Bus breakdown experiences

[Liverpool Street]

4017 on the 79 in west brom bus station

Any idea what was wrong with it?

[Ash]

Not sure the engine cover was up though

[Trident 4609]

Seemed to be a problem with 4021 in Wolverhampton Bus Station. 5510 came off a 59 and replaced it on a 255

[bususer12]

Saw 1627 on the Patch in Dudley, broken suspension  by the look of it, nearly scraped bumper off the ground

[Ash]

Alot of the mercs seemed to have gained a bit of lean.

[Liverpool Street]

Alot of the mercs seemed to have gained a bit of lean.

Yeah, its funny when it malfunctioned and the N/S collapses fully and O/S is fully risen, the platform actually is about 3 inches lower then the castle curb. Good ole Mercs.

[wbdriver]

Alot of the mercs seemed to have gained a bit of lean.

Yeah, its funny when it malfunctioned and the N/S collapses fully and O/S is fully risen, the platform actually is about 3 inches lower then the castle curb. Good ole Mercs.

quite funny when you drive one like that and other people are flashing you to tell you about it, when you already know! The way to get the mercs suspension back to normal is to pump all the air out with the foot brake, and then it resets itself, until you you get 2 miles down the road and it starts to lean again......

[Liverpool Street]

Alot of the mercs seemed to have gained a bit of lean.

Yeah, its funny when it malfunctioned and the N/S collapses fully and O/S is fully risen, the platform actually is about 3 inches lower then the castle curb. Good ole Mercs.

quite funny when you drive one like that and other people are flashing you to tell you about it, when you already know! The way to get the mercs suspension back to normal is to pump all the air out with the foot brake, and then it resets itself, until you you get 2 miles down the road and it starts to lean again......

Always funny though. It reminds me of a malfunctioning lift for some reason.

Not only that but when they were parked in the yard and the air would drop they'd lean so much they'd actually touch the bus next to them!

[Kevin]

4770 (branded for 997 so presume it was on it, destination was blank though) being loaded onto a Mansfield truck just now on Priory Queensway

[nitromatt1]

4594 passing Russells Hall Hospital on the back of a Mansfield truck about 17:30

1621 broken down in Halesowen off the 243/4 with bonnet up around 18:15. 1647 looked to be its replacement

[Trident 4609]

4594 passing Russells Hall Hospital on the back of a Mansfield truck about 17:30

1621 broken down in Halesowen off the 243/4 with bonnet up around 18:15. 1647 looked to be its replacement

There was a trident on a Mansfield truck going past Bus Station on the Ring Road towards WN garage aswell

[Ash]

4594 passing Russells Hall Hospital on the back of a Mansfield truck about 17:30

1621 broken down in Halesowen off the 243/4 with bonnet up around 18:15. 1647 looked to be its replacement

For there age the WN tridents seem to be really unreliable is this due to them being overworked or just a bad batch where as the gemini and alx400 seem to be far more reliable and often older in some cases.

[nitromatt1]

4594 passing Russells Hall Hospital on the back of a Mansfield truck about 17:30

1621 broken down in Halesowen off the 243/4 with bonnet up around 18:15. 1647 looked to be its replacement

For there age the WN tridents seem to be really unreliable is this due to them being overworked or just a bad batch where as the gemini and alx400 seem to be far more reliable and often older in some cases.

4594 has always been one of the worst for reliability. Almost laughed when I saw the fleetnumber

[Trident 4609]

4594 passing Russells Hall Hospital on the back of a Mansfield truck about 17:30

1621 broken down in Halesowen off the 243/4 with bonnet up around 18:15. 1647 looked to be its replacement

For there age the WN tridents seem to be really unreliable is this due to them being overworked or just a bad batch where as the gemini and alx400 seem to be far more reliable and often older in some cases.

The majority are good but certain ones are just unreliable but nowhere as unreliable as Spectras

[nitromatt1]

Also not a breakdown but 4817 was having performance issues on the 9 today. 4817 has always been a slow Enviro but at the moment it's the slowest at PN. Wondering if it's on 70% power like 4800 was for a while