Passengers - Bus Reviews & Opinions

[JosephR]

God knows how drivers are coping on the new electrics. First of all the next stop announcements are constant, you've got what is already said inside repeated outside, so is just even more insufferable. 

When at a low speed that spaceship sound comes on (the one that is supposed to act as road safety awareness for visually impaired people) and it is one of the worst, uncanny things I've ever heard. Is there not a setting where this can be changed to something more conventional like a running engine. 

[Jack]

That's if the announcements work, half the time on a lot of them at CV and PB the turn off after a couple trips, or haven't even been bothered to be programmed. The other monitor seem to either work half the time too, the PB ones just seem as if they've been rushed and not had anything put in properly.

Also why have the announcements not been sorted considering this issue has been ongoing since the Cov ones started service?

[Sh4318]

6116, those 15 reg Enviro 400 MMCs are cracking buses, they seem to rattle a lot less than their platinum equivalents (of a voith persuasion anyway)

I was expecting to hear every bump and pothole, as per my usual experience, but they accelerate really smoothly and handle bumps better than I've experienced on any other ADL product.

Hard to believe they're 9 years old, NX got these spot on, users of the 11 are very lucky to have these

[2900]

6116, those 15 reg Enviro 400 MMCs are cracking buses, they seem to rattle a lot less than their platinum equivalents (of a voith persuasion anyway)

I was expecting to hear every bump and pothole, as per my usual experience, but they accelerate really smoothly and handle bumps better than I've experienced on any other ADL product.

Hard to believe they're 9 years old, NX got these spot on, users of the 11 are very lucky to have these

From a driving point of view the one WB had on loan from pennsnet 6104 i think, it was awful to drive it had the dreadful zf ecomatic  box and the brake pedal was stiff no feel at all. Some might know i'm not a fan of MMc's

[Sh4318]

From a driving point of view the one WB had on loan from pennsnet 6104 i think, it was awful to drive it had the dreadful zf ecomatic  box and the brake pedal was stiff no feel at all. Some might know i'm not a fan of MMc's

Are the ZF examples worse to drive than the Voith equivalents, in your opinion?

[2900]

Are the ZF examples worse to drive than the Voith equivalents, in your opinion?

i've driven only one ZF equipped Enviro 400mmc, the rest are 4900s with zf's majority not great experience, Voith equipped Enviro 400mmc do drive and brake better 

[Ronnoc]

i've driven only one ZF equipped Enviro 400mmc, the rest are 4900s with zf's majority not great experience, Voith equipped Enviro 400mmc do drive and brake better

The uprated ZF ones are mega quick, unfortunately 6104 is not one of them. 

[Sh4318]

These "non smart hybrid" Platinum Enviro400s are quickly becoming my new favourite buses, they sound a lot more tuneful and less dull than their smart hybrid counterparts, 6815 and 6818 in particular are ones that stand out to me, they're very reminiscent of those Voith ALX 400/Trident 2s that were meant for Stagecoach

[SCS]

2166 - First time I've ever ridden on an Eclipse, and I can honestly see why some much prefer them to the E200MMCs and Omnilinks. Very spacious, not a rattling racket, nice interior. Just a very pleasant experience, probably helped by the refresh they've had after being transferred over from Coventry a while ago now. It is just one bus, but first impressions do count and it's definitely a very good impression at that!