Cop Cars - Unmarked - What & Where, as much detail on cars!!
Discussion
Davie said:
I had a bit of a chuckle to myself last week in Musselburgh. Sat at the lights and a rather basic siren was heard. Cue myself and a few others doing the full owl impression trying to figure out where it was coming from. Round the corner came a very grubby, blue, 59 plate Hyundai i30 (maybe a Kia something or other) with two tiny blue LED's in the grill. At first glance I assumed it was some character pretending to be the police but then noted two massive, fully clad officers wedged in it looking a bit uncomfortable. Assume its so it can be parked in the badlands without fear of being set on fire or nicked... but still, odd choice and given nobody moved, not a very obvious one at that either.
Still see an old Y (?) plate Passat estate in minging blue being driven by plod in East Lothian.Epitome of unmarked.
Prof Prolapse said:
These are just "carpool" type vehicles rather than anything else though surely?
Oh absolutely, I doubt such cars will see much action pursuing an RS6 full of drugs and baddies down the A1 of an evening however I can understand them using crap cars for covert sneaking about / blending in around dodgy council estates but it was the fact it had a my first Tomy siren fitted and two tiny LED's in the grille and was so "un-police" that despite all of this, nobody moved as they were too busy looking past it to see where the real Police car was. Hence, just odd to see it trying to carve through traffic... and odd that it'd have a siren and LED's. 
that's what they want you to think (and basically the whole point of this thread)A new one in and around Edinburgh / East Lothian (or at least for me)
LG69FCF
Black BMW 3 series saloon
Tinted rear windows
Pop up matrix, cameras along the visors
Much the same as the white car that was floating around of late, very base model esque with smaller alloys but sitting quite low.
Noted today around Prestonpans then city bound on the A1 towards Newcraighall.
LG69FCF
Black BMW 3 series saloon
Tinted rear windows
Pop up matrix, cameras along the visors
Much the same as the white car that was floating around of late, very base model esque with smaller alloys but sitting quite low.
Noted today around Prestonpans then city bound on the A1 towards Newcraighall.
AndyAudi said:
LD20 XST dark blue BMW about Dyce just now per Facebook, was easier before just looking for “SF” prefix.
Came across this car the other day. Dark Blue 5 series estate. Small wheels and looked poverty spec. It was clearly sitting low on the suspension.
He was right up my arse and I thought he was goading for a race. I then watched him exceed the speed limit by a margin, tailgate, undertake, dangerous weaving in and out, and never an indicator at any lane change or roundabout.
With all his aggressiveness and dangerous driving I still kept catching him up. He kept getting himself boxed in not being able to read the road ahead.
Dreadful driver.
Driver101 said:
Came across this car the other day.
Dark Blue 5 series estate. Small wheels and looked poverty spec. It was clearly sitting low on the suspension.
He was right up my arse and I thought he was goading for a race. I then watched him exceed the speed limit by a margin, tailgate, undertake, dangerous weaving in and out, and never an indicator at any lane change or roundabout.
With all his aggressiveness and dangerous driving I still kept catching him up. He kept getting himself boxed in not being able to read the road ahead.
Dreadful driver.
As soon as I read your post, I got deja vu. The very same car behaved in the very same way with me. I spotted him a fair way behind me approaching very quickly and then he stopped dead right on my bumper and just sat there. I too thought the were goading me to put my foot down. I could see the lights behind the grill, plus a load of cameras etc. by the rear view mirror. As soon as we got to an overtaking lane, I slowed to about 50. Once behind, I spotted twin shark fins on the roof and 4 x LED spots on the rear windscreen. He then proceeded to drive like an utter arseclown before turning off at Inverurie.Dark Blue 5 series estate. Small wheels and looked poverty spec. It was clearly sitting low on the suspension.
He was right up my arse and I thought he was goading for a race. I then watched him exceed the speed limit by a margin, tailgate, undertake, dangerous weaving in and out, and never an indicator at any lane change or roundabout.
With all his aggressiveness and dangerous driving I still kept catching him up. He kept getting himself boxed in not being able to read the road ahead.
Dreadful driver.
Blink982 said:
Driver101 said:
Came across this car the other day.
Dark Blue 5 series estate. Small wheels and looked poverty spec. It was clearly sitting low on the suspension.
He was right up my arse and I thought he was goading for a race. I then watched him exceed the speed limit by a margin, tailgate, undertake, dangerous weaving in and out, and never an indicator at any lane change or roundabout.
With all his aggressiveness and dangerous driving I still kept catching him up. He kept getting himself boxed in not being able to read the road ahead.
Dreadful driver.
As soon as I read your post, I got deja vu. The very same car behaved in the very same way with me. I spotted him a fair way behind me approaching very quickly and then he stopped dead right on my bumper and just sat there. I too thought the were goading me to put my foot down. I could see the lights behind the grill, plus a load of cameras etc. by the rear view mirror. As soon as we got to an overtaking lane, I slowed to about 50. Once behind, I spotted twin shark fins on the roof and 4 x LED spots on the rear windscreen. He then proceeded to drive like an utter arseclown before turning off at Inverurie.Dark Blue 5 series estate. Small wheels and looked poverty spec. It was clearly sitting low on the suspension.
He was right up my arse and I thought he was goading for a race. I then watched him exceed the speed limit by a margin, tailgate, undertake, dangerous weaving in and out, and never an indicator at any lane change or roundabout.
With all his aggressiveness and dangerous driving I still kept catching him up. He kept getting himself boxed in not being able to read the road ahead.
Dreadful driver.
I had an unmarked 3 series sitting right on my tail whilst on my R6, trying to get me to exceed 60 (I knew the car was an unmarked car, and was feeling quite smug sitting at exactly 60). They had plenty of opportunities to overtake had they wanted to/needed to, but never did.
As it happens, after a mile or two, another bike came past us both at 80+ so they went after him instead.
They were sat approximately 8 metres from the back of my vehicle for the full 2 miles. At 60mph, highway code suggests stopping distance of 73 metres. This car was no more than 10m. I'm probably being generous to the BiB here - they were definitely less than two cars length away, probably more like one and a half.
I had a similar experience with a marked X5 northbound on the M77 ~Silverburn recently.
Early evening but dark & I was proceeding along at (real not indicated) or just above the speed limit (50) & slowly overtaking a line of cars with no large spaces in between. A set of bright (LED) headlights came a sat under 2 car lengths (& that's being generous) behind me & then proceeded to flash me ~5 times over the period until I got to a large enough gap in the traffic to pull in safely. It then accelerated past me at which point the battenbergs became obvious & it vanished off at a speed well above the speed limit but with no blues. I suspect that a shift change was imminent @Govan ...
Early evening but dark & I was proceeding along at (real not indicated) or just above the speed limit (50) & slowly overtaking a line of cars with no large spaces in between. A set of bright (LED) headlights came a sat under 2 car lengths (& that's being generous) behind me & then proceeded to flash me ~5 times over the period until I got to a large enough gap in the traffic to pull in safely. It then accelerated past me at which point the battenbergs became obvious & it vanished off at a speed well above the speed limit but with no blues. I suspect that a shift change was imminent @Govan ...
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