Those Temsa Avenues seemed to just keep running. Were they worth buying? I.e value for money?
Had quite a few visits the last six years or so to sample them, photograph etc, very solid buses and reliable and the better ones climb hills on the X4 and X93/X94 better than any of the more common types. I found this year they are starting to suffer from lack of work been done to them to keep them good, one kept having a fault with overheating, kept getting sent out and playing up, rather than resolve the issue let it play up and swap it, saw three times, twice when aboard. I understand some parts are no longer available from Temsa and been non standard are the reasons cited to replace, that's fair enough. I heard locally suggestions they had looked to get another 2 or 3 years more out of them when under DB.
As for the Pulsars, I rate Pulsars highly but the ex Stockton ones at Redcar are some of the poorest examples sampled sadly, run down, lack of refurbishment and sorting the basics on them, but some have improved on later visits.
I'd say the Temsas are as solid and lasted well in comparison to the large batch of 09 plate Versas still with Midlands.
