You will always get problems with the sliding doors no matter what cab you buy, the mechanism will not stand the amount of banging and slamming they get, the lads in Mansfield have the same problem with their doors, some are only a few months old. I take no notice of what Cab Direct or Jubilee say about their doors a sliding door is a bad door.

yes weve identified a solution we hope, we took the doors off and fixed up a mechanism wherby the doors become driver controlled, rather like buses

still under test will let you know how we go on.

What have Cab Direct said about this?

What have Cab Direct said about this?

yes weve identified a solution we hope, we took the doors off and fixed up a mechanism wherby the doors become driver controlled, rather like buses

still under test will let you know how we go on.

Till some [edited by admin] head pulls the door shut and snaps the mechanism

I think this could well have been a response from Cab Direct, but it is certainly from one of the professional converters.

The solution solves the problem for those buying new vehicles but not for those who have already bought. We have a good few E7's up here and I haven't heard of any problems to date, but on saying that the public up

here have been educated over a few years on how to operate these doors properly.

Maybe if Mr Guests company were to offer a cheap door conversion, further discounted for those who have already bought a vehicle from them their reputation would be improved. Those Chrysler Voyagers have automatic doors and they seem to work very well.

I did say that firstly the E7's I know of don't seem to have the problems defined.

I also said that we have 2 Chrysler Voyagers operating as PH, both of these vehicles have automatic sliding doors and they both work very well indeed.

Maybe if the "guest" poster had identified himself as a driver my asumption that it was a response from a converter would never have been made.

Automatic doors are, I imagine, as suseptable to fault as manual doors. Nidge's concerns therefore are worthy of note as a large number of the people we carry are for whatever reason incapable of following simple operating instruction, even if thats just "sit still and the door will close itself".

B. Lucky

the response is from a taxi driver, who studies problems and comes up with solutions.

one of the problems with cab direct is their conversions are done to a budget of two thirds the cost of purpose built to match the two thirds of running costs

now Nige says they are crap his mate implies they are good, they are what they are.

there is a solution to the door problem, Nige has not studied that solution and has already regected it, thats the problem with our trade, we do that all the time.

its one of those trades where we atract the chancers our turnover of labour is massive, there is a solution to that as well but Nige has rejected that as well without studying it.

but next week he could be off to Watford lobbying for that which hes rejected.

What a very weierd world

All this from a man who's taking money out of his workmates pockets.