Re: Anyone ever bought an ex police vehicle?

"Dave Plowman (News)" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Do they ever _get_ cold?

Hence the Met. cars now being silver. The police using white killed that colour for private use - sadly.

So many include 'free' servicing these days it might not make any difference. I've had a few ex lease cars and they've all been apparently well maintained.

One of the advice sites I read said they only use original everything parts, so genuine bm parts, genuine bm spec fluids, and if it has Pirelli/Avon/Goodyear from new, that is what it gets for its life before being retired.

I've been in the Merton garage and that looked to have only a couple of oil dispensers. I really doubt they use the maker's recommendation on every single car they have - they'd be forever in Halfords. ;-)

strathclyde police get their mercs serviced by the local MB main dealer up here ?????????????

god knows why as they have their own fully equipped workshops

but hey how taxpayers cash and all

I wouldn't bank on that either, I've met two people now who get "better value" on their lease cars by going non-maint, and "correcting" the mileage before servicing them once a year.

I disagree. Merc trucks supply their oil and coolant in large drums, as do DAF and any other lorry manufacturer that has "special brew" fluids.

I doubt that the main dealers get theirs in 5l cans.

Methinks you missed the sarcasm in Dave's post....

Though only having two big oil dispensers could potentially work for a large proportion of models. In most handbooks I've read, there's been a whole host of different viscosities recommended for any one particular engine (well, I say a whole host - often more than just the one, certainly) - so it could well be that just a couple come within the specs for 95% of engines that they change the oil on, and for the rest, they could either use smaller drums, or just get it through the supplier that supplies the parts department that sells the 5L cans to Joe Public.

I didn't really think they did - it was a joke. Allegedly. But if you consider the range of vehicles the Met run and service, that's a lot of large drums to stock.