lt1tyrell wrote:

Ok I bought car with 110,000kms (about 60,000 miles), and it had minor front end damage from a deer which I fixed. They sell these cars in canada with 160,000-170,000kms all the time. Anyways the car is in perfect mechanical condition and it needs nothing so the kms and idling hours shouldn't really matter.

NewsW wrote:


Ahhh... for the simpletons that think the Model year is enough...

lt1tyrell wrote:

Ok I bought car with 110,000kms (about 60,000 miles), and it had minor front end damage from a deer which I fixed. They sell these cars in canada with 160,000-170,000kms all the time. Anyways the car is in perfect mechanical condition and it needs nothing so the kms and idling hours shouldn't really matter.

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Ford Fleet has determined that one hour of idling is equal to the engine wear of driving 33 miles. Assume that 50% of the time is spent idling. In 200 hours, the odometer may show 2,000 miles, but we have to add the idling-equivalent hours, which in this case is 3,300 miles, i.e., 100 hours times 33 miles. The actual wear on the engine after 2,000 miles is really the wear after 5,300 miles, i.e., 2,000 odometer miles plus 3,300 miles idling.

Crull obtained the Hobbs hour meters from a local NAPA store. He originally mounted the meters in the dash, but not surprisingly, found some of the officers would tamper with or disconnect them. The meters are now mounted under the hood. These meters can withstand the underhood heat and moisture.

Crull finds the Ford CVPI goes between 8,000 and 10,000 hours before most major driveline failures begin to occur. The failure in this urban patrol setting is the engine and not the transmission.

Of course, these failures don’t happen in all CVPIs. And, by 10,000 hours, the cars really are worn out. Using the 50% estimate, i.e., 5,000 hours of idling or 165,000 miles is added to the 100,000 miles on the odometer to make 265,000 miles. That is worn out even for most taxis.

57 Panhead wrote:



Then why was your first question in this thread an inquiry about the age of the car???

Steve

NewsW wrote:





With 200,000 miles or 300,000miles?


Unless you are like everyone else here that seem to think mileage is irrelevant.

Most police interceptors I see are pretty thoroughly worn out by the time they are sold.

Now if you want some rocket science, which is way above being able to figure out from the model year what mileage is on it, police interceptors do a lot of hours idling.

The hours used sometimes can be pulled from the ECM.

The idling ages the vehicle much more than the mileage shows.


Ahhh... for the simpletons that think the Model year is enough...

retired-tech wrote:

is it actually a retired police car? anyone can purchase an interceptor model crown vic, it is just an option package. if it is a retired police car it could be retired at a time when it was still worth something as not all municipalities run them untill dead. as long as it is a good car in good enough shape i would run with it. iirc the interceptor came with the 8.5 rear axle just like the 1/2 ton ford pickup. i would pull the rear axle shafts and replace the seals and check the axle/bearing. we used to replace a lot of shafts due to wear on the state police cars.