(21 Feb 2015, 10:17 pm)Dan wrote Probably not.
They're not DDA-compliant, so they should be getting carted off to a scrap yard when their replacements arrive. It would be a waste of money to repaint a bus which was going straight to the scrap yard, unless there was a reason for repainting it. There must have been a reason for 22471 being repainted then being withdrawn soon after.
22471 was last repainted in November 2012 - it just still looks fresh from then.