The owner fetched the 167-page French C956 operator manual from
karosa-club; it now sits in the local doc folder (128 MB scan,
checksummed, page count verified) and moves from the failure table to
the retrieved list in the index.
Ten verified PDFs now live locally (gitignored, copyright): EuroRider
and Voith manuals, three Axer brochures, and the official equipment
datasheets. The index carries SHA-256 sums and source URLs for
rebuilding the folder, plus the documented failures: the nine
karosa-club documents sit behind a login or 4.5 EUR paywall despite
their free label, and the Pylontech site defeats plain curl.
Owner read the minimal kerb weight off the papers: 11000 kg, half a
tonne under the prospectus figure. Update the vehicle sheet and give
the weight tracker its first theoretical budget: about 5.2 t of
fit-out allowance before the real weighing refines it.
Owner read the axle maxima off the vehicle papers: front 6500 kg,
rear 12000 kg (sum 18500 vs 18000 kg PTAC, normal repartition slack).
Replaces the labeled C954E extrapolation — front matched, real rear
is 500 kg higher. Vehicle sheet, weight tracker zero-point and the
research report annotation all updated.
Owner corrected the variant: it is the 12 m Axer (11.99 x 2.50 m),
not the 12.8 m. Sweep the repo with the researched figures: PTAC
18000 kg (official prospectus, three concordant sources — the
18500/19000 ad-grade values were wrong), PV ~11500 kg for the 12 m,
wheelbase 6270 mm, C954E axle figures kept as labeled extrapolation.
Research report annotated, vehicle sheet and weight tracker updated,
FreeCAD dimension sheet recalibrated (11400 x 2440 x 2010 interior
placeholders).
Owner read the CNIT off the registration card. This code indexes the
French type approval, the most direct path to official PTAC and
per-axle masses; the running research agent was redirected to cross
it against French databases.
Owner confirmed the long-wheelbase 12.8 m Axer. Pin it in the vehicle
sheet with the matching PTAC order of magnitude (~19 t, ad-grade,
official value still to be read on the plate), and bump the FreeCAD
interior-length placeholder from a 12 m guess to 12300 mm so the
parametric zoning reflects the right envelope until the real survey.
Owner confirmed the manual ZF 6S1600 (no Voith automatic), closing
one of the on-vehicle verification items from the research report;
engine row also pinned to Cursor 8 while editing the sheet.
The owner kept the original belted seats at removal time. Record the
reuse decision in the seats sheet (original TCP-approved seats back
on original anchor rails is the strongest RTI scenario) and update
the initial-state inventory; DREAL confirmation item stays open for
the 2003 pre-2005/39-41 nuance.
The owner confirmed the bus was first registered in 2003. Pin it in
the vehicle sheet (C956E / Cursor 8 era, consistent with the Iveco
engine) and turn the blocking DREAL question from generic to dated:
2003 predates the 2005/39-41 seat-belt directives referenced by the
RTI dossier, so original TCP-approved seats need explicit
confirmation.
The blog needed a visual identity and a path back to the source:
hero photo of the Axer on the home page, village photo and repo link
on the about page, and a git-clone nav link.
Privacy pass before the repo goes public: move the two cab photos
with an identifiable face and the seller ad screenshot out of the
repo (kept in BUS-photos-privees locally), update INDEX.md and
CLAUDE.md accordingly.
Sort and compress 18 site photos into domain folders (EXIF-dated,
indexed), correct battery model to Pylontech US3000C across energy
docs, and publish five backdated posts telling the story so far:
gear-before-bus, arrival, seat removal, sorting, energy architecture,
workbench. Night cab photos with an identifiable face stay out of the
public blog images.
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