Sorry mate

Slatyford’s 73178 has gone to Gardiners for repairs. Didn’t last long did it.

(Yesterday, 6:49 am)ReDemPTiion wrote Slatyford’s 73178 has gone to Gardiners for repairs. Didn’t last long did it.

Breakdown or accident?

(Yesterday, 6:49 am)ReDemPTiion wrote Slatyford’s 73178 has gone to Gardiners for repairs. Didn’t last long did it.

Maybe they could replace it with 73190!

(Yesterday, 7:02 am)F114TML wrote Breakdown or accident?

Almost certainly accident repairs…

(Yesterday, 7:02 am)F114TML wrote Breakdown or accident?

Accident , apparently there’s a hole in the body work. I’m thinking tail swing against street furniture.

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(8 hours ago)stagecoachfan wrote Maybe they could replace it with 73190!

We can barely charge the 6 we’re using now mate. Plus these Yutongs were not a good idea. They’ll struggle to do a full day even when we have proper chargers installed. I had 73179 today went out 7:04 back in about 18:50 had 74 miles range left, they won’t do a full shift no chance.

(4 hours ago)ReDemPTiion wrote

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We can barely charge the 6 we’re using now mate. Plus these Yutongs were not a good idea. They’ll struggle to do a full day even when we have proper chargers installed. I had 73179 today went out 7:04 back in about 18:50 had 74 miles range left, they won’t do a full shift no chance.

Sunderland's and Teesside's seem to manage ok?

(3 hours ago)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Sunderland's and Teesside's seem to manage ok?

Yeah I don’t understand either mate, my guess is too many hills on the route that were having to accelerate quite hard up. Saturday 73177 had about 20% charge left on it when it was out 9:20 until 18:45 but Im not sure if the buses are going out with a full charge as we’re only able to charge 2 at a time as they blew a fuse in the depot trying to charge 6 at once. All the Yutongs were kept off the road on Sunday to allow them to be charged fully.

(4 hours ago)ReDemPTiion wrote Accident , apparently there’s a hole in the body work. I’m thinking tail swing against street furniture.

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We can barely charge the 6 we’re using now mate. Plus these Yutongs were not a good idea. They’ll struggle to do a full day even when we have proper chargers installed. I had 73179 today went out 7:04 back in about 18:50 had 74 miles range left, they won’t do a full shift no chance.

I meant use 190 to replace the one that's off. It wouldn't be an extra one, it would be a replacement.

(3 hours ago)ReDemPTiion wrote Yeah I don’t understand either mate, my guess is too many hills on the route that were having to accelerate quite hard up. Saturday 73177 had about 20% charge left on it when it was out 9:20 until 18:45 but Im not sure if the buses are going out with a full charge as we’re only able to charge 2 at a time as they blew a fuse in the depot trying to charge 6 at once. All the Yutongs were kept off the road on Sunday to allow them to be charged fully.

Hopefully when they get the fixed chargers installed and connected to the grid it will get them sorted.  Are the 30/31/36 even that hilly?  I guess there's a couple of short stretches - Rye Hill and maybe Denton Road but other than that?