Arriva North West - Green Lane Depot

[M113 YKC]

RE: Arriva North West - Green Lane Depot
Pulsar 2 MX59 JKZ (3032) has been running around with a funny front bumper, along with many other Arriva buses, for a few weeks:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael2770...hotostream

[CX54 DKD (Moderator)]

RE: Arriva North West - Green Lane Depot

(27/03/2013 20:40)3111 Wrote:  Pulsar 2 MX59 JKZ (3032) has been running around with a funny front bumper, along with many other Arriva buses, for a few weeks:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael2770...hotostream

It's just an panel in the new livery, isn't it?

[M113 YKC]

RE: Arriva North West - Green Lane Depot

(27/03/2013 21:07)CX54 DKD Wrote:  

(27/03/2013 20:40)3111 Wrote:  Pulsar 2 MX59 JKZ (3032) has been running around with a funny front bumper, along with many other Arriva buses, for a few weeks:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael2770...hotostream

It's just an panel in the new livery, isn't it?

Yeah.

Wonder if all of these "odd panels" relate to screen wash that's been going into the buses during the bad weather and maybe their locks breaking? Probably completely wrong, but just a suggestion!

[CX54 DKD (Moderator)]

RE: Arriva North West - Green Lane Depot
How many buses have been noted running around like that and from which depots?

From your photograph, that particular vehicle looks to have just had a slight front end shunt judging by the crack in the panelling below the windscreen.

[M113 YKC]

RE: Arriva North West - Green Lane Depot

(27/03/2013 21:40)CX54 DKD Wrote:  How many buses have been noted running around like that and from which depots?

Not necessarily like that (odd panels around the front-end)... From memory, a Cadet (forgot which one - perhaps 2634) at Speke, a Cadet, X441 HJA (2441), from Birkenhead, a few Pulsars from Southport, a few Marshalls at Green Lane and Plaxton Pointer 2 X251 HJA (2251) at St Helens (as you know). Quite a specific question, though - guess you're trying to catch me out somehow...

(27/03/2013 21:40)CX54 DKD Wrote:  From your photograph, that particular vehicle looks to have just had a slight front end shunt judging by the crack in the panelling below the windscreen.

Looks like it, but I often see Pulsar 2s of that age with cracks and dents around the front-end so I didn't really notice the damage as being significant because of my observations.

[CX54 DKD (Moderator)]

RE: Arriva North West - Green Lane Depot
Not trying to catch you out at all, was just wondering what you were basing it on. I thought you'd just been referring to Pulsars from a specific depot but yes, some of those you mention ring bells. How the Southport Pulsars have odd panels is perplexing however given they're all in the new livery.

I can't say I've seen any of the Pulsar 2s down this neck of the woods (St Helens) with any cracks or dents. I can't see it being a fault with the design causing them. Likely small shunts in most if not all cases anyway. That's what I strongly suspect has happened with the pictured Pulsar, anyway.

[M113 YKC]

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(27/03/2013 23:10)CX54 DKD Wrote:  Not trying to catch you out at all, was just wondering what you were basing it on. I thought you'd just been referring to Pulsars from a specific depot but yes, some of those you mention ring bells. How the Southport Pulsars have odd panels is perplexing however given they're all in the new livery.

Fair enough. At Southport, for example, one common oddity has been/still is the panel around the front lights. They're usually odd because they don't feature the light's black bracket or paint (which is what makes it stand-out as being odd). Sorry about not being able to expand more on the oddities that I've seen on these buses, but being put on the spot has taken its toll because I'm struggling to accumulate my observations from over the past few weeks/months of them. One off of the top of my head is Green Lane Marshall V657 DVU (7657), which can be seen below and I hope that its oddity is obvious:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael2770...350534520/

(27/03/2013 23:10)CX54 DKD Wrote:  I can't say I've seen any of the Pulsar 2s down this neck of the woods (St Helens) with any cracks or dents. I can't see it being a fault with the design causing them. Likely small shunts in most if not all cases anyway. That's what I strongly suspect has happened with the pictured Pulsar, anyway.

Looking at it, it seems to fit like a puzzle as my past photos of it show no damage to that extent in that area.

A lot of Bootle's 09 and 59-plated old-liveried Pulsar 2s seem to be coated in cracks and dents, dodgy paint-work and the odd dodgy panel (to a smaller extent, such as them being refitted badly and their off colour).

[T42 PVM (Moderator)]

RE: Arriva North West - Green Lane Depot
7618 was on water street yesterday waiting to be towed, i do wonder if it will be fixed

[M113 YKC]

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Renown Y457 KNF (2720) doesn't appear to be in a great state at the moment:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/merseybluel...1s-photos/

[MPTE1955]

RE: Arriva North West - Green Lane Depot
Wonder what's wrong with that, and also if the problem is terminal.