YAHOO!!! A Slicktop!

[KenW.]

My fleet manager is taking the vector of my roof! Good-bye wind noise. Its just the spot light, corner strobes, grill lights, deck lights, and a visor light now.

Since its a '99, the lights are used, uhm, pre-broken in. He won't put much money into a high-mileage car.

[Delta784]

I don't want any part of a slicktop. People do enough stupid **** right in front of my cruiser with the huge-*** lightbar, as it is.

[KenW.]

I don't do much traffic enforcement. Prisoner transports, warrants, LE calls, the occasional DUI OT shift.

[Bodie]

slick tops are not is use in Ohio. Our laws don't allow them to be used for "routine stops" so hence the switch to the very low profile led light bars that are not visable until you are right up on a car.

[Photogrrlz]

Originally posted by Bodie
slick tops are not is use in Ohio. Our laws don't allow them to be used for "routine stops" so hence the switch to the very low profile led light bars that are not visable until you are right up on a car.

My old department used a slick top as a patrol vehicle. I also have seen several others around the area that have them, but as for those departments I don't know their specific use.

[Sgt. Friday]

I really never cared for the slick top myself either. I want people to know i'm behind them so they will move over into the other lane so I can pass them.

In Georgia it wasn't allowed to possess any patrol vehicle that wasn't plainly marked with the department markings and to I beleive INCLUDE a light bar. Correct me if i'm wrong on the light bar issue, but I know i'm correct on the department markings.

Don't know if it's still that way or not. And I don't recall the reasoning behind it either, maybe someone can enlighten us on the facts.

[Dayshifter]

Love the slicktop. My favorite car is a slicktop. All LED's on the car. I admit that it is a little harder to see in day time but at night it is the brightest car due to the LEDs.

[Catman]

Like Mine!

http://www.billericabmx.com/gkpics/policesig.jpg

[Delta784]

Originally posted by Sgt. Friday
I really never cared for the slick top myself either. I want people to know i'm behind them so they will move over into the other lane so I can pass them.

I want them to know I'm there so they don't commit a blatant traffic offense in front of me, thereby causing me to waste 15 minutes of my life on a traffic stop.

[Catman]

I don't find any difference, maybe the push bar with the strobes gives it away. Or, maybe its the black and white paint!:eek:

[badger]

PSP uses a two-piece light bar on some of their vehicles. They look like sunvisors with red and blue sections. You definately know if they are behind you in traffic, but from farther away are less noticeable. I would like them better for cruising through alleys and complexes and wish my deptartment had one. Instead we have the circa 1975 light bars on all but 2 cars that stick up above the roof about a foot. Talk about a high drag vehicle that you can pick out a mile away. If you can't see it, you can hear it breaking the wind (or that just might be the driver's lunch getting back at him):eek:

[Bodie]

Ohio like GA has laws that state how the cars are to be marked so the public can clearly understand "HEY that is a COP".

[Sgt. Friday]

I was just looking at a web site involving cruisers in Georgia, and I saw several without lightbars ontop. I guess that answers my own question.


Still not sure if it is still law that each car is a marked car or not any more.:confused:

[PHXCOP]

I dont have a "slick top"

I dont have "LED'S"

I just go to calls in my car, thats all its for.

by the way it has no am/fm radio and no radar...

[Delta784]

Originally posted by PHXCOP
by the way it has no am/fm radio and no radar...

Radar, I can live without. As a matter of fact, I'd rather not have it. I have to have at least an AM radio, or I'd lose my mind.

[PHXCOP]

luckily they left the ford wiring harness intact. we just go to best buy and buy radios that will fit. so not only do we have radios, we have cd players...

[SMPPD87]

Originally posted by PHXCOP
luckily they left the ford wiring harness intact. we just go to best buy and buy radios that will fit. so not only do we have radios, we have cd players...

i bought an FM transmitter for my ipod :D

[tpcop007]

Originally posted by SMPPD87
i bought an FM transmitter for my ipod :D

they have those??? where at?

[SMPPD87]

Originally posted by tpcop007
they have those??? where at?

http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/itrip/

it works great, just set the radio to an empty station, set the itrip to that same station and your good to go

[PHXCOP]

Originally posted by SMPPD87
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/itrip/

it works great, just set the radio to an empty station, set the itrip to that same station and your good to go

wow, thanks.

i have been tooling around with the thought of buying an ipod and now im sold.

I- like others had no idea that they even sold those.

[SMPPD87]

the FM transmitter is great to use in the patrol car but if you want it for your personal car get an adapter that goes in your tape deck and plugs into the headphone output of the ipod. the sound is better and more reliable, also it won't use up the battery.

[PHXCOP]

how is the quality with the wireless unit?

[SMPPD87]

the wireless unit still works just fine, it just drains the battery faster. that can be remedied with a car charger though.

[Dayshifter]

Originally posted by PHXCOP
luckily they left the ford wiring harness intact. we just go to best buy and buy radios that will fit. so not only do we have radios, we have cd players...

I sat on our vehicle committee last time round and we ordered the cars with CD players. I don't remember how we talked the admin into it but it worked. I have also used my mp3 player with the fm transmitter. I have the Irock model. You can get them at radio shack.

[PhilipCal]

I drive a slicktop.Love it. The lights are very,very commanding when activated.

[Labrock]

I drove a slick top for two years and did not see any difference in how stupid other drives can be. I liked it for several reasons including sneaking up on things. Also, better for running radar.

[KenW.]

I've had it back for a week now. I love it. Gathers less attention when trying to make contact with those on whom I have warrants.

Next up: Get a working spotight!