Hi Guys,

Have a look at this ebay sale and can anyone tell why there is a different set of speedo dial (one silver and one black with RS something on them?)

eBay.co.uk: 2002 SKODA OCTAVIA VRS SILVER (item 290098375904 end time 01-Apr-07 21:41:26 BST)

Any ideas?

Cheers in advance

Marc

It's because it's an ex-police car the speedo is a calibrated one instead of the standard one.

Makes me wonder why a 'liason' vehicle needs to be a vrs in the first place. If a force can get away with cutting costs they would. Surely a diesel would be more suitable as without lights etc they can't respond or pursue, not that that is a liasing scenario. Plus, why would it have a calibrated speedo, only traffic vehicles have these, so they can hand out speeding tickets with confidence.

Perhaps theyre trying to make the car seem it was less abused than it really was, ie a traffic car!

There do seem to be a lot of ex job cars around at the moment that were 'liaison' cars. Which ever, it will still have had more than the required number of services, and anything that had gone wrong with it over time will have had to have been fixed properly, rather than on the cheap as they can't afford the law suits if they skimp on high speed cars and one crashes because of that on the way to a shout.

Nowa days Surely you couldnt tell if it did have the full lights radios etc etc. With all the Smart repair people out there. ???

Could have been an instructors car. We had a Mondeo with a calibrated speedo, had Ford Motor Company on the log book, so obviously as we were selling it, it was an ex Ford demonstrator.

Why the headlamp brows on a police liason car?

Why the headlamp brows on a police liason car?

I have to say I wondered that too... unless the chap selling the car added them