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 Post subject: URGENT TX4 owners
PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:35 pm 
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3 TX4,s have gone down in Manchester in the last week. The oil light suddenly come on for no reason. The driver stops the vehicle checks the oil , its OK. The cab is towed in to the main dealers, they remove the oil filter and there is no oil in the filter. When engineers inspect the engine the bottom end is badly worn and a new short motor is suggested (6 Grand would you believe?). Now news has hit the ranks there has been a product recall on LTI oilfilters. It has been kept quiet. One garage in Denton to the east of the city has recalled his customers and found four of the suspect oil filters fitted. It should be said that this garage is a privatley owned LTI service agent and is known by the trade to be one of the best around.
The main dealer, M+O have yet to come clean,but have admitted to the product recall.
If you or anybody you know breaks down over the coming weeks, demand they save your oil filter. I will post the faulty batch numbers when I recieve them.


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 Post subject: Re: URGENT TX4 owners
PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:54 pm 
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When engineers inspect the engine the bottom end is badly worn and a new short motor is suggested (6 Grand would you believe?).

FFS. :sad:

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Another nail in the coffin of LTI, how much more can they take??


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I wonder if these were chinese manufactured oil filters ?


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edders23 wrote:
I wonder if these were chinese manufactured oil filters ?


Probably made by the same mob that made their radiators eusasmiles.zip


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 Post subject: TX4 update
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Further to my post yesterday. On the day after the first cab broke down M+O sent a vehicle to collect all the oil filters from the garage which had last serviced the vehicle. Further conversations have revealed that another 8 vehicles have gone down in London. This is UNCONFIRMED at the moment.
If anyone gets any further info can they post it . I think a representative group action may be in the pipeline


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Is there anything further on this?
I have heard that all oil filters have been withdrawn and new ones are going or have gone to the service agents.
Bottom line, is it safe to have a service?

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Chris the Fish wrote:
Is there anything further on this?
I have heard that all oil filters have been withdrawn and new ones are going or have gone to the service agents.
Bottom line, is it safe to have a service?


try supplying your own filters - ask for crossland filters at your motor factors, its only a transit engine int it?

if its Tdci (not TDdi) ensure the fuel filter has a "tick" in the right box on the outside of the filter - tdci filters cost £25 but have a finer mesh to protect common rail parts/pump and injectors, oild filters are about a fiver...


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I think the TX4 has the Italian engine. VRM or some thing like that. The fantastic one that no-one has ever heard of.

Theres a post on here somewhere (angry cabbie) on you tube rings a bell which seemed to suggest it was fitted in chrysler vehicles in the USA and there was a class action pending


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its a VM engine

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The latest vehicle to benefit from a 2.5 L VM Motori diesel engine is the purpose-built LTI (London Taxis International) London style taxicab - the TX4 is the first of the TX range of taxis to include a VM Motori engine.


ask your local factor about filters, you want crossland, fram or mahle

VM supplied the diesel engines for the SD1 rover and the LDV Maxus vans and are a major manufacturer

they also supply JEEP with engines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_Motori


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I think it may help if you had the correct information my friend. the oil filters didnt cause the 3 tx4 engines to go down @ all. i have a friend in the service dept @ m&o london. he usualy very straight with me known him for years, he was talking to the lads @ manchester and apparently the 3 tx4s that engines have gone down was due to them just not being serviced. one not having a service for over 30,000 miles. any body mechanically minded surely sees that as the root cause of the problem. not dodgy oil filters!!


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:21 am 
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also its vm that makes the oil filters and supplies m&o so therefore a vm issue not an lti issue. :roll: just to clarify all those so quick to jump down ltis throat even though they dont know all the facts does kinda make me laugh. :lol: :lol:


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