Color Choices

[DEPUTYSTEPHENSON]

Okay with the new charger (it's red) I'm trying to decide if I stay traditional with red/blue or go with red/white. I would love to go all blue (came from Idaho and it's a blue for LE state), but the Vollies get that color in Missouri so I've been thinking about going completely away from blue, but hate the look of all red. So what is the preference or alternative if you have one.

 

[JohnMarcson]

I'd use a combo of red, blue and white to the front and red, blue and amber to the rear.

 

[HFD eng1ine]

I would no doubt choose red/white for the front and red/blue/amber for the rear. That's how our trucks are set up

 

[DEPUTYSTEPHENSON]

Dang you Missouri for not allowing me to go all sexy blue.

 

[chono]

I'd use a combo of red, blue and white to the front and red, blue and amber to the rear.

1+ use all the colors you can use!

 

[JohnMarcson]

1+ use all the colors you can use!

But make sure you don't interweave the colors too much and make a purple blob. Nice big chunks of color, same colors flash at the same time.

 

[DEPUTYSTEPHENSON]

But make sure you don't interweave the colors too much and make a purple blob. Nice big chunks of color, same colors flash at the same time.

I always try....that and I don't have so many lights moving fast that it's just a big flash of purple.

 

[Cam]

I would say red/blue with a little white in the front and some amber to the rear. Hard to go wrong there. In Missouri all emergency vehicle must have red other then vol. firefighter's POV. Any emergency vehicle can also have blue but you must have red as well the way the law is written. Not that you won't want to, if I was writing it all emergency vehicles would have to have blue.

 

[Newberry13]

I would say red/blue with a little white in the front and some amber to the rear. Hard to go wrong there. In Missouri all emergency vehicle must have red other then vol. firefighter's POV. Any emergency vehicle can also have blue but you must have red as well the way the law is written. Not that you won't want to, if I was writing it all emergency vehicles would have to have blue.

That's my vote.


Don't POVs run sirens in MO as well? If so wouldn't that make them a EV when responding? I was in Rolla a few weeks ago, and every POV I saw ( which was 6) had red/blue combos.

 

[DEPUTYSTEPHENSON]

Yes MO reworded the law so now its not unlawful for Vollies to run red (upsets me) and yes we run sirens and are classified as EV once both are activated.


As with running no blue to the front no one could say they thought it was a vollie and thats why they didnt stop.

 

[Newberry13]

I can't say for every county, but in Phelps, every EV (PD, SO, EMS, FD, VFD) run red/blue. PD, SO, and paid FD run 50/50, VFD runs 50 to 75 percent red. EMS only runs about 30 percent blue. If you're in a place were EV's run primarily red, then stick to red/white to the front and just throw in some blue to the rear. Besides red/white would be d@mn sexy on an all red Charger!

 

[chono]

But make sure you don't interweave the colors too much and make a purple blob. Nice big chunks of color, same colors flash at the same time.

I just hate seeing cars with red and blue lights flashing fast as possible, unsynced random patterns! Nice slow one color at a time seems way more effective

 

[pdk9]

I'd use a combo of red, blue and white to the front and red, blue and amber to the rear.

+1 and like john said, keep chunks of each color together (as opposed to interweaved), so you get the red and blue, not the purple blob. any idea what lighting ur putting in it?