@@british999vehicles That doesn't define the purpose of a vehicle and it's use or who is inside it! I have known armed officers that will get in to unmarked X5s and also in to what used to be known as a Panda car, something like a Hyundai i10. It depends what they are doing or the cars available on the day. Lighting setup is dependant on the company that fits them, not the use of a vehicle. Each company has their preferred way of fitting lights and trademarked patterns for this. Not many companies fit-out police vehicles now, a lot of it has gone to their own garages to do. Police vehicles are quite different to what the public buy. For example, the ride height is higher, suspension stiffer, there are bigger alternators and batteries, more wiring looms fitted for radio and equipment use, anti-theft systems to allow engines to stay running when parked but not to allow the vehicle to be driven, trays and sump guards underneath, steel wheels sometimes too. Many base models are fitted with aircon and hard wearing vinyl seats and some have plastic back seats. When 55w bulbs used to be a thing, cars would have HID fitted. Some of the covert cars have switches to kill all internal lighting, also switch off the rear lights completely. They all have a ECU REMAP and various engine upgrades, but are not made to sound loud and offensive like boy racer cars. I used to visit a company that did all this work when I did a lot of work with the radio systems, so got to see the cars. Surveillance vehicles were fun, always bought from auctions with stickers and signs still on them. If you see works vehicles parked up for a while, you know there is a problem. The Iceland Home Delivery van was popular, so were BT vans.
Don't think you will see any BMW police cars anymore. Check out the reasons on a utube channel called Geoff buys cars.. I. Presumed it was a joke but no, due to the chance of catching fire, they've been sold off at auctions, after being made undriveable
The Volvo? If it’s safe to go through and you’re not blocking the junction why not just go through and let the emergency vehicle through to do their job…
@@finlaymallinson731 If you go through a red light without an officer getting out their car to direct you through, then you can be fined, not gonna take the risk
@@nekotranslates explain that to the people waiting for the services to stop their house from burning, prevent their stuff being robbed or waiting for the ambulance to come save their life… for the sake of you possibly getting a fine so blocking them at a red light for a few minutes. If there’s cameras to catch you there’s cameras to argue the case and show why you went through
Does anyone know what the deal could be with the first Land Rover discovery at 3:18, who could that belong to and why does it only have a single dash mounted strobe?
on this day they needed a lot more vehicles then what was in the met fleet, so they brought/ hired loads if vehicles and turned them into make shift vehicles with dash lights.
seems to be alot of terrorism in london now but my issue is most of the people driving these cars are normel police there not gunned up or dressed in all black we can all see the white police shirts maybe 1 or 2 of them were counter terrorism but not all lad come on
I didn’t say CTSFO, i said CT which is different, you get CTSFO which are all kitted up firearms officers and you get CT which are officers that investigate Terrorism
Phenomenal catch, very good job collecting all of these unmarked vehicles. How did you know they were counter terror?
Alot if departments have set lighting set ups
And cheers
@@british999vehicles great work this was also going to be my question i think its mad how much variety they have its the vans that amaze me haha
@@british999vehicles That doesn't define the purpose of a vehicle and it's use or who is inside it! I have known armed officers that will get in to unmarked X5s and also in to what used to be known as a Panda car, something like a Hyundai i10. It depends what they are doing or the cars available on the day.
Lighting setup is dependant on the company that fits them, not the use of a vehicle. Each company has their preferred way of fitting lights and trademarked patterns for this. Not many companies fit-out police vehicles now, a lot of it has gone to their own garages to do.
Police vehicles are quite different to what the public buy. For example, the ride height is higher, suspension stiffer, there are bigger alternators and batteries, more wiring looms fitted for radio and equipment use, anti-theft systems to allow engines to stay running when parked but not to allow the vehicle to be driven, trays and sump guards underneath, steel wheels sometimes too. Many base models are fitted with aircon and hard wearing vinyl seats and some have plastic back seats.
When 55w bulbs used to be a thing, cars would have HID fitted.
Some of the covert cars have switches to kill all internal lighting, also switch off the rear lights completely. They all have a ECU REMAP and various engine upgrades, but are not made to sound loud and offensive like boy racer cars.
I used to visit a company that did all this work when I did a lot of work with the radio systems, so got to see the cars.
Surveillance vehicles were fun, always bought from auctions with stickers and signs still on them. If you see works vehicles parked up for a while, you know there is a problem. The Iceland Home Delivery van was popular, so were BT vans.
Hi british999vehicles! Big fan here! Would you mind sharing some spotting tips and what camera you use as i am a small channel and just starting up.
Fantastic catches there👍👍
12:57 Its an Audi S6, a Volkswagen Touareg and a Mercedes-Benz V-Class.
Thank for the corrections all corrected now, Thanks
Nice video!
Cheers
Cool video!
Amazing, it’s the first time I’ve seen a government car service (GCS) sign in a car rather than a police sign on the galaxy.
Yes it was the first time ive seen that aswell
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Don't think you will see any BMW police cars anymore. Check out the reasons on a utube channel called Geoff buys cars.. I. Presumed it was a joke but no, due to the chance of catching fire, they've been sold off at auctions, after being made undriveable
The police car starting at 1:24 had JFK in its number plate! Hold my tinfoil hat, I'm off to the conspiracy theory lab in my basement!
What role is the role of the discovery at 3:35
Im not sure which is why it doesn’t specify, sorry
@@british999vehicles okay thank you only because I saw a unmarked either discovery or defender similar colour in my area and was just wondering
LOL, WTF? They use a SsangYong? 🤔🤣🤣
Yep. It's a weird choice from the Met
5:40 Stupid Merc going through a red light, it's illegal to do so even with an emergency vehicle trying to get through
The Volvo? If it’s safe to go through and you’re not blocking the junction why not just go through and let the emergency vehicle through to do their job…
@@finlaymallinson731 If you go through a red light without an officer getting out their car to direct you through, then you can be fined, not gonna take the risk
@@nekotranslates explain that to the people waiting for the services to stop their house from burning, prevent their stuff being robbed or waiting for the ambulance to come save their life… for the sake of you possibly getting a fine so blocking them at a red light for a few minutes. If there’s cameras to catch you there’s cameras to argue the case and show why you went through
@@finlaymallinson731 Maybe if we had laws similar to mainland Europe where you HAVE to move through a red light, then things would be better in the UK
@@nekotranslates maybe if people used their common sense, then things would be better in the UK
Does anyone know what the deal could be with the first Land Rover discovery at 3:18, who could that belong to and why does it only have a single dash mounted strobe?
on this day they needed a lot more vehicles then what was in the met fleet, so they brought/ hired loads if vehicles and turned them into make shift vehicles with dash lights.
seems to be alot of terrorism in london now but my issue is most of the people driving these cars are normel police there not gunned up or dressed in all black we can all see the white police shirts maybe 1 or 2 of them were counter terrorism but not all lad come on
I didn’t say CTSFO, i said CT which is different, you get CTSFO which are all kitted up firearms officers and you get CT which are officers that investigate Terrorism