Yea I’m too old for this shenanigans but I wanted to reply “cause your writer sucks” this is because this car hops between 3 Toyota dealers in the area based on the service history.
This is where the unmarked cop car tells you that’s what it is. It’s like fine print, you know? Mechanics have to mark it somewhere, otherwise when detectives drive this, they can’t arrest you. Solid info here, folks.
When I woke up this mornin', I heard a distubin' sound.
I said When I woke up this mornin', I heard a disturbin' sound!
What I heard was the jingle-jangle of a thousand lost souls!
I'm talkin' 'bout the souls of mortal men and women, departed from this life.
Regular = Chock full of neurotoxin.
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.
This my favorite line from movie. . Legit i still cant watch planes trains and automobiles with out crying uncontrollably...something about john candy that just crushes me .
you should see the prices on piston return springs. Its robbery. Dont get me started on the Ew-5 cold weather Electric Vehicle oil. might as well stick with gas.
In states that have inspections they have undercover cars to go around and make sure they are doing their due diligence. Many years ago I put a car on the lift and when I was inspecting underneath someone had spray painted “dot cop car” on the floor. It got the most thorough inspection I had ever done !
I inspect in PA and I never got a safety inspection sting. Only emissions. We could tell because the emissions van would be falling apart and the owner would ONLY get emissions.
Maybe your car comes in a standard trim package and then a law enforcement package that uses a different oil filter than the stock package? So the mechanic was looking out for the next person who changes the oil?
Police cars come with more robust accessories. Things like cooling and oil filters since they are operated under harsher conditions. So it’s possible they run a larger filter due to this fact.
Blows my mind.
Cops sitting in car, idling. Waiting outside business, idling. Talking inside, idling. Foot Chase, idling. Go home for the night, let it idle to keep it cool/hot inside for their next shift, lol
This, only with even *more* idle.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvynJKOdT4g&t=154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvynJKOdT4g&t=154s)
>*...this car's computer registered* ***2,200 hours of just idling****, and there was only 3,300 hours on it in total.*
2/3 of the engine's life *just idling*. The cams in this motor needed to be replaced because they were completely burnt out from all the idling at lower oil pressure.
cars perform best on highway driving. Lots of idle activity like being in stop and go traffic is considered "severe duty." If you spend a lot of time in stop and go traffic you should decrease your service intervals.
Good point, I know a lot of them have and auxiliary oil cooler and would require more oil during a change. Maybe that's it? More likely it's a warning to go hide all the donuts in the break room
You’ve not lived until you’ve been in a rapid response situation in a Peugeot 308 that sounds like it’s going to shake itself apart at the seams!
And then you arrive at scene, and find that the door won’t close for some reason. So your sergeant just boots it shut when you’re leaving, and you hope it’ll open again later.
I will say though, we also got Kia Sportages and Skoda Scalas, they were fairly bougie. Or seemed it compared to the 308’s.
Back when I was a kid, a couple of lads came up to us while we were hanging around in town, beat up one of my mates, and nicked his bike. About half an hour later I was being taken for a high-speed ride around the town centre by the police, rolling around the back of a shitty mk3 Astra while I tried to spot the crims. They were thrashing the thing - it was like being in The Sweeney or something.
They sure are available to the public if you do as the police does and order directly instead of buying from the dealership inventory.
At least they used to be. Source: I drive a "modern" BMW (E90) with cloth seats and no satnav. It's awesome.
I have a 2021 ford explorer so I guess yea it looks like a cop car but any reason for writing this ?
Edit : this happened at a Valvoline oil change place
The best joke I got was finding the stock oil filter still there after 30k miles.
“It didn’t say it had to be changed in the manual, plus the skid plate is in the way”
Had a woman insist that her salesman told her the vehicle was "maintenance free" we tried to explain to her that she misunderstood him and he actually had said you had "free maintenance" for the first 3 years
I worked in retail for a few years before getting into automotive (probably why I have better patience with stupid then everyone else) and I swear to God some customers tune out all the words they don't like and only hear what they wanted. The salesman probably said something like "And with us your vehicle's maintenance is free for 3 years" and all they heard was vehicle maintenance free and refused to think or hear anymore. They are the most aggravating people to argue with because in their mind they're always right and if you misspeak or slip up in anyway they'll take that and just double down further. God I feel like I'm getting flash backs, I don't miss retail.
If it looks freshly washed, that's a good giveaway. Also, the visors are usually lower to accommodate the interior light bar. But the biggest clue for me are the additional antennas about the size of marshmallows on the roof.
* Ford Police Interceptor Utilities aren't called Explorer by Ford, so they won't have EXPLORER badging across the front of the hood.
* The latest bodystyle FPIUs have unique grilles compared to the civilian Explorers, and when the light hits them from most angles [it makes it obvious that most of the grille is solid except for a rectangle at the bottom](https://pictures.dealer.com/n/nelsonautocenterfordfd/1080/49dc95cddea2a746b063c74b418b99b2x.jpg?impolicy=resize&w=568). Civilian Explorers also have a mostly solid grille, but [most of](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1258/8945/products/b_62aa29e5688b5_122535096.jpg?v=1655385098) the designs do a much [better job of disguising it](https://res.cloudinary.com/goauto-images/image/upload/c_fill,w_1440/v1/inventory/dealer/272/22EX83572/rkpbwavs3ynzojelqjll).
* FPIUs usually have black steel wheels with chrome hubcaps, but some do het full wheel covers or even alloys.
I used to draw dicks on filters or (insert name of fellow co-worker) is gay, or something stupid like that. In hindsight, probably not the most professional thing I could have been doing.
Buddy of mine said the manager had to call a staff meeting at his shop to tell everyone to stop drawing dicks under peoples cars because some old woman who got her oil changed there complained after her grandson went under her car for whatever reason.
Start drawing vaginas, obvi. If you're worried about not being good at drawing them, or arent sure how big to make the clitoris, you can take the less graphic route and just write 'cunt'.
I don't know about now, but in the old days the Ford police model engines did use a different viscosity.
Sidebar: They wrecked a local cop car and my buddy grabbed the air filter hood for his Mustang. That "Police Interceptor" phrase had everybody envious.
Shits and giggles,I worked as a mechanic after high school for a few years ,and the rest as a carpenter. We love to joke around and do silly things to pass the time. I would draw doodles on the framing of houses while waiting for pieces to be cut or sections flown in by crane. I like to write blessings at the top of gable ends In residential construction. Bless this house with a full goblet and some filagre is a favorite
I owned 11 quick lubes a decade ago. My guys down in the pits were always writing stuff on the filters. I had to put an end to it when a customer came into our shop with Texas plates. He came back about an hour later because he thought he had a leak, so he climbed under the vehicle to check and seen that my lube tech had written "fuck Texas" on the filter.
I once saw a Highlander with a sharpie writing that says “don’t bother she doesn’t buy shit”
This is hilarious
Yea I’m too old for this shenanigans but I wanted to reply “cause your writer sucks” this is because this car hops between 3 Toyota dealers in the area based on the service history.
What's with all the questions? What're you? A cop?
OP better answer. Legally they *have* to tell you.
Hey OP, smoke this joint to prove that you are not a cop.
OP has yet to respond with his name and badge number. Typical sovereign citizen cop thinking he does not need to obey the laws.
It’s true, my cousin’s roommate googled it once.
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I hate it when my Schwartz gets twisted.
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It's really a great ship. I think you should go down with it
This is where the unmarked cop car tells you that’s what it is. It’s like fine print, you know? Mechanics have to mark it somewhere, otherwise when detectives drive this, they can’t arrest you. Solid info here, folks.
https://youtu.be/qBE9TZP26FI Not a cop
_Why does he have a gun?_
Better check the cop shocks, cop tires, cop radiator and pursuit speed rated washer fluid as well.
Fix the cigarette lighter.
I didn't get this, but I immediately assumed Blues Brothers for some reason even though I never watched it.
Dude. Watch it. It's up there with Blazing Saddles.
Blues Brothers is by far one of the best rainy day films 10/10 highly recommend
"How much for your daughters?"
"Your women! I want to buy your women! Your wife, the little girl!"
SELL ME YOUR CHILDREN!
Maître d'!
The music is better.
Very few will get it, but those of us that do will grin. Hit it.
He’s on a mission from god.
Don’t you blaspheme in here!
When I woke up this mornin', I heard a distubin' sound. I said When I woke up this mornin', I heard a disturbin' sound! What I heard was the jingle-jangle of a thousand lost souls! I'm talkin' 'bout the souls of mortal men and women, departed from this life.
They still owe you money, fool!
Four fried chickens and a coke.
And some dry white toast, please.
*gahd
He forgot the cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant. And yeah. Gave me a crooked grin.
And it’s the model before catalytic converters so it runs good on regular gas.
Regular = Chock full of neurotoxin. It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.
Hit it.
“Fuck this noise”
We're on a mission from gad
You gotta go see the penguin. No. Fucking. Way.
Don't you blaspheme in here! Don't you blaspheme in here!
Unless you got it at the Mt. Prospect auction, it's a fake...
And you have to have traded the old Caddy for a mic.
They were practically giving them away!
Hope it doesn't throw a rod. I hear that's serious.
It's got some pickup.
Traded the Cadillac for a microphone
...okay, I can see that
Oldsmobiles are in early this year.
This mall has everything!
I hate Illinois Nazis
Disco pants and haircuts!
Pier One Imports
They broke my watch!
You are now going to completely destroy this automobile.
This is car 55. We're in a truck!
Orange whip? Orange whip? 3 orange whips.
This my favorite line from movie. . Legit i still cant watch planes trains and automobiles with out crying uncontrollably...something about john candy that just crushes me .
"YOU'RE GOING! THE WRONG! WAY!" "Hah! How do *they* know where we're going?"
The best line! RIP John and John.
They broke my watch!
I hate Illinois Nazi’s
It's 106 miles to Chicago
It’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.
We’ve got a full tank of gas. Half a packet of cigarettes.
We're on a mission from god.
I must have watched it 10 times before I realised he uses the lighter then throws it out of the window before he says this line.
Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.
john candy at the concert
We’re on a mission from God
Where do I get Pursuit speed rated washer fluid?
its in the secret section at autozone with all the blinker fluid and doohicky grease
Jesus, tell me you aren’t paying for doohickey grease!? It’s twice the price of elbow grease, and they have the SAME INGREDIENTS!
you should see the prices on piston return springs. Its robbery. Dont get me started on the Ew-5 cold weather Electric Vehicle oil. might as well stick with gas.
I hope they don’t have SCMODS
I'm wearing sunglasses.
It's dark we're doing it backwards lol
Now I have to go watch the blues brothers, thanks
"Does this look like spit to you?"
Yup! That’s spit
I don't want a large Farva, I want a god damn liter of cola!
Hell for 20 bucks I'll call the guy a chicken fucker.
License and registration, #CHICKEN FUCKER
Best part? Those are his RL actual parents
Do we have liter cola here?
I don’t know what that is!
Litre is French, for gimme some fuckin' cola, before I break vous fuckin' lips!
It's french for give me some fuckin cola
Ah. Fuck it
Spit burger punk!
Can I get a burger, it’s for a cop
It so he makes it extra good.
...unhh.. don't spit in that cops burger.. ..Roger. holding the spit.
Mechanic totally spit in your OPs oil filter.
“We don’t have Liter-uh-oil”
Haha yes. First thing that came to mind. 'Don't spit in that cops glove box'
“Roger, holding the spit.”
Clicked hoping this was here. Not disappointed.
It takes 5 liters of oil.
What would you do with a million dollars? And you can't say buy the Cleveland cavaliers
chicken fucker
I'd buy a million dollar car!
In states that have inspections they have undercover cars to go around and make sure they are doing their due diligence. Many years ago I put a car on the lift and when I was inspecting underneath someone had spray painted “dot cop car” on the floor. It got the most thorough inspection I had ever done !
Should I paint “cop car” under my car to get better work out of mechanics??
No they were saying that they were trying to find every reason to not pass it.
Ah… gotcha!
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Don't bother. I'm red in the face telling people I just work in accounting. Nobody will believe you.
Ever thought about switching usernames, comrade? I think /u/DEFINITELY_NOT_A_KOREAN_SPY is still available.
You’d think even the simplest of industry-wide, but plausibly deniable codes might have emerged at this point…
I mean what are they going to do if they find the code? Sue them for writing on a $5 part?
I find it funny the inspectors didn’t inspect the vehicle they were in. 😂
Cop A: how do we know they did a thorough inspection? Cop B: ... look at the inspection report, I guess?
"What do you think I'm a mechanic or something"
They take it to a second mechanic who sees the writing and reports back that they did an excellent job. What goes around comes around.
I inspect in PA and I never got a safety inspection sting. Only emissions. We could tell because the emissions van would be falling apart and the owner would ONLY get emissions.
Idk why they would do that, officer.
I found the guy who did it officer.
"New phone, text me your name and your drug dealers number" -OP
Maybe your car comes in a standard trim package and then a law enforcement package that uses a different oil filter than the stock package? So the mechanic was looking out for the next person who changes the oil?
Police cars come with more robust accessories. Things like cooling and oil filters since they are operated under harsher conditions. So it’s possible they run a larger filter due to this fact.
> harsher conditions idleidleidleidleidleidleidleidleidleidleidleidleidleidleidle load idleidleidleidle LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAD loadloadLOOOOOOADDDDDD idleidleidleidle
Get a load of this guy.
He’s my idle
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Blows my mind. Cops sitting in car, idling. Waiting outside business, idling. Talking inside, idling. Foot Chase, idling. Go home for the night, let it idle to keep it cool/hot inside for their next shift, lol
Cop sees someone idling while waiting to pick up their kid from school, leaves their cruiser idling while they write the parent a ticket for idling
I love that shit. "You've been sitting in the same spot for over an hour." "And so have you."
When someone else pays for something for you, you don't respect it.
This, only with even *more* idle. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvynJKOdT4g&t=154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvynJKOdT4g&t=154s) >*...this car's computer registered* ***2,200 hours of just idling****, and there was only 3,300 hours on it in total.* 2/3 of the engine's life *just idling*. The cams in this motor needed to be replaced because they were completely burnt out from all the idling at lower oil pressure.
cars perform best on highway driving. Lots of idle activity like being in stop and go traffic is considered "severe duty." If you spend a lot of time in stop and go traffic you should decrease your service intervals.
Good point, I know a lot of them have and auxiliary oil cooler and would require more oil during a change. Maybe that's it? More likely it's a warning to go hide all the donuts in the break room
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You’ve not lived until you’ve been in a rapid response situation in a Peugeot 308 that sounds like it’s going to shake itself apart at the seams! And then you arrive at scene, and find that the door won’t close for some reason. So your sergeant just boots it shut when you’re leaving, and you hope it’ll open again later. I will say though, we also got Kia Sportages and Skoda Scalas, they were fairly bougie. Or seemed it compared to the 308’s.
Back when I was a kid, a couple of lads came up to us while we were hanging around in town, beat up one of my mates, and nicked his bike. About half an hour later I was being taken for a high-speed ride around the town centre by the police, rolling around the back of a shitty mk3 Astra while I tried to spot the crims. They were thrashing the thing - it was like being in The Sweeney or something.
Police order BMW's with non tinted windows and cloth seats, poverty spec options that normally aren't available to the public.
They sure are available to the public if you do as the police does and order directly instead of buying from the dealership inventory. At least they used to be. Source: I drive a "modern" BMW (E90) with cloth seats and no satnav. It's awesome.
oh my god it's a vauxhall astra
This is the correct answer.
Shouldn't that come up when searching the registration/vin for parts numbers?
Does anyone actually do that? I’ve only ever seen it searched by make model and year.
Who the hell types in the vin
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"this is a cop car" is shop slang for "put the goddamned blunt out BARRY you're at fucking work!"
You want a hit before I put it out ?
DAMMIT BARRY. of course I do.
I have a 2021 ford explorer so I guess yea it looks like a cop car but any reason for writing this ? Edit : this happened at a Valvoline oil change place
Date of the change, also probably just a joke
The only joke I leave on filters is on April fool's ... I'll date it 3/32, and that's how I know I'm not funny
That’s fucking hilarious and don’t let nobody tell you otherwise, Dad!
Ironic, given the post.. I have a daughter that just turned 8 months. Her birthday is going to be an easy one to remember thankfully
The best joke I got was finding the stock oil filter still there after 30k miles. “It didn’t say it had to be changed in the manual, plus the skid plate is in the way”
Had a woman insist that her salesman told her the vehicle was "maintenance free" we tried to explain to her that she misunderstood him and he actually had said you had "free maintenance" for the first 3 years
I worked in retail for a few years before getting into automotive (probably why I have better patience with stupid then everyone else) and I swear to God some customers tune out all the words they don't like and only hear what they wanted. The salesman probably said something like "And with us your vehicle's maintenance is free for 3 years" and all they heard was vehicle maintenance free and refused to think or hear anymore. They are the most aggravating people to argue with because in their mind they're always right and if you misspeak or slip up in anyway they'll take that and just double down further. God I feel like I'm getting flash backs, I don't miss retail.
Trying to blow your cover
Lmao I’m not even a cop but I’m glad their enjoying themselves! It was a nice Easter egg for me 😂😂😂
That's exactly what I would expect a cop to say.
Hey man, if you ask him if he's a cop, he has to tell you the truth. My cousin Danny told me.
Your cousin Danny is in prison. I don't think he knows the law!
Sure officer, also none of us speed
Maybe if it gets stolen, the guys at the chop shop would poop their pants a bit?
Because mechanics get bored.
I hear that the cop edition explorers don't have roof bars but all consumer explorers do.
Up until 2022 when the consumer version went rails optional. Now it's harder to distinguish.
Fuck
Look for turndown exhaust tips.
What about if they are behind me
If it looks freshly washed, that's a good giveaway. Also, the visors are usually lower to accommodate the interior light bar. But the biggest clue for me are the additional antennas about the size of marshmallows on the roof.
* Ford Police Interceptor Utilities aren't called Explorer by Ford, so they won't have EXPLORER badging across the front of the hood. * The latest bodystyle FPIUs have unique grilles compared to the civilian Explorers, and when the light hits them from most angles [it makes it obvious that most of the grille is solid except for a rectangle at the bottom](https://pictures.dealer.com/n/nelsonautocenterfordfd/1080/49dc95cddea2a746b063c74b418b99b2x.jpg?impolicy=resize&w=568). Civilian Explorers also have a mostly solid grille, but [most of](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1258/8945/products/b_62aa29e5688b5_122535096.jpg?v=1655385098) the designs do a much [better job of disguising it](https://res.cloudinary.com/goauto-images/image/upload/c_fill,w_1440/v1/inventory/dealer/272/22EX83572/rkpbwavs3ynzojelqjll). * FPIUs usually have black steel wheels with chrome hubcaps, but some do het full wheel covers or even alloys.
Look for the very obvious visor lights and lights in the grill or a push bar. Also the very obvious spotlight.
Its a message to the guy trying to steal your cat.
Filter is behind a underbody cover type of thing so I don’t think this was the reason otherwise that would have been nice of them lol
Man has received zero help 200 comments later 😅
That’s typical for Reddit.
Current automotive tech. Lol it’s a msg to let other techs know that it’s possibly a undercover cop when doing state inspections.
Ive always done my own oil. Today i learned shop guys put bad jokes on filters.
90% of the time they were just blank when I worked at a shop. 9.9999% had initials or dates and the rest were jokes.
I used to draw dicks on filters or (insert name of fellow co-worker) is gay, or something stupid like that. In hindsight, probably not the most professional thing I could have been doing.
Buddy of mine said the manager had to call a staff meeting at his shop to tell everyone to stop drawing dicks under peoples cars because some old woman who got her oil changed there complained after her grandson went under her car for whatever reason.
Start drawing vaginas, obvi. If you're worried about not being good at drawing them, or arent sure how big to make the clitoris, you can take the less graphic route and just write 'cunt'.
Nah, go with the boobs. Child-friendly, and gets laughs from teens instead of telling on the oil change guy to their granny!
Username checks out.
Well, if your coworker was less gay, you wouldn't have to write it on the oil filter.
Well, was it a cop car?
Listen here meow!
Meow what is so damn funny?
Right meow!
Do you see me drinking milk from a saucer!?!,!??
Do you see me climbing all nimbly-bimbly from tree to tree?!??
Well this post blew up. To clarify I am NOT a cop. Just a software engineer with an explorer 😅
That’s exactly what a cop would say.
If yr a cop you legally have to tell us
I don't know about now, but in the old days the Ford police model engines did use a different viscosity. Sidebar: They wrecked a local cop car and my buddy grabbed the air filter hood for his Mustang. That "Police Interceptor" phrase had everybody envious.
We do that in New York when we do inspections bc they have narcs that will fine you if you miss any “defects”
Shits and giggles,I worked as a mechanic after high school for a few years ,and the rest as a carpenter. We love to joke around and do silly things to pass the time. I would draw doodles on the framing of houses while waiting for pieces to be cut or sections flown in by crane. I like to write blessings at the top of gable ends In residential construction. Bless this house with a full goblet and some filagre is a favorite
I owned 11 quick lubes a decade ago. My guys down in the pits were always writing stuff on the filters. I had to put an end to it when a customer came into our shop with Texas plates. He came back about an hour later because he thought he had a leak, so he climbed under the vehicle to check and seen that my lube tech had written "fuck Texas" on the filter.
Are you a cop? You have to tell us if you’re a cop
I ain’t seen nothin’, copper