Are Police Cars Wrapped?
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Biker 1

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8,254 posts

138 months

Wednesday 15th October
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I was just watching Traffic Cops on TV.
There were various cars featured, including Volvo, BMW & Skoda.
I assume the cars arrive in white, but what are the normal methods of 'decoration'? Wrapping? Sign writing?

MitchT

16,933 posts

228 months

Wednesday 15th October
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KungFuPanda

4,557 posts

189 months

Wednesday 15th October
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The later cars I’ve seen from GMP look quite good in darker colours with the decals on.

Tom1312

1,130 posts

165 months

Wednesday 15th October
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The battenburg is usually a wrap over a white/blue/silver car.

However I've had marked cars wrapped before to change them from white to other colours when we've converted them from marked to unmarked vehicles.

dundarach

5,821 posts

247 months

Thursday 16th October
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My jag was a wrapped ambulance once

texaxile

3,546 posts

169 months

Thursday 16th October
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One of our pool cars is Ex Police, the battenberg was vinyl wrapped along the sides, and the the adhesive wasn't properly removed it's now formed a large line of road grime which won't come off.

Gone are the days of Plod buying 2 Mark 2 Escorts or Morris Minors, one in White and one in Pale blue and swapping the doors over!


DavePanda

6,761 posts

253 months

Thursday 16th October
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They're not wrapped as such, they are decals but very thick ones and they are designed for each cars shape and lines specifically, some cars will have 30-40 pieces as part of the stickering up

Bright Halo

3,629 posts

254 months

Friday 17th October
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Apparently they are made out of special pvc that resists staining from doughnut jam.

AlpineWhite

2,164 posts

214 months

Friday 17th October
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Bright Halo said:
Apparently they are made out of special pvc that resists staining from doughnut jam.
Are you here all week

Sebring440

2,893 posts

115 months

Friday 17th October
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AlpineWhite said:
Are you here all week
I certainly hope not.

PGN

218 posts

233 months

Zephyr Speedshop

2,644 posts

173 months

Monday 20th October
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The reflective material on emergency vehicles  conforms to chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual.  hence we call it chapter 8 reflective, in the trade.    

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/traffic...

its not really a wrap,  as it doesn't really conform to the shape of a car at all, it will do very shallow curves at most.  which is why you will often see its fitted in panels  with more extreme curves cutaway.  

but yes its 'wapped' in a graphics essentally .  

Another fun fact is to make the chevrons and battenburg its actually cut in the 2 separate colours the individual panels are then taped together. and fitted.



My experience is with boats but its the same material. as the cars and other vehicles  

Edited by Zephyr Speedshop on Monday 20th October 13:27