Lay-up and redeployment of Volvo Olympians (Part 1)

• SBS3004X

  24 May 14, 15:26

  SBS9532Z with refurbished air-con ducts

• Gus.chong

  24 May 14, 20:24

  Originally posted by SBS3004X:

  SBS9532Z with refurbished air-con ducts

  Lifespan of this bus has already been extended for 2 years. Furthermore, refurbishment of DDs is not the factor for deciding lifespan extensions of DDs.

• bus555

  25 May 14, 00:41

  Yah, take for example 9519M, even though it has refurbished air-con ducts with TVM speakers removed & sealed, it is still not extended

• SBS5111G

  26 May 14, 09:25

  Originally posted by bus555:

  Yah, take for example 9519M, even though it has refurbished air-con ducts with TVM speakers removed & sealed, it is still not extended

  But 9519M repainted body! Muz wait till the date than c wether still running anot if running I think most probably extend. Heads up 9519M still on 65 repainted body 

• SBS 9631X

  26 May 14, 21:06

  Originally posted by SBS5111G:

  But 9519M repainted body! Muz wait till the date than c wether still running anot if running I think most probably extend. Heads up 9519M still on 65 repainted body 

  Refurbished ducts & maybe repainted liveries isn't an accurate gauge.
  
  But the depots (maybe except SLBP) tend to give those clear-cut extended VO3xs a new coat of paint when nearing their impending lifespan expiry dates from what I observed.

  Those not repainted in recent months but yet extended, imo they are the few which managed to scrape through the final scrutineering to be extended. 9518R is a very very good example of this..

  Vice versa for those repainted recently but not extended; they probably developed some terminal probs within the bus / chassis after the repaint which they might deem it unfeasible to continue running for another few years..

• SBS 9631X

  27 May 14, 17:31

  Spotted 9296E (BN 9) in BNDEP's unofficial lay-up area parked 2 lots away from 9510L (which was de-reg recently..) as of today.

  9296E's official lifespan expiry is 28 Jun 2014, but from the looks of it, guess they took the bus off the roads alr 1 month before it's last day. 

• 23ispolo

  27 May 14, 17:32

  Originally posted by SBS 9631X:

  Spotted 9296E (BN 9) in BNDEP's unofficial lay-up area parked 2 lots away from 9510L (which was de-reg recently..) as of today.

  9296E's official lifespan expiry is 28 Jun 2014, but from the looks of it, guess they took the bus off the roads alr 1 month before it's last day. 

  OT: Did you take 17 earlier today?

• SBS 9631X

  27 May 14, 17:36

  Originally posted by 23ispolo:

  OT: Did you take 17 earlier today?

  HAHA yeah. Why?

• 23ispolo

  27 May 14, 17:42

  Originally posted by SBS 9631X:

  HAHA yeah. Why?

  Because your fav bus (SBS9631X...) is 17 perm, which would also happen to be your fav service... 

• SBS 9631X

  29 May 14, 20:31

  Some update for 9528L:
  
  8357U (BN SP) is on 9528L's timing for the past week on Weekdays. Last week 8416H replaced 9528L's timings.

  So Sv 81 no fixed replacement yet for 9528L. Cheers.

• bus555

  30 May 14, 19:02

  I heard today 9296E still running

• Gus.chong

  2 Jun 14, 13:23

  SBS9246A spotted at Kranji scrapyard 2 days ago...

• SBS3688Y

  2 Jun 14, 23:09

  did anyone spotted 9296 or 9297 today? the last 2 vo3x with openable emergency exit windows in the middle.
• Gus.chong

  2 Jun 14, 23:20

  Originally posted by SBS3688Y:

  did anyone spotted 9296 or 9297 today? the last 2 vo3x with openable emergency exit windows in the middle.

  Wow...I didn't even know about it at all...

• SBS3688Y

  2 Jun 14, 23:26

  Originally posted by Gus.chong:

  Wow...I didn't even know about it at all...

  
  9200-9298, 9300 are all the same with openable emergency exit windows in the middle of upper deck.
• Gus.chong

  2 Jun 14, 23:29

  Originally posted by SBS3688Y:

  
  9200-9298, 9300 are all the same with openable emergency exit windows in the middle of upper deck.

  I really doubted that 9296E has been out on the roads for at least one day sometime after it seemed to be laid up...

• SBS3004X

  3 Jun 14, 17:02

  SBS9669M is the last Volvo Olympian chassis to be produced.

  Really hope that it will get extension...

• SBS9C

  3 Jun 14, 22:17

  Originally posted by SBS3004X:

  SBS9669M is the last Volvo Olympian chassis to be produced.

  Really hope that it will get extension...

  Last for SBS or the whole world?

• Gus.chong

  3 Jun 14, 22:50

  Originally posted by SBS3004X:

  SBS9669M is the last Volvo Olympian chassis to be produced.

  Really hope that it will get extension...

  As I had said before somewhere, we will wait until a few weeks before its de-registration date...

• Gus.chong

  5 Jun 14, 22:03

  9378C is now spotted at AMDEP lay up corner with 3 out of the 5 VO3Xs I previously mentioned and 2 other VO3Xs which can't be identified, one each from Batch 1 and Batch 2...

• Chrismartin13601

  7 Jun 14, 19:47

  9669M is only the last for Singapore (although no more produced for Hong Kong after this one, their last was CTB 1040 which was in service 14 months before the last of the Singapore VO3X batch 3) There were 111 Volvo Olympian chassis made after 9669M, over 100 of these for Dublin Bus.

  Originally posted by SBS9C:

  Last for SBS or the whole world?

  
  
• SBS3688Y

  8 Jun 14, 15:05

  9297 is still alive and it on sv 74 tdy!
• SBS7123J

  8 Jun 14, 19:32

  Originally posted by Gus.chong:

  9378C is now spotted at AMDEP lay up corner with 3 out of the 5 VO3Xs I previously mentioned and 2 other VO3Xs which can't be identified, one each from Batch 1 and Batch 2...

  
  One of them should be SBS9264Y if I did not see wrongly..

• Gus.chong

  8 Jun 14, 22:34

  Originally posted by SBS7123J:

  
  One of them should be SBS9264Y if I did not see wrongly..

  That is one of those I mentioned spotted at the lay up corner after de-registration back in May...by the way, the Batch 2 VO3X still have service 25 front desto...

• Gus.chong

  18 Jun 14, 16:58

  SBS9397Y
  (SLBP 249)  (awaiting lay up/deregistration)