Trim sender on a 2019 VP380?

[scottst]

Hey folks,

My primary question is: how common is it for trim position senders to fail on the VP380s?

On Saturday, we were about to go out on the water and I did the brain dead thing of trying to start the boat with the trim up. It just "beeped". I finally realized that the trim was up (whew) and put the trim down and was on our way.

Immediately I noticed that the trim gauge was bouncing. Both the gauge on the screen as well as the gauge on the volvo keypad. Ran fine, but it was tough to see where the trim was. Yesterday we were back out, and the same thing happened (bouncing gauge). I trimmed it up a bit while on plane and it beeped at me throwing an error saying that it was unsafe to operate the boat with such a high trim. Didn't kill the engine.

Did I somehow break the trim sender by trying to start the boat in full-up? Is there some sort of calibration I need to do? Should I proactively replace the sender? Any advice appreciated!

Thanks,
Scott.

[BobRae99]

I’ve tried to start my VP350 (2019 R3) with the outdrive trimmed up and got the same no start with beep. After putting the outdrive fully down the engine started and the auto trim operated normally.

[scottst]

Thanks -- I appreciate you sharing your experience here. A heck of a coincidence if the sender just happened to start failing immediately after my "failed start" case. I'm going to inspect the module and wiring to see if I can see anything obvious. I also saw some youtube videos of folks reparing the modules themselves. I haven't tried "auto trim". I have that turned off as I'm a control freak

[Krob1114]

Thanks -- I appreciate you sharing your experience here. A heck of a coincidence if the sender just happened to start failing immediately after my "failed start" case. I'm going to inspect the module and wiring to see if I can see anything obvious. I also saw some youtube videos of folks reparing the modules themselves. I haven't tried "auto trim". I have that turned off as I'm a control freak

I didn't like the auto trim feature. It caused excessive proposing when there was chop. After my wife yelled at me the second time because her sister's back was hurting, I turned it off and it hasn't been used in years.