for a long while.
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Still some around, not many though, depends what they were used for, most of the ones left will still be on low mileage, typically less than 80k.
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That's not sneaky at all, I've seen an F reg red XR3 Escort used as a police car. Nobody would suspect that.
And it was only about 6 months ago before anyone asks :).
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we still have police cars on '51 or '52 reg, and although I've not seen any Omegas recently, that would be in prime Omega territory.
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The only car I think of, is GM03 HYU as often seen in Road Wars.
Some forces do indeed still have Omega's...Wiltshire disposed of WU03 BUH the other day, TVP still have some in service, along with The Met.
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There is some still being used although the cars sitting not too far away from me at the moment (two armoured) are not used by uniform personnel.
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The only car I think of, is GM03 HYU as often seen in Road Wars.
That would be the one!
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Avon and Somerset still have one for "covert ops" too..........ex-traffic from another force, and blends in well....
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have a look at this,,, ok it is a little old but .....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1036583/cherie-kept-official-car-favourite-driver-seven-months-after-blair-quit.html
:y :y
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The only car I think of, is GM03 HYU as often seen in Road Wars.
Some forces do indeed still have Omega's...Wiltshire disposed of WU03 BUH the other day, TVP still have some in service, along with The Met.
That's still about - that is it's 'ghost' plate though as TVP cars generally have OU, OY, or OV plates. The 'Road Wars' or Tango Victor (TV) cars all have two sets of plates - as I recall the LW0?AET plates on the Black Vectra that featured lots on RW's was a ghost plate.
The local Traffic base to Slough have a green unmarked Vectra 2.8 Turbo - OU06HSV or something similar - the TV cars have ghost plates fitted.
The last marked TVP Omega expired this week, it was a 53 plate used by the TV Sgt and was fully kitted with ANPR and Tracker, etc. It had a full scale overheat and the suggestion is that the engine is fooked as it won;t restart now.... expect to see it at a Police auction near you soon.... (West Oxford Motor Auctions - WOMA)....
Cheers,
FYS,
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That's not sneaky at all, I've seen an F reg red XR3 Escort used as a police car. Nobody would suspect that.
And it was only about 6 months ago before anyone asks :).
That's sneaky! I'd never think of looking out for one of them...
[size=8]Not that I ever break the law of course[/size] ::)
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have a look at this,,, ok it is a little old but .....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1036583/cherie-kept-official-car-favouri...
£25k a year for cherie blairs omega, fuel and driver. obviously the bulk of that cost was the fuel ;D ;D ;D
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have a look at this,,, ok it is a little old but .....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1036583/cherie-kept-official-car-favouri...
£25k a year for cherie blairs omega, fuel and driver. obviously the bulk of that cost was the fuel ;D ;D ;D
Oh yes...
but wit all the cuts to the Police Service I hear on the grape vine the new PMs close protection vehicle will be a golf buggy !! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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when I was in Northern Ireland a few years back they had loads of unmarked Omegas, they were all red, white and blue funnily enough! I've never seen a non police Omega in the same shade red. It was nocturno blue I think!
You could spot them a mile off, the rear quarter lights were all thicker glass, yet the other glass wasn't. They were based out of PSNI Maydown just outside Londonderry.
Then they got unmarked black Legnum VR4s. These were fast (and scary - I'd never seen one before, they looked like something out of Star Wars and went like it aswell!) I decided to 'race' one one day. Not a good idea!
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I went to buy a jap import VR4 but after a test drive decided not to on the basis I would kill myself for sure :)
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Friend of mine had one of those - very nice piece of kit and pretty nippy too with the (if memory serves) 2.5ltr boxer engine with two turbos strapped to it..
A servicing nightmare, though! (Then again.. what modern cars aren't?)
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The Psni (police service of northern irelan) still have marked omega and are still used by traffic brranch the there are the unmarked armoured cars as used by the Minsters and the big wigs at stormont
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Friend of mine had one of those - very nice piece of kit and pretty nippy too with the (if memory serves) 2.5ltr boxer engine with two turbos strapped to it..
A servicing nightmare, though! (Then again.. what modern cars aren't?)
The other thing I read is apparently the 4WD system and gearbox need regular oil changes or you're left with a huge bill, much as it appealed it just struck me as too much risk.