(13 Dec 2016, 11:04 pm)mb134 wrote At less than a year old, no vehicle should be unreliable.
Look at it this way. If you had the choice of a brand new B9TL or a Streetdeck, you'd go with the Volvo. Now, after 4 years the TTX has nailed the fleet of B9s that are allocated to it, think about how a bus with an engine nearly half the size will cope over the same time period.
I was commenting on the vehicle itself not the suitability of it on the X9/X10 - hence the reason why only a portion of the post was quoted.
There have been new vehicles in the past that have had failures not long after arrival. The 11 reg versas for example had to have its electrics fixed within weeks of arriving