I picked up a 2010 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor with 98,000 miles on it. They installed a new engine at around 60,000 miles when it was driven on a flooded street and snorted some water. I had radical plans for it including nitrous and abuse far to dirty to post on BITOG, culminating in demo derby death.
However, after towing it home and getting it on the lift for a good inspection, this thing is FAR too nice to abuse and kill. The interior is about 9.99 out of 10. I have a folder of every maintenance record from the municipal fleet maintenance garage from the day they took delivery until the day I picked it up. It includes every oil change, lightbulb change and everything in between.
The only issue we found is that it needs a new seal on the transmission output, a whopping $10 at O'Reilly Auto. The car has 4 newish Firestone Firehawk Pursuit tires, probably 80% tread left. No real rust to speak of and what I consider to be above average paint/finish for having served in police duty for 5 years. I don't have any good pics yet except for a cell phone pic of it sitting in the air on our lift, I will try to get it posted soon.
Digital info center in the gauge cluster reports over 10,000 hours but an analog gauge under the hood reports 6,000. I have a hard time believing that the new engine has 6,000 hours already but I suppose it could have. You would never know by driving it. That would mean that the original engine only had 4,000 hours and 60,000 miles and the new engine has 6,000 hours and only 38,000 miles. Seems a little lopsided, but I guess still possible.
However, after towing it home and getting it on the lift for a good inspection, this thing is FAR too nice to abuse and kill. The interior is about 9.99 out of 10. I have a folder of every maintenance record from the municipal fleet maintenance garage from the day they took delivery until the day I picked it up. It includes every oil change, lightbulb change and everything in between.
The only issue we found is that it needs a new seal on the transmission output, a whopping $10 at O'Reilly Auto. The car has 4 newish Firestone Firehawk Pursuit tires, probably 80% tread left. No real rust to speak of and what I consider to be above average paint/finish for having served in police duty for 5 years. I don't have any good pics yet except for a cell phone pic of it sitting in the air on our lift, I will try to get it posted soon.
Digital info center in the gauge cluster reports over 10,000 hours but an analog gauge under the hood reports 6,000. I have a hard time believing that the new engine has 6,000 hours already but I suppose it could have. You would never know by driving it. That would mean that the original engine only had 4,000 hours and 60,000 miles and the new engine has 6,000 hours and only 38,000 miles. Seems a little lopsided, but I guess still possible.
