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[Richie London]

i couldnt believe the state of the police vectras i see this morning at vauxs. 5 of them not older than 2 yrs old. the amount of faults on the sheets on the passengers seat was shocking.  
 
1 had half the dashboard broken away.
1 looked like it was used for a food bin, and 2 tyres had hardly any tread on them at all.

mines in better condition and its 10 yrs older.  

richie

[dad1uk]

This would serve as a warning against buying an ex-police car.
Not exactly one careful driver! :-/

[Tony H]

i couldnt believe the state of the police vectras i see this morning at vauxs. 5 of them not older than 2 yrs old. the amount of faults on the sheets on the passengers seat was shocking.  
 
1 had half the dashboard broken away.
1 looked like it was used for a food bin, and 2 tyres had hardly any tread on them at all.

mines in better condition and its 10 yrs older.  

richie

I bet there where a few empty do-nut boxes amongst the rubbish

[Richie London]

dont know how i put in wrong place, sorrrrrrrrrry  

richie

[markrl]

i couldnt believe the state of the police vectras i see this morning at vauxs. 5 of them not older than 2 yrs old. the amount of faults on the sheets on the passengers seat was shocking.  
 
1 had half the dashboard broken away.
1 looked like it was used for a food bin, and 2 tyres had hardly any tread on them at all.

mines in better condition and its 10 yrs older.  

richie

Unfortunately what you saw was symptomatic as to the state of modern Policing and by no means untypical. Remember it the next time you see some pious Chief Constable on the TV talking down to and spouting a load of crap out of his mouth to the public.  

[hotel21]

i couldnt believe the state of the police vectras i see this morning at vauxs. 5 of them not older than 2 yrs old. the amount of faults on the sheets on the passengers seat was shocking.  
 
1 had half the dashboard broken away.
1 looked like it was used for a food bin, and 2 tyres had hardly any tread on them at all.

mines in better condition and its 10 yrs older.  

richie

Unfortunately what you saw was symptomatic as to the state of modern Policing and by no means untypical. Remember it the next time you see some pious Chief Constable on the TV talking down to and spouting a load of crap out of his mouth to the public.  

....A bit like forum posters, by and large.  

Most are clever enough to realise that not all easily pilloried public figures are representative of the rank and file .....    

[CaptainZok]

i couldnt believe the state of the police vectras i see this morning at vauxs. 5 of them not older than 2 yrs old. the amount of faults on the sheets on the passengers seat was shocking.  
 
1 had half the dashboard broken away.
1 looked like it was used for a food bin, and 2 tyres had hardly any tread on them at all.

mines in better condition and its 10 yrs older.  

richie

Sounds similar to the state of our vans at work.
The difference is yours is your pride and joy (as it should be) the police car like our vans can be used by any driver in the station/depot and are used and abused as a means of getting a job done.
I'm sure if you lent your car out to all the neighbours in your street it would soon resemble one of those youve seen today.

[Richie London]

funny you should say that, i lent my m8 some tools to hang a new door, got them back the following week all rusty. he left them out on his doorstep for 2 days. never again

richie

[Andyb]

funny you should say that, i lent my m8 some tools to hang a new door, got them back the following week all rusty. he left them out on his doorstep for 2 days. never again

richie

some m8 that is
glad i dont lend anything out

the worst ones i have seen are royal mail vans they are terrible inside
and they stink  

[bertiecbx550]

got to agree with the capt..same anywhere espec in the transport industry if it aint yours you don`t give break..my wagon got took off the road ayear back to be in some publicity shots for our depot it was meant to be valeted the guy had nothing to do in the cab as me and my mate took pride in our work place and kept it spotless... 8-) if `im still with comet in coupla months time i will get my 3rd wagon and that will be kept the same...

[CaptainZok]

funny you should say that, i lent my m8 some tools to hang a new door, got them back the following week all rusty. he left them out on his doorstep for 2 days. never again

richie

Exactly, if he can't look after a mates gear he has borrowed, how do you think he would treat the firms car/van.

[bertiecbx550]

sorry but that aint no mate...you don`t p*ss into the wind and you don`t step on supermans cape..most of all you don`t treat a friend with disrespect like that...

[mars]

In my last job I had a company van and was usually the only person to drive it apart from very rare occasions. The same  applied to all the other drivers there as we took the vehicles home and could use them privately aswell as in our work. Some of the blokes couldn't even be bothered to get tyres changed, servicing done etc although it cost them nothing and the vehicles could even be picked up/dropped back at our houses for this!
 

[Taxi_Driver]

When i was in company employment......i was given a Golf Gti....as company car.........it drove rubbish.......to cut a long story short....it was an x salesmans car........never seen a garage in 70k miles.....obviously he didnt care  

[Richie London]

sorry but that aint no mate...you don`t p*ss into the wind and you don`t step on supermans cape..most of all you don`t treat a friend with disrespect like that...

as it happens ive known him for over 35 yrs now and hes one of my best m8s who i would trust with my life. hes just a bit slow when it comes to commonsense. and it was yrs ago.

richie