Just got the wife's twenty year old Corsa back from MoT test. Phone call: Failed on-'middle rear seat belt not retracting'. I asked if it was trapped in the seat as I'd folded it down on a tip run recently and had never had anyone on the middle seat in the thirteen years we owned it. . 'We can't check that." Attended and they'd produced a Fail and a Pass certificate. Seat belt needed a tug to release. Twenty five years police service and I assure you that if you knew what Police cars went through you'd never buy one. If you feel the need I'd remove the seats and carpets, steam clean and disinfect the lot.
I used to drive one of those when I was a bobby. I pulled along side an old woman at the lights one day, and when I looked across she was actually knitting at the wheel!!! I blipped my siren and gestured for her to open her drivers window. When she did, I shouted "Pull over!" She smiled and replied, "Good guess, but it's actually a cardigan!"
My previous gen v70 D5 towed my 1.6tonne 911 Turbos S back from Stuttgart with a blown turbo! bellowing black smoke and absolutely no power, but it just carried on like it was nothing. Absolute trooper of a car and will forever be a legend for refusing to quit on us.
Those D5 engines are bullet proof, as long as the servicing is kept up to date. But with a blown turbo, and a new set of tyres, there ain't much scope for a decent profit, unless he can find a cheapish refurbished Turbo.
My Dad had a V70 estate and it never had anything wrong with it. He used to drive 200 miles 5 days a week in it for 4 years. The only thing it ever needed was a rear bulb and services. It was a real work horse. It was the petrol version and I used to love the unusual sound the straight in line engine used make because the it didn’t sound like straight inline engine. Don’t know why it sounded like that but it was a great car.
It seems like the last owner was a chain-smoking police dog with alopecia, which just shows how stressful the job is, but I bet it had a biting sense of humour.
Viendo cómo van lo coches de Policía por las calles de Londres, debe estar bueno, yo compré un coche de policía en mi país hace años y lo tuve hasta que reventó solo le cambié el aceite y luego lo vendí por piezas, me costó unas 500 libras pero por ese precio demasiado que arrancaba 😂😂
Some lads asked for a tenner to watch my car while it was parked up in a dodgy area. "No thanks" I said, "I have my two rottweilers in the back". They replied. "oh, trained to put out fires are they?"
My last two Volvos - a V50 and C30 - have been exemplary. Ultimate seat comfort. Very reliable, c. 175,000 miles each, and the C30 is still going along happily - and it looks like a new car (if you squint from about 50 metres!)
These early Mk 3 V70s and XC70s had a design fault with the pipe between the turbo and the intercooler, in that they would split (or even fall off altogether). The car then goes into "limp home" mode . My own MY2009 V70 had that problem at around 50k miles and it wouldn't go above about 40mph. So it might just be worth checking for that before assuming that the turbo itself is blown.
+1 on that. The pipe rubs on something and splits, then you get a MAF sensor error on the OBDII and limp mode. Pain in the arse. Replaced the hose on mine (2012 D3) twice now, first time with a pattern part that was significantly cheaper than OEM, and then almost exactly a year later with an OEM one... because the pattern one split.
I remember that vehicle from when I was in Roads Policing in West Yorkshire Police. I retired in 2016 but if I recall correctly it was a pool car which would explain the relatively low mileage. The only ex police vehicles that I would consider are ex SOCO vans, mail run vans etc which have a much easier life.
Yeah I remember the noise the suspension would make in response vehicles when going over a speedbump at 30-40mph, definitely wouldn't trust an ex response vehicle 😅
Great story but I would never believe the mileage of an ex-police car. It’s well documented that unscrupulous dealers wind back the clocks prior to the first MOT.
Long long before you were a glimmer in your parents eyes Matt, I bought a very nice Wolsley 6/110 with 67,K on the clock! (1968) It ran beautifully but the speedometer decided to fail! Yellow wax on the rear of the exposed dashboard revealed a "Police" spec! It had actually done 300K on top of the indicated mileage, but it was a really lovely car that gave me another 40K and I sold it for a profit! 😅
i had a v70 i bought for 1800 quid it lasted 6 years trouble free never spent a penny on it it was a tank i felt safe in it ,drove amazing they are great cars
I had a Mk. 1 V70 that I paid £1,200 quid for. Sailed through its last six MOTs, but it died in July after 14 years of sterling service. I've replaced it with a Mk. 2. Bet that doesn't last as long...
Good morning Matt, as a retired Police Officer I would only buy an ex-traffic patrol car, I would never buy an old 'Panda'. Shame it didn't working out but it was a great video, lots of funny comments. Thank you for taking the time to upload another video. Ged
Agreed, i'm in the met and engine idling hours on crime scenes (been there and done that many many times) are often a forgotten factor in second hand police vehicles. You also have to remember it's spent most of it's life being driven around at 30-40mph then suddenly ragged as if it's been stolen, and pushed to it's limit.
@@thefiestaguy8831my mate run a ford dealership and they were forever having dpf issues with a couple of the kugas. They couldn't get their head round that a dpf won't regen when blasting down that A12 at 120 😂.
@@HA05GER The vehicle in question was a 2015 Vauxhall Astra estate. Slow as pants and deemed "not fit for response" by many, but handled quite well and always stuck to the road like glue especially on roundabouts, even at speed. Lots of tyre squeal and plenty of grip.
@@thefiestaguy8831 not a great engine in them either it'll be the Alfa diesel engine if I'm not wrong. Atleast you enjoyed driving it not all dull days in the police then.
As a UK police officer, I would never buy an ex-police vehicle unless it was DIRT cheap. The car will almost certainly have done high mileage, typically a single vehicle in our fleet does around 145,000 miles in 3-4 years. Minor damage such as a dented panel or scuff/scratch is not normally repaired, because it's cosmetic only and invariably police vehicles will be involved in collisions, so it would be a waste of money to repair a vehicle with a dent in the door that does not affect the vehicle in any way, only for it to be dented 6 months later. You also have to factor in the engine hours.... the car might have done 145,000 miles, but there's also the literal DAYS a car might have spent, engine on, idling at a crime scene. I once sat on a crime scene in a police vehicle, alone, all night long in the freezing cold. I turned the engine on and it stayed on for about 6-7 hours, I was on another crime scene during the summer of 2019 for a horrific murder, which was a crime scene for 6 weeks. In the boiling hot summer heat that's probably a good 10 hours per day with the engine on and air conditioning going, every day for 6 weeks. The car never moved and as a result the DPF had clogged up and it had burnt through the full tank of fuel it had despite just sitting on idle. Whilst important maintenance is done, such as brakes, tyres, engine etc... (albeit in the force i'm in it takes FOREVER since we use an external contractor and have no "in house" mechanics), other non-essential maintenance is almost never done. Gearbox service? Dream on. Differential fluid changed? No chance. I can recall driving Pegeout 308SW vehicles which were only 3-5 years old with around 130-150k on them... they were jerky as anything and juddered to a stop and off the line literally jolted. We still have a 2017 BMW 218i in our fleet which has a horrible manual gearbox, it's so old and done so many miles the clutch is on it's way out and sometimes it's a struggle to put it into gear.
I bought my old bmw R80RT. But I had been the main rider for 3 years. It was a good machine. I bought an ancient north wales bike before that. ( and two others about the same time). They were okay too. There was one bloke I worked with who thrashed them every opportunity he got, but most cared for them on the basis that they had to look after the driver and your mate if anything went wrong.
@@johntate5050 Was waiting for this inevitable comment. Written by someone who really doesn't know what they're talking about. Be lucky if we get 5 minutes to stop off at a fuel station to buy some over-priced sandwiches and use the loo... let alone going off to get donuts.... When officers did bring donuts in for "cake fines" they were purchased and collected before work during their own time.
The V70 estate is a good car. My dad had one years ago and I use to love the sound of its engine even though it wasn’t a V engine it had an unusual sound for a straight in line engine. It was a work horse and apart from the odd bulb needing replacing in the rear it never had any problems.
I put my Range Rover in neutral when I park, then apply the handbrake and then put the gearbox in park as it puts less strain on said gearbox and lets the hand brake do its job as intended. Old man tip of the day.
@@johnb8956 Good advice John B and other guys! I did know this when I was a young man, but somehow, by the time I bought my first auto (including 22 years driving a TR6 - which I restored and brought to Australia) I had forgotten that advice! Now I'm reminded, it shall be implemented! Thank you!
The reason for the 50 shades of white is that some of the panels were covered in stickers and some parts of some panels were covered in stickers which were peeled off for sale.
I have three German Shepherds and a Bernese Moutain Dog. Their " DOG TAXI" is a low-mileage 2005 Mercedes Benz S-Class. The one before that was a 1974 Rolls Royce that was very rusty and burned a quart of oil every 150 miles!
Aw wow. We have four GSD’s and their car is a 2015 S212, Mercedes E Class Wagon. I did toy with the idea of buying a cheap, smallish van but they had a meeting and sent in a memo of complaint. How could I refuse but keep the car. It is beautiful, after all. 😁
My Dad always says… There’s always another opportunity. And my reply is… Yes and some are better than others. I think you realise in this, and the property game Matt you have to be very careful where you put your time. Because that’s all you’ve got and it precious.
I had a silver 2005 Volvo S40 Sport years ago and absolutely loved the car - except for the water travelling down the A pillar from the sunroof and eventually pooling in the rear footwells. It was a problem that could never be sorted satisfactorily and I ended up one day in a downpour with the A pillar cover removed and a waterfall lashing down on my right knee. It’s perhaps prophetic that the S40 ended its life submerged in flood water… just after I’d had the sunroof fixed. Wonderful.
I bought an ex plod V70 T5 a few weeks back for £450, bit thirsty but great fun. I have had a few D5 and they are great cars! Be interested to know how the mechanic diagnosed a blown turbo, friend had the same issue and diagnosis from his mechanic.... I fixed it in the time it took to write this by putting a vacuum line back on. When turbos fail, seals go, cloud of smoke etc.. etc.. Garages don't make money reconnecting a hose.
@@Lamster66 Yerp! Turbos are simple things which don't die quietly or decide not to boost. This is my only problem with High Peak vids... "dropped car off at Mechanics and they said" Too many "bangernomics" contradictions for me, cheap motors stop being cheap if they go near a garage.
@@Lamster66 When the prices of newer stuff is dropping like a lead balloon and £800 cars are now £400 all I can think is that he taps into the "can't afford a cheap motor unless on credit?" who will pay premium or peeps who don't mind paying over the odds for a tip run/dog transporter second car to keep the dirt off the Bentley? Most of the vid motors must come in as P/X or Trade deals so low purchase price isn't always realistic, especially on the newer stuff and out of reach for us lesser mortals?
I've got one of these Police spec V70s and can tell you some differences from the standard car. Larger brake discs and pads, with wear sensors, standard car doesn't have wear sensors. An actual engine oil dipstick. Speedo is calibrated so accurate. Rear seat assy is vinyl, not leather. And that's about it. Brakes are better stoppers to standard car, being bigger. My mate has a V70 and said mine stops better than his. Makes you wonder why Volvo as a 'safety' company didn't fit these larger, better brakes to all cars. Price difference at production would have been negligible if indeed anything.
I once brought a 13 year old Volvo 850 that had such an incredible dealer service history , the owner had spent £3000 on a whole new AC system , windscreen wiper motor, and windscreen at a Volvo main dealer 3 months before chopping it In as a part ex that I brought for £995 ( pre Covid of course)
My first (and current) car was a police car. 2011 BMW 530D. It was ordered and used by a high-ranking police officer. I bought it 2 years ago with just 68k on the clock. It has extras that wouldn't have been found on a normal unmarked car, like a sunroof, full electric heated leather seats and sat nav, which isn't normally specced as the police use their own systems. Certainty not the smartest choice for a first car, but it has been incredibly reliable and there are no signs of its past employment.
I wouldn't touch ex police cars with a barge pole, especially with the very common mileage roll back scams that are very widely known. Even car vertical wouldn't be able to pick up on.
You can check the auction house that sold it,they will have a copy of the mileage and service history, of course being mot exempt the mileage won't show on the system till the first test,,and you can always email the relevant force to confirm the mileage Nowt wrong with a high mileage car,that has been serviced and used hard, better than some low mileage thing driven on short journeys by a bloated, and with mayo in the rocker cover
I bought an old police car here in Ireland at Kim from England ford focus 4 years hasn't letting me down once easy to test just a rough body I wouldn't mind that Volvo
I used to drive one of these in a Force in the south, great car. One day I pulled up at some lights to see an old dear knitting behind the wheel of a small car on my left. Beeped my horn, she looked over inocent as you like, I rolled down the window and said pull over please. She said, sorry I don't do requests and sped off.
I used to have an MG ZT-T which was renowned for scuttles getting blocked and draining onto your feet with no warning. And I love the D5 V70 - like driving an armchair.
Most Volvo used as Police cars and Taxis comes from Volvo Special Vehicles where the cars are taken off the production line and customized and built by hand using heavy duty suspension, bigger brakes and other goodies normal cars don't get.
Mat...the sloshing....thats when the drain which is under the windscreen wipers is blocked.Get a high pressure air line there to unblock the mud and leaves.
I Bought an black covert ex Lincolnshire police ‘07 reg S60 crime car for stock. Realised I couldn’t really retail a 178,000 miler T5. So I Used the full tank of juice and sold it in a week for £100 profit. Drove spot on tight. The most entertaining £100 profit I ever made. What a machine, absolutely rapid ! Throb of the 5 pot I got 16mpg giving it some, it was so much more powerful and spritley than the other T5’s I had in stock.
I really enjoy your videos and I had to laugh when you stated that it would have been well maintained. Our cars were "maintained" by the local council mechanics at the various CTRD workshops in the county. My mate took his police van in and explained that the drivers footwell kept filling up with water (there was a nice puddle in there at the time). Eric, the mechanic, took the rubber mat out then produce a hammer and chisel and put a hole in the footwell. He looked rather pleased as the water poured out. When my mate related the story to us we were all in tears because we all knew, of course, that any water on the road surface would come straight up through the hole. And it did.
Bloke got pulled over by the cop for speeding. The cop walks up and he is hitting his dog in the front seat. The copper says ‘ Hey, I will have you for animal cruelty too!’ The bloke says you would be doing it too after what he has done! He just ate my tax disc!
*I was stopped on the M6 North of Preston (UK) some years ago for **_alleged_** Speeding (82mph) and stated to the **-orifice-** sorry Officer stopping me with Blue Lights, I was not over the limit as I had Cruise Control set at 69 mph and Sat Nav - to which my wife replied "What you on about you don't have Sat Nav/Cruise Control" - I said [regrettably shut up darling] and the **-orifice-** then said Notice not wearing Seat Belt Sir - at this point my wife replied Never Does - and in hindsight said perhaps the worst 3 words - F'k Shut the F up - to which the Officer said "Is he always that aggressive - my Wife Replied "Only when he's been Drinking" Should get Licence back in 3 Years hopefully.*
From 2007, these were built on a Ford platform. The whole reason for buying a Volvo, mechanical durability, just disappeared. The electronics were always garbage but the mechanical strength made MOTs a totally stress free experience and properly serviced engines ran forever.
Matt your videos entertain and are models at the lower end which no one else does. I also read two other recent Volvo buys of yours and recommend it maybe a brand to avoid, thanks for the enjoyment and keep challenging the content you give.
It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.
Loved the Volvo, but as a BMW driver your comment on the BMW bong made me chuckle, it is the same for oops you need more screenwash, and as happened to me in December, erm the whole of your electrics are knackered!!!!!!
It’s a pity the numbers don’t add up Matt, I think this Volvo does still have some life left in it. It just needs an enthusiastic home mechanic, who’s looking for a new project. Great content, as always❤.
Car vertical is not what it is cracked up to be, they just pay you tubers to promote it. When I checked mine mileage was wrong and it did not even register as an import.
I've a 2012 V70 D5 authorities. Bought 5 years ago with 100K on, now at 170K. Its been great with no problems, sails through Mot each year. It has now developed an electrical problem but I'm still keen to get it going again. Great for the family, cheap motoring. DSTC Service Required on the dash if anyone knows the solution.
sometimes matt, it's good to get cars this dirty, cos when you get them cleaned up, you get more satisfaction out of it. couple of trim bit replacements, set of tyres bit of paint, could see someone as a tip run car school run etc for people on a budget?
Would be tempted to just put it through " the block " , clean interior makes it much more desirable. Didn't mean that to sound sarcy, but without the deep clean it's an instant put off. Your valeters did a superb job.Otherwise a complete shed. Nice one Matt.
The swooshing water is caused by water getting in to a box section area behind the bulkhead, the remedy is, remove the wheel liners, and drill a hole each side, and the water flows out, but you’ve got to know where to drill, had mine done, a few years back.
Who says it was a Police Dog in there? Might have been the Hound of Baskerville when they finally apprehended it…..the creature probably went mad and committed more mayhem inside the Volvo. 😅
I notice it has the police dipstick option, and I am not joking. The RTI Satnav does not need the remote, there are controls on the steering column to the right behind the wheel. The remote is fine for a passenger to operate, a bit dated though.. even with an up to date DVD. Too much wrong with it for a profitable flip, might make someone a good project though.
a lot of X police cars are clocked, they don't need an MOT and some County's police send them to auctions that they know don't mention the miles, so dealers can clock them without any records to catch them outi heard this on the radio a while back so worth looking into to see if anythings changed
I got my son an Astra estate ex police 2016 ULEZ 120 000 miles saw it before guy did it up so saw all the issues. He did it up pretty good and we bought it 2 yrs later no big expense my son has done around 20000 miles so very good deal.
Love watching your channel. My wife now makes me wait to watch a video as she enjoys your videos, too. In this video, you said that you were surprised that this only had 100k miles on it. It made me think back to when I heard that ex police cars are a favourite auction car to be clocked as they do not require mots when owned by the police so there is oftenno records. I can not remember the channel, but I've even seen another car youtuber doing a video on it a year or two ago where the auction listed the milage at around 200k and later the same car was on a dealer forecourt with something like 60k on it. It made me wonder if this had actually done more miles until you found all that history. Anyway, great videos, I love it when you save a good car. But I guess you can't save them all 👍
2009 model vehicle Owned by Police until approx 2014 Then private owners, who do need to get an MOT Which are listed on the Car Vertical Report And vehicle had full stamped service history The 105,000 miles, was legit
@StephenFogarty2023 if you read what I wrote, you would have seen that I said "it made me wonder until you found all that history". I really don't get people who comment to try and correct someone with out reading the comment properly.
My brother brought one of these ex cop cars. It had been crashed. It wasn't disclosed as crashed and the body shop did an amazing job of making it not look crashed. No idea why, there's not that much value in ex fleet cars. The only give away without digging deep was the panel gap on the left was slightly bigger than the panel gap on the right. Looking under the bonnet, you could see rippling in the sheet steel.
I had a 2007 V70. It too had water sloshing. asked two garages to fix it, couldn't find where is was myself either. Other than that it was a nice car. the V5 engine has lots of guts. Had to get rid of it before they expanded the low emissions zone out to Romford. i looked up the water sloshing on the internet, found it was a common problem.
The wonders of YT. I only just got a notification for this video now at 11:45pm on Wednesday evening. Yet I already noticed and watched this video yesterday.
Great video Matt as usual. Some belting gags in there. Can I refer you to Ben Pearson on UA-cam, ex Police Interceptor driver. Q."should I buy an ex police car"?...A. absolutely not....they're like Triggers Broom. It'll have had 400 drivers who've thrashed it from cold...had 4 new bonnets, 3 doors, etc. and so on. Ending "Just don't do it!" A very funny short clip. Good luck with moving it on. Thanks for the entertainment, Cheers Roj
There's no way thats only done 105k miles. I'd bet a kings ransom that thing's been clocked. In Police use it would have done 100k a year, not 100k over 5 years. Edit. Wrote this before he got to the service book. Good thing nobody took me up on that bet!
100k a year is far fetched. Maybe in the counties it's a bit closer to that but I'd still say 100k a year is a bit much. I'm in the Met, most of our vehicles that have done around 140k-150k are about 3 years old give or take, some are even 4 years old. Not every single police vehicle is used all the time, sometimes there are more officers than vehicles. And sometimes there are perhaps 20 vehicles but literally just 10 officers on shift due to a massive "Aid uplift" in central London for a protest, or some other high profile event in which they take a load of response team officers and send them up town.
Been owned privately since approx 2014 All the MOT since then And all the service history Seems as though the last owner had it long term, and only used it to take dog to local park In this case 105,000 miles is possibly legit…
@@AWMJoeyjoejoe It depends to be honest. If this is a county force, it's not unreasonable. There's nothing to say this was a "regular response car" and it might have been a driver training car, or a "spare" old car that's rarely used. We used to have an old 66 reg Ford Focus 1 litre ecoboost sat in the back of our nick... the start of the shift everyone rushed to get the newer and nicer cars, meanwhile I didn't give two figs about what I drove so I just grabbed the Focus a lot of the time. Manual 1 litre but it was actually quite punchy at 125 bhp for a big estate car that's not too bad. We're also in a densely populated area so you really can't get up to much speed anyway before you're inevitably slowing down again. Despite that car being typically 2-3 years older than most of the other fleet the mileage was actually around 20k or so less than the newer cars.
All I’ve owned for the past two years are x taxis 1 with just over half a million miles on it on an 06 plate and one wit 380000 miles on it on an 07 and I’m scrapping the 07 and keeping the 06 as it’s in miles better mechanical condition. Taxis are mot’d twice a year to a very high standard much higher than your normal car. Plus they’re pulled over multiple times by the police for the dvsa to inspect at random. Most taxi drivers take pride in their motors as it’s their income machine and if it’s always breaking down then they’re not earning.
@@davelove3779 So then why sell it at all? The taxi driver is most likely selling because after a certain point it is cost prohibitive to maintain a car even if it is providing you a livelihood. No matter how well a car is looked after, half a million miles is still half a million miles. It is WELL past the design life of just about every part in the car. You can expect to have to replace every single part that has not so far been replaced over the next couple of years, if not sooner. If not you are lucky.
@@tadghsmith1457 it’s because councils have an age policy and all councils now want euro6 vehicles. Ask any hackney taxi driver and they’ll all say they wished they could own and run older motors. No dpf/adblue, poor build quality etc etc
Regarding the water noise, check for a recall as some screens were fitted badly. Volvo repaired mine FOC. Pity about their crappy locks though which fail about once or twice a year, and they couldn't care less about that!
I looked at an ex police car many years ago, but walked away, it had a good engine, but that was where the good ran out. It was like a Swiss cheese it had that many holes in the trim parts, and it looked like the ancillaries were just ripped out, and none of the panels put back properly. It didn't have any dog hairs to be fair, but it didn't smell too good either.
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Surprised you haven't hit up police auctions often tbh
Back in the day-decades ago-I bought an ex police Ford Escort from an auction-because it was cheap- Came in the standard White, Had a zip in the roof headlining,and although it was a 4 cylinder it only ran on 3!! I didnt keep it long.!!
I love these T5s I once had a T5r and boy would it shift. Have you never tried Hallmark Volvo specialist in Stockport? They really know their stuff on Volvos.
This would make a good project for someone ; ONE new tyre to give a complete set of Landsails, a new turbo and a brake job and you'd have a good estate car ready for many more years of reliable service.....
AND as other folks have already said; may not be the turbo, just a faulty boost pipe. If it was a failled turbo, why is the vehicle not burning loads of oil???
Years ago I bought an ex-police V6 Mondeo Mk.2 Estate, 4 years old with 150k on it. It was proper battered, but it ran faultlessly with me for 3 more years, and was stupid fast (I tried to find out what they'd done to it, but they denied they tune them). I sold it with about 200k on it having only replaced tyres and brakes, and done routine servicing.
No. As a UK officer they are not, not for the most part. None of the vehicles are given extra performance modifications.... the only modifications made are for weight bearing. I.e Firearms vehicles (Typically a BMW X5 or Volvo XC90) would be given upgraded suspension, due to the amount of kit including a literal gun safe built into one of the rear passenger seats which stores 3 RIFLES plus ammunition. That's before you add in all the other kit, such as shields, each officer's kit bags (mine weight 20kg+ at one point and i'm not even firearms).
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Last time I renewed my car insurance, they asked me if I wanted to insure my dog - I said, don't be daft. He can't drive.....
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LOL mine can i married her 40 years ago great for pub taxi lol
He Can’t reach the pedals … and if he sees a car while he’s driving he’s off the road 😯
Does he have a nose? How does he smell?
Mechanic: "Your tyres are cracking."
Owner: "Thank you!"
Just got the wife's twenty year old Corsa back from MoT test. Phone call:
Failed on-'middle rear seat belt not retracting'. I asked if it was trapped in the seat as I'd folded it down on a tip run recently and had never had anyone on the middle seat in the thirteen years we owned it. . 'We can't check that."
Attended and they'd produced a Fail and a Pass certificate. Seat belt needed a tug to release.
Twenty five years police service and I assure you that if you knew what Police cars went through you'd never buy one. If you feel the need I'd remove the seats and carpets, steam clean and disinfect the lot.
Glad you bought this. I have a crime to report. Tesco just charged me £1.30 for a Peperami.
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I used to drive one of those when I was a bobby. I pulled along side an old woman at the lights one day, and when I looked across she was actually knitting at the wheel!!!
I blipped my siren and gestured for her to open her drivers window.
When she did, I shouted "Pull over!"
She smiled and replied, "Good guess, but it's actually a cardigan!"
And now she's your wife ❤
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A likely story.
@@benedictearlson9044more likely than your sense of humour
My previous gen v70 D5 towed my 1.6tonne 911 Turbos S back from Stuttgart with a blown turbo! bellowing black smoke and absolutely no power, but it just carried on like it was nothing. Absolute trooper of a car and will forever be a legend for refusing to quit on us.
So true, this Volvo once fixed will easily do another 300K miles. Just needs the right owner, who cares for it.
Those D5 engines are bullet proof, as long as the servicing is kept up to date.
But with a blown turbo, and a new set of tyres, there ain't much scope for a decent profit, unless he can find a cheapish refurbished Turbo.
@@hermanmunster3358 I get that.
As a dealer it's not worth saving.
As a Volvo enthusiast, absolutely..
'bellowing black smoke' harde harhar. F*ck the environment.
My Dad had a V70 estate and it never had anything wrong with it. He used to drive 200 miles 5 days a week in it for 4 years. The only thing it ever needed was a rear bulb and services. It was a real work horse. It was the petrol version and I used to love the unusual sound the straight in line engine used make because the it didn’t sound like straight inline engine. Don’t know why it sounded like that but it was a great car.
It seems like the last owner was a chain-smoking police dog with alopecia, which just shows how stressful the job is, but I bet it had a biting sense of humour.
The stress of McGruff's job has really taken it's toll on him.
Viendo cómo van lo coches de Policía por las calles de Londres, debe estar bueno, yo compré un coche de policía en mi país hace años y lo tuve hasta que reventó solo le cambié el aceite y luego lo vendí por piezas, me costó unas 500 libras pero por ese precio demasiado que arrancaba 😂😂
I find stuff like this amusing, would take me all day to be this clever 😂
Jokes all the way .
Well it made me smile .
I hate it when my dog smokes in the car
What did the Valet guy say ? Hairy Comes!
Don't set it alight then you cad
How does he smell?
@@MrOtistetraxwith his nose.
Some lads asked for a tenner to watch my car while it was parked up in a dodgy area.
"No thanks" I said, "I have my two rottweilers in the back".
They replied. "oh, trained to put out fires are they?"
My last two Volvos - a V50 and C30 - have been exemplary.
Ultimate seat comfort. Very reliable, c. 175,000 miles each, and the C30 is still going along happily - and it looks like a new car (if you squint from about 50 metres!)
These early Mk 3 V70s and XC70s had a design fault with the pipe between the turbo and the intercooler, in that they would split (or even fall off altogether). The car then goes into "limp home" mode . My own MY2009 V70 had that problem at around 50k miles and it wouldn't go above about 40mph. So it might just be worth checking for that before assuming that the turbo itself is blown.
+1 on that. The pipe rubs on something and splits, then you get a MAF sensor error on the OBDII and limp mode. Pain in the arse. Replaced the hose on mine (2012 D3) twice now, first time with a pattern part that was significantly cheaper than OEM, and then almost exactly a year later with an OEM one... because the pattern one split.
Good to know. I’m looking to mess around in a t5. I drive a 3.2 08 xc rn
Thirds on that...
Get rid of the plastic "resonator pipe", and fit a pattern silicone tube instead (£30)...
I remember that vehicle from when I was in Roads Policing in West Yorkshire Police. I retired in 2016 but if I recall correctly it was a pool car which would explain the relatively low mileage.
The only ex police vehicles that I would consider are ex SOCO vans, mail run vans etc which have a much easier life.
It definitely sounds like a POOL car now :-) Sorry, I couldn't resist!!
Yeah I remember the noise the suspension would make in response vehicles when going over a speedbump at 30-40mph, definitely wouldn't trust an ex response vehicle 😅
Great story but I would never believe the mileage of an ex-police car.
It’s well documented that unscrupulous dealers wind back the clocks prior to the first MOT.
@@BionicRustytotally agree. That has definitely been clocked. The police know unscrupulous sellers are doing this but fail to do anything about it.
How many people died in the boot??
Long long before you were a glimmer in your parents eyes Matt, I bought a very nice Wolsley 6/110 with 67,K on the clock! (1968) It ran beautifully but the speedometer decided to fail! Yellow wax on the rear of the exposed dashboard revealed a "Police" spec! It had actually done 300K on top of the indicated mileage, but it was a really lovely car that gave me another 40K and I sold it for a profit! 😅
i had a v70 i bought for 1800 quid it lasted 6 years trouble free never spent a penny on it it was a tank i felt safe in it ,drove amazing they are great cars
I had a Mk. 1 V70 that I paid £1,200 quid for. Sailed through its last six MOTs, but it died in July after 14 years of sterling service.
I've replaced it with a Mk. 2. Bet that doesn't last as long...
I'm looking forward to the 'I bought a Wonder Grip van for £500' video 😂
High mileage won't be an issue
@@mateuszlawrynowicz3349They appear to have gotten some 'WonderGrip' on the tyres
Good morning Matt, as a retired Police Officer I would only buy an ex-traffic patrol car, I would never buy an old 'Panda'. Shame it didn't working out but it was a great video, lots of funny comments. Thank you for taking the time to upload another video. Ged
Something to keep in mind when buying a ex police car is that the engine idle time is usually very very high compared to a normal car
Agreed, i'm in the met and engine idling hours on crime scenes (been there and done that many many times) are often a forgotten factor in second hand police vehicles. You also have to remember it's spent most of it's life being driven around at 30-40mph then suddenly ragged as if it's been stolen, and pushed to it's limit.
@@thefiestaguy8831my mate run a ford dealership and they were forever having dpf issues with a couple of the kugas. They couldn't get their head round that a dpf won't regen when blasting down that A12 at 120 😂.
@@HA05GER The vehicle in question was a 2015 Vauxhall Astra estate. Slow as pants and deemed "not fit for response" by many, but handled quite well and always stuck to the road like glue especially on roundabouts, even at speed. Lots of tyre squeal and plenty of grip.
@@thefiestaguy8831 not a great engine in them either it'll be the Alfa diesel engine if I'm not wrong. Atleast you enjoyed driving it not all dull days in the police then.
Yes, they take ages to serve in Dunkin Donuts.
As a UK police officer, I would never buy an ex-police vehicle unless it was DIRT cheap.
The car will almost certainly have done high mileage, typically a single vehicle in our fleet does around 145,000 miles in 3-4 years. Minor damage such as a dented panel or scuff/scratch is not normally repaired, because it's cosmetic only and invariably police vehicles will be involved in collisions, so it would be a waste of money to repair a vehicle with a dent in the door that does not affect the vehicle in any way, only for it to be dented 6 months later.
You also have to factor in the engine hours.... the car might have done 145,000 miles, but there's also the literal DAYS a car might have spent, engine on, idling at a crime scene. I once sat on a crime scene in a police vehicle, alone, all night long in the freezing cold. I turned the engine on and it stayed on for about 6-7 hours, I was on another crime scene during the summer of 2019 for a horrific murder, which was a crime scene for 6 weeks. In the boiling hot summer heat that's probably a good 10 hours per day with the engine on and air conditioning going, every day for 6 weeks. The car never moved and as a result the DPF had clogged up and it had burnt through the full tank of fuel it had despite just sitting on idle.
Whilst important maintenance is done, such as brakes, tyres, engine etc... (albeit in the force i'm in it takes FOREVER since we use an external contractor and have no "in house" mechanics), other non-essential maintenance is almost never done.
Gearbox service? Dream on.
Differential fluid changed? No chance.
I can recall driving Pegeout 308SW vehicles which were only 3-5 years old with around 130-150k on them... they were jerky as anything and juddered to a stop and off the line literally jolted.
We still have a 2017 BMW 218i in our fleet which has a horrible manual gearbox, it's so old and done so many miles the clutch is on it's way out and sometimes it's a struggle to put it into gear.
I bought my old bmw R80RT. But I had been the main rider for 3 years. It was a good machine. I bought an ancient north wales bike before that. ( and two others about the same time). They were okay too. There was one bloke I worked with who thrashed them every opportunity he got, but most cared for them on the basis that they had to look after the driver and your mate if anything went wrong.
'Idling at a crime scene.' Idling outside Dunkin Donuts more like.
@@johntate5050 Was waiting for this inevitable comment.
Written by someone who really doesn't know what they're talking about.
Be lucky if we get 5 minutes to stop off at a fuel station to buy some over-priced sandwiches and use the loo... let alone going off to get donuts....
When officers did bring donuts in for "cake fines" they were purchased and collected before work during their own time.
@@johntate5050Unfurnished
@@thefiestaguy8831 You seem to find plenty of time to harass law-abiding photographers. Do you wear a gang patch?
I call my dog “Woodbine “, he’s got no legs, every day we take him round the park for a drag.
🤣
Badoompsh!
That reminds me of Mike Harding so much.
😂😂😂
The V70 estate is a good car. My dad had one years ago and I use to love the sound of its engine even though it wasn’t a V engine it had an unusual sound for a straight in line engine. It was a work horse and apart from the odd bulb needing replacing in the rear it never had any problems.
I put my Range Rover in neutral when I park, then apply the handbrake and then put the gearbox in park as it puts less strain on said gearbox and lets the hand brake do its job as intended. Old man tip of the day.
Do the same. It’s a good tip.
Haha thought I was the only one that did this.
Brake in
Neutral
Handbrake
Brake out, brake in
Park
Is handbrake while in drive then park any different from drive to park then handbrake
@@johnb8956 Good advice John B and other guys! I did know this when I was a young man, but somehow, by the time I bought my first auto (including 22 years driving a TR6 - which I restored and brought to Australia) I had forgotten that advice! Now I'm reminded, it shall be implemented! Thank you!
I just press P. The car does the rest....
The reason for the 50 shades of white is that some of the panels were covered in stickers and some parts of some panels were covered in stickers which were peeled off for sale.
I have three German Shepherds and a Bernese Moutain Dog.
Their " DOG TAXI" is a low-mileage 2005 Mercedes Benz S-Class.
The one before that was a 1974 Rolls Royce that was very rusty and burned a quart of oil every 150 miles!
i know somebody with a cheap ex police v70 if you're interested ? 😆
Aw wow.
We have four GSD’s and their car is a 2015 S212, Mercedes E Class Wagon.
I did toy with the idea of buying a cheap, smallish van but they had a meeting and sent in a memo of complaint.
How could I refuse but keep the car.
It is beautiful, after all. 😁
Nice dog taxis
Some you win, some you lose & sometimes you may get an enthusiast! You are very enthusiastic......All the best....
My Dad always says…
There’s always another opportunity.
And my reply is…
Yes and some are better than others.
I think you realise in this, and the property game Matt you have to be very careful where you put your time.
Because that’s all you’ve got and it precious.
I had a silver 2005 Volvo S40 Sport years ago and absolutely loved the car - except for the water travelling down the A pillar from the sunroof and eventually pooling in the rear footwells. It was a problem that could never be sorted satisfactorily and I ended up one day in a downpour with the A pillar cover removed and a waterfall lashing down on my right knee. It’s perhaps prophetic that the S40 ended its life submerged in flood water… just after I’d had the sunroof fixed. Wonderful.
I’m sure it was a nostalgic purchase for you Matt. I’m sure you’ve had plenty of experience with these police Volvos sitting in the back
😂😂😂
r/RoastMe is leaking
Bruh 😂😂
He should be arrested for buying this Ford Volvo. P3s were a disaster....
I bought an ex plod V70 T5 a few weeks back for £450, bit thirsty but great fun. I have had a few D5 and they are great cars! Be interested to know how the mechanic diagnosed a blown turbo, friend had the same issue and diagnosis from his mechanic.... I fixed it in the time it took to write this by putting a vacuum line back on. When turbos fail, seals go, cloud of smoke etc.. etc.. Garages don't make money reconnecting a hose.
@@Lamster66 Yerp! Turbos are simple things which don't die quietly or decide not to boost. This is my only problem with High Peak vids... "dropped car off at Mechanics and they said" Too many "bangernomics" contradictions for me, cheap motors stop being cheap if they go near a garage.
@@Lamster66 When the prices of newer stuff is dropping like a lead balloon and £800 cars are now £400 all I can think is that he taps into the "can't afford a cheap motor unless on credit?" who will pay premium or peeps who don't mind paying over the odds for a tip run/dog transporter second car to keep the dirt off the Bentley? Most of the vid motors must come in as P/X or Trade deals so low purchase price isn't always realistic, especially on the newer stuff and out of reach for us lesser mortals?
I've got one of these Police spec V70s and can tell you some differences from the standard car. Larger brake discs and pads, with wear sensors, standard car doesn't have wear sensors. An actual engine oil dipstick. Speedo is calibrated so accurate. Rear seat assy is vinyl, not leather. And that's about it.
Brakes are better stoppers to standard car, being bigger. My mate has a V70 and said mine stops better than his. Makes you wonder why Volvo as a 'safety' company didn't fit these larger, better brakes to all cars. Price difference at production would have been negligible if indeed anything.
I once brought a 13 year old Volvo 850 that had such an incredible dealer service history , the owner had spent £3000 on a whole new AC system , windscreen wiper motor, and windscreen at a Volvo main dealer 3 months before chopping it In as a part ex that I brought for £995 ( pre Covid of course)
Just seen the advert for this on the High Peak Autos website. Gave me a good giggle to say the least 😆
I saw that before the video and thought “I hope there’s a video about it.”
low miles, chainsmoking dog
My first (and current) car was a police car. 2011 BMW 530D. It was ordered and used by a high-ranking police officer. I bought it 2 years ago with just 68k on the clock. It has extras that wouldn't have been found on a normal unmarked car, like a sunroof, full electric heated leather seats and sat nav, which isn't normally specced as the police use their own systems. Certainty not the smartest choice for a first car, but it has been incredibly reliable and there are no signs of its past employment.
I wouldn't touch ex police cars with a barge pole, especially with the very common mileage roll back scams that are very widely known. Even car vertical wouldn't be able to pick up on.
You can check the auction house that sold it,they will have a copy of the mileage and service history, of course being mot exempt the mileage won't show on the system till the first test,,and you can always email the relevant force to confirm the mileage
Nowt wrong with a high mileage car,that has been serviced and used hard, better than some low mileage thing driven on short journeys by a bloated, and with mayo in the rocker cover
Still the best UK used car channel on YT!
In the good old days in the U.S. an ex police would be the Ford Crown Vic! Basically and aircraft carrier.
I'd love a Crown Vic. UK petrol prices kind of prevent me ever getting one though.
And now they're raced at the Freedom Factory by Cleetus McFarland, hell yeah brother 🇺🇸🇬🇧✊
Volvo is like the crown vic but in Europe can do alot of miles and the old 850 T5 the police used could reach 155mph
That other Matt chap did this! Although this one's my favourite, funny guy.
@@AWMJoeyjoejoe LPG?
I bought an old police car here in Ireland at Kim from England ford focus 4 years hasn't letting me down once easy to test just a rough body I wouldn't mind that Volvo
I used to drive one of these in a Force in the south, great car. One day I pulled up at some lights to see an old dear knitting behind the wheel of a small car on my left. Beeped my horn, she looked over inocent as you like, I rolled down the window and said pull over please. She said, sorry I don't do requests and sped off.
🤣🤣
I used to have an MG ZT-T which was renowned for scuttles getting blocked and draining onto your feet with no warning.
And I love the D5 V70 - like driving an armchair.
Beats me how people let their cars get in such a state, disgusting to say the least
Love your style of review, keep it going! That remote control I reckon is for the rear passengers. 90's Toyotas used to have 'em too.
Most Volvo used as Police cars and Taxis comes from Volvo Special Vehicles where the cars are taken off the production line and customized and built by hand using heavy duty suspension, bigger brakes and other goodies normal cars don't get.
And it runs on regular gas.
Mat...the sloshing....thats when the drain which is under the windscreen wipers is blocked.Get a high pressure air line there to unblock the mud and leaves.
That's the least of the problems....
The Veet hair removal joke was my favourite today. You never disappoint.
I'm sure it could have got a trim in the local dog grooming parlour.
I Bought an black covert ex Lincolnshire police ‘07 reg S60 crime car for stock. Realised I couldn’t really retail a 178,000 miler T5. So I Used the full tank of juice and sold it in a week for £100 profit. Drove spot on tight. The most entertaining £100 profit I ever made. What a machine, absolutely rapid ! Throb of the 5 pot I got 16mpg giving it some, it was so much more powerful and spritley than the other T5’s I had in stock.
I really enjoy your videos and I had to laugh when you stated that it would have been well maintained. Our cars were "maintained" by the local council mechanics at the various CTRD workshops in the county. My mate took his police van in and explained that the drivers footwell kept filling up with water (there was a nice puddle in there at the time). Eric, the mechanic, took the rubber mat out then produce a hammer and chisel and put a hole in the footwell. He looked rather pleased as the water poured out. When my mate related the story to us we were all in tears because we all knew, of course, that any water on the road surface would come straight up through the hole. And it did.
Bloke got pulled over by the cop for speeding. The cop walks up and he is hitting his dog in the front seat. The copper says ‘ Hey, I will have you for animal cruelty too!’ The bloke says you would be doing it too after what he has done! He just ate my tax disc!
*I was stopped on the M6 North of Preston (UK) some years ago for **_alleged_** Speeding (82mph) and stated to the **-orifice-** sorry Officer stopping me with Blue Lights, I was not over the limit as I had Cruise Control set at 69 mph and Sat Nav - to which my wife replied "What you on about you don't have Sat Nav/Cruise Control" - I said [regrettably shut up darling] and the **-orifice-** then said Notice not wearing Seat Belt Sir - at this point my wife replied Never Does - and in hindsight said perhaps the worst 3 words - F'k Shut the F up - to which the Officer said "Is he always that aggressive - my Wife Replied "Only when he's been Drinking" Should get Licence back in 3 Years hopefully.*
@@GrrMeister That's the best version of that joke I've heard/read.
Not funny.
@@paulgrey8028 awwwww. U ok hun.
At least the starter motor will be spot on, it's started at the start of the shift and that's it
Judging by the amount of ash i think that dog also got lungs problems. 😂
Ino I think I got a dog hair in my pot tea while watching this 😂
From 2007, these were built on a Ford platform. The whole reason for buying a Volvo, mechanical durability, just disappeared. The electronics were always garbage but the mechanical strength made MOTs a totally stress free experience and properly serviced engines ran forever.
True,
Ford raped the build quality on Volvos...
I’ve had 3 ex police v70 t5’s and they have been perfect
Matt your videos entertain and are models at the lower end which no one else does. I also read two other recent Volvo buys of yours and recommend it maybe a brand to avoid, thanks for the enjoyment and keep challenging the content you give.
It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.
I thought this going to be a Blues Brothers quote🤣
Its also got a toerag bar
Rawhide....
Loved the Volvo, but as a BMW driver your comment on the BMW bong made me chuckle, it is the same for oops you need more screenwash, and as happened to me in December, erm the whole of your electrics are knackered!!!!!!
That's a shed. Like a proper, broken shed.
(Still miss my wonderful V70 with winter pack, heated leather and the posh Ovlov stereo).
It’s a pity the numbers don’t add up Matt, I think this Volvo does still have some life left in it.
It just needs an enthusiastic home mechanic, who’s looking for a new project.
Great content, as always❤.
Car vertical is not what it is cracked up to be, they just pay you tubers to promote it. When I checked mine mileage was wrong and it did not even register as an import.
I've a 2012 V70 D5 authorities. Bought 5 years ago with 100K on, now at 170K. Its been great with no problems, sails through Mot each year. It has now developed an electrical problem but I'm still keen to get it going again. Great for the family, cheap motoring. DSTC Service Required on the dash if anyone knows the solution.
There's nothing like a sense of humour; and that's nothing like a sense of humour :) 🚔
As an ex police fleet manager, I wouldn’t touch one with someone else’s barge pole.
Love a V70 👍 But I can't believe you didn't Even Change the number Plates!!
sometimes matt, it's good to get cars this dirty, cos when you get them cleaned up, you get more satisfaction out of it. couple of trim bit replacements, set of tyres bit of paint, could see someone as a tip run car school run etc for people on a budget?
Reminds me of our old Audi estate: grey carpet obscured by Golden Retriever hair.
Would be tempted to just put it through " the block " , clean interior makes it much more desirable. Didn't mean that to sound sarcy, but without the deep clean it's an instant put off. Your valeters did a superb job.Otherwise a complete shed. Nice one Matt.
Sat nav doesn’t need the remote. It can be activated by buttons on RHS rear of the steering wheel
Just what I thought when he mentioned it. A bit fiddly at first but not bad when you get used to it.
The swooshing water is caused by water getting in to a box section area behind the bulkhead, the remedy is, remove the wheel liners, and drill a hole each side, and the water flows out, but you’ve got to know where to drill, had mine done, a few years back.
You get not only an ex police car but enough fir to reconstruct your own virtual police dog.
Who says it was a Police Dog in there? Might have been the Hound of Baskerville when they finally apprehended it…..the creature probably went mad and committed more mayhem inside the Volvo. 😅
I’ve converted a few of those in my time. Most of its time it will be observing speed limits and it will be fully serviced whilst in police ownership.
when it comes to police cars, its not just miles, its how many hours spent idling that is a factor.
I notice it has the police dipstick option, and I am not joking. The RTI Satnav does not need the remote, there are controls on the steering column to the right behind the wheel. The remote is fine for a passenger to operate, a bit dated though.. even with an up to date DVD. Too much wrong with it for a profitable flip, might make someone a good project though.
a lot of X police cars are clocked, they don't need an MOT and some County's police send them to auctions that they know don't mention the miles, so dealers can clock them without any records to catch them outi heard this on the radio a while back so worth looking into to see if anythings changed
Clocked and the clocked. Nowt dodgy with the plod there, nowt to see here
I got my son an Astra estate ex police 2016 ULEZ 120 000 miles saw it before guy did it up so saw all the issues. He did it up pretty good and we bought it 2 yrs later no big expense my son has done around 20000 miles so very good deal.
Love watching your channel. My wife now makes me wait to watch a video as she enjoys your videos, too.
In this video, you said that you were surprised that this only had 100k miles on it. It made me think back to when I heard that ex police cars are a favourite auction car to be clocked as they do not require mots when owned by the police so there is oftenno records. I can not remember the channel, but I've even seen another car youtuber doing a video on it a year or two ago where the auction listed the milage at around 200k and later the same car was on a dealer forecourt with something like 60k on it. It made me wonder if this had actually done more miles until you found all that history.
Anyway, great videos, I love it when you save a good car. But I guess you can't save them all 👍
2009 model vehicle
Owned by Police until approx 2014
Then private owners, who do need to get an MOT
Which are listed on the
Car Vertical Report
And vehicle had full stamped service history
The 105,000 miles, was legit
@StephenFogarty2023 if you read what I wrote, you would have seen that I said "it made me wonder until you found all that history". I really don't get people who comment to try and correct someone with out reading the comment properly.
@@ashleynormansell7901
My bad
I missed that bit of your comment
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My brother brought one of these ex cop cars. It had been crashed. It wasn't disclosed as crashed and the body shop did an amazing job of making it not look crashed. No idea why, there's not that much value in ex fleet cars. The only give away without digging deep was the panel gap on the left was slightly bigger than the panel gap on the right. Looking under the bonnet, you could see rippling in the sheet steel.
got pulled over by the police and the officer asked me to blow into the bag. i said "why?" He said " my chips are hot".....I'm here all week......
I'll be having that one!
I had a 2007 V70. It too had water sloshing. asked two garages to fix it, couldn't find where is was myself either. Other than that it was a nice car. the V5 engine has lots of guts. Had to get rid of it before they expanded the low emissions zone out to Romford. i looked up the water sloshing on the internet, found it was a common problem.
You could knit yourself a jumper with all that dog hair
😂
Another great video Matt, Usually ex-police cars are well looked after, unfortunately the next owner of this, didn't. Can't win them all.
You're so lucky being friends with Mike and the mechanics. Otherwise, you'd need a miracle .
Or he would be looking over his shoulder
@@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266 😁😁😁
Look, go if you wanna, go, stay if you wanna stay?
I just read the advert for the car on your website... did make me laugh! (along with the dad jokes in this video)
The previous owner must have been proud to never have washed his car, inside or out. 🤦♂️
the previous owner was a dog from the looks of all the hair
The wonders of YT. I only just got a notification for this video now at 11:45pm on Wednesday evening. Yet I already noticed and watched this video yesterday.
13:19 “it’s actually cleaner in here than inside” 🤣
Great video Matt as usual. Some belting gags in there. Can I refer you to Ben Pearson on UA-cam, ex Police Interceptor driver. Q."should I buy an ex police car"?...A. absolutely not....they're like Triggers Broom. It'll have had 400 drivers who've thrashed it from cold...had 4 new bonnets, 3 doors, etc. and so on. Ending "Just don't do it!" A very funny short clip. Good luck with moving it on. Thanks for the entertainment, Cheers Roj
Crikey! It's the rozzers!
Great stuff always opening my eyes wider and wider to the truth. Keep up the good work .
There's no way thats only done 105k miles. I'd bet a kings ransom that thing's been clocked. In Police use it would have done 100k a year, not 100k over 5 years.
Edit. Wrote this before he got to the service book. Good thing nobody took me up on that bet!
It probably has.
100k a year is far fetched. Maybe in the counties it's a bit closer to that but I'd still say 100k a year is a bit much.
I'm in the Met, most of our vehicles that have done around 140k-150k are about 3 years old give or take, some are even 4 years old.
Not every single police vehicle is used all the time, sometimes there are more officers than vehicles.
And sometimes there are perhaps 20 vehicles but literally just 10 officers on shift due to a massive "Aid uplift" in central London for a protest, or some other high profile event in which they take a load of response team officers and send them up town.
@@thefiestaguy8831Thanks for the insights. Do you still consider 100k over 5 years a bit low? Surely it should be more than that.
Been owned privately since approx
2014
All the MOT since then
And all the service history
Seems as though the last owner had it long term, and only used it to take dog to local park
In this case
105,000 miles is possibly legit…
@@AWMJoeyjoejoe It depends to be honest.
If this is a county force, it's not unreasonable. There's nothing to say this was a "regular response car" and it might have been a driver training car, or a "spare" old car that's rarely used.
We used to have an old 66 reg Ford Focus 1 litre ecoboost sat in the back of our nick... the start of the shift everyone rushed to get the newer and nicer cars, meanwhile I didn't give two figs about what I drove so I just grabbed the Focus a lot of the time. Manual 1 litre but it was actually quite punchy at 125 bhp for a big estate car that's not too bad. We're also in a densely populated area so you really can't get up to much speed anyway before you're inevitably slowing down again.
Despite that car being typically 2-3 years older than most of the other fleet the mileage was actually around 20k or so less than the newer cars.
Pro tip for shiny steering wheels. Use a magic eraser sponge and they go back to factory matte
It’s probably had a hard life. I wouldn’t touch it anymore than I’d buy an ex-taxi.
All I’ve owned for the past two years are x taxis 1 with just over half a million miles on it on an 06 plate and one wit 380000 miles on it on an 07 and I’m scrapping the 07 and keeping the 06 as it’s in miles better mechanical condition. Taxis are mot’d twice a year to a very high standard much higher than your normal car. Plus they’re pulled over multiple times by the police for the dvsa to inspect at random. Most taxi drivers take pride in their motors as it’s their income machine and if it’s always breaking down then they’re not earning.
@@davelove3779 So then why sell it at all? The taxi driver is most likely selling because after a certain point it is cost prohibitive to maintain a car even if it is providing you a livelihood. No matter how well a car is looked after, half a million miles is still half a million miles. It is WELL past the design life of just about every part in the car. You can expect to have to replace every single part that has not so far been replaced over the next couple of years, if not sooner. If not you are lucky.
@@tadghsmith1457 it’s because councils have an age policy and all councils now want euro6 vehicles.
Ask any hackney taxi driver and they’ll all say they wished they could own and run older motors. No dpf/adblue, poor build quality etc etc
Regarding the water noise, check for a recall as some screens were fitted badly. Volvo repaired mine FOC. Pity about their crappy locks though which fail about once or twice a year, and they couldn't care less about that!
Not Matt's first time being in a police car I reckon.
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I looked at an ex police car many years ago, but walked away, it had a good engine, but that was where the good ran out. It was like a Swiss cheese it had that many holes in the trim parts, and it looked like the ancillaries were just ripped out, and none of the panels put back properly. It didn't have any dog hairs to be fair, but it didn't smell too good either.
Surprised you haven't hit up police auctions often tbh
Back in the day-decades ago-I bought an ex police Ford Escort from an auction-because it was cheap- Came in the standard White, Had a zip in the roof headlining,and although it was a 4 cylinder it only ran on 3!! I didnt keep it long.!!
Still clinging on for the day you buy the Wonder Grip van... 🙏
I wonder if he parks it there for free advertising on your website. Maybe blur it out for a while and see if then moves it.
I love these T5s I once had a T5r and boy would it shift. Have you never tried Hallmark Volvo specialist in Stockport? They really know their stuff on Volvos.
Keep a hazmat suit in the Range Rover for days like these
Love your commentary. The puns are brilliant
Wonder Grip should pay you for all the advertising they get.
This would make a good project for someone ; ONE new tyre to give a complete set of Landsails, a new turbo and a brake job and you'd have a good estate car ready for many more years of reliable service.....
AND as other folks have already said; may not be the turbo, just a faulty boost pipe. If it was a failled turbo, why is the vehicle not burning loads of oil???
YOU SHOULD OF USED THE BILL THEME TUNE FOR TITLE
Or z cars
Years ago I bought an ex-police V6 Mondeo Mk.2 Estate, 4 years old with 150k on it. It was proper battered, but it ran faultlessly with me for 3 more years, and was stupid fast (I tried to find out what they'd done to it, but they denied they tune them). I sold it with about 200k on it having only replaced tyres and brakes, and done routine servicing.
Now this ought to be interesting. I really want to know if they're souped up more than the cars sold to the general public 🤔
At least in Sweden they have beefier suspension components and stuff like that.
No.
As a UK officer they are not, not for the most part.
None of the vehicles are given extra performance modifications.... the only modifications made are for weight bearing.
I.e Firearms vehicles (Typically a BMW X5 or Volvo XC90) would be given upgraded suspension, due to the amount of kit including a literal gun safe built into one of the rear passenger seats which stores 3 RIFLES plus ammunition. That's before you add in all the other kit, such as shields, each officer's kit bags (mine weight 20kg+ at one point and i'm not even firearms).