2008 Ford Crown Victoria P71 SAP

[95escahoe]

The end of June I ended up picking up a 2008 Ford Crown Victoria P71 SAP and sold the 05 I had. The 08 had 112,421 and 820 idle hours it was an old CSP administration car and being it was a CSP car it came with the fire suppression setup, overall it is pretty clean and they left behind a lot of hidden goodies. I’ll update this over the next few days, first thing I did was swap the wheels and other odds and ends from the 05.

 

[95escahoe]

And in regards to what a SAP Crown Victoria is SAP stands for street appearance package, it’s a P71 package car but with the civilian chrome grille, door handles and rear tail light and reverse light panel and it has a bench seat up front.

 

[95escahoe]

The Vic didn’t have many issues it needed a radio knob (pick and pull find) the turn signal wouldn’t turn off (replaced the multifunction switch) and the shift indicator needle wouldn’t go past neutral but the car would still go into drive I had to memorize how many clicks it was lol. So I picked up a new shift indicator and pulled it apart and found it was broken replaced it and it was good as new.

 

[95escahoe]

The headlight switch didn’t illuminate so I picked up a new bulb it’s not an exact match it’s off an earlier Crown Vic but it fits and lights up Ford only sells the whole switch and not just the bulb so this new bulb is the only option, down the road I’d like to install a LED bulb in the old one.

 

[95escahoe]

These cars came from the factory with TPMS sensors in the wheels and when I swapped mine off the 05 I didn’t have the sensors cause 05 didn’t have that I wanna say it started in 06 so I downloaded FORScan which allows you to turn off the TPMS light, dark mode, and set up keyless entry and you can read codes with it too.

 

[95escahoe]

Next thing I did was pick up a cheap set of key fobs off Amazon and set up the keyless entry.

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[95escahoe]

Here’s a few things I found in the car I found this pen it was for some crime scene clean up company and a service tag for the keys, there’s the tag from the auction with the old plate number and the key still had the tag for the key box at the barracks it looks like it came from Troop B in 2020 it was stationed up in Hartford which is Troop H and before that it was down in Westbrook at Troop F.

 

[Miami-Dade]

Your SAP looks to be in excellent condition. Nice find! Always heard [from coworkers who lived in Connecticut] the CSP take good care of their vehicles.

Do you plan on tinting the windshield on this one and adding a Push Bumper. The Fire Suppression is good thing to have. As I recall the FHP put them in all their P71'S.

Your a one man army Brett!

 

[95escahoe]

Your SAP looks to be in excellent condition. Nice find! Always heard [from coworkers who lived in Connecticut] the CSP take good care of their vehicles.

Do you plan on tinting the windshield on this one and adding a Push Bumper. The Fire Suppression is good thing to have. As I recall the FHP put them in all their P71'S.

Your a one man army Brett!

Thanks, they definitely keep them in good shape, along with the fire suppression they got the carpet flooring and traction control and adjustable pedals this one just has traction control I think the take home cars got the pedals, and I might do a pushbar and you’ll see about the tint when I get caught up on this.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Nice. I've always liked the black with the blacked out chrome. Gonna swap out any external pieces? Looks really nice.

 

[95escahoe]

Nice. I've always liked the black with the blacked out chrome. Gonna swap out any external pieces? Looks really nice.

Thanks it’s the first non black vehicle I’ve owned in years it’s a nice shade of silver I’m liking it, in terms of external mods I might do a Mach 1 chin spoiler like I had on the 05 and maybe a Marauder spoiler I’m kinda liking the “undercover” look tho I’m undecided.

 

[95escahoe]

In one of my earlier posts i mentioned the car still had a lot of hidden goodies well when they decommissioned it they left a lot in it, grille lights, strobes in the reverse lights and front turn signals, siren, they basically just cut everything behind the rear seat along the door under the carpet. I’ve always wanted a Vic with lights for off-road use so I picked up what I needed to get it all hooked up, the strobe wiring, strobe power supply and two strobes to install in either tail light. Started running the wiring for the reverse strobes here and zip tied it for a nice clean look.

 

[Tonyrodz]

In one of my earlier posts i mentioned the car still had a lot of hidden goodies well when they decommissioned it they left a lot in it, grille lights, strobes in the reverse lights and front turn signals, siren, they basically just cut everything behind the rear seat along the door under the carpet. I’ve always wanted a Vic with lights for off-road use so I picked up what I needed to get it all hooked up, the strobe wiring, strobe power supply and two strobes to install in either tail light. Started running the wiring for the reverse strobes here and zip tied it for a nice clean look.

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I see you also have that rear equipment pack/insert. I've heard those are hard to come by. Supposed to be made with kevlar.

 

[95escahoe]

I see you also have that rear equipment pack/insert. I've heard those are hard to come by. Supposed to be made with kevlar.

That was Ford’s first way of dealing with the fiery rear end collisions before the fire suppression option, the fire suppression was I wanna say a $2500 option which might have been too much for some departments, the Kevlar is on the back side so if there were sharp items there it wouldn’t puncture the gas tank which is right behind there. I wouldn’t call them rare there out there some people think there worth more then they are the hard thing to find is they made these plexiglass covers those are kinda hard to find a complete set. The trunk pack came out of the 05 I don’t really put much in it but it’s nice to have and makes the trunk area cleaner.

 

[95escahoe]

Here’s a few pics of the siren and the grille lights, the siren is made by Whelen along with the grille lights, the grille lights are 500 series TIR6, and with the grille the lights are kinda hidden it’s a nice setup. The grille has been replaced since I took these pics the chrome was peeling in a few spots.

 

[95escahoe]

Here’s a couple pics of the new wheel covers, and before the tint. The car came with the full covers but a couple of them were damaged so I threw them on the 05 and ended up with a new OEM Ford set.

 

[95escahoe]

Tinted the windows 5% all the way around minus the windshield and went with a ceramic tint to keep the inside cooler.

 

[95escahoe]

When I enabled the keyless entry the remote has a button for the trunk pop which is enabled but it doesn’t work because the police cars don’t have the extra wire, so it’s as easy as grabbing that wire off a civilian car and splicing it in and putting the wire in the right pin on the connector. While I was in there I replaced the door switch bezel it had done broken tabs, then this tab where a screw for the door panel goes has broken off so I fixed that with a small bolt/nut and lastly replaced the under dash fuse box cover because it had been hacked up I’m guessing they had the lever for the Tremco there cause it was kinda just loose up there and wasn’t mounted to the parking brake release like it’s supposed to be.

 

[95escahoe]

Then I had the windshield tinted 50% I did 40% on the 05 because I wanted to darken up the rest of the car without redoing all the tint that car was 15-20% and the 40% kinda sucked at night the 50% is perfect imo.

 

[95escahoe]

This was something I grabbed off the 05 it’s off a civilian car it covers up all the under dash wiring on the passenger side.