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Repaints and refurbishments 2023

Started by BK63 YWP, February 02, 2023, 06:57:14 PM

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18WilliamsLi

Quote from: 2900 on July 06, 2023, 12:00:18 AMAs a driver I HATE Enviro 400mmc platinums  they are 10 times worse than every other diesel bus i have driven really annoying boxes of shit , Volvos  just kill these plus the 4700s ENVIRO 400s  4749 one epic bus to drive.
4747 is a gooden again now

2900

may be  bold i say 4749 most probably the best driving bus at Westbrom garage its old skool in the right areas , when i had it a few back i thought HELLO what the hell it was just so responsive just an absolute pleasure to drive my duty portion just flew by, those that know at WB know just how good it is, bonus cab chillers still work. 

cris 99

#77
Haven't we strayed off the original topic now the last 34 posts aren't about refurbs or recent repaints. Apart from Tony's post about 4763 that I just noticed
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2900

Quote from: cris 99 on July 06, 2023, 10:22:16 AMHaven't we strayed off the original topic now the last 34 posts aren't about refurbs or recent repaints. Apart from Tony's post about 4763 that I just noticed
guess we have, if i knew how i would move my posts to the correct THREAD,  cant be bothered to retype it

Tony


Jack

Quote from: Tony on July 07, 2023, 01:08:50 PMYW 4774 going for paint later
Just seen it on Digbeth High Street presumably it's final trip in Blue.

2900

4913 i saw this on broad st yesterday what an eye sore surely the scruffiest 4900 hows it got so bad, non of the WB 4900s look any where near the state of 4913, surely a candiate  for repaint sharpish 

Tony

Quote from: 2900 on July 08, 2023, 02:34:04 PM4913 i saw this on broad st yesterday what an eye sore surely the scruffiest 4900 hows it got so bad, non of the WB 4900s look any where near the state of 4913, surely a candiate  for repaint sharpish
It's just had an overall advert removed and is getting a new one next week 

Jack

Quote from: 2900 on July 08, 2023, 02:34:04 PM4913 i saw this on broad st yesterday what an eye sore surely the scruffiest 4900 hows it got so bad, non of the WB 4900s look any where near the state of 4913, surely a candiate  for repaint sharpish
Most of BC's red and white ones look atrocious. Even with graffiti being bad again, how the fleet looks now is a bit like 2007-2010 era...

winston

Quote from: Jack on July 08, 2023, 02:52:52 PMMost of BC's red and white ones look atrocious. Even with graffiti being bad again, how the fleet looks now is a bit like 2007-2010 era...
Its not surprising, when there's been such a long gap between double decker repaints re-starting of years. NXWM could have subcontracted out double decker repaints in the interim, but chose not too. 

Westy

Haven't got the number, but one of Walsall's Eclipse's looks a bit shabby around the skirting.

Bits of red missing.

Don't know whether it would've had a prang at some point?

2900

#86
Quote from: EK40 on July 04, 2023, 08:14:27 PMTheres a reason why barely any large operators do electric conversions they mostly always end up being extremely unreliable and expensive
lord bamford owner of JCB and Wrightbus is championing hydrogen, his engineers have developed an hydrogen engine from scratch for retro fitting into trucks/buses  theres videos on youtube quite interesting, i think vehicles with diesel engines are more suited to this type of conversion. JCB  also involved in producing the hydrogen fuel too, main priority to get the price per kilo down to attract enough interest. May be platinums could be a candiate  for such conversions

Secondary trigger 28

I saw 4884  out driven by an engineer. Is that  now ready for service?

Tony

Quote from: HARVEYCLLEE on July 13, 2023, 03:13:01 PMI saw 4884  out driven by an engineer. Is that  now ready for service?
Back at BC but needs routine inspections first

Tony

with 4763 back at WB, 4768 has gone into paint. BC will be sending 4881 in next week

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