there is an 07 reg yellow vrs for sale at an ex police car centre in brierley hill westmidlands for £4995 :'(

do not know condition , history etc but does not seem a bad buy at all for that money

a bit bright though

there is an 07 reg yellow vrs for sale at an ex police car centre in brierley hill westmidlands for £4995 :'(

do not know condition , history etc but does not seem a bad buy at all for that money

a bit bright though

I can realiably inform you that buying an ex police car is not a good idea unless it so cheap it is criminal (like £1k)!

Several members here have ex police vRS's and from what I can tell none of them have had any problems with them. As long as they have been maintained properly then there is no problem. My old MK1 vRS was regularly on track days and at the ring, and proberbly got more abuse than any police car would have.

Providing it hasn't covered intergalactic mileage and has had regular servicing (which i'd assume being a police car it would have) then I wouldn't worry!

Just make sure the mileage rings true, it's not unknown to been clocked so just be aware

This one doesn't appear to be ex-police, FWIW:

VN07 VJY 2007, SKODA OCTAVIA VRS 2.0 YELLOW One Owner, £4,995.00

Metallic Paint, All Electrics, Service History, Power

Steering, Air Con, Central Locking, ONE COMPANY

OWNER WITH FSH, ALLOYS, LEATHER, HIGH

PERFORMANCE VEHICLE

No mention of mileage, intergalactic or otherwise, though.

To cheap to be true, likely has history.

My Mk1 Vrs is ex-police and has also been used for filming in a few TV shows including Silent Witness, so god knows how it's been driven. It's clearly been serviced regularly and well maintained. Touch wood it all seems mechanically well.

It's covered 96k which isn't a massive amount for these engines.

Had a few niggles with replacing parts due to the decommissioning of police equipment, i've replaced the glove box as that had a hole in, changed a blank switch on the dash which had a hole in and changing the carpet for black carpet this weekend as their is a hole under the passenger front seat. Had to buy a new Skoda ariel too as there was some Vodaphone branded ariel fitted, again i presume from police equipment.

Other than that only changed wear items such as the foam seat bases due to bolster wear, wheel centre caps and skoda/vrs badges front and rear due to fading/peeling and cleaned the throttle body.

I'm very happy with my purchase and over the moon with the price i paid.

Oh i only have 1 key for my car though and no stamped service history but i do have a police print out of the servicing inc mileage, dates and work completed, i presume this would be common with buying an ex-police car.

Jon

Crash repair? Wounded in the line of duty perhaps

When mileage is deliberately missed from an advert it only means one thing...

...it's been to the moon and back. Twice.

I have had two ex plod Volvo T5s. One was a dog but the second was in perfect working order, apart from needing the usual things that fail on any car I never had any problems with it.

There is another post about this car as a member was going to buy it,its not a ex plod car its a ex company car that they are selling,its done around 120k (maybe more).

This one doesn't appear to be ex-police, FWIW:

VN07 VJY 2007, SKODA OCTAVIA VRS 2.0 YELLOW One Owner, £4,995.00

Metallic Paint, All Electrics, Service History, Power

Steering, Air Con, Central Locking, ONE COMPANY

OWNER WITH FSH, ALLOYS, LEATHER, HIGH

PERFORMANCE VEHICLE

No mention of mileage, intergalactic or otherwise, though.

I have a Sprint Yellow Mk2 vrs. They are not metallic for a start.

There is another post about this car as a member was going to buy it,its not a ex plod car its a ex company car that they are selling,its done around 120k (maybe more).

If it is the one sharkrider was looking at its done 140k & was up at £5999 a few months ago.