(23 Jan 2023, 9:22 pm)Theboyle92 wrote 5429 is the same be lucky if it gets up to 25-30 pritty scary pulling out onto the A690 heading to durham from west rainton just seemed to be so much lag and waiting for the engine to rev up (thank god there will be traffic lights there soon) , seems like the majority of deptfords streetlights seem to be faulty in one way or another now this could be down to budget constraints , lack of serviceable buses for next day or a slap dash attitude of it will get fixed when it fails.
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Hello - I can remember years ago that Houghton Cut hill onto the A690 being a nightmare for some buses. There were I think ex-London Dennis Dart buses on the X35 that were horrific, it was relief when you were on the level again.
The Scania’s used to be quite good when they were younger.
I don’t like the Streetlites, the rattles are horrific. I think the Drifters are the better ones, not many rattles on them and they have good heaters but the Prince Bishops vehicles are very bad for rattles. This is my bug with buses, rattles. I can remember Optare buses with the florescent light tubes being the culprit and it wouldn’t stop until it pulled away. Dennis buses with the hand rails and it seems to be the handle of the emergency door on the Streetlite. Also some of them have an engine sound with a terrible high pitch squeal. The Versa buses seem to suffer less with the rattles.
You can tell Volvo make good vehicles because you don’t get any of these rattles from what I’ve noticed.
Also I noticed a post earlier about the public ripping the leather on the headrests. It’s nice to have a full headrest but maybe it should be done in moquette, then if some idiot rips it, it’s probably easier to repair than the leather.
Thanks.