What is the average life expectancy of a 2000 ford crown victoria police interceptor?

Question

the average life expectancy of a crown vic PI that has been well maintained.. please no crazy answers people lets all be adults. i jus want to know because police seem to be using them for quite some time. jus want to know the average amount of mile they can take before they start giving in if they are well maintained

Answer 1

Our local cars have in excess of 100k on them.

The CV PI's from a couple towns over have almost 200k on them.

No reason with excellent maintenance they won't go past 200k.

Fleet vehicles are excellent usually about maintenance as they are on a set schedule.

I owned a pepsi truck for several years that went over 300k without rebuilding engine or trans.

Answer 2

Depends on the maintenance.

Answer 3

A long long long time.  They have a monster V8.  All the suspension parts are heavy duty.  They should last over 200,000 miles

Answer 4

I happen to be a fleet tech and work on the CV PI's. They are Tanks! As long as the maintenance is done they will get 200,000 easily. They are however NOT fuel friendly at all, they like to drink it if you have a heavy foot.Good luck.

Answer 5

As was said by most, depends upon how they were used and abused as I've seen "well maintained" as you said cop cars have very loose suspensions and many other problems as the local municipalities will take care of them by doing basic maintaince (oil and filter, brakes) but usually won't repair other items such as a loose front end until it will put a car out of service.

But I've seen many in the 200,000 mile range that were retired and people use them as daily transportation, the guy from NYC is correct as some places will run them 1/2 million miles (taxis and or police cars even) but are pulled off the road and everything is fixed no matter what.. those are the cars I would recommend in that kind of market.

I've actually seen police cars hit the 200,000 mark in one jurisdiction, be sold at auction and repurposed back as police cars in poorer counties and run them for another 150-200k miles

Answer 6

I fix them in NYC as taxicabs,by the time they retired (after 5 years since the day put in service, TLC mandatory rule) the mileage of some cabs are almost half a million miles.Still running strong though,got to pass TLC inspection bumper to bumper every 4 months in order to be on the road.

Answer 7

if it's an actual retired cop car then I would steer away from it. cops drive the c**p out for those things. otherwise it's just like any other car. it's all in how you take care of it. if it's well taken care of then it you should be able to see around 150,000 miles out of it.