2005 Crown Victoria P71 Build

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The power steering fluid was dark and nasty looking so grabbed the syringe and sucked it out and topped it off did this a few times over the course of a few weeks and got all the bad fluid out, then I picked up some Whelen mirror beams with amber lights and put them on, I’d like to hook them up as running lights/turn signals but for the time being they aren’t hooked up

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That’s cool!
 

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Your Vic looks good. I owned two of them simultaneously an 06 and an 07, but gave one (a black one) to my father-in-law. I still have the 06. The seats are like lawn chairs but you get used to them. I would seriously consider buying a 2012, the last year of their production. Suggested next mod: Buy a steering wheel with cruise control buttons. For about 100-200 dollars, get a Ford dealership to install the wheel and activate the cruise control in the software. The cruise control indicator light may or may not work but the cruise will operate normally. Auto locking door locks and daytime running lights will also start working. If you want, they can disable "dark mode" which will illuminate your interior lights when you open the door.

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Your talking about the locker that goes in the trunk and slides out? If so that’s a pretty nice setup


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Yes indeed.
Top is Lola when I first got her. I ended up moving that locker to thecopcar. Lola is doing daily driver duty, and has a real cargo area now.

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Your Vic looks good. I owned two of them simultaneously an 06 and an 07, but gave one (a black one) to my father-in-law. I still have the 06. The seats are like lawn chairs but you get used to them. I would seriously consider buying a 2012, the last year of their production. Suggested next mod: Buy a steering wheel with cruise control buttons. For about 100-200 dollars, get a Ford dealership to install the wheel and activate the cruise control in the software. The cruise control indicator light may or may not work but the cruise will operate normally. Auto locking door locks and daytime running lights will also start working. If you want, they can disable "dark mode" which will illuminate your interior lights when you open the door.

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Thanks, it’s a great running and driving car, the paint isn’t the best it was a b&w and either the PD painted it all black to get more $ at auction or whoever bought it painted it, has some dents here and there the pushbar is a lil tweaked I’ll probably get the bumper I picked up painted put on new pushbar brackets and hope that fixes that issue and paint the roof and call it a day, and the seats sucked at first I agree but you get use to them and there not too bad, when I picked up the wheel I put on I could have gotten a mint cc wheel but opted not too I’ve had cc in other cars/trucks but honestly never used it I’ve thought about adding it tho, and would the auto locking doors be something you could get working on an 05? I know the 05’s are a lil weird with somethings and I kinda like the dark mode I’ve gotten use to it


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As some of you might know I had an 04 Escalade for awhile and got rid of it last February due to some rust/rot issues and some other issues, I ended up trading it for an 05 Crown Victoria P71 he threw some cash on top. I have always liked the Crown Vics just was hard to find a clean one so when I came across this one I jumped on it, the underneath is spotless along with the wheel wells there’s a lil rust starting on the rockers but that’s common I’ll have that fixed. In terms of the Vic is an 05 powered by the 4.6 and has 3.55 gears in the rear, was owned by a local PD. Here’s a pic of the Escalade and the Vic together from when we met up to look the cars over and agreed to the deal.

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Which forum is this? I thought this was Tahoe Yukon. Someone should report the web pages are all messed up.
 

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Your Vic looks good. I owned two of them simultaneously an 06 and an 07, but gave one (a black one) to my father-in-law. I still have the 06. The seats are like lawn chairs but you get used to them. I would seriously consider buying a 2012, the last year of their production. Suggested next mod: Buy a steering wheel with cruise control buttons. For about 100-200 dollars, get a Ford dealership to install the wheel and activate the cruise control in the software. The cruise control indicator light may or may not work but the cruise will operate normally. Auto locking door locks and daytime running lights will also start working. If you want, they can disable "dark mode" which will illuminate your interior lights when you open the door.

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Police car seats are designed to be sturdy and leave room for the belt gear like cuffs, pistol holster and so on. I was a volunteer officer for just a couple months shy of 10 years back in the 80's and 90's. We got former front line units and when we were done with one of them, I bought it at auction. It was a 1976 Chevy Nova with the 400. Top speed wasn't anything special but it was a quick little thing. I drove it until the tin worms got under the rear doors and it folded going down a gravel road during.....um.....spirited driving.
 

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The power steering fluid was dark and nasty looking so grabbed the syringe and sucked it out and topped it off did this a few times over the course of a few weeks and got all the bad fluid out, then I picked up some Whelen mirror beams with amber lights and put them on, I’d like to hook them up as running lights/turn signals but for the time being they aren’t hooked up

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Where did you find those Whelen lights btw?
 
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Where did you find those Whelen lights btw?
On EBay, look up Whelen Mirror Beams and you should see some, I bought the housings, then picked up some Whelen 500 amber lights, the face plate and gaskets, and found all the screws at the hardware store, sometimes you can find the whole package still just couldn’t find them in the color I wanted so went that route


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On EBay, look up Whelen Mirror Beams and you should see some, I bought the housings, then picked up some Whelen 500 amber lights, the face plate and gaskets, and found all the screws at the hardware store, sometimes you can find the whole package still just couldn’t find them in the color I wanted so went that route


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Very cool. I know a lot of the stuff is available from public safety vendors, but it’s $$$$ for all new hardware.
 
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Very cool. I know a lot of the stuff is available from public safety vendors, but it’s $$$$ for all new hardware.
The housings were like $50 iirc they were new in the wrapper, I forgot you need the lens for the lights too, when you buy the lights they don’t have a lens, you can get clear or pretty much any color you want, still gotta hook them up or maybe I won’t still undecided kinda want to make them running lights when that setting is selected on the headlight switch


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