well for starters i DO live off road. For another, i need an explorer to fit my needs of hauling cargo around and being generally large to accommodate my height.
You, green and Volksjager seem to know a bit about the interceptor, would you happen to know if enabling PATS is a thing on these? I’m going to be taking this with me to college as well and would like to have that protection so people cant just pick my cylinder and drive off lol.
Just some food for thought here: even if you haven’t been able to pull up the actual idle hours on the vehicle, as long as you have the total miles and total engine hours (which is sometimes the best that you can get out of some sellers until you can actually sit in the driver’s seat yourself) you can calculate the average miles per hour over the life of the engine. 130K miles divided by 8300 engine hours is an average “lifetime mph” of 15.66 mph. Since we all know that very few cops/agencies would ever patrol at an average of 15mph, this already tells me that it has very high idle hours. An average of 40+mph is what I’m looking for personally; something more like a state trooper or county deputy, who is also more likely to have had one specific car issued to one specific officer, as opposed to several officers slip-seating one car in a city, and also covered a large area (ergo a lot of highway miles), as opposed to a city cop spending a lot of time idling, as well as most trips being short and most miles being “city” miles. Just one more way to look at it.
Dont think you can. Pretty sure the keys for PIUs dont have any electronics in them.
perhaps. I just know the Pats system has historically been a pain in the rear for thieves because its not easy to circumvent. I was also thinking trying to get factory perimeter somehow, maybe from junkers since this all sounds a little pricey.
Thanks Pete, well stated.
I don't have any unfortunately. I went to see it in person several times since the dealer and I we're in touch about it, he hasn't put it on the lot yet because it still has an engine code so that is why we've been talking about it for a while. Its just a light brown interceptor with a spotlight and some shadow stickers on the side, I wasn't able to tell the organization it belonged to by the sticker residue but I do know surely it was a state patrol car by the impression of the logo on the side. It was in overall good body shape and I couldn't find any rust on the body except for the rear keyhole as usual.
Did you drive it? Do you know what code its throwing?
Yeah I drove it already and it drives really well actually, no anomalies. The code is an EVAP code so I'm not sure what it entails exactly but they said their ford guy is taking care of it so we'll see what they come back with
I had an EVAP code and when I replaced the canister purge valve, it fixed the code.
Wasn't there some sort of Ford program to cover the hood paint and around rear keyhole??
I know the key hole program was only for the original owner.
It really depends on the car condition, especially the drive chain, suspensions etc. It isn't that much different than buying a retail used car so you should bring someone who familiar with cars if you ain't. I'd say for 130k, $8,900 is a bit too high.
Yeah i think it was that because it was ticking real bad off of the valve unless it was unplugged
