How Cabbies Get 300K from the Ford P71 CVPI
Interesting article on how Checker Cab is able to maintain a fleet of Ford P71 CVPIs well beyond 100,000 miles:
How Cabbies Get 300K from the Ford CVPI
For their part, some patrol officers and police unions consider police cars with 100K miles a real officer safety issue; high mileage police cars may put both the officer and the public at risk. And for their part, the auto companies are totally silent. No one in the auto industry knows how long a police car can or should last, or if they do, they aren’t telling.
Well, the waters beyond 100K miles, and even beyond 200K miles, have been fully charted and documented by many of the nation’s taxi companies.
To find out at what mileage the super durable police sedan turns into a money pit, exactly when it goes “high maintenance,” we called a cab. Not just any cab, but Checker Cab, one of the largest taxi companies in North America. Checker Werks in downtown Chicago is the outfit that services all these cabs. We spoke to Mike Puccia, the shop supervisor. Checker Werks maintains a total of 1300 retired police cars until odometer readings of between 200K and 300K miles.