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daveeyh wrote:Noted V2252 in service tonight on an inbound 340.
Does anyone know how many more are currently on order?
jonwil wrote:I recon the Volgren Optimus is one of the best looking bus bodies out there (now if only I could figure out how to model the thing in LEGO
Agreed, Adelaide seems to be one of the only Cities not to have ANY Optimuses (Optimi?), very annoying. Hopefully we will get some in the future.
TransitBris wrote:- The front seat and the back row of seats are extremely uncomfortable with little to no padding.
- The next stop buttons are too sensitive and can be set off easily by passengers grabbing them accidentally whilst trying to sit down. Does not happen in any other type of bus.
- The sticky/rough retarder in some of the 4 speed Voith units make stopping somewhat uncomfortable.
- The EXTREMELY bright white destos at night.
From an enthusiasts perspective, I find them boring sound wise.
PoweredByCNG wrote:Manufacturers don't build buses for enthusiasts. Their number one priority for manufacturers is to build buses and bus chassis that their customers want to buy and that are acceptable for the travelling public. The travelling public, more than ever, do not appreciate any great level of noise.
PoweredByCNG wrote:I should add that as a member of public who travels frequently on Volgren 'Optimus' bodied buses, there are more than a few issues that concern me. For example, you know you have a problem when you can hear body panels vibrating and causing a racket BEFORE getting onto a bus (and this is an extremely common occurrence). Furthermore, buses seem to develop faulty LED interior lights within days of delivery and exterior LEDs seem to be just as failure-prone. The interior finish feels like it is slapped together without so much as a thought given to driver's stress levels (due to unnecessary noise and vibration) as well as passenger's impressions. The fibreglass panels rub and scrape against each other causing all sorts of nasty noises and the area around the driver's cab including electrical access panels don't even fit correctly a lot of the time. Then you have the creaking noises coming from the fittings that we can't see, behind all the fibreglass reinforcement around the window and door frames. Then you have the cheap and nasty roof ducting that within weeks shakes itself to bits and is left to slap around and probably eventually fall off.
Some of those problem aren't exculsive to Optimus buses, CB80s have extremely similar issues. I was on a CB80 once where one side of interior lighting only worked when the bus hit a bump, resulting in an intermittent flash. Just as well there were no epilectic people on board. I'd be interested to see how the supposedly rattley Optimi go on Adelaide's piss-poor roads.
Do Optimus artics have the issue where the pannel on top of the door becomes loose and rattles around all the time? Most CB80 artics I've been on have that issue, at least the turntable doesn't squeak like on CB60 and CB60 Evo II artics though.
Most of the Volgren buses in Adelaide are pretty good with rattles, only a few, and only when going over bumps (which is actually quite often, but anyway...). We only have CR222, CR224 and CR228s though.
markadarlo611 wrote:Do the latest B7's have a Voith or ZF Ecolife gearbox?
daveeyh wrote:Noticed tonight that E2110 has white destos fitted.
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