Volvo Penta Oil Cooler price £1,611 Other make (Bowman) for same job £75

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If you really want to ruin your day, price a heat exchanger for a Cummins K19!!

 

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You also cannot blame VP for the frankly stupid situation where the engine is hung on a bit of rope from the workshop ceiling and the rest of the boat built round it,in a very sucessful attempt to prevent any sort of easy access or possibly to deny that there is actually an nasty horrid engine in their somewhere at all.
The engine is the heart of any boat.However the buying public wants more cupboards/extra toilets/bigger saloon.
No wonder stuff fails cos no bugger wants to crawl around in what basically is a caving expediton to check hoses/seals/oil levels.
Boats buyers you got exactly what you asked for .Stop moaning when you are present with the real costs of all that spacious white carpet shiney cherry and third bog.

I'm currently boat searching for a suitable sized boat for a liveaboarder with diy-abilty, so easy access to all major systems (I know), and recently viewed a Princess 60 in Barcelona, a tidyish 1995 boat with Man 750hp's, swmbo loved the galley and the neat utility off, the saloon the cabins and the style, great until I asked to see the engine room, I'll bet there was more access in their packing crates, I kid you not, there was 4" between the huge air filters and even with the saloon floor up only an anorexic midget would fit, strike that off the list then, cue sad swmbo!