Building a Chevy Tahoe Patrol Car 

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It’s a SSV. All police package and special service vehicles from all manufactures come bare. An upfit has to be done to add the equipment. Some can be added at factory level, with up charges. But almost all agencies have their vehicle upfitted, or done by a company that upfits vehicles.

@@PTRRanger951 Not true. Many are delivered fully outfitted with lights and electronic equipment. Swapping out the wheels here is a dead giveaway. Nice grocery getter for the soccer mom.

@@landrover4444 almost none are delivered with full lights are siren. They are not built from the factory that way. I know because I spec out vehicles for my agency. Ford offers some lighting packages, not one vehicle maker offers a fully outfitted vehicle, nor have they ever. The vehicle in the video IS a police package it’s the SSV. When a certain package is ordered it will include certain wheels. The wheels here are with the heavy duty tow package. It replaces the 17” steel wheels with 18” aluminum wheels. Every single department in the country has to outfit their own vehicles. Some agencies, like Placer, do it in house, with their own people. Other send it to a company that does it. The giveaway on this are the spot lights. They didn’t install them. The spotlights are only available on police package or SSV vehicles from GM. They can be added after the fact, but they did not install them so it was speced that way. They ordered it like that at their dealer, GM built it, sent it to Kerr to have the police stuff, like the additional wiring installed, and then shipped to the selling dealership. Then it was picked up by Placer and they built it to their needs. But no, this is NOT a grocery getter Tahoe. It was sold as a SSV. Which the price tag is usually around 35k. It is not an LT, LTZ, Z71 or any other model. It’s strictly a PPV or an SSV. And no agency can buy a Tahoe fully outfitted from the factory. They can buy the vehicle THAN add on the equipment through GM, which it will then be up fitted by Kerr, who is a vehicle outfitter that contracts with GM. Kerr will then build it to the agencies spec. Only Ford offers some packages, but not one is a full blown roll off the assembly line and go to work that second.

@@PTRRanger951 Ford offers several light packages and also those wheels that homeboy was swapping out. Spot lights. Etc. Everyone knows this. That's why FDNY and NYPD got stuck with forward facing blue lights on their Ford Explorers (cough, sorry, police interceptor utilities) because (drum roll) they came from the factory that way.

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@@PlacerCountySheriffsOffice love it 😭 Gregory T Fry

@@CrazyGuy9812 oh you know.! Just being irresponsible!

Pricedown.

Sid P we buy the police package a Tahoe’s for lower elevations, but we also need some 4x4 Tahoe’s for our Lake Tahoe station and areas that snow frequently in the winter.

@@PlacerCountySheriffsOffice Very cool to see department that thinks of all angles. Thanks for the reply and stay safe!

I’m with you. I thought the black ones where standard to Police Package

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Jordyn Mills yea no

Driving police car / impersonating a cop is illegal.

I believe that manufacturers build cars specially fitted for police departments and then the departments buy them.

Departments usually auction the aluminum wheels off or trade them in to the dealership for more than the cost of the steel wheels, actually reducing the overall vehicle cost. Aluminum wheels are not suitable for law enforcement work due to reduced strength as the previous poster mentioned. But it's typical for people who are not even in the law enforcement profession to criticize without actually having any knowledge on the subject.

Eric Boyd - License and Registration please sir.

Can you explain the bunch? They vehicle actually has very minimal equipment in it. And the wheels are cheaper and easier to maintain than the ones that came on it. They are just black steel rims. Maybe you are blind, but they took off the fancy silver painted aluminum wheels. Wheels were also probably switched out to keep costs down as they were normally 18 inch wheels that come with the tow package. The pursuit Tahoes have 17 inch wheels. Switching them to the 17 inch means they can order one type of tire, keeping the costs down while having large stock on hand. But I mean you wouldn’t know anything about that since you watch a time lapse video and complain when you have zero knowledge of how a agency works.