08 CVPI's for DOI/NPS U P D A T E D 8/16/08

apco25

Just finished several identical units. I was not involved the spec'ing of the vehicles and they only came with the basic police prep wiring from Ford. Hopefully, corner strobes, LED and or Mirror Beams will be added. Would also like to go with 500 series linear over the TIR3 next time.

Will have 08 Tahoe pics to post soon.

CV's either got all Whelen Liberty with HFSA6 or Sound Off ETL5000 with matching controllers, otherwise cars are identical.

I'll add pics of the cars with the Liberty bars when I get a chance.

I must say I am pretty impressed with the light output of the ETL5000 although the time to set the patterns, modes and final wiring was extremely long and tedious due the design of the serial interface module.

Sentina prisoner paritions with recessed dual weapon mounts (not yet installed in these pics)

Setina PB400

Whelen TIR3 back deck and pushbar, RED/BLUE

Whelen plugnplay HLF and TLF

Lund consoles (NOT MY CHOICE!)

Astro Spectra, VHF

Vehicle will have radar, cellular / gps antennas added later once the vehicles go their respective assigments.

This specific car (mine) will have a same direction moving mode Decauter Genesis Select KA band radar installed once its delivered, oh and stripes too Smile

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Respondcode3

The Lund consoles you don't like are mounted backwards. They are designed to have a computer mount on the flat front part.

MEVS06

that's a slick unit, gotta see a vid of that bad boy in action

joe

apco25

I'll post a vid when the car is striped.

I should explain why the console is installed like that.

Dual vertical long gun mounts with a recessed panel off the partition forced the console to be mounted further forward to allow for room to remove the 870 and M16. M14 are also used and are quite a bit bigger so that head to be dealt with as well.

Also, again not my choice, but it was requested to have the radio and siren controller mounted far forward on the dash for short officers.

Since I couldn't go back and re-order sloped consoles like Jotto Desk to do that, I was stuck with what I had and came up with a solution.

Also had trouble with getting the right brackets from Lund for the sound-off equiped cars.

FireEMSPolice

Nice? Who is getting them?

Why did they opt for the Street Appearance Package (SAP) CVPI?

rabidjade

Station 3

Damn that lightbar is sweeeettt Cool

DEPUTYSTEPHENSON

There's a plug and play tlf for CVPI?

FireEMSPolice

apco25

cars for NPS Inter-Mountain Region, Yellowston NP

60a

mustangretriever

apco25

Indeed there are some old cars in the park since many of the vic and caprices from the 94-97 time period had complete drivetrain and engine rebuilds.

Also doesn't help our vehicles are DOI owned I plated meaning they pretty much end up being around for forever, about 7-8 years is typical here which is frankly way to long for law enforcement vehicles.

We should be and are supposed to be on GSA lease for LE vehicles, but the fleet is so big here the capitol outlay is enormous to do it.

Most parks are on GSA so LE vehicles are changed out in 3 years.

I can take pics of the older cars I'm trying to fix, what a nightmare. All levels and quality or lack there of in the vehicles here... very frustrating!

no idea on street appearance package as I didn't order the cars. Not fond of the black interiors either, HOT!

mustangretriever

Here's a shot of the 97 I shot when I was there. It was just sitting on the side of the road for several hours without a Ranger. Either it broke down or they left it there to try and cut down on speeders!

jc420

Nice but I agree the Street App. Package looks bad , atleast for marked police cars.

Is there any way that lightbar can be set lower to the car looks like it sits up to high.

Other than that looks good!

apco25

That's a Grand Teton car as they purchase vision bars for that time period. Yellowstone cars of that age would have a 48 inch 4 strobe 4 halogen edge bar.

I can't lower the bar as it has the standard height CV brackets. We've discussed getting the adujustable brackets, but so far everyone seems ok with it.

mustangretriever

k9vic

tx_f150

I like the setup (not the lightbar though) and really do like that sound off switch box. Good job.

Parkpiggy

They P74 package is no longer sold. The only CV is either the taxi or PI packages.

I'm guessing the P74s you saw are just an oddity. I think Customs/BP used to order vehicles by district, and now are ordered nationally through GSA.

k9vic

PTR-Jason

I like LUND Consoles, and even have one sitting in my storage, they are also very very friendly when I called to place my order for faceplates a while ago... I had the BCT8 scanner when they first came out and they do not make a face plate for it. The guy took the model number, looked up the size and made sure that I got something that would make it fit. Worked great.

apco25

LUND has been good about trading brackets since we got the wrong ones shipped the 1st time.

Given that we have vertical rifle/shotgun mounts on the cage we should have ordered a sloped console instead of horizontal, but again late in the game its too hard to change what we ordered.

I'm about half-way done on another identical car, although the higher ups asked that the lightbar be mounted 3 inches further forward (sound off says centered on b-pillar) Not sure why this is such a big deal, no matter what you do the bar will light you up when you get out of the car.

cbpdogboy

surf_kat · Member Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 31 Location: Arizona

Well now that the CBPOs are getting trained for pursuit driving, maybe they'll spec out P71s or Chargers. Who knows, maybe you'll have to trade in that Explorer for a Magnum Very Happy

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