The Volvo Truck Repair Shop in Tacoma, Wa offers a wide range of services including engine repair, brake repair, transmission repair, and more.
The technicians at the Volvo Truck Repair Shop in Tacoma, Wa are highly experienced and certified to work on Volvo trucks.
Yes, you can schedule an appointment for service at the Volvo Truck Repair Shop in Tacoma, Wa by calling our service department or using our online booking system.
Yes, the Volvo Truck Repair Shop in Tacoma, Wa offers towing services for Volvo trucks that break down on the road to ensure they get to our shop safely.
We only use genuine Volvo parts for repairs at the Volvo Truck Repair Shop in Tacoma, Wa to ensure the highest quality and compatibility.
Yes, we offer a warranty on all repairs done at the Volvo Truck Repair Shop in Tacoma, Wa to provide our customers with peace of mind.
Every make fails in its own way. These are the jobs that come through the bays in Tacoma on Volvo units — VNL, VNR and the vocational VHD — running Volvo D11, D13 and D16.
The two faults we see most on this engine. The actuator often shows up as a boost complaint long before a code is set.
A known D13 pattern and an expensive one if it is missed — it is worth checking when a Volvo arrives with an unexplained coolant loss.
Dosing valve, quality sensor and the derate sequence; same discipline as the other makes, different parts.
Shift-quality complaints that are usually clutch actuator or software rather than the gearbox.
The order matters more than the tool. We pull codes and freeze-frame data, read the history rather than the active fault, and measure before anything comes off the truck. On an aftertreatment complaint that means soot load, differential pressure and regen history; on an electrical complaint it means tracing the circuit instead of replacing the component the code names. You get a written estimate before the work starts, and a road test after it.
Two reasons, and neither is price alone. The shop sits at 1616 E 26th St inside the Port of Tacoma industrial area, so a drayage tractor is minutes away rather than an hour — and while the truck sits, the box on the chassis is accruing per-diem. And we work the trailer as well as the tractor, so a unit with an engine fault and a trailer ABS lamp is one visit and one invoice.
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Call (425) 900-6212 or book a slot. We are open Monday to Friday 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Saturday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and we run mobile and roadside service across the South Sound when the truck cannot come to us. Shop labour starts at $130 per hour; a DOT annual inspection is $80.