Buying an ex police car

[largelunchbox]

Some of these ex police cars seem quite tempting, high mileage but good service record and good value etc, my question is about the livery.

Now I know I can’t drive it with the word “police “ but can I drive it with

A , the rest of the livery ie the yellow and blue squares.
B, substitute police for ploice or polcie or polise

Google is telling me nothing concrete

[zarjaz1991]

I highly doubt it.

And why would you want to?

Scott

[Gareth79]

I think most forces completely strip all livery?

The answer however is that you can have reflective yellow/amber to the sides, but any other colour is illegal.

Pretty much any text which might be confused for "police" will likely result in you being stopped and the car being towed away as evidence, sooner or later.

[vaud]

Gareth79 said:

sooner or later.

Sooner the better...

[Oceanrower]

Was one thread not enough?

[Jazoli]

Walt alert!

[Sebring440]

largelunchbox said:

Some of these ex police cars seem quite tempting, high mileage but good service record and good value etc, my question is about the livery.

Now I know I can t drive it with the word police but can I drive it with

A , the rest of the livery ie the yellow and blue squares.
B, substitute police for ploice or polcie or polise

Google is telling me nothing concrete

He's deleted the original post on the other thread.

[Sebring440]

Gareth79 said:

The answer however is that you can have reflective yellow/amber to the sides, but any other colour is illegal.

Source for that? You can have any colour you want.

[nordboy]

The lunch box obviously isn't that large, hence the need to compensate

[ScoobyChris]

Sebring440 said:

Source for that? You can have any colour you want.

I thought it was defined in the Road Vehicles Lighting and Goods Vehicles regs? Also interesting to note that it's only applicable to the vehicle so if you ride a motorbike your jacket can have the blue battenberg (Polite ) on it but the bike can't.

[Gareth79]

Sebring440 said:

Gareth79 said:

The answer however is that you can have reflective yellow/amber to the sides, but any other colour is illegal.

Source for that? You can have any colour you want.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/sche...

[Glassman]

largelunchbox said:

Some of these ex police cars seem quite tempting, high mileage but good service record and good value etc, my question is about the livery.

Now I know I can t drive it with the word police but can I drive it with

A , the rest of the livery ie the yellow and blue squares.
B, substitute police for ploice or polcie or polise

Google is telling me nothing concrete

Change the C for a T and get yourself one of these:



/jobbed.

[Pincher]

How those POLITE hi-viz’s are allowed, I’ll never know.

[OutInTheShed]

Pincher said:

How those POLITE hi-viz s are allowed, I ll never know.

It's allowing people to self-identify as twunts.

[valiant]

Why would you want to?

And I’m sure you can any car wrapped into any livery anyway so no need to focus on ex-police cars which will be shagged out messes in any case.

But again, why would you want to?

[bimsb6]

OutInTheShed said:

Pincher said:

How those POLITE hi-viz s are allowed, I ll never know.

It's allowing people to self-identify as twunts.

They also get to have a table of their own at bike meets .

[steveo3002]

K9 dog unit

[croyde]

Buy a US police cruiser. Crown Vic or a later Dodge Charger.

Just have to make sure the lights don't come on.

I knew someone that had one in its full original livery and said that everyone still got out of his way

[Pincher]

There s a place near me that sells JDM imports. Last time I drove past, they had a liveried police car for sale.

Edit - police car converted to a drift car apparently.
https://www.straightouttajapan.co.uk/cars/toyota/v...

Edited by Pincher on Thursday 30th October 10:48

[croyde]

Pincher said:

There s a place near me that sells JDM imports. Last time I drove past, they had a liveried police car for sale.

Edit - police car converted to a drift car apparently.
https://www.straightouttajapan.co.uk/cars/toyota/v...

Edited by Pincher on Thursday 30th October 10:48

I'd love that as a non drift car