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MR T
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:58 am 
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If you speak to the people selling new TX4's they will tell you there is no problem....But.. if you speak to the people in the workshop.. they will tell you there's one or two a month that are having to have new engines..... and as for what may be happening... I do not know... and in all truth.... do not want to know.... I'll be sticking to the Nissan 27.. for many years to come...


This may well be true Trevor, but you know as well as I do the standards of maintenance that some owners and garages go for is zilch!

How many use an oil flush? How many even bother changing the oil every 10'000? I always insist my garage does this. I had a rental heap when I first started out, it had the Rover engine, and the oil looked like tar. Some folks just don't give a [edited by admin] about maintenance.
My understanding is that all vehicles had been fully serviced... at this particular main dealer... and that they even have a fixed time period for swapping the complete engine, one unit out... one complete unit in... I am not saying all the engines are bad.. but it certainly seems that some are.... it could well be a bad batch for instance of oil pumps... I do not know.... but in the past have seen that happen...

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I have a theory, and it is only a theory. i reckon most the engines that are blowing are on those cabs that do motorway runs eg, airport cars, the problem being the bearings on the pulleys are not abel to aithstand the high speeds/engine revs required for motorway driving. We have had a driver who lost a timing belt because the pulleys siezed up and snaped the belt, so we have been told by a non LTI independant diesel specialist
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Well mine has just past 9000 miles and it runs lke new as do all the other TX4's in Maidstone.
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mauvedipstick15
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I paid £5000 in August 2011 for a new TX4 engine from LTI to be fitted by Taxifix in Liverpool,well that engine started knocking its brains on 19/12/13 out with less than 80,000 miles on it.

I have changed the oil every 5000 miles myself and ensured there was always a 50% anti freeze mixture,i will never buy another cab off LTI and after 31 years i have bought a few brand new.
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Sussex
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mauvedipstick15 wrote:
I paid £5000 in August 2011 for a new TX4 engine from LTI to be fitted by Taxifix in Liverpool,well that engine started knocking its brains on 19/12/13 out with less than 80,000 miles on it.

I have changed the oil every 5000 miles myself and ensured there was always a 50% anti freeze mixture,i will never buy another cab off LTI and after 31 years i have bought a few brand new.

Surely it doesn't mean another new engine? :sad:

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mauvedipstick15
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I have sourced a Nissan 2.7 with 132,000 miles and will convert it,i have heard on the grapevine that a Euro 5 spec has gone down!!!
but i have NOT confirmed this yet.I know there is nobody in Liverpool buying new lti cabs ,unless they are new to the trade and know no better.I think there are still a lot going down but people are just converting them to nissan engines.
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GBC
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LTC are working on a hybrid with their new bosses at Geeley.

I think the VM period will soon be over, it seems Geeley has bigger plans for the Taxi side of its business.

If they did get a reliable engine in there, along with a Vito with RWS that works, and the Nissan Nv200 (if it works?) at least we're talking some serious choice for the future.
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