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Morning chaps

Just got the rust bucket through another 6 monthly mot test!!

Will be needing a couple of repair panels (at the very least), what i need are the panels that sit inside the rear doors that have the hole and blind nut that hold the coutesy lights.

No one in Bristol has them and been given a number of a guy who is meant to manufacture them but he seemed reluctant to sell me any and then never returned my call !

Advice appreciated thanks.

Why does he bother making them then, jeez some way to run a business. He'll be one of the whingers too that moans that times are hard.

contact CC by PM and you could get a new tx1 as someone in his manor is selling one it may be ok and you could use yours for parts

Cheers for the advice skippy..............................a little extreme me thinks for a couple of repair panels though


Anyway my lovely licensing authority wouldn't allow it!

T&S Liverpool 0151 933 8585

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Cheers did you have any success? I might get a couple of new panels for mine. If they're the right price it'd save the bother of a lot of welding and filling and sanding and spraying and sanding and spraying and sanding and spraying and buffing

Why not dispense with doing all the above every 6 months, and buy a metrocab and fit your engine into it
Alegidly it could be possible to do

I've only just got my TX1! It actually looks very tidy but there are a few rust spots in the usual problem places that I want to sort out before it gets serious.

I've heard Metrocabs are much better behaved where bodywork is concerned but to be honest I much, much prefer the look of Fairways and TXes

Hi Stewy

Repair panels are now available on good old fleabay, two suppliers, the more expensive one, (approx £25) is the better quality of the two, ( i have one of each)

Our local council run mot station has just discovered that the outer sills on the TX1 have great big holes under the plastic sill cover thats probably been there for years , but they've just thought to have a look under there !

poor finish to the ts ones
the ones on ebay look good

TX1s are rust buckets?. I'd have thoughtafter the fairways LTI would have got it right.Or am I wrong?

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Very wrong Bacon Mine started rusting from the time it left the showroom and continued to do so in the 10 years i have owned it!

Thats interesting to hear. I was amazed at the atrocious fit(obviously from new) of things like sills on my fairway and the schoolboy errors of building in massive mud and water traps on a design that has years to be improved.
maybe its a deliberate ploy,that after building a vehicle that lasts for many years mechanically (and if it weren't it would hardly be worth having as a taxi in the first place) inbuilt rust traps make it fall to bits around its still running engine.
No wonder we don't have a car industry anymore .

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Selling Imperial tools for old cars.

the tx1 is far better than the fairway when it comes to bodywork

at least the wings don't visibly flap around when your driving along and the doors are thicker then a cardboard box
and your face up against the windscreen while yer arse is almost in the passenger compartment

nope the tx is much better although the older ones are begining to go now