Volvo 2006/07 with Volvo engine

Ive never heard of this thing youve called a Cummings can you explain

 

Burton Cummings, lead singer for The Guess Who

 

i drove an 06 volvo with the 475 hp cummins for a year and a half and had not a single mechanical problem out of the thing. im guessing that was about 150 to 160k miles.

 

Volvo engines are good except for the 16 litre, the 13 litre is a fine engine! I never owned one with egr but I had older ones, sold both mine at approx 1m kms and no trouble at all!

 

i have a 06 volvo with the d12 the only real down side to a volvo Engine is the only place you can get it worked on is volvo and you can plan on needing 1 egr valve (it has 2) at $1,500 a year.

we have 640k on ours and no real issue with it.... and run away from any 08 d13 dpf Engine. the company i worked for stopped getting volvo's because all 2500 08's had bad Engines... the 08 we had was fine for the first 120k then it was in the dealer every 20-25k for the next year

 

We have 1 '06 VNL780 and 3 '07 VNL780's. We bought them around the 380,000 mile mark and now have around 530,000 on them. All are with D12 Volvo engines and ultrashift trans. Only major mechanical issue was one of the '07's scattering it's trans just outside Phoenix.

The D12 is fairly gutless on hills (we run the 11 Western) and it seems once we crossed the 500,000 mile mark, we starting having lots of little issues; fan clutch, EGR cooler, 5 EGR valves so far, Transmission MCU wiring harness and XY shifter, A/C fan's, etc. It's like one of these a month per truck and at $1,000 to $3,000 per repair x 4 trucks, I can tell you more ways to cook Ramen noodles than a Chinese chef can.

If you're in FL with no smog concerns, take all the advice of getting a little older, more reliable truck. Less plastic and stuff to break. All the aero savings in the world on the fuel bill won't mean squat as you spend the savings on endless repairs.

Friend has a fleet of 25 Volvos. The '08's spit out injector cups like Fox Mulder eatin sunflower seeds. Stay away from the early D13's.

Since I get lots of time to chat with Volvo service writers, I can tell you their feedback has been great on the newer D13's.

As for Volvo being the only place to get them fixed. Not really the case unless its the engine. I got tired of waiting 3 days to have anything looked at by most Volvo dealers and starting hitting T/A's and other shops. Anybody can buy Volvo parts. The real problem is most Volvo dealers (hint: small network) don't have enough techs to keep the service bays moving.

They are plush inside though, I'll admit to that, but plush doesn't make you money.