(24 Jan 2023, 3:01 pm)Theboyle92 wrote Had 8335 the other day no emissions light warm cab and fast bus completely agree with standards slipping i would rather take one of the x20 citaros parked up at the back of the depot than a streetlight anyday, just seems to be a make do bodge job repairs at deptford at the minute and thats if they bother to fix buses.As a passenger, I would take the Citaros over any GNE single decker especially over an streetlite.
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(24 Jan 2023, 11:19 am)Jonathan93102 wrote 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.When it comes to the Drifters:
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.
5369 - Can’t Change Gears
5370 - Slow AF
5371 - N/A - Offroad getting new engine.
5372 - Painfully Slow Up Hills + Warm
5373 - Brakes are dodgy
5374/75/76 - All pretty good
Was on the 20A and 8329 was NIS in front and it just kept stopping randomly, nothing to do with the driver i think, like it would just be going along like normal and then it would just slow down till it stopped, it happened like 3 times between the Barnes oneway and University Metro, the driver put the hazards on as it just kept randomly stopping in the middle of the road.