How can i tell what year a Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor is?
1 Locate the VIN on your Ford vehicle. The VIN is stamped in many locations on the vehicle, the most accessible being on upper driver's side of the dash and on the inside door panel. 2 Note the first digit in the VIN. This is the country of origin, or where the vehicle was manufactured. Ford vehicles sold in America are built in the United States or Mexico. The digit for Mexico is 3 and the digit for the U.S. can be 1, 4 or 3 Find the second digit in the VIN. This represents the manufacturer--in this case, Ford. The second digit should be an "F," which is Ford's specific code. Some Ford vehicles, such as the Mustang, will be labeled with "Z." They are built by Auto Alliance, a joint venture between Ford and Mazda. 4 Locate digits 4 through 9. These are vehicle specific digits used to identify the specific Ford vehicle and its options. The fourth digit is a safety code, depending upon what safety equipment the vehicle has. The fifth digit is a vehicle code. For example, the digit "T" is used for the Ford Mustang. Digits 6 through 9 identify options and trim levels on the vehicle. 5 Locate the 10th digit in the VIN. This is the digit that identifies the vehicle year model. Starting with the 2001 year model, the year digit began with the number "1." The numbers were issued in an ascending sequence until the 2010 year model, when the beginning of the alphabet was used. Models from 2010 are represented by the letter "A." Prior to 2001, the 10th digit was represented by the alphabet in descending order. Models from 2000 were listed as "Y" and 1999 models were represented as "X." 6 Find the 11th digit, which lists the factory in which the vehicle was assembled. Ford has many factories, but several popular vehicles are built in the Chicago factory and are represented by a "G." Vehicles built in Flint Rock, Michigan, are represented by "5." 7 Find the last six digits, which represent the assembly sequence. A Ford vehicle with the digits "000001" would be the first of its kind to come off the assembly line.
Used Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor?
Start saving up. I bought one that was 10 years old for $3,000 (probably overpaid). 5 or 6 years old will probably be around $5,000-$6,000. Stick to state highway patrol cars, which tend to be better maintained, and avoid local departments, which abuse their cars. If the car smells like a dog, it was a K-9 unit and the smell will never go away. If the car has carpeted floors instead of plastic, it was probably an administrative car and used more gently. I would buy straight from a department; I bought mine from a private owner and spent $1800 on the steering & brakes the first year I owned it. Someone needs to tell you this: if you're a male between the ages of 16 and 60, you're going to attract unwanted attention from cops if you drive a Crown Victoria, regardless of the trim package. If you're white, the average cop thinks you're a police impersonator, and if you're black or latino, he thinks you're a drug dealer or gang member. I'm sorry but that's just the way it is. I'm white and I've been pulled over once and checked out, asked if I had guns, police badges, etc. If you really love Ford's panther platform, get a Mercury Grand Marquis or a Lincoln Town Car. Much more luxurious and if you don't pimp it out with big chrome wheels and tinted windows, the cops will likely leave you alone.
Ball Joints for a 2003 Ford Crown Victoria P71 (Police Interceptor)?
I just bought a 2003 Ford Crown VIctoria P71 (Police Interceptor edition) and I need the lower ball joints replaced, and one of the upper ball joints replaced. No one seems to know where I can find some after market parts for this. What mechanics are telling me is that Ford stopped making just the ball joints and now I have to buy the entire control arm for the parts I need. My control arms are good, is it possible just to replace the ball joints if I found a place that had them available? And if so where could I find them? So far the quotes I have range from 900 to 1020.08 with $693.00 going toward the control arms. I am assuming that just getting the two lower ball joints and the one upper ball joint is cheaper than paying for control arms that I dont need. Also, for the Police Interceptor I was told that the Upper ball joints I could use just the regular Crown Victoria parts but for the Lower Ball joints I need more expensive heavy duty parts. Is that true?
Does the Ford Crown Victoria police interceptor come with traction contol?
I am looking into buying a Ford Police Interceptor because once I drove a mercury marquis and it hauled @ss. I'm only 16 but I love body on frame rwd cars but I live in Michigan and we get a shitload of snow and I don't want to be slipping. Currently i drive a rwd GMC Safari and it slips all over the place.
When did Ford stop making the Crown Victoria Police Interceptor?
My last patrol car was a Crown Vic. We loved that car, it was big, roomy, had great a/c and great suspension. Suspension is a very important factor in City vehicles, even more so than speed, especially in Manhattan. You could do stairs or jump curbs, carefully of course, as needed. These were the last of the best patrol car fleet. Plus they were pretty swanky and came with quite a few options. Nice, heavy cars.The other great car, even better then the Crown Vic in my opinion was the Chevy Caprice. Talk about a work horse. We used both of these cars 24/7. They idled for 12 hours straight at times. Yet they were rarely in the shop. We beat the hell out of them and they almost always ran for us.Then they started replacing them with the Nissan, Altima, hybrids. You couldn’t even operate the Nissan’s in the snow. They were way too light and constantly spinning out. Nothing comes close to the heavy, old work horse cars like the Caprice’s and the Crown Vic’s. I personally love the extra room that they afforded us, especially when they started installing the cages in them.Edit: while going down memory lane I forgot to answer the original question. I think the discontinued the Crown Vic’s sometime around 2011 or 2012.
Why is the Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor so popularly used even though it is so slow?
The newer Crown Victoria Police Interceptor has a 250 hp V-8 engine and accelerates 0-60 mph in nearly 9 seconds...8.75 seconds to be exact. Meanwhile, a V-6 Toyota Camry goes 0-60 in only 5.9 seconds. I know there is a weight difference between these two vehicles, but clearly using a different engine would make it a non-issue. Why are the Police Interceptors outfitted with such small V-8 engines that render such slow acceleration?
How can I tell if a crown vic is a P71? Are all ford interceptors P71's?
To add to fodaddy19's excellent answer, a Police Interceptor package also uses a 240 km/h (120 mph) certified calibration speedometer, front bucket seats, no carpet and what I like to call a "redundant" inside trunk release button installed in the center of the instrument cluster where the clock would normally be on a regular civilian Crown Vic. Top speed is governed limited to 128 mph, as opposed to 110 mph on regular civilian Crown Vics. Horsepower and torque are virtually identical on Police Interceptors and dual exhaust equipped non-Police Interceptors. There is also a strategy built into the PCM on Police Interceptors to increase engine idle speed periodically, if the engine is left idling more than a set amount of time to increase alternator output needed to keep the battery charged. Hope this helps.
Crown Victoria Police Interceptor keyless remote?
key fob remotes should be controlled by drivers door module.. and attempting programming mode is easiest... cycle the key 8 times within 10 sec. and see if door locks cycle.. if yes then you should be able to program.. if not sorry.. need a drivers door module with it in it
Ford crown victoria police interceptor check engine light problem?
First your car has COP (Coil On Plug) ignition coils. Your symptoms are what would occur when one goes out. The problem will go away then come back and the engine light may or may not flash. Take it to an auto store and if it has a code stored for a cylinder misfire than you know you have to replace that ignition coil. As far as the skipped gear, make sure you have enough transmission fluid anything more than that and it starts to cost $$$