Do you have the correct spring?

I will say that Taxi is one of the most difficult shooter alignment machines in pinball, probably the worst that I can think of. The shooter has to be perfectly straight, and from there the ball can slow down for a ton of reasons after that. As with most machines I find, no matter how straight the shooter assembly is, turning the plunger prior to shooting, and observing how the ball reacts based on where the rod was turned, makes a difference still for me. This can mean the difference between getting to 50k or 75k, or getting around to a few past 100k.

Then the kicker is that if you get it all perfect and you are firing it up there with enough force to constantly hit over the 100k, congrats, because now you are bashing away on a ramp that is mostly destroyed on all games and can’t be repro’d.

The skill shot in this game was a superb idea, but the way it was designed was asking for all kinds of problems. Easy to say now of course, but they should have had a more straight path to the spinout, and a metal protector back there. I don’t know why on all machines they didn’t start raising up the shooter lane on a wire form ramp, allowing for the PF to be extended underneath is. This gives you virtually a WB design width in a standard game.

Taxi is a great machine though. I’m so glad I finally landed one last year.