Water in Exhaust

I am posting this for a friend. He bought a new Volvo this year and has water pouring out of this exhaust all the time. It runs out the exhaust joints. His dealer says this is normal so he asked him to show him other new trucks that were doing it....and he couldn't...just said it was normal.

Anyone else have this issue? Any ideas, advice?

 

LOL no Russian....he doesn't even drink Vodka.....he's american born and raised.
I wonder what a truck that produces this much water would bring on the market in California?

 

I know he is planning on drilling a hole in the bottom of the exhaust and measuring how much water is produced, so we will both find out what "pouring out" is once he does this.

He has been a truck driver for over 40 years, I know he is not big on exaggerating a problem. If he says its not normal I believe him. He is very disapointed to say the least. His Volvo is brand new and has an automatic transmission. He pulls doubles on a 100 mile gravel haul and the transmission does not shift correctly, so he has to shift it in the manual mode. The dealer says he can't change any shifting settings as it voids the warrenty. He likes a clean rig, but its covered with goo because of the liquid dripping out of his exhaust all over his tanks. The dealer tells him to live with it...that's just normal.

I can't imagine spending that much money and then having no support from your dealer and more problems then you had with a million mile truck.

 

Thanks guys for your excellent comments.

I agree that the exhaust has to be cooling significantly to have a water problem like this. For it to be this extreme I am assuming the humidity must be high. He is located in South Dakota. I will give you more info once I have talked to him again and he has had a chance to do the test of drilling a hole and putting a container there to catch the water. I am in the same boat you are....I have never had to deal with a new truck yet. Both the owner and dealer agree its not DEF as this would leave a white residue. Originally he thought that this was the problem,but he also is not burning an excessive amount of DEF.

I will find out more about his shifting issue. I believe the problem is his truck shifts to a higher gear to quickly. He is pulling doubles with approx 120,000 loaded, so the truck needs to shift at a higher RPM to handle this. If I remember, he dos have some sort of button on the side of his shifter, I thinkl its located on a console next to his seat.

I will try to get more info on this soon.