(26 Jul 2020, 10:15 pm)deanmachine wrote I’d speculate promises from Volvo that the B5TL was a suitable replacement to the B9TL with its twin turbos and fancy tech. Clearly not in the same league when it comes to hauling double deckers at speed. It’s all well and good having the same performance, but useless if it can’t be had reliably, and reliability would be hard to test on a demonstration, you’d have to rely on promises from Volvo.
It’s a shame really, Volvo have effectively lost their hold as being the go to double decker chassis in the UK due to the B5TL being nowhere near as good as it’s predecessors.
I wonder what part of the engine makes them so unreliable.
Clearly it's not a major failure otherwise they'd be off the road for longer, so it must be something small, but that keeps recurring