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Simon369
 Post subject: Cables
PostPosted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:33 pm 
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What is the cable called which connects to the car battery and the taxi meter / computer ??

And what type of areal do I ask for ??

Operator said I need to get the wire and areal before they can connect the computer in the car

This is for private hire

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skippy41
 Post subject: Re: Cables
PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 12:36 am 
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What make of meter, what car is it going into the cable is for the transducer or a pulse cable
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Simon369
 Post subject: Re: Cables
PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 12:16 pm 
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It sounded like the guy said I needed a malbra cable or something,

Its for the sigma taxi meter and the car is a ford mondeo

Thank you.
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 Post subject: Re: Cables
PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:38 pm 
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Simon369 wrote:
It sounded like the guy said I needed a malbra cable or something,

Its for the sigma taxi meter and the car is a ford mondeo

Thank you.


go to a meter fitter, have it fitted, calibrated and the tariff set

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Sussex
 Post subject: Re: Cables
PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:37 pm 
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Simon369 wrote:
It sounded like the guy said I needed a malbra cable or something,

Its for the sigma taxi meter and the car is a ford mondeo

Thank you.

It might be a Can Bus or something like that.

Cost me about £100 4 years ago, thankfully used it on my new one as well.

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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: Re: Cables
PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 8:22 pm 
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Sussex wrote:
Simon369 wrote:
It sounded like the guy said I needed a malbra cable or something,

Its for the sigma taxi meter and the car is a ford mondeo

Thank you.

It might be a Can Bus or something like that.

Cost me about £100 4 years ago, thankfully used it on my new one as well.



The Canbus is part of the vehicles fittings, it controls voltages to different items on the vehicle, a taximeter needs a pulse from a sender (old school) or from the cars ECU, it may need a different cable because of a Canbus

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Sussex
 Post subject: Re: Cables
PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 9:08 pm 
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For my meter to work I needed a can-bus to convert info from the ECU to the meter.

At a cost of £100. :sad:

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Simon369
 Post subject: Re: Cables
PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:32 pm 
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Ok, the operator said it will cost me around 45 quid for both areal and cable, he recommended a place to me but I forgot it, I will find out what cable it is from him on Wednesday and update.
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skippy41
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:33 pm 
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Skodas work of the can bus system, the fitter removed the speedo and connected a double spade connector, put the dash back after running a length of cable to where the meter was going
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:37 pm 
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Sussex wrote:
For my meter to work I needed a can-bus to convert info from the ECU to the meter.

At a cost of £100. :sad:


On my Vauxhall Carlton they chopped the speedo cable and fitted a transponder....price inc in the £200 meter/fitting/fittings/VAT

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Nidge2
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:28 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
Sussex wrote:
For my meter to work I needed a can-bus to convert info from the ECU to the meter.

At a cost of £100. :sad:


On my Vauxhall Carlton they chopped the speedo cable and fitted a transponder....price inc in the £200 meter/fitting/fittings/VAT



They used to stop working when the rust got to them.
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wannabeeahack
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Nidge2 wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
Sussex wrote:
For my meter to work I needed a can-bus to convert info from the ECU to the meter.

At a cost of £100. :sad:


On my Vauxhall Carlton they chopped the speedo cable and fitted a transponder....price inc in the £200 meter/fitting/fittings/VAT



They used to stop working when the rust got to them.


typical vauxhall

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