My London Taxi

Anyone out there know how diificult it is to get rid of the emissions control stuff on these cabs ?

I am very very pleased to say that I just bought myself a lovely new cab. It's an N reg Fairway Driver Plus, which belonged to a del...

Sorry to you all for not posting for a very long time. My dear old taxi fell into disrepair, and has been scrapped. However, I am about to s...

Thanks to a little persuasion, and a sudden influx of common sense, I have decided to withdraw my cab from sale. She is safely stored off ro...

My taxi is now for sale. It has no MOT, and no tax. Good bits: A very smart steering wheel Nice new chrome boot handle, filler cap, and wind...

Some time ago I decided to take a friends advice and bought myself an old London Taxi to use as a family car. I spent ages trawling the inte...

I have just had a very interesting email from John Bradley over at London Taxi Exports, outlining what is happening with LTI spares for our ...

I rang round everywhere and it was a bloody nightmare. The problem you see is that the Bozo on the end of the phone insists on asking you ...

This is the sort of thing that really pisses me off. What exactly is the point of crushing a perfectly useful British Icon ? I'm going t...

I have discovered on the LONDONTAXICABS group ( which is brilliant by the way ) that you can get roof racks from halfords. Just ask for one...

Can anyone tell me what these 3 things are ?

This is the Nissan 2.7 Bullet-Proof Diesel Engine. You will need one of these in your cab otherwise you will be buggered.

Now that the sun has finally come out the weather is noticeably warmer, I have realised that I cant turn the heater off. My chap at garage e...

They are large virtually indestructible vehicles They are easily one of the safest cars on the road They are built on a solid chassis They c...

Fairway This version of the FX-4 went into production in 1989. It was powered by a Nissan 2.7 litre diesel, coupled to a choice of a Nissan ...

You can try eBay but be careful, there are definitely some dodgy deals going on there. If you register on eBay you can do a search of comple...

Brilliant fun. First off you get to pretend to be a taxi driver. You can lean your head towards the partition window and start rabbitting on...

Pictured above is the 1996 Fairway Driver I bought on Ebay for £1900. I definitely paid more than it was worth - I reckon £1500 would have b...

There are plenty of places to get spare parts, both new and used. The good news is that for the most-part they are very cheap, and well buil...

You are only entitled to use the bus lanes if you are a licenced taxi ... and you must pay the congestion charge. There are rumours that out...

Apparently there is a place in Wandsworth where they steam clean the underside of the cab, then underseal it for £45. There's another pl...

Cabs have been designed to be easily serviced. My mechanic Jim put the cab up on the lift so that he could check everything underneath. Chan...

Watch out ! Make sure you switch everything off when you leave your cab or you will come back to a flat battery. If you don't close the ...

If your fan belt breaks, a whole bunch of odd things start happening. First off, you will get a red light in the centre of the dashboard. Th...

When you fill up with diesel, you will sometimes get a bit of water in with the mix. This happens a lot when the tanks at the petrol station...

Lets face it, you are not going to blast down the M3 at 90 mph. But you will manage 70 on the flat bits. It's a bit noisy and after abou...

You will of course get flagged down from time to time, and occasionally asked for directions which can cause a certain amount of confusion w...

Tyres are cheap- around £50 for a brand new one or 20 quid for a remould. Tyre sizes are 175R16 98/96Q if that means anything to you. Fairw...

Not as nice as the power steering on my old mercedes, but it works. Makes a sort of faint fizzing sound when you are parking, but this is qu...

These are the two round things on the front. With new bulbs in they are very bright and light up the road nicely.

They use diesel, and you should make sure you use the cheapest stuff you can get. You can even chuck a gallon of vegetable oil into a full t...

The back doors are 50 inches wide by 50 inches high. You can just about slide a pub piano through the middle. Fairway dimensions: 4.56 metre...

You can add a seat in the front passenger side... most people buy a tip seat from the breakers yard and get it fitted at the garage. You wil...

Expect a few holes where signs have been fitted and lots of stickers. Just about everything is fixed with self tapping screws, so if you hav...

Solid and heavy, prone to small rust patches just under the paint surface. If you really feel like it, you can rub it down and patch it up, ...

I broke down with a flat battery once in North London, so I popped the bonnet and stood staring blankly into the engine bay. I reckon it was...

There are 2 heaters fitted to the cab, one for the driver and one for the passengers. The drivers' heater works just like it does in nor...

Be careful when starting up your cab that no one is standing next to the exhaust pipe... They will be splattered with black oily soot. This ...

ENGINE Type - Diesel Cylinders - 4 Bore - 96mm Stroke - 92mm Capacity - 2664cc Valve/Rocker clearance - 0.35mm Compression Ratio - 21.8 to 1...

Heres a chart showing bulbs and wattages for your cab...

Our people carrier has just clocked up 300,000 miles and is going as strong as ever. It is sleek, black and beautiful and draws admiring gla...

And here is a Fairway fuse chart...

General construction Every cab must comply in all respects with the requirements of any Acts and Regulations relating to motor vehicles in f...

If you have the slide down sort of windows, they can be opened fairly easily by someone who wants to get into your cab. The boot is pretty s...