Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:


The engine was under warranty and was fixed - what's the problem? If
they suspected some cylinder damage because of flawed fuel/oil mix,
more power to them as a responsible repair shop. How many times have
you taken that over engineered Volvo into the shop and had it returned
without really knowing what was done? I"d bet more than once.


Actually, my car's only been in the shop (for anything beyond oil
changes and the first brake job) once in 45,000 miles. An O2 sensor
caused the check engine light to come on, and it was replaced under
warranty. Of course my V-40 was built in Czechoslovakia, (or somewhere
thereabouts), by some Japanese company (Mitsubishi?) in partnership
with Volvo rather than in Sweden like most of the other Volvos are- but
it has been a very good car for the first three years.

If everybody built outboard motors as well as they build good quality
cars, we wouldn't be dealing with all this distress.