We had trouble with our yanmar constantly but it was older. Friends
with a volvo diesel were quite happy with it but told us that parts
were expensive and hard to find.
I dont bother with the inboard, its my husbands job to maintain it and
run it etc etc etc.
Beth

My wife does the same thing.
As for spare parts I can only thing of getting them at time of the sailboat
purchase.
I thing I can benefit a lot in taking a diesel maintenance and repair
course.
I have notice that the renown blue water cruising sailboat builder
Hallberg-Rassy are installing Volvo diesel engine in all of their sailboats.


"Beth" wrote in message
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We had trouble with our yanmar constantly but it was older. Friends
with a volvo diesel were quite happy with it but told us that parts
were expensive and hard to find.
I dont bother with the inboard, its my husbands job to maintain it and
run it etc etc etc.
Beth

wrote:

I have notice that the renown blue water cruising sailboat builder
Hallberg-Rassy are installing Volvo diesel engine in all of their sailboats.

Both are Swedish, I wouldn't expect anything less.

Lew

It makes sense blood is thicker than water.
However I wonder where Volvo are getting their castings and other pertinent
parts?

"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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wrote:

I have notice that the renown blue water cruising sailboat builder
Hallberg-Rassy are installing Volvo diesel engine in all of their
sailboats.

Both are Swedish, I wouldn't expect anything less.

Lew

I wonder if Volvo Penta's head office are fully cognisant of the present
impact of their pricing and network structure? Maybe they are making enough
profit the way they are operating now or the Swedish tax payers foot the
differences.

Here the only dealer we have is fully servicing the lobster fishermen.

They do not argue about the cost of servicing and parts. Price is no object.
Failing to pick up the lobster pots on time means a big money lost.

The dealer stated that time permitting he could order Volvo parts for small
sailboat diesel engines.

With today's communication and shipping it could be faster and cheaper to
buy parts directly from Volvo in Sweden.




"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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wrote:

I have notice that the renown blue water cruising sailboat builder
Hallberg-Rassy are installing Volvo diesel engine in all of their
sailboats.

Both are Swedish, I wouldn't expect anything less.

Lew

wrote:

I wonder if Volvo Penta's head office are fully cognisant of the
present
impact of their pricing and network structure?

My dislike of Volvo goes back to the late 70's when my dock partner
lost the entire summer because he couldn't get Volvo parts in a timely
fashion which translates to almost 30 years.

I have never considered Volvo acceptable for anything since.

Lew

What you are saying only reinforces what I have been hearing since 1982.
I do not know how can Volvo Penta remains in business. I have talked to
many surveyors and they concluded that Volvo is a good diesel engine but
their distribution network is poor and their pricing structure way too high
for the engine and the parts.

"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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wrote:

I wonder if Volvo Penta's head office are fully cognisant of the
present
impact of their pricing and network structure?

My dislike of Volvo goes back to the late 70's when my dock partner lost
the entire summer because he couldn't get Volvo parts in a timely fashion
which translates to almost 30 years.

I have never considered Volvo acceptable for anything since.

Lew

wrote:
What you are saying only reinforces what I have been hearing since
1982.
I do not know how can Volvo Penta remains in business. I have
talked to
many surveyors and they concluded that Volvo is a good diesel
engine but
their distribution network is poor and their pricing structure way
too high
for the engine and the parts.

I'm convinced that Volvo has a policy of being very competitive in the
OEM market, then trying to use the parts business to subsidize the OEM
business and improve the overall profit margin of their marine engine
business.

Problem is they don't know how to run a parts business.

Lew