Red does not have an official use (Although someone did say to me once it was reserved for royal use?!?!), so I know a few who run Red lenses and this seems to make the police alot happier, they then change lenses when get to show. This ment whilst driving no amount of playing with your lights panel would make them go, once you reach the car shows and on private ground you pop the hood turn the isolator off and play with your pretty lights and sirens.īUT, and here's the BUT it's alot better idea to put a cover on them aswel, although you should be OK to have them on show blue lightbars do attract to much problems (Especially from officers who are not 100% versed on the light laws), As in the UK Blue is for Police/Fire and Abulance, Green for doctors, And yellow for maintenance and vehicle recovery etc. Basically friends of mine (And I used to) have US Police car replica's (CHP, NYPD, LAPD etc) now what we did was have an isolator switch in the trunk or under the hood where we could kill power to all lights/sirens. Well in the UK here leagally you are allowed to have them on a car, the trouble comes if you switch them on, I think there is a sub condition that if the car is on the public highway that the lights must not be able to be turned on from inside the vehicle. I have personally seen replica cop cars on the road and in most cases they had a cover over the light or light bar and even had a vinyl sign over the emblem on the door stating it was a "show car" not an authentic police car. Also laws on private property vary from driving down the road. Generally though yellow or amber light bars are "ok" as a signal for caution, but you might get hassled if you just drive around with them flashing when there is no caution.Īs for a type of special use permit to display a car with blue lights, agian read the laws of your area, they are generally pretty detailed and have sections devoted to display and show cars. Would those be legal for an ECTO-1? Not screen accurate, but a big orange light bar would still look pretty cool.Īgain you would need to check your state and local laws. Around here non-emergency vehicles that still use flashers (game wardens, road crews, etc.) use either green or orange lights that rotate at a much slower rate than emergency lights.
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