(07 Feb 2023, 3:50 pm)Unber43 wrote Not really, I was just bringing up how unreliable a certain bus is.
And in my experience it has been extremely unreliable and I am allowed to talk about how 75% of the time I've been on that bus in the past 3 years its broke down, I have the right to complain about that. And then for it to break down again on one of the days its been in service and not just on a route for an hour a day for weeks
There are hundreds of reasons it could have failed yesterday. For example I notice it was on it's second trip - a poor first use inspection might have meant it left the depot low on coolant, the issues related to that would begin to show after a couple of hours.
In fairness, as others have said, it is pushing 18 years old. Comparing it to 3942 just highlights how different buses of the same batch are totally different, especially as they age. As another example, ANE had B7 7484 regularly performing on express services until last year at 20 years old. The (slightly) younger 7411 wasn't trusted with much more than a 35, and the times it did venture off to Newcastle it generally broke at some point during the day. Same type of vehicle, pretty much the same pattern of work for majority of their lives, but one had a fair bit more left in the tank - I'd say it's likely the same with 3942/3, some are just put together better.