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I've noticed a lot of Croydon's 300 series DWs have developed noisy Voith boxes lately. This one may be pretty slow, but at least it sounds good! This bus was serving route 194 from West Croydon to Lower Sydenham. Arriva London DW321, LJ60AYA VDL DB300/Wright Gemini 2DL Cummins ISB 6.7 Euro5 Voith 4-speed

That's the most I've heard out of those Oxford Scanias. I'm sensing "dedicated footwork." I feel like you'd need a driver like this to get that much rpm out of them. I could feel the bus wanting to give up - slightly reminiscent of RATP's Euro5 YT59s. Good capture, though; at least we know these can do something interesting.

Nice one but wdym in the description when u say its gearbox doesn't know what it's doing? It's shifted at the right times in this video. Streetlites don't perform any different to ur usual diesel bus so idk why the spotlight is constantly on them in this community for the most clapped buses

Love the hill thrash as well as hill struggle

Wow definitely one of the best streetlite’s around great video as always

I think there was a moment he hit the rev limiter on the highest gear. Great driver!

Sadly this bus doesn’t have topodyn anymore💔

What are your plans for future videos when the electric buses are on the road?

That sounds like a sports bus what the hell, especially the turbo. Reminds me of the 09regs of stagecoachs. To think this was working London is amazing and sad to know it’s far away from London too

The old girl has some grunt. That is shifting.

It is a ZF Ecolife 6 speed, not a ZF Ecomat 6 speed.

Interesting to see older B9s Voith boxed running in their fleet, but newer models with the facelift got sold off well before. Makes me interested to know what’s up with the oldies

Ok so let me explain. The 2014-Mid 2016 version of E20D Voith Euro 6 chassis has a slight different gearbox map to the mid 2016-present (2024 at the time of making this comment) so the lets refer to 2014-mid 2016 as type A and Mid 2016-present as type B so with automatic gearboxes like this bus has they have whats called a Control unit which is basically a computer which tells the gear selector when to shift and when the torque convertor needs to lock or unlock. And the control unit gets its brains from lines of code (usually referred to as mapping) and also sensors and wiring. So with voiths right u may of heard of this feature called sensotop which is a system in the gearbox computer that allows for later shifts and earlier downshifts uphills which both type A and type B have, right. so lets talk about how they behave when they downshift, so whenever type B and type A downshift the gearbox's computer has a delay to the shift timing for around a quick few seconds then the delay goes away. hence why whenever these downshift u notice the engine revs high then after the next shift it goes back to normal gradually 0:10 ok so now this is the main difference between Type A and Type B. So when sensotop aint in action or downshifting and the driver has just started accelerating from a standstill Type A's Gear upshift timing is SLIGHTLY later than Type B's And for whatever reason Type A's tend to downshift more frequently on flat roads than the type B's

WTF

Someone might have found the ‘Shift Programme Switch’ and selected mode II. That’s the wonderful wake up switch which overrides the computer set shift programme and allows for more revs in each gear than normal. It’s not quite “kickdown” and can be annoying sometimes when trying to drive gently, the gearbox still hangs on to lower gears longer than you’d like or you have gear hunting between 5th and 6th when trying to maintain around 40mph. Usually up shifts at 2000rpm in each gear at full throttle with mode II selected. Definitely makes them accelerate a lot better. Get friendly with the a depot engineer and have them all switched 🤣

Nice one

Vla152 7424 is also good. That's X93 branded.

The video quality is better than before.

They get this slow because the engine computer is monitoring exhaust gas and if it’s not right then the engine will be limp until the computer is happy with what’s coming out the tail tipe. That’s when the bus gets going. The turbo is fine, the engine probably needs a set of injectors and a good service.

Now ex stagecoach 16969 came in and took this B7s reg , where could this be gone now 3 years later..?

Good buses

Pwor, great bus this this one. Coincidence both our most recent uploads are of the same bus lol

It Looks Like A GAL Bus With The Current Livery It’s In

Are These Still Dual Door?

Gone but not forgotten.

A huge shame cause it’s one of the better sounding LX09 E’s right now

Weird Engine Moan

Lost memories...

and now it’s gonna be leaving TUK soon 😔

These have rather grown on me in the past year or so. I now quite enjoy when I get them ragged up some hills every now and again

This is a fab vehicle - and it sounds better and better in every video that appears, as it ages a little. These could've stolen best modern DD position, if more were ordered.

shame more weren't ordered as 6 pots

German engineering at its finest.

I recommend DW494 at EC. Has a working kickdown and all the drivers i’ve had on it made good use of it

Weird Door Buzzer

WVL274 Sounds EXACTLY like this🤩🤩🤩

Nice kickdown on 1st gear to start with

Does irritate me how SLOW and underpowered this thing is for a six pot. Two years now I think this has been here… Doesn’t seem to be getting any better

I love this fucking Garage man. They just took it from 464 and gave it to 415, I love it😂😂😂

nice

I think B9TLs are a bit boring on straight road but their hillclimbing is always nice and lively!!

This is a optare olympas not Alexander Dennis e 400

This one was very bog when it was at SW, glad BX have done wonders to it

I stand by the fact B5LHs suck ass

I got this in its Bus Eireann days, an utter animal to go!!

Rare to come across Enviro200’s with a 6.7L Cummins, sucks to be in London where everything is becoming electric.

Is someone going to do Ipswich on a matchday again…

Peak performance 🔥🔥

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