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So you're getting all excited about getting 100k out of an engine!!

My fairway has 500k on the same engine and is far from a smoker.

I'm not doubting the ford engine is cleaner but the OP asked about a Navara engine, not a fairway.

Yes thats correct my query was refering a modern TD Nissan engine not the fairway/TX1 engine.

yes it may be on 500k but its like driving a classic car ie [edited by admin]. I expect my TX2's to last a long time as they get looked after and are serviced on a regular basis

It dont matter what engine you want to replace the original one with TBH - show me one that has been done and is currently being used for hire and reward legally.
I was just using that as an example.

That about sums it up

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Well thank god that they dont allow the E7 and other crap like that down this way.
Maybe you cant service the TX2 properly where you are hence they keep braking down

My TX2 was quite reliable, but awful on fuel, so I took advantage of a loophole and bought a skoda

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
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Judging by the amount of violence around there is no way in the world I would swap my TX's and their sealed cabs for a car !!!
In fact I would not even do the job.

Anyway we have to have wheelchair accessible cabs anyway so it would not happen.

You are quite an unpleasant chap with an over-inflated ego, I am not surprised you have never been able to make a 2.7 Nissan run clean.. it takes a small amount of knowledge which you seem to sadly lack, and as for reducing the price.... you also show a limited knowledge, you seem to think cab sales are limited to your district... you live in a small world.... I have converted a great many vehicles over the years and had them independently inspected by trained insurance inspectors and passed with flying colours. 100,000 miles on a TX2 your problems have only just started.

There are many converted TX 2's in Liverpool and they are making a great deal more once the Ford bundle of crab is removed , why use the 27 Nissan, maybe it's because you can buy all the parts for them off the shelf and very reasonably priced.

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

What's is over inflated. I am talking facts plain and simple.
Dont try and tell me Liverpool are all running great nice cabs.

Almost 3/4 of the cabs that have ever been been failed or crashed and repaired or just retired from service in the south east area are sold to Liverpool.
Ask any owner driver down south and they will say the same thing - They get all our crap. Plain and simple.

Now trying to attack me for speaking the law just shows YOU up to be unpleasent.
Where is the ego - whats that all about.

I say again show me a photo of a plated TX2 with a different engine because their aint one in this part of the UK.
Plus trying to say that the log book gets changed just because you put a different engine in is a joke.
So leave out the personal stuff and show me some facts.

So Liverpool get all your crap ... it makes you wonder why there is a LTI main agent right in the middle of Liverpool that sells hundreds of new vehicles each year in Liverpool.. you are right about your vehicles being crap... I would suggest that you invest in some mechanical knowledge you obviously think that your conditions of Licence apply throughout the UK.... wrong ..... it doesn't make your conditions any better.. it just means somebody in your trade excepted a bundle of crap. and as for wasting my time taking pictures of hackney vehicles......... you must have nothing to do .... dream on.To me you sound like you're trying to justify spending a fortune on three bundles of crap, and trying to convince yourself you made the smart move.

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

No need for me to dream on pal.
Smith and Humphries in Bexhill the southern main dealer will confirm that all part exes go there.
I have sold 2 cabs my self via ebay and both to Liverpool companies who recondition them before putting them back to work.

No lies just facts.
I asked to to provide facts to back up your claims of 'loads of converted TX2's in Liverpool'.

I see you cant so there is no need to get the hump with me about it.
I am not trying to justify spending lots on my cabs. I either buy them or dont have a business - that a real no brainer aint it

Until some brings out something better we are stuck with them.

Why do you think a saving of £10,000+ on a new vehicle, and a fuel bill saving of at least 30% is a bad thing?

And just cos you don't want one, why should your council stop others having a choice?

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devilhunter
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"I doubt any local authority would licence such a major modification on the vehicle and I hate to think how much the insurance would go up by not to mention making it almost unsaleable in the bargain."
Here in London some Fairways and Metro's have been converted to LPG.
So you are wrong on your first point but 100% correct on the second (unsaleable).

In the 1990s many FX4Rs & FX4Ss had a Nissan 2.5 engine installed.

The Ford engine is not up to the stop start London traffic,hence the problems and the resale values.
Anyone tried fitting the Metro TTT engine into a TX2?

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I remember seeing that conversion advertised.

I also remember the 'Q' cabs!

Damn, I'm getting old!

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

But there is a world of difference between an old relic FX or metro cab and wrecking a very modern 2002 onwards vehicle which still has a fairly high resale value (at least 6 grand plus for a 02 plate.
I have seen big block chevy lumps in an FX but it dont mean they are any good as a taxi.
I would just love to see a converted TX2 and judging by the response here so would most of you guys.
If loads are being modified why isnt it being reported in the taxi press.
I have had PH&T monthly delivered for the past 6 years and have never ever read so much as a single sentence about changing the engine on a TX2 to a Nissan or any other company.