SBS3688Y SG i travelled on SBS178Y svc 54 today and noticed the back seats cover and certain potions of the ceiling including the A/C filter has been painted with gloss enamel paint. This type of paint is similar to the ones used to paint the house doors and emit a strong and terrible odour which can cause health problems to passengers who are vulnerable to such toxic smells; esp the elderly, kids and asthmatic people. anyone experienced similar incidents onboard other buses? I believe there's alternative type of paint that can be used for painting the bus interior without causing such discomfort and potential health hazards.
566117 SG most sv54 buses SBS116B SBS118X SBS144U SBS165J basically all those recently refurbished MBO405 from AMDEP...
Y_Shun SG The refurbished 0405s lor... The smell will go away sometime...just endure lor. You can't expect them to use "odourless" Nippon paint???
corebooster SG there are some on 154 buses. esp the 1 with the ex-7pm drama, shou zhu. but after sitting in there for awhile...de smell no more ler.
n4l SG I don't smell them . Take 54 quite often . I've been taking it for the past 5 years...nearly everyday...
201911 SG not just serv 54 buses, most refurb WA 0405 from AM got the smell. somehow SBS 87 B (the voith bus) smells like a new new B9TL when it was just refurbished IMO, not at all like the other refurb buses.
CAIX SG Yup. Also recently noticed that all the 0405 buses in AMDEP all being refurbished. Be it seats or the floor. Why refurbish again? Are they being given few more years of lifespan extension?
SBS3688Y SG change the backseats cover just like the other buses la. or wait till the day when a pax demand compensation from SBST for damaging their health? remember there are people who are suffering from respiratory diseases that makes them very sensitive to such toxic smells and may even cause a relapse. there's also many other types of (commercial) paint with different uses and properties/specifications available in the market and these are not available in the oridinary hardware shops we can find.
tintinspartan SG Same thing happened to my dad’s car. It was after my dad got it back from a repair shop. There is this paint smell and he said that it was newly painted and it would go off in a week. The car became ‘NAC’ as I need to open the windows for fresh air. Then, 1 week later, the smell just go away and the car revert back to OAC.
201911 SG not that bad lah. those buses that been refurb quite a while ago now not much smell already. but i miss the fresh smell of SBS 87 B...
566117 SG bus got problem, complain bus refurbished, complain bus bad frequency, complain old buses, complain no air con, complain driver no good, complain
SBS3688Y SG the windows of your dads car can still be winded down. furthermore, it can be all the 4 windows! but what about the bus? its fixed glass panels with only 2 small entrance and exit doors plus the driver's tiny window. cannot expect the paint smell on the bus to go off in just 1 wk!
