Lay-up and refurbishment of Volvo B10M Mk IV (Part 4)

• SBS 9631X

  27 Feb 15, 17:27

  Originally posted by Gus.chong:

  If only there are people who read The Straits Times regularly since last year; at least there may be a chance of spotting the tender notices...

  But seriously, there aren't any signs of the DM3500's interiors being refurbished; seat covers and ducts not getting changed... 

  Quite a pity though. Those that were dumped to Sv 160/170, I guess it's justified for them to go early.

  But for some of the rest, esp those later 278x & 28xx batches which got rejected from BBDEP after they initially wanted to put those on the cross-borders, I think there's quite alot of life in them still. 

  Maybe SBST is deregistering them not because of their conditions. Maybe because they needed to make space for the new incoming Wrights and Citaros.

• SBS 9631X

  27 Feb 15, 17:31

  In other news, has there been any replacements spotted for those DM3500s that just de-reg yesterday?
  
  For 2729U, its slot has been done by 992M since a week ago. Even today. And given there's no upcoming e-tt change reflected, and 992M going soon within 2 months, I'm not sure if 992M is a stop-gap measure or it's perm till it eventually deregisters. 

• Merczrox

  1 Mar 15, 02:18

  2627E repainted/restickered.. 2621X also looks like repainted..

• SBS 9631X

  1 Mar 15, 15:33

  Originally posted by Merczrox:

  2627E repainted/restickered.. 2621X also looks like repainted..

  2621X was repainted in the earlier period of Feb. Same period in which 2616L was repainted after its ad, and 2729U was repainted as well. 

• bus555

  10 Mar 15, 20:04

  SBS993K at BNDEP corner. It's a sign.

• SBS 9631X

  10 Mar 15, 20:45

  Originally posted by bus555:

  SBS993K at BNDEP corner. It's a sign.

  I still see 994H on 293 as usual two days ago though.. 

• bus555

  10 Mar 15, 22:04

  993K last seen on 66 last Fri afternoon, after that it disappear so yeah

  994H 996C still on their usual Tampines svc

• SBS 9631X

  11 Mar 15, 17:37

  Originally posted by bus555:

  993K last seen on 66 last Fri afternoon, after that it disappear so yeah

  994H 996C still on their usual Tampines svc

  992M is still running fine today, on Sv 15. So that's 3 out of the 4 BNDEP/CGBP Mk4 DMs still running~ 

• SBS7557R

  11 Mar 15, 20:20

  Originally posted by bus555:

  993K last seen on 66 last Fri afternoon, after that it disappear so yeah

  994H 996C still on their usual Tampines svc

  993K back on 66 today.

• Gus.chong

  15 Mar 15, 20:10

  SBS2741H
  (AMDEP 21)  (awaiting lay up/deregistration)

• SBS 9631X

  15 Mar 15, 21:22

  Originally posted by Gus.chong:

  SBS2741H
  (AMDEP 21)  (awaiting lay up/deregistration)

  Damn, there goes all the Mk4s from Sv 21 officially. And there's still 2 missing replacements for the 2 previous Mk4s that were taken off the roads already~

• Gus.chong

  18 Mar 15, 23:49

  Originally posted by SBS 9631X:

  Damn, there goes all the Mk4s from Sv 21 officially. And there's still 2 missing replacements for the 2 previous Mk4s that were taken off the roads already~

  Already replaced by Euro 5 K230UBs...5023C 8810C 8823R 8830U.

• SBS 9631X

  19 Mar 15, 01:01

  Originally posted by Gus.chong:

  Already replaced by Euro 5 K230UBs...5023C 8810C 8823R 8830U.

  When I posted that post a few days ago, Wiki wasn't updated yet for Sv 21 as far as i can recall. haha. But cheers for the update. 

• SBS 9631X

  19 Mar 15, 01:05

  Originally posted by SBS7557R:

  993K back on 66 today.

  993K parked in BNDEP today but not in the lay-up area. Cheers.

  Spotted 995E on Sv 74 two days ago as well. 

• Gus.chong

  7 Apr 15, 10:54

  Try reviving this thread with sone efforts...from what I count, there are 5 DMs, 45 Striders and 83 DM3500s left on service (except for TRG buses). 5 DMs and 11 Striders are due to be gone next week, so hurry up and catch them before SBS Transit suddenly decides to retire them all early!

• Gus.chong

  7 Apr 15, 10:57

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• Lsk138

  7 Apr 15, 15:36

  funny leh those HG striders like 2608 2609 2612 2636 now still all fitted with external CCTV CAMs around the bus as this buses going to scrap liao .

• Gus.chong

  7 Apr 15, 20:56

  SBS2617J
  (BNDEP 45)  (awaiting lay up/deregistration)

• carbikebus

  7 Apr 15, 21:56

  More and more B10Ms will go alongside the VO3Xs batch 1 & 2..By the way i do hope SBST will JB regged some Citaros to compliment those cross border K230s.

• Merczrox

  7 Apr 15, 22:05

  saw 994H on 29 yest..this bus like hardly cameo ard leh..wonder if its out from 293..

• SBS3004X

  8 Apr 15, 20:44

  Originally posted by Lsk138:

  funny leh those HG striders like 2608 2609 2612 2636 now still all fitted with external CCTV CAMs around the bus as this buses going to scrap liao .

  SBS2630U and SBS2631S also have the CCTV, if I didn't see wrongly.

• Merczrox

  9 Apr 15, 01:48

  Saw 994H back on 293 yest..and saw 2626H also still on 518 yest..

• Gus.chong

  11 Apr 15, 21:07

  So many B10M Striders still alive...994 2607 2613 on their respective perm services while 2618 and 2619 on 18 and 69 respectively (spottings credited to a fellow bus enthusiasts).

• Simply.90

  12 Apr 15, 01:37

  Originally posted by Gus.chong:

  So many B10M Striders still alive...994 2607 2613 on their respective perm services while 2618 and 2619 on 18 and 69 respectively (spottings credited to a fellow bus enthusiasts).

  you might just jinx it by saying this. especially 2613, AMDEP always tends to lay-up early.

• Gus.chong

  12 Apr 15, 10:39

  Originally posted by Simply.90:

  you might just jinx it by saying this. especially 2613, AMDEP always tends to lay-up early.

  There's only 5 days left for this bus...it doesn't matter whether AMDEP just left it at lay up corner.