Chaserider

[Wumpty]

Thank you Wumpty , very interesting reply.

You're welcome!

Problem with modern engines is that they're heavily computerised so it's not as easy to re-engine for something else like Volvo did in the Nationals.

In all fairness to Chaserider (and other smaller, low cost bus companies) fitting recons offers greater flexibility - I'm sure @Tony knows if NX have done this with older Tridents/Presidents in the past.

[Tony]

You're welcome!

Problem with modern engines is that they're heavily computerised so it's not as easy to re-engine for something else like Volvo did in the Nationals.

In all fairness to Chaserider (and other smaller, low cost bus companies) fitting recons offers greater flexibility - I'm sure @Tony knows if NX have done this with older Tridents/Presidents in the past.

Unless they are under warranty still, very few buses actually get 'new' engines. Most engines will last a minimum of 7 years, and normally by then the manufacturer has moved to a more modern engine (Euro 3 -4 -5 -6 etc) so are not actuall making the engine required. Rebuilds can be quite extensive and Cummins Euro 3 engines actually use the same blocks as Euro 6 ones, so it is possible to strip a Euro 3 block completely down, reline the cylinders, and rebuild it with euro 6 fittings and you have converted a euro 3 engine to euro 6, trouble is it does then not fit in the engine compartment of the bus it came out of, so you cannot upgrade buses that way, but you can than use it to replace a euro6 failed engine. Even doing rebuilds in house which NX do at Miller Street will still cost into the thousands of pounds, so not cheap.

[Wba_lad]

Looks like Chaserider have a new vehicle, enviro 200, fleet number 522, it's a ex first Leicester vehicle, also looking at some photos on Flickr it's a ex compass vehicle too, YX18 KYA.

[Michael Bevan]

Looks like Chaserider have a new vehicle, enviro 200, fleet number 522, it's a ex first Leicester vehicle, also looking at some photos on Flickr it's a ex compass vehicle too, YX18 KYA.

It's on the 19 today.

[B61 ANDREW]

Interesting history for this vehicle. It has also seen service around Manchester Airport. 

[solonightrider]

It's on the 19 today.

has it kept all its windows in lol  Hear 132 the VDL MCV is withdrawn so perhaps ithis is a replacment for it. No sign of the new MMCs that was mentioned in the trade mag a while ago.

[Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer]

62 has made an appearance back into the garage yesterday 

[solonightrider]

62 has made an appearance back into the garage yesterday

oh dear!!!

[Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer]

oh dear!!!

Tbf not really oh dear. It was an awful lot better than 64 until they finally fixed 64

[Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer]

From 11th February Chaserider will no longer be running the 19

[Rachvince53]

From 11th February Chaserider will no longer be running the 19

Not surprised. It's costly to keep replacing broken windows and means that a bus has to be pulled from potential use elsewhere.  

[Solo1]

Who going to be running it 

[hlliwmai]

Who going to be running it

Nothing has been said yet 

[Wba_lad]

Who going to be running it

Hopefully no one and the route gets it, I feel sorry to whoever falls into the trap if taking it on again, the route is dangerous, I've been on a bus when a window was smashed on the route not nice, I think they hide in the forest on harden road, and I think sometimes they use some sort of pellet gun because some of the smashed windows have like a small hit and then shattered, even the timetable change to earlier didn't stop anything because they still got them on the weekend, it has reduced it a little bit but still has happened. The most worrying thing about it is when your going along the route and you see kids no older than 11/12 standing on the corner of a road picking up bricks and launching them at the buses going past, a few actually hit the bus and one hit a window but was very lucky it never smashed as there was a elderly person sitting by that window, these idiots don't think of these things, 

[Solo1]

How would they act if glass hits one of the parents or one of their friends