I love the sound of changing gears, it's so heartwarming and brings back memories. I remember hearing those sounds in my hometown (Saratov, Russia) where I used to ride MAN and Mercedes buses a lot. Those buses were hella old and everybody around mokingly called them "eurogarbage" because they were brought to service by our witty local bussinesmen after being written off ages ago in EU countries. Nobody bothered to maintain them properly and I was feeling extremely sorry for these wonderful pieces of engineering.
Yeah a bunch of old B7RLE's and B7L's in my area operated by CDC Melbourne have loud 5HP502 Ecomats. I hate how new buses just have the stupid quiet Ecolife transmission.
@@MarkoCR221L Even though Ecomats are the best, I prefer the sounds of Voiths over the nothingness of an ecolife. Ecomats are always on top though. I got an O500LE with an ecolife the other day, and there was no sound at all, except the quietest engine rumble
That ZF gearbox is also used on the Scania K230UB chassis and from 2005 to 2020. Most of the buses in my city, Santiago de Chile, had that gearbox and it was beautiful. I will always remember it.
Super nice that someone has recorded this swan song of bus transmissions forever for anyone to hear. Makes me sad when i think that when the beautiful Scania Scalas and not very beautiful and absolutely shit Scania Vests are gone, there is no way to hear this in Finland, at least.
I'm a part time bus driver and the bus I learned to drive on was a Mercedes Intergo with a ZF box (5 speed I think) and I loved thrashing it. My driving instructor wasn't happy about that. The sound it makes is amazing. Nowadays I drive mostly new Citaros and some MAN buses and the new generation gearboxes are much more silent, probably more economical and more efficient too.. Sure, it's nice that they are refined and all that, but some character, some soul was lost in the process of modernization. Try to thrash a modern bus (ZF, or Voith) and it just takes it, but there is no whine, there is no feel between gear changes. No drama. Just engine revs up, gearbox changes gear, you go faster.
Well at this rate its going to be a while. Last year I skipped the tribute since the Vol. 3 hasn't generated views when compared to the amount of work required to make these sadly. And now it looks like 1K subs won't be reached before November.
i love the Detroit diesel series 50g with zf ecomat 5hp592c my city has them but they are retiring soon but our articulated buses are ecolife but some are zf ecomat 6hp-604c
@@idontevenknowno8847 Its nice to see some older rolling stock still in working condition. Here its more like the municipalities try to be the savior of the world wide climate which leads to ordering all electric buses from the other side of the world. : /
Volvo B58 con ZF 4HP500 llegaron a Perú por el año 1988 para la empresa nacional de transporte urbano Enatru Perú SA. Con carrocería Marcopolo Torino versión 83 , fueron lo mejor del transporte urbano estás unidades y el sonido de la caja automática ufff recordar es volver a vivir,la empresa desapareció por el año 1992 y las unidades pasaron a diversas empresas nuevas que se formaron. Por el año 1997 a finales de año llegó un lote de 9 Scania 113L con carrocería Ciferal GLS City Bus con la ZF 4HP500Ecomat y también eran muy veloces estás unidades pero su consumo de diésel era mayor que el de los Volvo B58, pero esa melodía de los pasos de cambios en las ZF en única. Saludos 👍🏻
+Benjamin Batchelor ZF Ecomat gearboxes have/had race car style straight cut gears plus the torque converter that makes the smooth transitions on the shifts. The straight gears - sometimes referred to as dog-leg gears in the racing world - give the whining or "singing" sound. As the speed increases so do the gearbox rpm's which also raise the pitch of the tone. The G-box mechanism itself functions similarly to a motorcycle or racing style sequential boxes so that it shifts synchro clutches instead of the actual gears. 3rd and 5th gear are linked on the same shaft so that's why they sound similar. Nowadays ZF doesn't make straight cut gears anymore on their commercial vehicle products, so no song to be sang there. Also I hear that ZF is starting to shift into helical gears on race car boxes as well. Sorry for the long answer and here is the potato: static-secure.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/3/25/1427311072353/Potato-009.jpg
Thank you. Well me and my dearest of friends have studied on how to capture them since 2014. Expensive equipment, long waits in the cold but judging now in 2023, it was worth it.
Ecomat is still being produced, just the 3-speed and 4-speed variants have been discontinued. Five and six speed variants still remain under production
Devon swaby Update: Ecolife is not an entirely new gearbox. After riding buses that have a loud Ecolife gearbox and listening to loud Ecolife videos, I can confirm that the Ecolife is just another generation of Ecomat, so I decided to give it the name ZF Ecomat VI (ZF Ecomat 6)
Khadar List of engines that go well with Ecolife: Cummins Scania Mercedes-Benz MAN List of engines that DO NOT go well with EcoLife: Volvo Some Cummins engines Alexander Dennis
+RattijuoppoFIN I which I could help, were I drive we had 6 speed ZF gearbox buses on long distance speed limit between 70 -100km/h but all those buses has been replaced to new ones. But I were in Spain in grand canaria and they have a Mercedes with same gearbox, and 11 liter engine.. All buses are almost alike there so my first thought was that it was an Volvo B12B with ZF, but. Closer look it was an Mercedes 11 liter with ZF and it runs pretty nice. 130 km/h no problem for that. :)
ZF Ecomat gearboxes have/had race car style straight cut gears plus the torque converter that makes the smooth transitions on the shifts. The straight gears - sometimes referred to as dog-leg gears in the racing world - give the whining or "singing" sound. As the speed increases so do the gearbox rpm's which also raise the pitch of the tone. The G-box mechanism itself functions similarly to a motorcycle or racing style sequential boxes so that it shifts synchro clutches instead of the actual gears. 3rd and 5th gear are linked on the same shaft so that's why they sound similar. Nowadays ZF doesn't make straight cut gears anymore on their commercial vehicle products, so no song to be sang there. Also I hear that ZF is starting to shift into helical gears on race car boxes as well. Sorry for the long answer and here is the potato: static-secure.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/3/25/1427311072353/Potato-009.jpg
RATTI indeed...do you have instagram to talk a bit? I know much for that cause my father is bus driver and owner of mercedes citaro 2004 with zf 5hp692 i think...
I love the sound of changing gears, it's so heartwarming and brings back memories. I remember hearing those sounds in my hometown (Saratov, Russia) where I used to ride MAN and Mercedes buses a lot. Those buses were hella old and everybody around mokingly called them "eurogarbage" because they were brought to service by our witty local bussinesmen after being written off ages ago in EU countries. Nobody bothered to maintain them properly and I was feeling extremely sorry for these wonderful pieces of engineering.
5HP500/502 are my childhood buses ;-)
Some lucky ones are saved by RoMeO and HBM here.
List:
0:00 4HP500
0:48 5HP500
1:14 5HP500
2:09 5HP502
2:54 6HP504
3:54 5HP552
4:49 6HP554
5:59 5HP590
6:28 6HP592
7:47 5HP600
9:41 5HP600
11:31 5HP602
12:53 6HP604
13:32 6HP604
14:44 6HP604
You're welcome
Thank you so much for the trouble! :)
6hp
5 HP 502 C were used in Régie Ligne d'Azur's Citelis 18 :D
2:10 The ZF-5HP502 sounds so good. Brings back so many memories with very loud B7RLE Eclipse Urbans.
Yeah a bunch of old B7RLE's and B7L's in my area operated by CDC Melbourne have loud 5HP502 Ecomats. I hate how new buses just have the stupid quiet Ecolife transmission.
@@MarkoCR221L Even though Ecomats are the best, I prefer the sounds of Voiths over the nothingness of an ecolife. Ecomats are always on top though. I got an O500LE with an ecolife the other day, and there was no sound at all, except the quietest engine rumble
That ZF gearbox is also used on the Scania K230UB chassis and from 2005 to 2020. Most of the buses in my city, Santiago de Chile, had that gearbox and it was beautiful. I will always remember it.
Two buses are booked in Klaipėda
By hearing the ZF Ecomat 5HP590 sound I remember all the early wakes up to get the MAN UL313 that took me to the school
5HP500+Mercedes Benz O405=😍
Super nice that someone has recorded this swan song of bus transmissions forever for anyone to hear. Makes me sad when i think that when the beautiful Scania Scalas and not very beautiful and absolutely shit Scania Vests are gone, there is no way to hear this in Finland, at least.
You think VEST is "Shit"? You don't know what you're talking about.
2:10 ❤
Cummins ISC.e 8.3 (BELDE 260 CB) & 5HP502 = Heaven Sound
I'm a part time bus driver and the bus I learned to drive on was a Mercedes Intergo with a ZF box (5 speed I think) and I loved thrashing it. My driving instructor wasn't happy about that. The sound it makes is amazing. Nowadays I drive mostly new Citaros and some MAN buses and the new generation gearboxes are much more silent, probably more economical and more efficient too..
Sure, it's nice that they are refined and all that, but some character, some soul was lost in the process of modernization.
Try to thrash a modern bus (ZF, or Voith) and it just takes it, but there is no whine, there is no feel between gear changes. No drama. Just engine revs up, gearbox changes gear, you go faster.
O405 + ZF4HP500 = Eargasm
frish frosh Volvo THD102KF (B10M) + ZF 4HP500 = Eargasm
frish frosh B741+ZF4HP500 is what than? just check out video of bus number 1632 from Bratislava
Sanos S215 + ZF 5HP500 another eargasm
OH1420+ZF4HP500= Eargasm 😎😂
O345 + ZF4HP500 = Eargasm
This is absolutely insane. Absolute eargasm. I love it.
7:47 favorite sound:)
It looks like a motor MAN
Volvo B10M and this transmission - sound of my youth 😍
That's the best ASMR 😍
Moduloban is ZF van?
@@ts-eeee nem, azokban Allison van
@@ferencrolandlovasi3403 akkor biztos hasít
The 4HP500 sounds Epic with a Scania Engine!
Have worked on these gearboxes with ERF Cambrians and MAN busses.Lovely to drive.
5HP600 is my personal unicorn. Rare as hell but they sound ungodly.
Beautiful !
14:48 is my favourite sounding gearbox
Badger_ Bus 2009 Mercedes-Benz Conecto G :)
@@aliozerturk7574 Eshot :)
@@efeguner4643 aynen
Same because we have in our city this sound of bus SOR NB 18 City
Mercedes Benz CapaCity'nin şanzımanı
2:10 My favourite.
I agree
Same
same, it's in our KUBs in Singapore but in the 6HP version.
I agree
Citaro
Nice Sounds ZF My Favorite Gearbox :) 👍
Hello
Heloł Olex
8 Voith fans disliked ...
Great video. ☺️ I just subscribed to your UA-cam channel. ☺️
ZF keeps the Doctor away..
Good video
Lovely N94UB to start out with :3
ZF 5HP500 rocks :D
Fully agreed
Gostei. Sou de Porto Alegre RS BRASIL e adoro o chassi O500MA com caixa ZF Ecomat 6HP602 e 6HP604
I heard a lot of EcoMat sounds in the Iveco-Marcopolo Gran Viale buses here in Cairo and they sound amazing
me on mercedes benz oc500le here in Portugal (atomic urubis chassis/carris)
+RATTI Thank you for this brilliant thing.
Love these transmissions!! Sadly Melbourne doesn’t have very many
Well they are a dying breed here as well.
: /
There are a few good ones here in Melbourne. A favorite would be Kinetic #359 or CDC Wyndham #197
5HP500 in the VanHool A320 and 5HP602 in VanHool AG300/2 and ZF 5HP502 in the VanHool A330 😍
I adore the ZF6HP504 Gearbox! It sounds like the boxes used on the Omnilinks and the MK1 B7RLE Urbans
6HP504C is best gearbox
also used on king long xmq buses in malta
ZF6HP604,ZF4HP500 and ZF5HP500 quite nice to hear
The 1. ZF ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎
ooooooo zf lovely
doctor: you only have 15 minutes to live
me:
soon... a 1000 subscriber special?
+ I've been listening to this for weeks now only because it can actually make me concentrate whilst studying :-D
Well at this rate its going to be a while. Last year I skipped the tribute since the Vol. 3 hasn't generated views when compared to the amount of work required to make these sadly. And now it looks like 1K subs won't be reached before November.
RATTI Aww it's okay I can understand. But then again what you uploaded so far on your channel sure pleases my ears to bits. ❤️
Nice to hear. :)
harika lan. huzur buluyorum dinledikçe :)
aynen insan uyur bunu dinlerken
gelin sarılalım
Excellent ! Really :D
i love the Detroit diesel series 50g with zf ecomat 5hp592c my city has them but they are retiring soon but our articulated buses are ecolife but some are zf ecomat 6hp-604c
In my country we still have Mercedes o405 which are mostly equipped with 4hp500/5hp500 i love ecomat sounds
Lucky bastard. Hope they are well maintained. :D
@@rattiofficial some are some arent it really just depends on the drivers, Otherwise they are mostly healthy and in working condition
@@idontevenknowno8847
Its nice to see some older rolling stock still in working condition. Here its more like the municipalities try to be the savior of the world wide climate which leads to ordering all electric buses from the other side of the world. : /
@@rattiofficialan o405n2+zf5hp500 is just the best combination
ZF 5HP500 is my favourite of all
14:44 in brisbane, on the b12ble, i would go out of my way to sit next to someone even if there was an empty set just to here the 6hp604c.
I like the ZF 5HP600
Same! i get all dizzy cuz its so nice :P
2:10 The World's 'BEST' ASMR
ZF 4HP500 sound looks like Isuzu CQA650AT, LV223S, and LV423R in Bangkok
Great🥺
How can I send you some sounds? I have o405n2 and o345G
Volvo B58 con ZF 4HP500 llegaron a Perú por el año 1988 para la empresa nacional de transporte urbano Enatru Perú SA.
Con carrocería Marcopolo Torino versión 83 , fueron lo mejor del transporte urbano estás unidades y el sonido de la caja automática ufff recordar es volver a vivir,la empresa desapareció por el año 1992 y las unidades pasaron a diversas empresas nuevas que se formaron.
Por el año 1997 a finales de año llegó un lote de 9 Scania 113L con carrocería Ciferal GLS City Bus con la ZF 4HP500Ecomat y también eran muy veloces estás unidades pero su consumo de diésel era mayor que el de los Volvo B58, pero esa melodía de los pasos de cambios en las ZF en única.
Saludos 👍🏻
Nice!
Niiicceeeeee ♥︎♥︎♡♡♡♥︎♥︎♡♡♡
nice
The zf 4hp500 its the gearbox of Mercedes Benz integro if im corect?
Trop bien comme bruit
I like the ZF 6HP592
3:54 and 4:49 my favorite yessss
Hyndai Super Aero city ZF 6HP504
Mun lemppari on 5HP502, scanian pumppusuutin kone👌🏼
What actually makes a ZF sound the way it does
+Benjamin Batchelor
ZF Ecomat gearboxes have/had race car style straight cut gears plus the torque converter that makes the smooth transitions on the shifts. The straight gears - sometimes referred to as dog-leg gears in the racing world - give the whining or "singing" sound. As the speed increases so do the gearbox rpm's which also raise the pitch of the tone. The G-box mechanism itself functions similarly to a motorcycle or racing style sequential boxes so that it shifts synchro clutches instead of the actual gears. 3rd and 5th gear are linked on the same shaft so that's why they sound similar. Nowadays ZF doesn't make straight cut gears anymore on their commercial vehicle products, so no song to be sang there. Also I hear that ZF is starting to shift into helical gears on race car boxes as well.
Sorry for the long answer and here is the potato:
static-secure.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/3/25/1427311072353/Potato-009.jpg
That is much better than Hong Kong's bus ZF Ecomat Sounds!
What is the ZF 5HP502 recoreded from?
+omnicity43
From this: ua-cam.com/video/orbj1E1h7vo/v-deo.html
Why don't ZFs sound like this in London?!
ZF 5/6HP602C
just like KMB's Neoplan Centroliner N4426 with MAN D2866LOH engine
Lots of euro 4 n230uds use 5hp502 but they are very quiet
Nice compilation, the ZF 4HP500 and 5HP502 sound the nicest imo. Btw how are you able to get such good recordings of these buses?
Thank you.
Well me and my dearest of friends have studied on how to capture them since 2014. Expensive equipment, long waits in the cold but judging now in 2023, it was worth it.
São as melhores caixas automáticas que já vi
Will you make a sound for citaro facelift in omsi 2 with this sound (zf 6hp 604)?
Maybe If I get to record a period correct Merc engine, again. This time properly I hope.
RATTI YEAH That was so cool!!! A Orgiginal ZF for Omsi 2...fuck yeah ist that a cool idea
ZF 6HP 504C sounds the best when accelerating and decelerating. By the way, your products were used on Russian buses of the LiAZ-5292 model
Transjakarta Using This Transmission Sound
Zf ecomat candır
2:11 reminds me of scania L94IB that ive been on. their first gear goes way too high in pitch pitch
im sad ecomat been cancelled for ecolife ecomat has amazing sound
Ecomat is still being produced, just the 3-speed and 4-speed variants have been discontinued. Five and six speed variants still remain under production
so true, ecolife sucks seriously
Devon swaby Update: Ecolife is not an entirely new gearbox. After riding buses that have a loud Ecolife gearbox and listening to loud Ecolife videos, I can confirm that the Ecolife is just another generation of Ecomat, so I decided to give it the name ZF Ecomat VI (ZF Ecomat 6)
@@mahmoudbassam4144 Ecolife fits good in Scanias engine but Volvo with Ecolife is not cool
Khadar List of engines that go well with Ecolife:
Cummins
Scania
Mercedes-Benz
MAN
List of engines that DO NOT go well with EcoLife:
Volvo
Some Cummins engines
Alexander Dennis
Hei. Haluasin tietää miten äänitit nuo äänet tässä videossa?
Citaro 530G auuhhh sounds.
hi friend zf sanzıman on numara efe günerden geldik :D
Eyvallah :D
4:50 ZF 6HP554 Setra, Man, Scania, MB Integro, Citaro, Volvo or other bus?
Volvo B7RLE 8700 on the video.
nice 5HP600 kickdown
Thank you. 😊 More can be found on my channel.
ZF 5HP502 sounds like a Sydney Hillsbus Scania K94UB Volgren CR228
2:55 What is this bus ? SOR NB 12 ?
00:48 uwu
great sounds but if you do a part 3 can you try and get buses in 6th gear as a like the whine
+RattijuoppoFIN Thats alright. At least theres a few in this video
+RattijuoppoFIN I which I could help, were I drive we had 6 speed ZF gearbox buses on long distance speed limit between 70 -100km/h but all those buses has been replaced to new ones. But I were in Spain in grand canaria and they have a Mercedes with same gearbox, and 11 liter engine.. All buses are almost alike there so my first thought was that it was an Volvo B12B with ZF, but. Closer look it was an Mercedes 11 liter with ZF and it runs pretty nice. 130 km/h no problem for that. :)
Euro 4/5 Enviro500s in Hong Kong are mostly equipped with the 6HP604C? and some of them go onto the highway...
5:59❤
Favorito 2:10
what makes those whining noises that those transmissions make?
Mercedes benz citaro 🚬🚬
I like how there are pictures of the ZF gearboxes c:
btw where's ZF 4HP590?
Thanks. :=)
Sadly I have no 4HP590 material. No O405GN's here.
I see, thanks c:
4hp590 and 5hp590 are very similar.
12:54 what is the bus? SOR NB 18?
Volvo B12BLE.
Yhr first one sounds like a DB250
The best one is the ZF 5hp502
Can somebody explain me how the gearbox do this "musik"?
ZF Ecomat gearboxes have/had race car style straight cut gears plus the torque converter that makes the smooth transitions on the shifts. The straight gears - sometimes referred to as dog-leg gears in the racing world - give the whining or "singing" sound. As the speed increases so do the gearbox rpm's which also raise the pitch of the tone. The G-box mechanism itself functions similarly to a motorcycle or racing style sequential boxes so that it shifts synchro clutches instead of the actual gears. 3rd and 5th gear are linked on the same shaft so that's why they sound similar. Nowadays ZF doesn't make straight cut gears anymore on their commercial vehicle products, so no song to be sang there. Also I hear that ZF is starting to shift into helical gears on race car boxes as well.
Sorry for the long answer and here is the potato:
static-secure.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/3/25/1427311072353/Potato-009.jpg
Thanks for the explanation, but why do you link me a picture oft a potato? :-D
Cause internet logic. :p
which one has 6 transmissions?
All ecomat's designated with "6HP" have a sixth gear.
Bu sesleri sürekli dinleyebilmek için Mercedes O345 (Conecto) alasım geldi ama hepsi hurda olmuş 😢
Ecomat sounds so much better then Ecolife at the shift points
Sounds real mercedes benz o405
The first zf 5hp600 is from man nm 152?
Scania L94UB
RATTI thank you!!! But in greece we have a 1994 man nm 152 with that exactly zf...!!
Entirely possible. ZF HP 6xx Series is mated usually to the top of the line torque engines.
RATTI indeed...do you have instagram to talk a bit? I know much for that cause my father is bus driver and owner of mercedes citaro 2004 with zf 5hp692 i think...
Sorry but I don't. I used to have a place somewhere for my subs but that diddn't end well. So much filth...
6HP604 = MAN 18.310 or Scania K280UB
5HP502 zf ecomat all Turkish buses use
ZF 5HP502
7:49 What is this bus?
Scania L94UB 6x2 with an Ikarus E94 body.