Azimut quality in 2007+ years

[MapisM]

We are again at the boat in 2 days so in case there is a way to see the hours on that display, I appreciate your hint.

Sorry, I can't tell you by heart exactly on which page you can see the engine hours, but I'm sure you can, if the displays are the so called MMDS.
And you don't need any weird trick (like a combination of buttons, or whatever) - just take your time to look carefully at each page (there's 4 or 5 of them, IIRC), because they show so many numbers that you can get confused, unless you use them regularly.

Anyway, since the engines are electronically controlled, I would expect the small displays inside the tachos to "read" the number from the ECU, so I would be very surprised if the MMDS displays wouldn't show the same numbers. In other words, I don't think you will be able to check the "real" numbers.
Otoh, the good news is that MAN definitely can - it's just annoying that you have to pay them to fix their own faults... :ambivalence:

 

[MapisM]

C15 is a very good engine but is not she on the half electronic lines sort of pre R6 (Common Rail) era?

My remark of being best is for the line of modern CR engines which as far as I know, the R6 was also one of the first.

Yep, the C15/3406 wasn't a CR engine, but I'm not sure its electronically controlled injectors were so inferior to CR.
In fact, Cat still doesn't use CR also nowadays, afaik.
And in spite of being phased out, the C15/3406 remains an engine whose torque is significantly higher than the much more modern R6...

 

[jfm]

Yep, the C15/3406 wasn't a CR engine, but I'm not sure its electronically controlled injectors were so inferior to CR.
In fact, Cat still doesn't use CR also nowadays, afaik.
And in spite of being phased out, the C15/3406 remains an engine whose torque is significantly higher than the much more modern R6...

Yup. There is nothing inferior about unit injectors compared with CR. Both use electronic control of the injectors. @PYB, there is no "half electronic" happening here. Difference is whether the high pressure fuel is created locally (unit injectors) or in the whole of a manifold (aka "rail"). Oftentimes on here people mistakenly say CR when they just mean electronically fueled and governed.