Cobalt Boats Forum

Our 2020 R5 Surf (July 23, 2020 purchase) with 104 hours hydrolocked on 6/17, at the SB Skylaunch as well. Exact same scenario as d47m22 at the same dock. We are now going through the same process with SBC and Volvo Penta. I am sure we will get this resolved, but don't know how to prevent this in ...

My dealer now says they are attempting to warranty this with Volvo. I got a contact for both Volvo and Cobalt. Cobalt quickly replied and said: "Hydrolocking is something that can in many different scenarios. We at Cobalt do not do any warranty repairs on engines or service engines. We install the ...

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It's a flat dock. There aren't any hills. Unless one of the drivers was being a lead foot with the marina bull truck. And to what bruceb58 just said, I would have to assume that once the boat is out of the water, any water in the system would drain out. So that pretty much leaves when the boat was ...

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I have emails out to the dealer, Cobalt, and Volvo Penta. Cobalt responded this morning asking if my dealer had reached out to Volvo. Will keep everyone posted.

Thanks. That's what I've been trying to figure out -- is the hydrolock immediate or something that can happen later? If it happened due to my driving, it would be immediate, right? The engine would just die upon water getting into it? That never happened. I never chop the throttle so the water ...

I guess maybe this is something that I don't understand about how to operate it. The way Lake Washington works and getting back to our storage rack, you come off any plane about 15-20 mins before you get back to the dock due to the no wake zone. When I come off plane, I never just chop back to idle ...

Hi all- this just happened to me as well. I have a 2019 Cobalt R7 with a 380 Volvo. We took it out on the lake the day before, no issues, no waves over the top of our boat, nothing out of the ordinary. We pulled up to our dock, they pulled it out of the water and put it into the rack. We came back ...