How to spot pursuit rims - does anyone know?

[Laila]

Hi There

I have been told lots of different things about pursuit rims and I just want to clarify a couple of things -

1. They are wider than normal rims, for cornering, yes? (what are the dimensions?)
2. Are they silver in colour, while normal Holden rims are black?

Laila

[VLDavo]

i think on the Bt1s they got the 7 inch wide chasers....not much differs from chasers u find on a bt1 and a normal commodore there cheap thats about the only thing going for em lol

[Laila]

Yeah, they are cheap, but I didn't buy them, they came with my car.

I have just been looking around at other VY's and lots have black rims under the hubcaps, and I have only seen a few with silver (like mine - which is an ex police vehicle)

I was just trying to work out if you could tell for sure by the colour on a VY - black or silver?

Hmmm....

[mouce]

The true interceptor rims are a 15x7. Standard Holden rims are slightly narrower I think they are 15x6.

Officially the colour coding is that the interceptor rims are silver and the standards are black, but hey...a can of spray paint takes care of that.

[AirStrike]

Its stamped on the rim edge. Will have 15x7J from memory.
AirStrike

[Laila]

I ask because I have them, and I'm not really sure what makes them different.

All I know is a bunch of young guys were looking at my car at the lights the other day and ducking down in the back seat, acting dodgy etc,

I had a suit on and I figure they must have thought I was an undercover cop...

Would be cool to get some knowledge so I can spot cops too....

[foammedia]

You can get the 15x7 interceptors in black or silver, you can even buy a whole set of them with tires for $400 at Holden

[Laila]

So there is no real way of telling by looking at them briefly on the road then?

Rims behind a set of hub cap covers could be regular Holden black rims or silver - or a police black or silver pursuit issue set....

bummer....thought I might be able to learn a cool trick...

[Keesh]

i always thought they were just the same as stock silver commo rims.. they just happen to use them on police cars because there better looking than black ones.. i got 4 with tyres and caps for $50 from the guys at kmart auto.. they hav alot ov crap they chuck out or pay to get rid ov they gave me like 40 chrome wheel nuts aswell.. id hav them on right now but i lost my locknut adapter and hav to multygrip them off

[white vn ss]

the intercepter rim is not nothing special anymore they are the same rim as what is on all stock utes. 15x7in. only ex police commodores have these unless they have been changed by the owner. all vn to current so far run 15x6 from the factory. i think.

[kymbo28]

Its stamped on the rim edge. Will have 15x7J from memory.
AirStrike

yea its 7.00J x 15 just realised i had persuits

[daveb8]

the vast majority of people who have vy/vz executives dont change their rims.

standard is BLACK rims with bridgestone RE92s 205/65/R15

cops have SILVER rims bridgestone turanzas 225/60/R15 96V (so yes they are 2cm wider)

so if you see a vz exec with silver rims under the hub caps chances are its an unmarked police car, or an ex-cop car. aerials mounted on the back window, the boot, or the bonnet are good indicators. oh and little red and blue lights on the parcel shelf (see third pic). here is SA a lot of them now have louves too which makes them stick out. and if you live in victoria all police cars have rear parking sensors which are not standard on the execs they drive (pics 1 & 2).

[mouce]

LOL at the Victorian police needing reversing sensors!

The lights on unmarked cop cars in Victoria are little rectangular units (with a lens about the size of a single DIN head unit), both are mounted together on the drivers side on the parcel shelf. The ones in the front are about the same size and sit in a little flat box in the middle of the dash (or some are mounted at the top of the windscreen where an e-tag would normally go).

Often they run window tinting to make it quite hard to see, some even have those dodgy sun shade things on the rear window with the lights behind them, making it almost impossible to see the lights.

The only real way to be sure it is or isn't an unmarked cop car is to go past it doing about 130kph, if you get booked then yeah...it's cops. LOL.

[Shounak]

There a Purple BA (XR8 I think),it has a Winnie the Pooh rear sunshade. I saw it with a VL pulled over outside Waverley Gardens and saw it at a Booze bus in Wheelers Hill..

Sneaky lil buggers..

[daveb8]

LOL at the Victorian police needing reversing sensors!

they need it - have a read of thishttp://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/com...55E661,00.html

here is some of it:

VICTORIAN police wrote off 21 cars and incurred a $1.7 million damage bill in a spate of on-the-job accidents in a year.

Almost a third of the fleet of about 2200 cars was involved in accidents.

And 95 speeding tickets were issued to police in the same period.

The total cost to Victoria Police for the crashes is expected to be $1 million once money is recovered from third parties involved in the accidents, police estimate.

Taxpayers will pay another $387,000 to third parties as a result of crashes involving police vehicles.

Victoria Police declined to release statistics on how many unmarked cars it had in its fleet, saying the figure needed to remain a secret.

"As an effective tool, the use of unmarked vehicles is intrinsically reliant upon secrecy," FoI officer Superintendent Lisa McMeeken said.

i want to know how much they pay for an exec/ss considering how many they buy.

[mouce]

Check out the rims there...those don't look like 'ceptors to me. I hate seeing cars end up like that, such nice cars...such a waste.

[daveb8]

they keep alloys on the models that come with them - ss, sv6 and acclaims - which makes them harder to pick.

police will always have crashes because of how many officers there are and and how much they drive. they gotta do their work and i dont think you could say any of those officers wanted to be in those crashes

[VN_Luke]

I heard that Police VY ss's get the 17" version of the alloys, not the 18", to save on tyres??

[VN_Luke]

LOL @ this photo I found on that auspolicecars.info

http://www.auspolcars.info/vic/0503-...wman-ct_04.jpg

[mouce]

That photo is GOLD. Imagine being asked to help guide a police car. Funny stuff.

[RKZ234]

Check out the rims there...those don't look like 'ceptors to me.

That's because all 3 cars are SS Commodores.

[RKZ234]

I heard that Police VY ss's get the 17" version of the alloys, not the 18", to save on tyres??

That's correct.

[RKZ234]

i want to know how much they pay for an exec/ss considering how many they buy.

They don't actually buy them in Vic or NSW any more. (Not sure about other states)

Victoria leases their vehicles from the Commonwealth Bank and has done so for quite a few years. The Police Pack Vehicles are made by Holden for a Govt contract price. In Vic, some other Govt Departments. ie Vic Roads, Ambulance Service, CFA & MFESB also use Police Pack Commodores.

Some sneaky car yards try to sell ex Vic Police vehicles as Ex Commonwealth Bank vehicles. I've seen it many times.

[wogshsv307]

hi guys i recently bought a odyssey vz executive sedan from the auctions in melbourne i checked the id plates and had fe2 suspension i noticed the back tyres were wider than the front and had 4 power windows and reverse sensors so to clarify so what i have bought is a ex detective car/unmarked car the interceptors were silver also i believe its is an ex unmarked car i can tell by the stance of the vehicle the suspension and usually the colour of the car because from what i know in vic the unamrked execs are in vespers blue odyssey martini green shanghai red quicksilver and heron white so to put my mind at ease am i right in saying that my car was an ex unmarked detective car thanks

[Ozzie]

interceptors... persuit rims call u wat em want but their all the same

they come in different sizes but their the same thing black or silver