At least you used you're head and brought this up. I personally do not like ELS. "It adds realism." Perhaps it visually adds realism, but a car with flapping doors that's indestructible is far from real in my opinion. The stobe mod adds just enough spunk to make the emergency vehicles satisfying. Not to mention the crashes caused by ELS. Switch to V5? Correct me if I'm wrong, but V5 doesn't support AI to use ELS, so you have AI patrol vehicles running around with bugged lights and while V6 fixes that, it still causes a lot of crashes. I stick to in-game modded cars (Ekalb's Buffalo Interceptor for example), and I enjoy the game just fine. Now it's just a matter of finding a few who want to play multiplayer.