Comments on: A Possible Solution To Having An Acceptable Wheelchair Accessible Fleet

By: Gary Hurst

Gary Hurst — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:13:19 +0000

Dear All,

As a former production manager manufacturing WAV vehicles i can honestly say that there are a number of manufacturers out there that you really need to be wary of. In my engineering experience i have seen vehicles returned with cracked axles leaking bodywork excessive cabin noise, incorrect exhaust arrangement and thus wrong emmissions and 35% of these have leaking fuel pipes!

Now most of this is down to poor design and the hunger for profit from mobility

Now you might say that im being a little heavy on this but when I see honest hard working people forking out a fortune on these vehicles regardless of ownership status it’s concerning to say the least. And just to blunt the knife prior to stabbing you in the back the residual value on a used Wav is pretty much Nil!

If anyone is considering purchasing a WAV ask a few very important questions such as:

1. Can you have a copy of the NCAP test results
2.can you have a copy of the stress test on the axle
3.can you have a copy of the emmissions test

Obviously I cant tell which companies are the ones to watch out for as that would be liable and incidentally there are some very good manufacturers out there whom manufacture fantastic vehicles that exceed the requirements by far! but there are some that are down right dangerous! proceed with caution.

By: tirnanog33

tirnanog33 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:58:02 +0000

A good example of “The quick and the dead”

(among the increasingly desperate taxidriving fraternity?)

(In the Apostles’ Creed the phrase appears in the following passage (taken from the Book of Common Prayer).
“He ascended into heaven,
And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead”

By: chester

chester — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:43:00 +0000

Could’nt believe it, sat on Aston Quay in early hours Tuesday morning i was first car to go for over twenty mins, and i was the only car on the rank when another pulled in after me, he i would say was there for ten mins when he pulls out from behind me, took off like a rocket straight across the road and fifty yards up from the rank to take three passengers with luggage obviously going to the airport. they where snatched so quickly i did’nt even have time to react he had the cases in the boot of his car so fast he was obviously used to slinging post bags or something into the back of vans, if the low-life had told me just how worried and concerned he was about 2010 I would have given him a few euros. Sorry for getting of the above issue but perhaps Roy you could set up roof sign numbers and shame column on this site.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:34:09 +0000

@Anonymous. Thank you but it is not a one man project, it’s a forum project, all input welcome.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:06:30 +0000

well thought out, non partisan, measured and intellectual. Na that couldn’t be Stephen, could it??

All slagging aside I think it is an excellent suggestion and I wish you well in this endeavor.