"Fatigue Crack" * Australia - Buses head back off the road
Sydney,New South Wales,Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald, by Linton Besser -October 15, 2008: -- The State Transit Authority has pulled at least 15 natural gas-powered Mercedes-Benz buses from Sydney's roads after cracks were found in the front underbelly of the nine-year-old vehicles... A "fatigue crack" was found late on Monday afternoon at the Ryde depot when a driver reported a squeaking noise. By late yesterday, identical cracks had been discovered in another 14 vehicles after a "random" test of just 100 vehicles. All 302 of the gas-powered model were expected to have been inspected overnight... The STA has stressed the mechanical problem does not affect safety of the vehicles and that the buses remain road-worthy. But this latest recall is the fourth in 12 months. The entire fleet of the same Mercedes bus was recalled last December when cracks were found in the steering relay rods of 200 vehicles. The problem was initially identified when one of the rods snapped as a bus was being manoeuvred around a depot... (Photo: Robert Pearce - Out of action … one of the buses) Labels: buses off road
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