⚠️ENVRIONMENTAL HAZARD!⚠️ Smokey First Norwich Volvo B7RLE on route 15A 

And now it’s retired. (April)

That's the gearbox motor

@@LJ07EBP yeah the ZF gearbox👍👍

yeah but its not acc called zf@@Themeparkenthusiast_Kian

Yes it is.. ZF Ecomat

The thing that makes the noise is a gearbox motor@@WarwickshireTransport

Agreed

It is an MOT fail for sure, it shouldn't be too hard to fix though but if it had a DPF it would ruin that and that would make it more expensive to repair.

Our 2005 Eclipses never didn't this in skegness

@@StagecoachBusEnthusiast Rare then as every Firstbus eclipse I’ve ever seen does it. Stagecoach must be looking after theirs.

Yeah

End of life? No way considering how long the Routemasters lasted. This is just the case of don't bother looking after your fleet and when it fails just buy a new one, passing the costs on to the customer by increasing fares, reducing pay rises and cutting back services (every operator has this habit in the UK especially those on the rails).

@@charlotteclarke4665 Modern vehicles only really have an expected life of 15 years due to tender age limits although you can get 20 years out of them if looked after the B10 being a good example.

@@darylyatestransportblogsyes modern those where to last of the mechanical buses there where electrics but nothing to extreme if they where actually maintained you could get about 30 years out of them

@@Thatspuremental B10s could easily last that plenty of B10Ms still on the road

Possibly was

@@LiftManAmer definitely was, I have inside info 😉

The wastegate valve being constantly open makes sense but it would be the opposite of max boost, black smoke shows there is too much fuel and not enough air.

@@FM60260 That is indeed what happens if there is too much fuel on diesel. My brother turned up the fuel rack setting on my lawnmower for a laugh and it threw out clouds of black smoke, had to use the petrol push one instead it was that bad.

What in Norwich?

18 is new compared to how long Routemasters lasted.

@@charlotteclarke4665 they sure do imo Routemasters are the BUS of buses and will keep going until they're scrapped for parts etc, sad how they have been removed from public duty.

Yes!

Same, lovely ZF on it. Smoke issue has been fixed ages ago now

Yeah KX05 MHO also has a good ZF but MHV is my second fav bus after LT52 WTJ and btw that was me on the call in Berlin with your friend

Wouldn’t scrap just repair it actually.

He's the one for decals and vinyls.

@@LiftManAmer Yh he might do maintenance stuff aswell as some do

The hybrids in Manchester from 2010 - 2013 have already mostly all gone, yet non hybrids are still going as they have been more reliable.

Hybrids don't last as long because the batteries eventually fail and they end up wasting more fuel carrying the dead batteries around with them.

@@FM60260 They just don't last as long. TFGM Optares lasted 10 years. Stagecoach Enviros have managed 11 and quite a few still seem to be going but First Glasgow had some identical that have already gone to scrap so I don't know how long Stagecoach will be able to keep theirs going. GNW & First Vantage Volvos are too new to tell yet. Either way 10 years is still rubbish compared to 21 Transdev managed to get from their Renowns. For how long diesels should last, I think Volvo & Dennis can easily last 20 to 25, Merc can do 16 or 17, Optare maybe 15, Scania & Wright integrals I'd say 12 to 14.

@@charlotteclarke4665 There are still old hybrids, maybe 12 years old running in London and since most buses from around 2015 seem to be hybrids in London I will see how long they last.