(16 Jan 2025, 8:35 pm)Michael wrote What was the 3 main problems on them?
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Also, just seen this on the Stagecoach UK enthusiasts Fb page, post by Mark Hayes.
Stagecoach Manchester
Period 9
10467 SN65 OAZ Hyde Road to Stagecoach North East
10484 SN65 OBU Hyde Road to Stagecoach North East
10485 SN65 OBV Hyde Road to Stagecoach North East
10486 SN65 OBW Hyde Road to Stagecoach North East
10535 SN16 OMZ Hyde Road to Stagecoach North East
10578 SN16 OTS Ashton to Stagecoach North East
10579 SN16 OTU Ashton to Stagecoach North East
10580 SN16 OTV Ashton to Stagecoach North East
I think all of them are now but here's the official list of what's moved, just incase anyone needs to update their own personal fleet lists.
They eat through antiroll bar rubbers like nothing on earth, 15 min job usually. There’s a clamp on the exhaust that rusts and snaps due to how hot the exhaust gets on the gas buses in particular. If you are lucky that snaps clean off so you can just replace, less lucky and you have to fight the rust and corrosion to get the old clamp off to replace it. And they’re all going through a phase now of the occasional O/S/F airbag leaking which needs replaced. That is probably the biggest job on that list and on a good day shouldn’t take more than 40 mins or so to do. A bad day consists of all of those issues but usually a gas bus would only have 1 of the 3 on an inspection