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Post by cc2005 on Dec 3, 2012 9:56:07 GMT
WVL 108 is great too, it just flies
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Post by 6HP502C on Dec 3, 2012 11:07:36 GMT
E57 - best Enviro 400 I've ever travelled on, seems to be set on some setting that makes the bus automatically be in a high revs mode and it's unrestricted acceleration wise. DLA170 or 171 also seems to be like this. E57 probably has the same engine and gearbox program that E's 40-56 have seeing as it was ordered aroudn the same time as that batch. hence why it goes like the clappers. On some buses, the kickdown engages even if pressing the throttle lightly! In fact, only one or two of the Euro 4 56/07 plate E400s I drove had a nice, firm pedal mechanism where you actually have to depress the switch to get it to rev.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2012 11:44:58 GMT
Metrobus 276 on the 284, which despite being an MPD on a busy route was going nice and quickly, and the Urban 90 seats on there were actually comfortable
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2012 11:50:18 GMT
Recent find, took out PVL410 the other day and it earned a GTi written after the fleet number in the cab as our good buses tend to aquire! ;D Do remember getting on PVL410 on a night-time North Greenwich-Lewisham 108, it flew up Westcombe Hill.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2012 20:50:20 GMT
PVL337 charging up Tulse Hill at 32 mph!
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Post by vjaska on Dec 3, 2012 22:15:39 GMT
PVL337 charging up Tulse Hill at 32 mph! Tulse Hill is hardly steep mate, even the L class before withdrawl flew up there ;D
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2012 22:27:17 GMT
PVL337 charging up Tulse Hill at 32 mph! Tulse Hill is hardly steep mate, even the L class before withdrawl flew up there ;D Tulse Hill makes the majority of those handsome, but clapped out VLA's look like a pile of crap! PVL337 really impressed me though...
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Post by 6HP502C on Dec 3, 2012 23:28:36 GMT
Hmmm - recall having 9827 and a few E400s with substantial acceleration in 4th along there 9402 of QB is a very good one - it is restricted but when when going uphill, it can blow the socks off a Hybrid or TA!
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Post by M1104 on Dec 4, 2012 15:15:39 GMT
Tulse Hill is hardly steep mate, even the L class before withdrawl flew up there ;D Tulse Hill makes the majority of those handsome, but clapped out VLA's look like a pile of crap! PVL337 really impressed me though... PVL337, along with most of Go Ahead's refurbished B7TLs now have up to 14% more turbo power (250 bhp instead of the previous 215). This is because of an engine swap program involving more up to date engine components, including a higher rated turbo.
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Post by M1104 on Dec 4, 2012 15:21:54 GMT
Three speed Voith WVL133, once out the initial pullaway stage, revvs up like a post euro3 DW when in first gear. This bus was nippy even before the refurb, possibly the best three speed Voith B7TL i've driven.....and i've driven a few between SW and AL.
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Post by slr on Dec 4, 2012 20:24:14 GMT
Recent find, took out PVL410 the other day and it earned a GTi written after the fleet number in the cab as our good buses tend to aquire! ;D Do remember getting on PVL410 on a night-time North Greenwich-Lewisham 108, it flew up Westcombe Hill. Are you sure? I am 99.9% certain that bus has never held 108 blinds.
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Post by VPL630 on Dec 4, 2012 21:11:20 GMT
DN33548 on the 498, 50 all the way down the A12 then the last bit was on the red line, Flew up London Road hill at full revs in 4th !!!!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2012 0:05:43 GMT
VLP21 or any London Sovereign VLP. Anyone who has been on one will argue they are the best B7TLs in London by a country mile.
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Post by 6HP502C on Dec 5, 2012 2:49:18 GMT
VLP21 or any London Sovereign VLP. Anyone who has been on one will argue they are the best B7TLs in London by a country mile. The visual state some of them are in suggests otherwise! Last time I had a ride out on the 292 route a couple of months ago, one of them had scratched up paintwork so there were patches of metallic grey showing. Another had gaps in the gasket glazing which you could stick your fingers through to reach the outside world. I will never forget the first BT VLP I went on. The clapped out thing somehow found its way on to the 13 so I sampled it. Some of the interior lights were not working, the engine was overrevving something awful with severe gearholding issues impeding acceleration and there were some evident air leak issues - www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4g3CQj2Fms
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Post by vjaska on Dec 5, 2012 4:17:32 GMT
VLP21 or any London Sovereign VLP. Anyone who has been on one will argue they are the best B7TLs in London by a country mile. Until then, I'll stick with BN's VLA's and the former ETB Gemini's
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