Omega Owners Forum
Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: dalyoftelford on 13 September 2009, 11:35:09
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Hi
Ive seen photos of a police omegas and on top of the wing mirror there was a small blind spot mirrors.
Are these specificly for the omega , can you buy them of the shelf !
Im kinda after a policey looking mig .. get my drift !!
cheers
Paul
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Do you mean the half moon type that sit ontop of the mirror casing?.If so i got some of ebay last year for about £6 each.found them in the camping section or search wide angle mirrors.i have also seen them in camping shops and car accessories shops.
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Yeah there the ones mate ... cheers Ill have a look on the bay !
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CURVED-ADJUSTABLE-BLINDSPOT-BLIND-SPOT-MIRROR-CAR-VAN_W0QQitemZ280395639843QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item4148e1ec23&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
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I have seen quite a few cars with these mirrors, but none were plod. ::)
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I have seen quite a few cars with these mirrors, but none were plod. ::)
Watch Road Wars, they all have them ;) :y
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Not many unmarked Omega's had the extra mirror. In general not many Omega's had them in general, there are of course one's that did. Only one of the Road Wars Omega's had one fitted. Silver, OU03 LJC I believe. The majority of Volvo's have them, and a few of the Met police BMW 5 series'. But adding one to your Omega would make it look Police spec. And I suppose you could add the extra aerials, and a second rear view mirror to make it look even more convincing ;D
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:-)
and gan I get my light to flash! ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjJ6NSEVdno&feature=related
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this deffo has little mirrors on !! http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Metropolitan_Police_car01.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metropolitan_Police_car01.jpg&usg=__PWZo18odp652agUuwkLYZU9FkQk=&h=1126&w=1535&sz=287&hl=en&start=7&tbnid=bzlkbUyT1yWR4M:&tbnh=110&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvauxhall%2Bomega%2Bpolice%2Bcar%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
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You're quite right, it does. But as I said Omega's with those mirrors are a minority rather then a majority. The picture you linked too is an armed response vehicle, the yellow dots on the front windscreen rear panel and rear window denote this.
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Josh don't take this the wrong way but you sounded just like a road wars geek ;) ;D ;D :y
(I have to admit I watch road wars too much as well ;D ;D)
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Josh don't take this the wrong way but you sounded just like a road wars geek ;) ;D ;D :y
(I have to admit I watch road wars too much as well ;D ;D)
;D lol, I do watch it, but I have a contact in TVP fleet disposal who lets me know what Omega's are being sent off to auction or being disposed off. Not that there's many left now. But I had the list of the registrations and details etc of most of the road wars Omega's. Unfortunately a fair few were written off.
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Josh don't take this the wrong way but you sounded just like a road wars geek ;) ;D ;D :y
(I have to admit I watch road wars too much as well ;D ;D)
;D lol, I do watch it, but I have a contact in TVP fleet disposal who lets me know what Omega's are being sent off to auction or being disposed off. Not that there's many left now. But I had the list of the registrations and details etc of most of the road wars Omega's. Unfortunately a fair few were written off.
Oooo :o I wouldn't mind a copy of that list ::)
Shame they strip them so much really, I'd love an un-marked ex-proactive team mig with all the toys (VASCAR, lights etc. etc.). Have a read of this to.... http://www.road-wars.co.uk/
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Josh don't take this the wrong way but you sounded just like a road wars geek ;) ;D ;D :y
(I have to admit I watch road wars too much as well ;D ;D)
;D lol, I do watch it, but I have a contact in TVP fleet disposal who lets me know what Omega's are being sent off to auction or being disposed off. Not that there's many left now. But I had the list of the registrations and details etc of most of the road wars Omega's. Unfortunately a fair few were written off.
Oooo :o I wouldn't mind a copy of that list ::)
Shame they strip them so much really, I'd love an un-marked ex-proactive team mig with all the toys (VASCAR, lights etc. etc.). Have a read of this to.... http://www.road-wars.co.uk/
Thanks for the link, looks like some interesting reading there. As far as I'm aware no more Omega's are due for disposal in the near future. . But that can change in an instant, I'll let you know if I hear of anything. The only surviving ex proactive units I know of are OU03 LJC, GM03 HYU and OY02 OYL. I agree, it would be great to have one ;D
I'm thinking of creating a marked TVP Omega saloon for shows etc when funds permit. The Omega would be the cheap part of the project, it's just finding everything else that will prove to be a problem.
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I saw a full VASCAR set up for sale recently but the price was well into 4 figures :o :o
[edit]Does anyone know the location of the 3 remaining units?[/edit]
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I know, tell me about it, prices are ridiculous.
Umm two of the three units have been on ebay, OU03 LJC was sold on ebay some time ago, and same with GM03 HYU. But it had a private reg of X6 JRS. OY02 OYL, I think Simon who used to be on this website has that vehicle, had 126,000 if I remember correctly. But bearing in mind all of these have been out of serice for some time, and have all had private keepers since leaving TVP.