SBS Transit orders 1100 buses from Scania (Part 5)

• chikopek

  30 Mar 10, 22:11

  Originally posted by SMB32T:

  
  Add on short haul trunks like 181.

  But if that is the case that service 174 needs EEV more, I feel that the feeder EEVs should swop all the perm EEVs with service 174's Euro 4 Batch 1s.

  Just like service 36 swopped Euro 4s with short haul services like 17 and 358 EEVs

  
  If that's the case then Svcs 63 and 123, which has a sizeable fleet of Euro 4 Batch 1s as well as plying the city area just like Svc 174, should get EEVs to replace their fleets of Euro 4 Batch 1s.

• TownLink 291

  31 Mar 10, 16:28

  SBS Transit Scania K230UB (Euro 5 Batch 2)

  New Arrivals

  31 Mar 10 - 30 Mar 27*  (If there is no extention)

  SBS5070R
  SBS5071M

  Total: 85/200

• SBS8032G

  31 Mar 10, 17:53

  Originally posted by TownLink 291:

  SBS Transit Scania K230UB (Euro 5 Batch 2)

  New Arrivals

  31 Mar 10 - 30 Mar 27*  (If there is no extention)

  SBS5070R
  SBS5071M

  Total: 85/200

  Add on:

  SBS5113B
  SBS5115X
  
  SBS5160P
  SBS5161L
  
  SBS5197J
  SBS5198G
  SBS5199D
  SBS5200H
  SBS5201E
  SBS5202C
  SBS5203A
  
  Total: 96/200

• TownLink 291

  31 Mar 10, 18:00

  Originally posted by SBS8032G:

  Add on:

  SBS5113B
  SBS5115X
  
  SBS5160P
  SBS5161L
  
  SBS5197J
  SBS5198G
  SBS5199D
  SBS5200H
  SBS5201E
  SBS5202C
  SBS5203A
  
  Total: 96/200

  Guess OneMotoring updates at 12pm and 5pm lol.

• lemon1974

  1 Apr 10, 16:49

  Originally posted by SBS8032G:

  Add on:

  SBS5113B
  SBS5115X
  
  SBS5160P
  SBS5161L
  
  SBS5197J
  SBS5198G
  SBS5199D
  SBS5200H
  SBS5201E
  SBS5202C
  SBS5203A
  
  Total: 96/200

  5160/5161/5197-5203 posted to AMDEP.. now AMDEP take in total 17 KUB, mean more Merc will be gone soon....:(

• nfshp253

  1 Apr 10, 17:56

  I wonder why SBST doesn't bother to wash the rims; they were so nice when new, and now they look like crap, full of brake dust and other stuff. Noticed that the Euro IV KUBs are getting sluggish. Took a 24 that revved like mad but didn't go as fast as it sounded. Euro Vs however are great! SVC 36 once when 80 down Benjamin Sheares!

• Merczrox

  1 Apr 10, 22:01

  Today wen 8887G was at the bus stop,i heard a very loud rattling sound.The sound was coming from it's engine.U all know hw the N113s used to rattle and vibrate last time?The sound was EXACTLY jus lik tat.At least the N113's rattled and vibrated in the interior.Tis one leh.On the exterior as if the bus is gonna break into small small bits at any moment.And i was standing so far away wen i heard the rattling noise.It was lik as if someting loose was stuck inside.It was so damn noisy man.Wen i listened to the sound,it was jus lik the N113s had came bac to life!!Tat was hw real the rattling sound was!!
  
  The N113s ony started to vibrate and rattle terribly towards their end of their life.But our dear kubs leh.If its a E4 B1,i wldnt even b surprised.But tis was a EEV.Ony nearing one year if i am not wrong.Lik 5 or 6 yrs down the road,then vibrate lik tis can say la.Haiz unacceptable man.

• TIB1234T

  1 Apr 10, 22:07

  Does all old and new KUBs have blueish-white interior lights for the entrance?

  Not the 2 round ones, but the one just like SMRT Habits, long ones.

• SBS8032G

  2 Apr 10, 21:30

  Registered yesterday (01/04/2010)
  
  SBS5072K
  SBS5073H
  SBS5075C
  SBS5076A
  SBS5077Y
  
  Total: 101/200
• LTnF1fan

  2 Apr 10, 21:33

  Originally posted by nfshp253:

  I wonder why SBST doesn't bother to wash the rims; they were so nice when new, and now they look like crap, full of brake dust and other stuff. Noticed that the Euro IV KUBs are getting sluggish. Took a 24 that revved like mad but didn't go as fast as it sounded. Euro Vs however are great! SVC 36 once when 80 down Benjamin Sheares!

  You saw the speedometer at 80? Thats weird. They are capped at 60. Unless you are deducing...

• SBS9276M

  2 Apr 10, 23:41

  Originally posted by lemon1974:

  5160/5161/5197-5203 posted to AMDEP.. now AMDEP take in total 17 KUB, mean more Merc will be gone soon....:(

  Looks like WAs will all be gone with this... I like the WA more than DM.

• SBS9276M

  2 Apr 10, 23:43

  Svc 232 and 238 Batch 1 KUB engine quieter now cos of repair..

• sbs8104h

  2 Apr 10, 23:45

  Originally posted by SBS9276M:

  Svc 232 and 238 Batch 1 KUB engine quieter now cos of repair..

  you sure? 8103 does not sound quieter...

• JaSoNhSu92

  2 Apr 10, 23:53

  ask scania HQ to deliver KUBs later!!!

• SBS7484P

  3 Apr 10, 10:29

  they should clear the radiator of crap..

  side mounted radiators all like the B10M's... leaves stuck inside

• SBS2601D

  3 Apr 10, 10:30

  Originally posted by SBS7484P:

  they should clear the radiator of crap..

  side mounted radiators all like the B10M's... leaves stuck inside

  
  and NTUC plastic bags.

• SBS7484P

  3 Apr 10, 10:33

  Originally posted by SBS2601D:

  
  and NTUC plastic bags.

  
  NTUC bags is a VSO problem.

  leaves aren't a VSO problem since the rad is mounted on the wrong side of the bus

• AEW5001

  3 Apr 10, 10:42

  Originally posted by LTnF1fan:

  You saw the speedometer at 80? Thats weird. They are capped at 60. Unless you are deducing...

  
  they were running downhill.

  that explains why.

• SBS7484P

  3 Apr 10, 10:43

  damn, my screen is dusty.

• SBS2601D

  3 Apr 10, 10:55

  Some KUBs are programmed to lock-up at 2nd instead of 1st, but as expected of the "too-flexible" gearbox settings, its easy to get these buses to lock-up at 1st instead. Easier than say...the MKIV, which I have experienced probably only 2-3 times. Of course its the Strider, because the DMs are simply too slow for that to happen.

  The lock-up setting reminds of the MKII.

• chickenlittle2

  3 Apr 10, 16:17

  Originally posted by nfshp253:

  I wonder why SBST doesn't bother to wash the rims; they were so nice when new, and now they look like crap, full of brake dust and other stuff. Noticed that the Euro IV KUBs are getting sluggish. Took a 24 that revved like mad but didn't go as fast as it sounded. Euro Vs however are great! SVC 36 once when 80 down Benjamin Sheares!

  
  got wash la..

• Merczrox

  3 Apr 10, 21:25

  Originally posted by SBS7484P:

  
  NTUC bags is a VSO problem.

  leaves aren't a VSO problem since the rad is mounted on the wrong side of the bus

  I posted here once tat 8545T had a plastic bag stuck to it's rear radiator cover.And tat was oni it's 2nd day on rev svc on svc 19.

• Merczrox

  3 Apr 10, 21:29

  Originally posted by JaSoNhSu92:

  ask scania HQ to deliver KUBs later!!!

  Wats the diff??There's no big deal.Not as if SBST had cancelled their order of the kubs....Sooner or later,they r still gonna arr anyway....

• Merczrox

  3 Apr 10, 21:36

  Originally posted by SBS7484P:

  they should clear the radiator of crap..

  side mounted radiators all like the B10M's... leaves stuck inside

  Go see the kubs.Even worse....MK4s jus a bit of leaves stuck inside oni.....
  
  Tat time i saw one Euro 4 kub.The radiator was almost FULLY covered wit leaves except the top.Oni the top part was spared.Imagine if tat little part of the top was also clogged wit leaves..good luck.

• ^tamago^

  3 Apr 10, 22:02

  Originally posted by SBS2601D:

  Some KUBs are programmed to lock-up at 2nd instead of 1st, but as expected of the "too-flexible" gearbox settings, its easy to get these buses to lock-up at 1st instead. Easier than say...the MKIV, which I have experienced probably only 2-3 times. Of course its the Strider, because the DMs are simply too slow for that to happen.

  The lock-up setting reminds of the MKII.

  
  

  The Mk II's I took, most of them lock-up at first gear, producing a higher-pitch "scream" which was not that bad, but I also prefer the 2nd gear lock-up.

  The KUB's I know of which lock up on the 2nd gear come from the 828x series.