Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: taxi1990 on June 23, 2023, 10:23:26 am
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I havent but its a big fear of mine, especially as I have big mileage on the taxi.
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I got a puncture on the N11 once with a passenger on board. To make it worse I couldn't get one of the nuts off so yer one had to flag down a different taxi. While I was waiting for breakdown assistance I managed to get the poxy thing off and cancelled the chap that was on his way. That remind me, I must get a bigger and longer wheel brace. One that has a bit of leverage on it to remove those nuts that are almost welded on.
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I got a puncture on the N11 once with a passenger on board. To make it worse I couldn't get one of the nuts off so yer one had to flag down a different taxi. While I was waiting for breakdown assistance I managed to get the poxy thing off and cancelled the chap that was on his way. That remind me, I must get a bigger and longer wheel brace. One that has a bit of leverage on it to remove those nuts that are almost welded on.
what was on the meter when it happened? did he/she pay you?
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I was on the way to Bray and I git the puncture at the Shankill slip road. I stopped the metre while I tried to get the wheel off and when I realised I couldn't I said to her she'd be better off flagging another taxi down. She paid me and fecked off leaving me at the side of the road in the pissings of rain with a wheel brace in my hand that I felt like bouncing off my car because the nut was stuck.
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I was on the way to Bray and I git the puncture at the Shankill slip road. I stopped the metre while I tried to get the wheel off and when I realised I couldn't I said to her she'd be better off flagging another taxi down. She paid me and fecked off leaving me at the side of the road in the pissings of rain with a wheel brace in my hand that I felt like bouncing off my car because the nut was stuck.
A woman wouldnt be any help anyway, trying to change a tyre.
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I had 2, both alternator break-downs.
One was a Chrimbo evening job to the sorting office and back, the car starting acting up on the way there on a FN cash job, yer-man-o went in to the sorting office to collect his package, and then my cab would not start when he returned.
I told him to order another FN and requested no fare but he insisted on paying me a Tenner in cash, the traffic was manic that evening but he got a taxi 8 minutes away and showed me his phone cos I reckoned on seeing the bad traffic the driver would cancel. I recognised the driver Ahmed who was an old base colleague of mine and rang him telling him not to cancel and explaining the situation, Ahmed arrived 15 minutes later so at least the customer was looked after.
Thankfully I had breakdown rescue (€50) on my AXA insurance policy and even given the bad traffic they were there within 40 minutes and lifted the car and brought me and car to my mechanics yard.
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The other was a street fare with a mature woman out to the back end of the satellite village of Carrigaline at 3am on the bank holiday Sunday night of the Oct Jazz festival, the cab started acting up along the way, meter going on/off, lights diming, Etc, but I managed to get it through Carrigaline town and halfway up the hill to her home before it eventually packed up, I asked the lady fer no fare and offered to walk with her the last 500 meters of her journey but she refused my offer and insisted on paying €20 fer her fare.
Again the AXA breakdown truck was with me within 40 minutes.
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Ye, bought what proved to be a shitheap mondeo from someone over in clonshaugh. Within 3 days, with someone in the car the clutch went in the left lane of the quays turning onto o connelly St. Took 90 mins for a rescue truck. Caused major traffic delays. Then 2 days after getting the car back I was dropping someone off outside leinster house. On the way the car start heating up and windows steaming. When they got out outside leinster house, what looked like smoke was bellowing from the bonnet. Turns out there was not a drop of coolant in the car.
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I havent but its a big fear of mine, especially as I have big mileage on the taxi.
About 20 years ago I had to pick up Brendan Graces's daughter from the Red cow hotel to RTE for her Dad's tribute show.
I was parked for a while before she came out. When she got aboard I turned the key...and nothing. I knew straight away it was a faulty starter. She offered to help me kick start the heap into gear. Luckily she was built like Brendan.
So, me, with a hand on the steering wheel and pushing the A-column, and her pushing from the back, down a slope we got a bit of momentum, and I jumped into the driver's seat and kicked the car into second, and hey presto the engine started up.
She was great about it, and I'm sure she regales the story once in a while. 8)
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The other was a street fare with a mature woman out to the back end of the satellite village of Carrigaline at 3am on the bank holiday Sunday night of the Oct Jazz festival, the cab started acting up along the way, meter going on/off, lights diming, Etc, but I managed to get it through Carrigaline town and halfway up the hill to her home before it eventually packed up, I asked the lady fer no fare and offered to walk with her the last 500 meters of her journey but she refused my offer and insisted on paying €20 fer her fare.
Again the AXA breakdown truck was with me within 40 minutes.
Be careful offering free fares, one day they might take you up on it. sure she was more or less home, no way would I give her a free fare.
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The other was a street fare with a mature woman out to the back end of the satellite village of Carrigaline at 3am on the bank holiday Sunday night of the Oct Jazz festival, the cab started acting up along the way, meter going on/off, lights diming, Etc, but I managed to get it through Carrigaline town and halfway up the hill to her home before it eventually packed up, I asked the lady fer no fare and offered to walk with her the last 500 meters of her journey but she refused my offer and insisted on paying €20 fer her fare.
Again the AXA breakdown truck was with me within 40 minutes.
Be careful offering free fares, one day they might take you up on it. sure she was more or less home, no way would I give her a free fare.
On the extremly rare occasion that I do not complete my quest/fare, then no way would I request payment.
Both parties have a duty of care to each other, while sometimes the customers do not uphold their side of the agreement, I always do if it is I or my vehicle that is at fault.
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Once, years ago, got a flat tyre opposite the taxi rank outside Heuston. Had 4 fat Americans on board going to Kilmainham so there was was no way I could limp on. Didn't charge the Americans. But it took forever to get the wheel off and I'm sure the drivers on the rank got a good laugh out of me. None of the feckers came to help a comrade either >:(
I was on the way to Bray and I git the puncture at the Shankill slip road. I stopped the metre while I tried to get the wheel off and when I realised I couldn't I said to her she'd be better off flagging another taxi down. She paid me and fecked off leaving me at the side of the road in the pissings of rain with a wheel brace in my hand that I felt like bouncing off my car because the nut was stuck.
A woman wouldnt be any help anyway, trying to change a tyre.
Well, she coulda mopped the rain off his brow or held up an umbrella?
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when i started drivin i rented an octavia shitbox that was'nt being maintained. 4 full blown breakdowns in 18 months. went to get reverse one night i grinded the gears by accident. when i put it in first there was a loud knocking noise. gearbox fucked. hadda coolant warning light that kept going on and off. told him about it nothing was done. car overheated and refused to start. had this loud vibrating noise when i kicked the clutch pedal. at the biting point the whole car shuddered like fuck. gearstick concreted up. the clutch imploded. told him about it. nothing was done. there was an horrendous peggy dell in the car when i turned the heat on. told him about it nothing was done. brought the car to a mechanic. he undid the cabin filter and it was like the contents of a full hoover hit the floor. scorching hot weather. when i turned the ice cold air on fuckin hot air blowed at me. told him about it. nothing was done. ac needed a fuckin recharge is all. problem is short term greed. the MPO wants to bleed the rental project completely dry for themselves at the expense of their own car. kills them to havta look after their own car. don't understand it. maybe it's not meant to be understood.
never had one breakdown with any car i owned. during the lockdown lovely summer day. friday it was. i put a car interior refresher can in the car and put the ice cold air on circulate. when i came back to the car the red battery light was on. it's so hot maybe i put the car under a lorra stress i thought. it disappeared on and off that friday but came back on late on saturday. i had a chap on a drug run from darndale back to greenwood. darndale was kinda buzzin for some reason with lotsa headbangers out on the street. turns out it was the night the gangster robbie lawlor was shot dead and they were all out celebrating. pulled up outside a gaff and your man said kill the engine it'll wake the neighbours up. when he came back the car would'nt start. bollocksssssssss. lucky i had my noco battery booster in the boot and i connected it and juiced the battery enough to limp home. that was the closest to a breakdown i had.
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I think Octy had a nervous breakdown....does that count?
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With all the abuse and violence over the years, I never broke down in front of a customer. It only happened when the car would not start after sitting in the rank for over 1 hour.
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With all the abuse and violence over the years, I never broke down in front of a customer. It only happened when the car would not start after sitting in the rank for over 1 hour.
Ouch!
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I noticed a puncture on a rank one night and another night the battery went dead.
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Another time I got stuck in snow. Yer man says I'm just a little further, inside of a housing estate in the quaint Irish village at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. I was stuck whilst that pox bag had his feet up in front of his telly. Got out after an hour of fluting around with lumps of cardboard and digging the snow away.
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X ACT same thing happened to me cept in Harolds Cross.Just a little bit more cos its slippy out there….Poxbottle oops
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I shed a tear when a punter told me a sob story, does that count? 8)
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I shed a tear when a punter told me a sob story, does that count? 8)
Defo, I never did that. Tell us the tale ?
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i actually broke down crying one evening.
i picked a lovely argentinian girl up. chattin away to her.
javenny kidge she says.
no i hate children and they fuckin hate me. gary glitter they do shout at me when i'm drivin by the school.
i have a young boy she told me. she says the fuckin father fuckin fucked off. an irish toerag.
she says the child keeps askin her how come i don't have a daddy like everybody else. je not tell it shurrup i said.
in all seriousness let me tell ye i fuckin broke down cryin after she got out. took me a while to get it back together.
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i actually broke down crying one evening.
i picked a lovely argentinian girl up. chattin away to her.
javenny kidge she says.
no i hate children and they fuckin hate me. gary glitter they do shout at me when i'm drivin by the school.
i have a young boy she told me. she says the fuckin father fuckin fucked off. an irish toerag.
she says the child keeps askin her how come i don't have a daddy like everybody else. je not tell it shurrup i said.
in all seriousness let me tell ye i fuckin broke down cryin after she got out. took me a while to get it back together.
Another burd that couldn't get away quick enough!!
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The only time I ever felt antin was wen I ran over a poodle ....it all happened very quickly but in slow motion do ya know wat I mean ? Apparently yur brain goes inta hyperdrive wen it sees danger.....anyway ....the poor cnut want on a lead an the owner had crossed the road ahead of him/her they :-X....an it walked out behind yu know them square bollards they have/ had that lite up an have arrows on them so I didn't see it till last minute .......anyway the abs kicked in an was bangin like fuk an I was roarin at the poor ting ...fer out of the way for fuk sake " ....all happenin within a second or 2 .....but he didn't look an had a happy little face an a spring in his step out enjoying his walk an then I went over him ......
The banging underneath the car was like knives hitting me chest ...really awful ....an as I was coming to a stop I cud see the poor thing all contorted an blood all over it....
The owner started to bawl its head off ...an all the onlookers wer starin at me ...I could here them sayin to themselves " murderer " ....anyway I said to the owner I'm really sorry ...an he said ..." it wasnt yur fault I shud had em on the lead ....but i still felt shit .......
An wen I drove off I cud feel the tears in me eyes an gaspin for breath at the poor little pouches demise an wat cud of been for the poor ting an I had to go home an hit the bottle a broken man ....
Wen I hear about apes dying .I just play around in me head wit the statistics an the positive impact on climate change
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The only time I ever felt antin was wen I ran over a poodle ....it all happened very quickly but in slow motion do ya know wat I mean ? Apparently yur brain goes inta hyperdrive wen it sees danger.....anyway ....the poor cnut want on a lead an the owner had crossed the road ahead of him/her they :-X....an it walked out behind yu know them square bollards they have/ had that lite up an have arrows on them so I didn't see it till last minute .......anyway the abs kicked in an was bangin like fuk an I was roarin at the poor ting ...fer out of the way for fuk sake " ....all happenin within a second or 2 .....but he didn't look an had a happy little face an a spring in his step out enjoying his walk an then I went over him ......
The banging underneath the car was like knives hitting me chest ...really awful ....an as I was coming to a stop I cud see the poor thing all contorted an blood all over it....
The owner started to bawl its head off ...an all the onlookers wer starin at me ...I could here them sayin to themselves " murderer " ....anyway I said to the owner I'm really sorry ...an he said ..." it wasnt yur fault I shud had em on the lead ....but i still felt shit .......
An wen I drove off I cud feel the tears in me eyes an gaspin for breath at the poor little pouches demise an wat cud of been for the poor ting an I had to go home an hit the bottle a broken man ....
Wen I hear about apes dying .I just play around in me head wit the statistics an the positive impact on climate change
I picked up a guy who was on day release from the Psych unit of Clonskeagh Hospital. We were travelling along South Lotts Road when a dog ran in front of my car, like Octy, it was too late and all I could hear was the howling of the poor mutt.
I pulled over and got out to see what I could do, which was nothing. His leg was shattered and up around the back of his head. Some woman was roaring "Someone call a Vet"...on a Sunday? I was imagining it being like Nigeria, if you report a corpse on the street, it becomes your responsibility and you bear the cost.
So I hopped back in the car only to find the nervous passenger smoking like a trooper!!
I also clobbered a fox in Greystones who sounded like he was wrapped up around the wheel arch. While the wheel arch moulding was gone, do you think I could find the fox? No chance.
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So far, over the years I've ran over a dog and 2 cats. None survived. Another time I was booting down the side of the airport early one morning and I could see a pigeon on the road. I thought he'd fly away in time but he didn't. He flew up and hit the front grill of gbe car. I looked in the mirror and all I could see was a cloud of feathers slowly floating down. Months later the gear linkage went on the car and the mechanic said something smashed the plastic thing at the end of the wire that sits on the gearbox. It was the pigeons beak or bones or something that was after cracking it as it disintegrated when it flew through the mesh. Little cnut was after getting his own back.
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So far, over the years I've ran over a dog and 2 cats. None survived. Another time I was booting down the side of the airport early one morning and I could see a pigeon on the road. I thought he'd fly away in time but he didn't. He flew up and hit the front grill of gbe car. I looked in the mirror and all I could see was a cloud of feathers slowly floating down. Months later the gear linkage went on the car and the mechanic said something smashed the plastic thing at the end of the wire that sits on the gearbox. It was the pigeons beak or bones or something that was after cracking it as it disintegrated when it flew through the mesh. Little cnut was after getting his own back.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3og2fp (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3og2fp) 8)
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So far, over the years I've ran over a dog and 2 cats. None survived. Another time I was booting down the side of the airport early one morning and I could see a pigeon on the road. I thought he'd fly away in time but he didn't. He flew up and hit the front grill of gbe car. I looked in the mirror and all I could see was a cloud of feathers slowly floating down. Months later the gear linkage went on the car and the mechanic said something smashed the plastic thing at the end of the wire that sits on the gearbox. It was the pigeons beak or bones or something that was after cracking it as it disintegrated when it flew through the mesh. Little cnut was after getting his own back.
[url]https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3og2fp[/url] ([url]https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3og2fp[/url]) 8)
Octy and Ermy back as pigeons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYwrI4f-xgM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYwrI4f-xgM) 8)
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:D
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That anti murderer radar on the prius is fukin brilliant...tink I was tellin yous last week bout it touching the brakes on the motorway wen a blackbird flew across me ....but it worked it out in a nano second that ther was not threat an released ....yu can see how robotic cars will drastically save millions of animals an apes in the future ....
It slammed on wen I first got it wen a stupid owlone on a bike cycled out between two high sided vans rite in me path ....it seen her before she cud be seen ...fantastic technology that's still evolvin ..imagine wen wer all dead cars will be driven by empathetically programmed robots ...
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Mine only brakes itself if cruise control is engaged. Other than that if something comes out in front of me or the car in front jams on it just beeps loudly and a big "brake" sign in red comes up on the dash telling me to brake myself.
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Which can be handy if you're texting your mate whilst driving and you're not looking at the road so you don't rear end someone. Just kidding rats before ya have a heart attack.
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Mine only brakes itself if cruise control is engaged. Other than that if something comes out in front of me or the car in front jams on it just beeps loudly and a big "brake" sign in red comes up on the dash telling me to brake myself.
.....yur car has it aswell Horse....same model as mine isn't it ?
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Mine only brakes itself if cruise control is engaged. Other than that if something comes out in front of me or the car in front jams on it just beeps loudly and a big "brake" sign in red comes up on the dash telling me to brake myself.
Your car has it alright Horse, I thought mine didn't either but I was passing a pub one night and had a sideways look in the pub window to see if it was busy, the car in front of me stopped dead to pick up someone off the street and my car jammed on automatically cos no way (even after getting the warning beep) was I quick enough on the brake to stop a collision.
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I don't know of it brakes itself. It definitely does in cruise control but there's a good few times where I'd be say overtaking someone or squeezing through a narrow gap which sets off the beep but the car doesn't brake. Maybe mine only has a half version or something.
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I don't know of it brakes itself. It definitely does in cruise control but there's a good few times where I'd be say overtaking someone or squeezing through a narrow gap which sets off the beep but the car doesn't brake. Maybe mine only has a half version or something.
they are all separate operations your describin Horse ...your model has it ..
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Don't know about that. How's about you stand in the middle of the road and I drive at you at speed. If the car brakes you win, if not you end up in hospital and I win.
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Don't know about that. How's about you stand in the middle of the road and I drive at you at speed. If the car brakes you win, if not you end up in hospital and I win.
https://youtu.be/a390YDYhTKk
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Ther was a great Toyota video on YouTube cople yers ago eclxplained it all ...can't find the ting now
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This isn't it ...but the bird explainin in it sounds like she's sellin her hole not a car ...an havin a great time wit her moregasm ....so ill giv it a thumbs up :2cheers
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My yoke beeps at me when it thinks I'm too close to the car in front. Mostly useful. But it also has a feature to jam on the brakes when it's thinks you're about to crash. Happened to me once or twice when it thought I was going to collide with a cyclist. Nearly put my head through the window as I wasn't expecting it. (memo to self: can I sue myself for whiplash?). I've turned off the collision thing in the settings >:D