andyman
The Only 6sp VZ Wagon
- Joined
- Mar 29, 2005
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- Age
- 34
- Location
- Orange, NSW
- Members Ride
- 2012 BT50 4x4, 84 Hilux 4x4 & 05 Husky TE450
Sure police vehicles are maintained, but only "by the book" general maintenance stuff. They might do oil changes more regularly (as recommended in high duty cycle usage anyway), but for the rest it's just done by the book. The way those bozos drive them, I'm afraid I'd never buy an ex-cop car unless it was strictly a supervisor's runabout, and would have it thoroughly inspected beforehand still. A pursuit or general duties hack has been abused, there's no doubting it. With twenty different blokes a day driving them, do you think they give a good God-damn about the car?
not so, cop vehicles have a very strict servicing schedule, from what i was told by a guy that nows that has a police contract, they do oil and filter every 7,500km, diff oil, brake fluid, trans oil is done every 20,000km, is saying that though, no matter how much you change oils etc, a car that is destructivly driven will still break parts even with clean, new oil.
to put it in perspective with how hard there driven, certain models of rodeos of late where having the rear DRUM shoes (brakes) and as other mechanically minded people would know drum brakes on a ute on typical driving would easily last 150,000km, they where replacing them every 10,000km
Mine had a diff replacement at 34,000k's then again at 34,100k's, then a rebuild at 34,400k's...
lol what tha?