Ron the boater
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Can this be an acceptable stance from one of the major marine engine suppliers ?
Maybe right. But it seems unlikely that you'll somehow get more traction with a random forum thread than Mike of Imperial will get with his thread, to say nothing of his extensive industry experience and network of contacts.Exactly Scala but with a dedicated thread maybe Volvo might take notice
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What was the Volvo’s guy’s attitude to your suggestion? I’m planning to write to Volvo to complain about their local car dealer ripping me off. I want to know if it’s worth itI argued man years ago with senior Volvo management that the number of owners scrapping engines due to the exorbitant prices of basic spares for not very old engines was building a resentment against replacing with Volvo allowing Beta etc to build a strong customer base to the extent that they are now major competitors
What was the Volvo’s guy’s attitude to your suggestion? I’m planning to write to Volvo to complain about their local car dealer ripping me off. I want to know if it’s worth it
As I said in the linked thread it’s up to someone to see the future business opportunity.....
they knew what they were doing and thank you but no change I suppose that at that time inflation was a major component in costing and was automatically applied to prices which with older parts just made them unreasonableWhat was the Volvo’s guy’s attitude to your suggestion? I’m planning to write to Volvo to complain about their local car dealer ripping me off. I want to know if it’s worth it
Was that Volvo Pentas fault that the source of the problem was not identified earlier ?Doubt he recouped much of the money spend over the previous couple of years trying to identify the problem.
The wasted time and stress was the final straw.
If you look at the engines affected by this ECU issue (that actually seems to be an non-issue) , despite the thousands that have been sold there are very few, if any, actually being scrapped. In fact, I believe that my engines and drives would be worth more now on the second hand market than Farline paid for them in 2002.I argued man years ago with senior Volvo management that the number of owners scrapping engines due to the exorbitant prices of basic spares for not very old engines was building a resentment against replacing with Volvo allowing Beta etc to build a strong customer base to the extent that they are now major competitors
I've never heard of Beta!I argued man years ago with senior Volvo management that the number of owners scrapping engines due to the exorbitant prices of basic spares for not very old engines was building a resentment against replacing with Volvo allowing Beta etc to build a strong customer base to the extent that they are now major competitors
on sailing boats Pete, ppl dump their 30yo MD20** or whatever (not good at volvo models) and replace them with Beta engines (2-3cyl stuff for circa 30 ft boats)I've never heard of Beta!
Was that Volvo Pentas fault that the source of the problem was not identified earlier ?
Not necessarily.Assume that who ever plugged the VODIA was an genuine VP dealer.