THE BEST ZF EVER!!!! - DUBLIN BUS - Volvo B7TL - AV215 [01-D-10215]

[@Riolushe]

OMG, I love ZF's cheerful '"Iiiiha" at the beginning. In my city in Poland there is only one bus with ZF and it sound pretty good, I hope the bus will stay long. I'm so jealous of English/Ireland buses' ZF

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

TheFox FanYay I absolutely love some of the ZF’s that you can find in Ireland, they’re amazing! This bus in particular lives in the UK now, I really miss it :-(

[@joshuahalla.k.a.controlla6333]

Great video.☺️ I’m not surprised, it’s an ALX400. This is why the ALX400’s are my most favourite buses ever especially the Trident versions.☺️

[@radius4914]

I wish all our busses in Australia were double decker. We rarely get double decker here.

[@Transport-Coolfunr]

4:18 what a lovely sound she produced

[@davidburnside69]

Thank you so much for this video, mate. Thanks to you, I'm finally able to distinguish between locked and unlocked gears. Keep up the good work! :)

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

David Burnside ZF No worries mate! That's the main purpose of it! I'm so glad you found it useful :-) More to come of course, been so busy lately but content is on its way

[@davidburnside69]

I'll be patiently waiting for the new content then. :) Meanwhile, you'll be getting a new subscriber. :P Cheers from Portugal!

[@B7BeastAVMan]

Nice video man, Lovely ZF! AV210 sounded like this after it stopped slipping.

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

Thank you very much! More to come of course! Oh right?? Shame AV210 is gone along with this one, AV215.

[@glosbusspotter7561]

I know I’m kinda late to the party, but I have AV210 near me and I can confirm after riding her she still sounds like this!!

[@BabyRosieFan82]

7:04 It really is. I grew up on B7s and then they got withdrawn on my local route so early - I've missed them ever since and would do literally anything to catch a good ZF B7. How loud the ZF is doesn't bother me so much, but I just love how they sound in general, in comparison to Voiths, and I love the shifts too. Very informative, this is too. I bet it's a pain to edit this in lol but it teaches me about the gear shifts. One thing I noticed with ZF gearboxes is that they have like a "half-gear" in the middle of gear 1. Allisons have it in Gear 2 and Voith has none. Would that "half-gear" concept be Gear 1 when it's unlocked and then locked? This comment is quite a lot for my first time commenting on this channel lol but it would be great to know about all this and I've really enjoyed watching

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

LondonBabyRosalinaFan82*•. I’m glad you liked it! :-) yeah the “locked” “unlocked” feature is the half gears, also known as the torque converter slipping and locking, its in nearly all my videos now :-)

[@BabyRosieFan82]

TheIrish RoadSurfer Yeah, adding that into a video would take me a week to make a single one. lol But hey, it taught me something new. :) I've heard of the term "torque converter" before. Torque is probably one of the most important things and yet it's the one word that throws me off because I know so little about it. Eventually my reign of lazyness will end and I'll sit down and stare at a webpage for 30 minutes. :P It really is interesting stuff though.

[@Paco_Gaepedores]

Amazing edits 😍❤

[@fin57]

Reminds me of riding AV191, sounds 99.9% identical to this

[@BusesInDublin]

I’ve seen AV2 countless times!!

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

Very nice looking bus now, maintained to a very good standard by the looks of it!

[@BusesInDublin]

Indeed, Would love to get it!, I know who you're Friend is haha!!

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

Dublin Bus Fan Ahh good man!

[@IC-qf7ev]

To think Dublin still has loads whilst London is on its last 3 alx 400 b7tls

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

Milo T.K Dublin is the same now! They’ve only got a few left going now too!

[@BusesInDublin]

What a beast! I got DT10 the other day, when if your next video?

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

Good man! Yeah sorry dude I've been so busy I've had no time to do anything, all I do is work and sleep :/ I'll try get back to the channel though, just been to Ireland twice over the past month so some new videos should emerge soon dude! :-)

[@BusesInDublin]

Class man, looking forward to it!

[@EnviroExplorer]

Now in retirement with Mulleys, Suffolk as LW51ZHJ

[@dt9960]

Nice vid!

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

Thanks bro!

[@dt9960]

Love how it took the corner at 4:27! Not the end for the whiny ZF though, a few AV's still have it. But AV215 was just so loud!

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

Yeah that was proper that! That's my favourite part of the video :D

[@itsshalevfromtaxidashcamer9390]

Nice video! The ZF sounds pretty good! Greerings from Israel! 🇮🇱

[@johnmccoy1273]

I work for Dualway CitySightSeeing/BigBus we have AV227 and 228 and their both the same as this must be a certain batch they are the most powerful of all the AV’s we have.228 has so much torque you can’t help but keep wanting to use it

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

John McCoy I hope you’re enjoying driving them! They will always be my absolute favourite buses Dublin ever had. And I couldn’t agree with you more on their torque! They really do go!

[@johnmccoy1273]

TheIrish RoadSurfer I love driving them great busses it depends what way over the years how gearbox was refurbed and calibrated after but most of them deliver a lot of torque and sail up hills

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

John McCoy Yeah that’s right! I personally prefer the 5 speed ZF Ecomat gearboxes that those AV’s have, they’re perfectly tuned and they’re gearing isn’t too tall (like the 2000 reg AV’s which lacked acceleration due to their 4 speed ZF’s) or too short (like the 2006 AX’s due to their very short geared 6 speed ZF’s), they’re just right!

[@NetworkerExpress]

Not sure if B7 or Olympian at this rate with that loud ZF!

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

Such a shame this beauty of a machine is withdrawn, but who knows she may be taken on by a local bus company and live on for another 15 years!

[@NetworkerExpress]

TheIrish RoadSurfer This is why I love independent operators. They get the old machines that major operators don't want, and take extremely good care of them and practically make them live on!

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

LilNetworker Productions Exactly! :D

[@kieransbusvids7910]

I'm wondering if this one transferred to Gloucester with Swanbrook and was registered LW51 ZFN

[@BusesInDublin]

You met Dennis Trident!? Also you sat where i sat on my 3 times on 215

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

The person I met shall remain anonymous, that's why I blocked the face of the person out, there's a huge clue in the video though as to who it is ;-)

[@BusesInDublin]

Aw don't worry, I know who it is 😂

[@jackturner990]

Hey, could you please explain to me what locked and unlocked means? This may be the answer to the question Ive been looking for, like where driver accelerates in first gear from a stop, and just before it changes into second gear it’s almost like it downshifts (although it’s in first) and you get a quick burst of power shortly before the bus shifts into second

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

Hey Jack, I never realised you commented on my video too! Yeah so as I explained in BusThrash’s video (his B10BLE kickdown video) that little pause in first gear you hear is a torque converter lock-up, it’s the same as pulling the clutch pedal up in your car so that the engine side of the clutch will match the wheel side of the clutch. Sometimes you’ll hear the lockup in 2nd or even 3rd gear too! So all my videos show the viewer the status of the gearbox (what gear the bus is in) and what the torque converter is doing (whether its slipped, or locked). You’ll notice in this video that you can hear the little pause whilst the torque conveter goes from “unlocked” to “locked”. Back then when I edited this video I used the term “unlocked” instead of “slipped” but I find the word “slipped” better as its exactly what the torque converter is doing, slipping! But now you’ll notice in my later videos that I used a padlock symbol for the torque converter instead, much more tidy looking! God I must get back to some editing I miss it! Thanks for your comment mate it’s nice to see people still wanting to learn about buses :-)

[@jackturner990]

TheIrish RoadSurfer oh of course!!!! I could not find the answer anywhere and you’ve answered it. So yeah it’s like in a manual car if you set off with the clutch slipping up until a high ish rpm and then releasing it creating a direct connection from the engine to the wheels rather than having the engine spin somewhat independently

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

Yeah you’ve got it mate, you’ll find that sometimes the bus will shift into 2nd without a torque converter lock-up and the lock-up will just happen in 2nd, people ask “why does it do that?” It’s just the gearbox calculates when to make the torque converter lock-up at the most efficient time and sometimes locking up in 1st is pointless, especially when you’re really gently accelerating,a good example of this is at 7:50 in this video that you’re commenting on, so you can see that the driver is setting off gently, and the gearbox goes from 1st into 2nd slipped, THEN locks up, pretty cool huh?

[@TheLegendLee1]

Swear every time I watch parts of the video and look in the top right corner to where the subscriber count is. It is increasing each time! (iPad)

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

You know the saying "it's about quality not quantity"? That's pretty much my view on making videos, just put loads of time and effort into editing the little details and watch it all work together beautifully!

[@TheLegendLee1]

+TheIrish RoadSurfer exactly mate! Couldn't have said it better than myself

[@lukeyg6042]

That ZF is nearly as good as AV239's. But AV215 was very whiny.

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

No, it's the best.

[@lukeyg6042]

It reminds me of AX559 a bit.

[@BabyRosieFan82]

also, low rpm idles. :P

[@volgrencr221]

THE BEST ZF EVER!!!! UHH THE WORLDS BIGGEST LIE HAVE YOU SEEN MARTYRS 22,35,17 AND SUNDANCER BS080S THEY ARE THE TRUE KINGS OF THE Z/F

[@lukeyg6042]

First to comment.

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

Grow the hell up already, so tired of people doing this "first comment' shit, it's not funny, it's old and really immature.

[@lukeyg6042]

+TheIrish RoadSurfer Sorry! I've gotta admit that is a bit childish because I'm 16.

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

Lukey G Ahh you're grand don't worry :-)

[@BusesInDublin]

Very pointless aswell!

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

Says you?! You did it in my last video you tulip!

[@christopher9727]

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[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

ZF 1:01-01 Thy gearbox shall make many tuneful noises for all bus cabbages to salivate over Amen.

[@TheMatsushitaMan]

I've heard better, 2nd and 3rd are too whiny

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

Wow, slaughtering the poor girl here! A ZF like this in a B7TL is so rare, of course there's better sounding ZF's out there in different buses, but this is the best ZF i've ever heard in a B7TL

[@ABZBuses]

+TheIrish RoadSurfer we had a whole batch of B7TLs and all of them had zfs louder than this. although this one still sounds pretty nice

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

+ABZbuses Oh right? What batch was it? I may look into that :-)

[@ABZBuses]

TheIrish RoadSurfer X103/4/32/36/37 NSS 7 X771 NSO OR 31558 - 31563. Am not too sure what there like now as they left our fleet just over 2 years ago, but when we had them there zf's were much louder although they were not the fastest B7TL's as they were set up for citywork.

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

ABZbuses Ahh fair enough! :-)