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[spartacus]

Am I allowed to ask, is that the final price!

Well done either way.

[HMC]

For £100 extra they will chuck a years test on it, which I’m going to go for. Straight out of service in London.

Here it is randomly papped whilst at work (anyone recognise where it was taken?)

[Mr Pastry]

25 minutes ago, HMC said:

Here it is randomly papped whilst at work (anyone recognise where it was taken?)

Parliament Square.   

[Cookiesouwest]

No 18 and a couple of randoms please

 

[hairnet]

how much to paignton m9?

[warren t claim]

4 hours ago, HMC said:

So. Ummmmm. 
 

Just don't.

At least being ex London it'll be an auto with no DMF issues. 

Check for rust, rust and more rust. A leaky steering box is a given. Comedy electrics too, check for badly fitted radio wiring. HGF issues aren't uncommon along with autobox problems. 

[BorniteIdentity]

I found myself looking at TX1s last night and considering them as a very viable option for the next chapter in Bornite’s Durable Motoring series.

Would have to be a colour and not black. Don’t want to see a single mum getting mauled in the back of it by a well endowed man in lieu of a £5.35 fare. 

Enjoy. Will have a brace of tickets when you’re bored. 

[AnthonyG]

Less than £500 for a taxi with a year’s MoT seems real value to me. 

Mind you, I am going by FX4/Fairway values from the late 90s/early 00s, maybe those were more popular, due to nostalgia/lack of alternatives.

I find it hard to believe FX4s were more rust resistant than TX’s but they did have the advantage of very solid chassis.  I assume TX’s are proper monocoques? 

[warren t claim]

1 hour ago, BorniteIdentity said:

I found myself looking at TX1s last night and considering them as a very viable option for the next chapter in Bornite’s Durable Motoring series.

Would have to be a colour and not black. Don’t want to see a single mum getting mauled in the back of it by a well endowed man in lieu of a £5.35 fare. 

Enjoy. Will have a brace of tickets when you’re bored. 

The newest TX1 will be getting on for nearly 18 years old now so expect plenty of welding done for "passing" work. The Nissan engine lasts forever but the transmissions, either auto or manual, don't. Build quality os fucking awful at best with plenty of squeaks and rattles from new. Expect 22 mpg auto and 27 mpg manual around the doors. Top speed can vary from 75 mph to just under a 100 with a tailwind.  Some manuals have a very heavy clutch due to the cone wearing out. 

Plenty of the later TX2s were treated to a Nissan engine conversion which works well.  

Bronze spec means vinyl seats and rubber flooring in the back. Silver means a hard wearing rear carpet and tough British Rail fabric seats in the rear and Gold means as Silver but with plenty of fake wood trim and aircon that won't work.

[warren t claim]

9 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

Less than £500 for a taxi with a year’s MoT seems real value to me. 

Mind you, I am going by FX4/Fairway values from the late 90s/early 00s, maybe those were more popular, due to nostalgia/lack of alternatives.

I find it hard to believe FX4s were more rust resistant than TX’s but they did have the advantage of very solid chassis.  I assume TX’s are proper monocoques? 

TX1 &2s have a separate chassis.

Trust me, the Fairway/FX4 rusts just as bad if not worse!

[warren t claim]

Aged Nissan powered cabs can be very poor starters, especially in cold weather.

Paintwork can be fucked due the changing full body wrap ads every year. They do break reasonably well with Gold and Silver trim sought after along with the optional front passenger seat. Tyres are cheap and last forever as do brake pads. Steering dampers give trouble and in the worst case a steering box can shear from the chassis. 

How long a cab lives for can depend on where it spent the first few years of its life. We always avoided Scottish registered cabs as they seemed to attract rust issues along with being worked harder. Ignore mileage and go for a low number of previous keepers, get an owner driven cab if you can.

[Peter C]

Will you go south of the river mate?

[worldofceri]

Yes, but if you want to go from Saltash to Plymouth he’ll go the long way round to avoid the toll.

[Rocket88]

On 11/4/2020 at 8:36 PM, HMC said:

So. Ummmmm. 
 

Would recommend...............mine seems fine.apart from chirrup from timing chain on start up, and sluggishness until warmed up a bit. Getting big service on Monday.

[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!