duke of hazzard

hi guys, bit of a random thread but i have a black octy vrs mk1 and coming home from touring cars at 6pm yesterday afternoon i noticed that 90% of the cars i caught upto moved out of the way before i had to lift off of brake, most indicating moving over too!!! i had my lights on as it was twilight and its just good practice. i thought i should share this technique as it seems to work very well if your in a rush- "lights on in daylight!"

lights on dipped, close at about a 20-30mph defecit to the car infront, any faster and they dont realise your there till you catch them any slower and they cant see you gaining when they see the headlights.

is there anything else you legally can do to assume an undercover car look? hi vis jackets are my first thought,lol. The benefits are you can really cut through traffic legally and without tailgating if you get it right...issue of speed aside.

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vRS_Si

Have tried the high-vis jacket approach.
Used to car share with a friend to work (transport company) so we thought we'd wear our yellow high-vis jackets to see if we could cut our 40 minute commute down the M4.
Have to say it didn't work...
Though those overtaking us would take a close look.

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duke of hazzard

lol, i bet they did. short of fitting strobe lights...(EXTREMELY ILLEGAL) i cant really think of anything else, shame the hi-vis approach doesnt work.

do you find people tend to give you a wide berth when closing on them?

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mluton

Driving to a fancy dress party as a copper, that would definalty work.

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Sonic1980

An extra aerial should help, also the motorway cops never go around by themselves, so get an equally smart passenger too...

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How about a couple of extra dummy antenna, ad a n extra stick on rear view mirror - worth a try ?

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duke of hazzard

extra arial! good idea! always fancied having a CB in my car(yes i love smokey and the bandit). do you have to have a huge one or are modern ones smaller? if i get one for my mobile too i could have 3!lol.

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Basil

Take a pic of a proper one and copy it to a 'T'.

? mount a pair of non-functioning, non-wired Blue lights prominently on the dash and on the rear parcel shelf???

Also have a cheapo CB mike in hand and talk into it while driving...

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duke of hazzard

10-4 good buddy! lol!

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duke of hazzard

whats the legalities of having blue lamps on the front without bulbs or wires in, basically shells? im guessing mr plod would be VERY unhappy with em, wired or not???

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TaviaRS

Black box on rear parcel shelf, extra aerial, extra rear view mirror.....

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duke of hazzard

anyone got a pic of an undercover car? ive seen plenty of "propper" police vrs' but no unmarked ones???

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Stuart_J

At night have a camera handy & fire the flash through the windscreen

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TaviaRS

It reflects and blinds you

So I'm told.........

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ScoobyChris

..... as well as maintaining a fixed distance to other traffic and driving in a very "positive" manner, without being aggressive. Often get people moving out of my way driving like this and if you want a bit of fun, match their lane changes keeping the fixed distance, and see if you can get them down to a dead 70mph

Chris

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Basil

Yep - someone p!sses you off, just lift up the mike with its curly-wurly wire, look at them hard and swear to your heart's content into the mike - very therapeutic I would imagine......lol!

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postmanpat

High vis on rear shelf, extra mirror, extra aerial, cut outs of front grill were lights might be , motorway cone on back seat, wearing a pale blue shirt and navy jumper

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duke of hazzard

...so im guessing im not the only one enjoying the benefits of the octys use in the force?! lol.

our lass couldnt believe it, we were not hooning down the road althogh were slightly over the limit and absoluetly everything was moving over, never had this before! m3's, 5series, vans, hatchbacks, the lot!

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Basil

You could spray the inside of some old foglamp shells black and just fix them with velcro - say your kids put them there....Unlit they could be 'mistaken' for blue....

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Borderspeed

Alternatively you could just do it totally legally and drive an unmarked/marked car for a living and when someone ****es you off do them for real

As for having blue lights, working or not, you are giving the impression of being an emergency vehicle and therefore could be charged with impersonation, if you are taking advantage of that impression

Just love those blues and twos!

Regards,
Steve

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