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 Post subject: Fairway electrics
PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:20 am 
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Hi there

My Fairway has just come back from havign a replacement windscreen - during the process (which took several weeks and involved the company breaking ten windscreens) the taxi was left in the rain with a non sealing windscreen and water ran down behind the dash and into the footwells...

anyway now it has come back the rear door alarm continually sounds , accompanied by thr LH and RH door open lights on the dash - and neither front or rear interior lights work.

Have checked all doors are closed and door switches move in and out correctly - but as it shows both doors beign open i feel it must be a dash fault rather than an individual door switch.

Any ideas ?


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 Post subject: Re: Fairway electrics
PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:04 am 
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crawleyfairway wrote:
Hi there

My Fairway has just come back from havign a replacement windscreen - during the process (which took several weeks and involved the company breaking ten windscreens) the taxi was left in the rain with a non sealing windscreen and water ran down behind the dash and into the footwells...

anyway now it has come back the rear door alarm continually sounds , accompanied by thr LH and RH door open lights on the dash - and neither front or rear interior lights work.

Have checked all doors are closed and door switches move in and out correctly - but as it shows both doors beign open i feel it must be a dash fault rather than an individual door switch.




Any ideas ?



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 Post subject: Re: Fairway electrics
PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:06 pm 
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crawleyfairway wrote:
Any ideas ?

What a nightmare.

I suggest you get a decent car electrics man to have a play. One that specialises in cabs would be good.

But not an easy job. :sad:

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take it back to whoever let it get rain soaked, they caused it


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wannabeeahack wrote:
take it back to whoever let it get rain soaked, they caused it


I would not let them near it if they can break 10 windscreens what will be left of the cab after they finish with it :shock:


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employ an auto electrician and invoice the windscreen company for the work.

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 Post subject: Re: Fairway electrics
PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 7:13 pm 
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crawleyfairway wrote:
Hi there

My Fairway has just come back from havign a replacement windscreen - during the process (which took several weeks and involved the company breaking ten windscreens) the taxi was left in the rain with a non sealing windscreen and water ran down behind the dash and into the footwells...

anyway now it has come back the rear door alarm continually sounds , accompanied by thr LH and RH door open lights on the dash - and neither front or rear interior lights work.

Have checked all doors are closed and door switches move in and out correctly - but as it shows both doors beign open i feel it must be a dash fault rather than an individual door switch.

Any ideas ?




Crawley is'nt not far from London.

I can recommend two Taxi electricians.

One is the guy who works in Ascotts Taxi centre in Deptford, and two, is a little independant guy who works next to Trevors Taxis in Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green.

Both have worked on taxis for decades, I would imagine they would sort your problem out very quickly.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 12:27 am 
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grumpy wrote:
employ an auto electrician and invoice the windscreen company for the work.

second that :wink:


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Thanks for the advice - I'll see what they say !


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