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EV-type buzz

  • 08-01-2012 8:58pm
    #1
    Conway635
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭


    I've noticed from time to time that the heater/blower on the upper deck of the EV type buses can be noisy at times, and sometimes there can be a bit of a buzzing noise from it.

    However, on one bus I travelled on this morning (route 31, so a Clontarf EV) the noise was orders of magnitude louder than I have heard before, and could be heard all over the bus. Upstairs it was crazy - even my iPod would not keep it at bay.

    Didn't get the number as my head was so frazzled by the time I got off after 30 minutes, but took a short video to illustrate the volume of the noise . .

    http://youtu.be/vN7_7P0rTrQ

    The driver was being driven mad too, and asked for a replacement bus to meet him at Howth.

    C635


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  • #2
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,633 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    I watched that video alright. Luckily, I never had an experience of a bus have heaters which can this bad....YET!

    Although, when I was a young boy, I travelled on a Donnybrook based 94 reg Volvo Olympian.:eek: It's reg No. was 94-D-176.

    Yeah indeed, you heard right, A Volvo Olympian. The bus had a PESPI branded AOA.

    At the time, I was travelling on the 114 bus which ran from Blackrock Station to Kilcross.

    The noise of it would have suggested that it screamed all the way up through the Leopardstown Road. I think it was mainly on the 45 route to Bray afterwards. It did not get mended for a few months.


  • #3
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    dublinman1990 wrote: »
    I travelled on a Donnybrook based 94 reg Volvo Olympian.:eek: It's reg No. was 94-D-176.

    what's so shocking about that?


  • #4
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,633 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    what's so shocking about that?

    It was the only major problem that I'd seen and heard a Volvo Olympian that ever had that noise. It sounded like when you drove a car and than you head for a car crash. Regrettably, it sounded very dramatic.

    The majority of other Olympian's sounded fine IMO. Although another Olympian RA 255 or 95-D-255 had problems when it's engine was actually whistling. You can only imagine what it feels like when travelling.

    The Volvo Olympian is officially the most reliable bus in the CIE bus fleet along with the Leyland Olympian. And I am glad to say they are my most favourite buses I have ever travelled on. Also, when they still have a long shelf life in CIE now, when their problems do start to come up, IMO they do start to get bad more quickly than others.


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