I have posted this request previously this Summer but Volvo has not been able to rectify so I am asking for advice on how to proceed.
My engines are 2002's with about 330 hours on them. For the past two years I have experienced a problem when the engines reach about 2700 rpms and the compressors would usually turn off as the boat lays up on plane. The engines/compressors have a dead spot in them at this point and the compressors cycle or ossicalte for a couple of seconds as the boat struggles to get up on plane.
Over the course of this Summer I have hauled the boat and thouroughly cleaned the bottom, replaced the compressor clutches, and sent the EDC modules to Volvo for them to upgrade the software. The latter was upon their request since they have encountered this problem with my engines in the past and this software upgrade has fixed the problem.
None of these efforts have fixed the problem. At this point the Volvo mechanic/dealer has resigned to the fact that the boat is heavy with a severe deep-v and that I will have to live with this performance problem. Since the engines never had this problem during the first year that I owned the boat, I find this response unacceptable.
Besides continuing to contact Volvo directly and requesting one of their techinicians to be more directly invovled, I don't know what other course of action that I could take. In my opinion, Volvo made a decision to provide their engines as an option in the CC 28 so I don't want to hear that these boats are a bad combination with this Volvo engine.
Any advice for my next steps with Volvo with be greatly appreciated. Life is no fun when your toy doesn't work right and no one wants to deal with it!
My engines are 2002's with about 330 hours on them. For the past two years I have experienced a problem when the engines reach about 2700 rpms and the compressors would usually turn off as the boat lays up on plane. The engines/compressors have a dead spot in them at this point and the compressors cycle or ossicalte for a couple of seconds as the boat struggles to get up on plane.
Over the course of this Summer I have hauled the boat and thouroughly cleaned the bottom, replaced the compressor clutches, and sent the EDC modules to Volvo for them to upgrade the software. The latter was upon their request since they have encountered this problem with my engines in the past and this software upgrade has fixed the problem.
None of these efforts have fixed the problem. At this point the Volvo mechanic/dealer has resigned to the fact that the boat is heavy with a severe deep-v and that I will have to live with this performance problem. Since the engines never had this problem during the first year that I owned the boat, I find this response unacceptable.
Besides continuing to contact Volvo directly and requesting one of their techinicians to be more directly invovled, I don't know what other course of action that I could take. In my opinion, Volvo made a decision to provide their engines as an option in the CC 28 so I don't want to hear that these boats are a bad combination with this Volvo engine.
Any advice for my next steps with Volvo with be greatly appreciated. Life is no fun when your toy doesn't work right and no one wants to deal with it!
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