HMC Quattroporte assaulted

[Lacquer Peel]

On 10/19/2020 at 6:46 PM, primeradoner said:

My username may be a clue but I cant recall a single P11 that passed through our yard having a multi link system the same as a P10. We did have some oddballs though such as a very early H reg P10 with a 8v Bluebird engine and another two P10s which had dealer fitted weber conversions.

Did some P10s come with electronic carburettors? I can see the Weber conversion being desirable. I briefly had a Sunny estate with an electronic carb and it strangled the performance. 

[primeradoner]

5 hours ago, Lacquer Peel said:

Did some P10s come with electronic carburettors? I can see the Weber conversion being desirable. I briefly had a Sunny estate with an electronic carb and it strangled the performance. 

Yes some of the later ones had a cat and emission control crap fitted to the modified carb. Ironically if you stripped off all the electronics and removed the metering needle  they went round the track like a stabbed rat. IIRC they had bigger chokes than the non cat ones. Ive still got a set in my lockup.

[HMC]

Fleet news, the boys at Kingston and Wimbledon taxis have mot’d the tx2. It failed on the handbrake.  Collection and Delivery slated for Monday/Tuesday. It’s currently advertising ZOOM, I do hope they don’t peel the ads off. It may be the ultimate family wagon as there’s a partition and an intercom. Handy for rowdy offspring.
 

Pug news. It failed to start last week. I ran the battery down a bit trying and resigned myself to charging and testing the battery. 

Anyway, I took the tools up to take the battery out today and thought I’d give it a quick try. Clutch in (not very mechanically sympathetic but less stuff to crank over) and it started. Well done Peugeot! Will need an eye keeping on it and will check out the health of the battery tomorrow.

So it turns out the reliable choice is the Alfa 166, which stood in for the 206 last week on the school run.

[warren t claim]

On 11/7/2020 at 5:48 PM, HMC said:

Fleet news, the boys at Kingston and Wimbledon taxis have mot’d the tx2. It failed on the handbrake.  Collection and Delivery slated for Monday/Tuesday. It’s currently advertising ZOOM, I do hope they don’t peel the ads off. It may be the ultimate family wagon as there’s a partition and an intercom. Handy for rowdy offspring.
 

Pug news. It failed to start last week. I ran the battery down a bit trying and resigned myself to charging and testing the battery. 

Anyway, I took the tools up to take the battery out today and thought I’d give it a quick try. Clutch in (not very mechanically sympathetic but less stuff to crank over) and it started. Well done Peugeot! Will need an eye keeping on it and will check out the health of the battery tomorrow.

So it turns out the reliable choice is the Alfa 166, which stood in for the 206 last week on the school run.

Are they selling it fitted with a meter?

[HMC]

On 11/10/2020 at 9:24 PM, warren t claim said:

Are they selling it fitted with a meter?

No without the meter

[HMC]

Where to mister ?!

[warren t claim]

1 minute ago, HMC said:

No without the meter

If you want the whole taxi experience I've got an old keinzle meter head you can have. 

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, HMC said:

Where to mister ?!

hah they left the adverts on it, you need to get some full sized autoshite ones made up for it

I look forward to seeing how you get on with it, do keep us updated on how its goes!  

[brownnova]

This is awesome!! 

[Zelandeth]

Excellent.  Utterly awful from a dynamic perspective but probably utterly dependable motoring there.  I assume it's the emission regs which is looking these off so cheaply rather than any mechanical issues.

Have driven a few of the old Fairways...and nearly bought a D plate one (twice), but have never even been in one of those...fancy a shot of one now out of sheer curiousity.

Bit like when Bluebird were selling off a lot of their Alexander PS bodied Volvo B10M buses.  The then MD was a bus enthusiast, and we were discussing it and he'd said that if I could come up with the £650 they were being offered for scrap that he'd make sure I got a good one.  It was the DDA regs at the time which had rendered them essentially worthless overnight.

I did spend some considerable effort to see if I could find somewhere to store one, but it was sadly not to be.  Plus needing a cat D licence was a slight issue, though it was looking like that was going to work out at the time...

[dave j]

Love it! Did some poor sod have to drive it down from London or was it transported? 

[HMC]

11 minutes ago, dave j said:

Love it! Did some poor sod have to drive it down from London or was it transported? 

Transported.

[HMC]

It comes with some service history........

[HMC]

The office.

 

[wuvvum]

Blimey, look at all that wood*.

[Supernaut]

Phwoar, all that wood* must mean it's a top of the range Gold edition then!

Get you!

[HMC]

Fully stickered up from its 15 year life in london

[HMC]

Motive power: 2.4  Ford duratorq (under the grime) Plus all that service history again on the slam panel and ancillaries 

[timolloyd]

What’s it smell like inside?

[warren t claim]

Rev the bollocks off it in Park and see how much soot comes out of the exhaust. 

[BorniteIdentity]

14 hours ago, warren t claim said:

Rev the bollocks off it in Park and see how much soot comes out of the exhaust. 

And get one of the kids to film it for AS TV.

 

[SmokinWaffle]

16 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

hah they left the adverts on it, you need to get some full sized autoshite ones made up for it

I look forward to seeing how you get on with it, do keep us updated on how its goes!  

If @HMC is up for this I'll gladly bust out Photoshop...

I've had a hankering for a London Cab for a while but I don't know why - looks like I can live vicariously through this thread for a while

[NorthernMonkey]

16 hours ago, Supernaut said:

Phwoar, all that wood* must mean it's a top of the range Gold edition then!

Get you!

I think* it’s just the way he’s sat....

 

[Rocket88]

Any timing chain chatter when starting ?

[Zelandeth]

What the heck are those dash air vents out of?  I know I recognise them but can't place where from and it's bugging the hell out of me...

[HMC]

29 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

What the heck are those dash air vents out of?  I know I recognise them but can't place where from and it's bugging the hell out of me...

Not sure. I think the heater controls are Nissan.

[Noel Tidybeard]

30 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

What the heck are those dash air vents out of?  I know I recognise them but can't place where from and it's bugging the hell out of me...

ford

sierror?

granada/scorp

[Noel Tidybeard]

This 2005 LTI Taxis TX 2 Silver on numberplate LM05 HWS was first registered on Thursday 23rd of June 2005. The numberplate LM05HWS was first registered near Stanmore. At an estimated 12,707 miles, this car has done a lower than average number of miles for its age. It was painted black previously.

 

lol at mileage guesstimate

[Noel Tidybeard]

vents are fester mk2

[warren t claim]

On 11/12/2020 at 7:06 PM, Nyphur said:

What time are you on til?

 

 

Sadly that's utter bollocks. Questions I'm usually asked are,

Which all night garage sells booze?

Is the 24 hour brasshouse open in Bootle?

Do you know any numbers active for beak at 3am?

Will you do a cash up front wait and return to Tranmere as I've got to "drop off some keys" to a mate. See above question for the real reason.