VOLVO FH16 750 - Full Tour & Test Drive - It's a beast!

hi I'm Stavros good morning and welcome to Dennehy transport here in fern for in Kota carry in Ireland I'm here today to test drive their flagship the Volvo fh16 with 750 horsepower I'm really looking forward to taking one of these for a test drive I've never driven one of these before the flagship Volvo so yeah I'll be taking you on a full exterior tour of this truck there has been many modifications done to this particular example and then I'll hop inside and I'll show you all the interior features and then I'll get hooked underneath the trailer and we'll be taking it out on the road for a test drive you ready for this guys let's go starting off with the exterior design then looking very well today with the sun shining out of there so this metallic paint is known as circus Ruby pearl that's the finish really looks good doesn't it and up there on the roof he has the six additional spotlights and the light sign there that lights up at night Dennehy and then the two air horns and he has a flashing red beacons there he has an extension there on the Sun Visor that's an additional piece and the mirrors they are matching in with the exterior circus Ruby pearl and he also has the bull bar there at the front the kangaroo bear has some of you may call it and he has four more additional spotlights in behind that so let's just walk in for a closer look and the aluminium wheels looking great also he has a sort of a carbon fiber finish there to the grill have a look at that if i zoom in there closely looks pretty good on the Volvo and I move down here the daytime running lamps are LEDs but the driver has changed these two orange so that's just another modification to the truck and we have the xenon headlights and down here he has a strobe light that flashes orange as well yes that changed and all these additional lights that on the side of the truck very nice on the 2018 fh16 so yeah I'm just gonna walk around the passenger side and it's riding on super singles there at the front and on the mid lift with the Alcoa aluminium wheels and the front suspension is on air so at the moment it's on its normal ride height but you can lower it and you can higher it so it goes up to about maybe over 12 inches of clearance here but it's just sitting there at its normal ride height at the moment and he's you see there the air intake he has that matching in also with the exterior color and he has an additional lamp there underneath the mirror so walking around the passenger side here he has the diesel tank positioned in behind this beautiful finish here by P 2 so P 2 stainless open Ross gray and County Tipperary have done all the finish here on the catwalk for the driver I don't know how he hasn't scraped up all this there's no scrape marks on it so I think I'll be letting him hook underneath the trailer because I don't want to be the first one to scrape it up on this 2018 fh16 so the diesel tank is 600 liters and we do have an odd blue tank on that side that is 60 liters now one thing you have to be careful of with your AdBlue is if you don't get it positioned on your chassis but you have it up here that will mean that you will lose a locker on the driver side so if i zoom over here onto then his FH so you see they got blue tank if it's positioned there you will lose that small Locker space on the driver's side so something you might want to think about when you're configuring your fh16 and of course we have this stacks out the back there as well now there is a button on the dashboard that you can press to use the stacks with the exhaust coming out of course or else you can use to get the existing exhaust underneath so there's just a switch there but when you use the underneath exhaust there is just a small bit still being emitted from the stacks but it's handy because if you don't want to mark up your trailers with all that black soot especially when the truck is doing a region on the diesel particular filter you don't want all that black soot coming out and marking your trailer so it's good to have that as an option just to blow it out underneath so just another option there that you might want to think about and he has warhorse there on the back just all around the Suzy's there so that is the theme that is airbrushed on the back of the cab now that's done by a company called blow up in Sligo so it took them two days of work to do all the airbrush on the back so it looks very well doesn't it something you don't really see until you drive behind the unit so when it's hooked underneath the trailer of course you won't be seeing this sport it depends what trailer hooked under of course but yeah still nice to have it all the same just customizing and making the fch 16 your own truck your own kind of look to it and p2 I've done all this work on the back as well just look at this and on the back lights I love the indicators the way they flash all over look very well isn't it looks great and we have a storage box there at the back I like the registration there with 750 on it and yeah if you want to jumpstart the truck there's access to that little pull out system there in behind that little door they are the back but uh yeah great work there by p2 stainless so let's just walk around the driver's side and let me just show you the AdBlue tank the cover for that what uh yeah looks great doesn't it really nice nice shine off those exhausts you must shine this truck an awful lot because it's just spotless here guys really clean let's just open up the small little Locker here storage underneath there very good to have that and I have this already opened with a small little pull ring on the inside of the door so good space in that and we have more storage up here as well you can actually access that by lifting up the bunk and we have an amplifier system here for the upgraded stereo so that was just another option that was ticked and you have your fire extinguisher there always have a fire extinguisher in your truck guys always have one okay and we have the warning triangle here and lockar of equal space on the passenger side and a small one on the passenger side as well so let's just close that off 750 horses nice finish there on the door handle and we have three steps leading up into the cab a nice fh16 on the door card more storage on the door card itself and we do have a full electric adjustment on the driver's seat with three seed memory so that's something you don't often see in trucks electric adjustment I'm just going to turn off the hazard switch there and we don't have any touch pedal we have the I shift gearbox so you're fully automated 12 speed gearbox so let's just have a look at it there and you can go down through your gears manually of course and we have reverse neutral auto and manual mode and we have economy and power mode and we also have an L button here at the back as well so if you ever do have a problem with your truck you'll be able to maneuver it by pressing the L function there but uh yeah very good ie shift gearbox we don't have the dual clutch in this just the standard ie shift box and nice coffeemaker there as well and beside it we have very handy fridge good sized fridge and you can adjust the temperature on that as well good storage space and here we have a nice little table here if I just move down these you can store a bottle there nice attention to detail from Volvo and even underneath here look you can store another bottle and up here we've got some storage and we can pull out this for another buckle and storage up there close them later on and we have a 12 volt socket and 24 volt socket there and the dashboard very good because it's all flat so when you overnight somewhere you can put all your items here you can move that around and we have a full air suspended passenger seat which was another option ticked as well now these those curtains are not standard they are a different type of Curtin that he picked they're an aftermarket curtain but these are a Volvo extra as well so these curtains are changed from the standard fh16 750 we have all that storage space there at the back wall we have the upper bunk with the ladder and we have the back wall there with a light adjustment and you can adjust your night here there as well and speakers there on the back wall he has the mattress topper and gained access to all that storage space underneath and get access to your outside lockers as well so he'll see it there look you can tilt back the bunk is well very handy for watching your television and of course we do have the XXL Volvo as well that will give you an extra 10 inches of space but they're very expensive guys over 15,000 pounds extra above this XL but yeah we do have the big sunroof there and of course if you do ever do rollover the truck you can smash that and climb out through it storage up there as well and you can put CDs in here or additional equipment more storage there and also in there and open both the driver side as well I really like these little doors as well really good and more lighting functions your tachograph here and all around here oh yeah we do have the sunshade as well watch this let me just move that down that's very good isn't it and we have a sunshade there for the driver's door I'll show you that shortly and moving down to the dashboard let me just go down through some of the functions I just started up here just give you a quick sound of the engine and see what it sounds like so your straight six-cylinder diesel engine 750 horsepower just give it a couple of revs here so we have our big speedometer and our rev counter underneath and there you see engine temperature add blue and our fuel gauge here so if I just press the nav button here so we do have satellite navigation there you have it and oh yeah very good as well watch these guys I'm just going to close the door there if I turn on the Left indicator here watch this look a camera shows up here so there's a camera up there on the visor and it's pointing downwards so very good for doing all your maneuvers so let's go down through more functions of the dashboard we have our lane departure warning we have our rear reversing buzzer you can turn that on or off of course we have the region for our diesel particular filter we have our hill-start aid we have the level function there for the front axle so at the moment it's in its normal right height but we can lower it down and we can put it back to the normal ride height so it really is quick as well and we can hire a topic horse over 12 inches good ground clearance and here we have our mid lift control function for rising and lowering the mid lift off-road traction control switch or differential locks which electronic hand brake down here we have Alex - and Alex Warren these switches have not yet been configured and then we have a das function now that is your driver alert support system so if the truck senses that the driver is not paying attention to the road and is swerving in and out of the lane it will sound a warning for you to take a break and yeah very handy to have that in case the driver loses attention and then down here we have our advanced emergency braking system and your lane departure warning and there down below as well this is very handy we have an electronic switch therefore tilting the cab electronically and over here your ignition key there and we can lock and unlock the doors by that remote and also test our lamps as well your headlights moving on to the dashboard we have all these functions here for your stereo and for turning up and down the volume and over here we have our adaptive cruise control you can set the distance there if I show you there on the screen you can set that distance to the vehicle ahead very good and for answering and hanging up on your phone calls and voice activation also so I'm not sure what sort of voice activation as it does at the moment but there you have it that is the function there let's just press the air horn very good and two smaller horn functions there as well now these are all control this is very good right because look it's wireless so you can hop out of a cab and rise and lower your back suspension and also operate the PTO switch but I really like this function here and if you can find somebody really clever in Volvo they can configure this remote control to do other functions with your truck like turning on lights in your trailer or various other things some drivers have been known to configure this differently you just need to find somebody clever and Volvo to do it but you see there look idle time exceeded so it's after turning off the engine automatically down here we have more functions there for the mirrors and for the windows and there one touch up and down I really like that a nice grab handle there and your mirrors nicely done and your shade there for the Sun and these switches down here all these are switches here are various switches that the driver himself has configured for the exhaust system and for lights and down here some more lights and your level control there for the back axle and your catwalk lights there as well but yeah we also have ambient lighting here as well so let me just operate that and show you we have two lamps there up on the roof and we also have ambient lighting so it will show up there it should show up there let me just press it up yeah we have ambient lighting here and look at this also down here all down along that little door card storage area there really like that that is a nice torch isn't there and also underneath that section of the dashboard but yeah I think that's just about it from the interior of the fh16 750 horse powers guys it's time to get it out hook underneath that trailer and see what it's like let's go okay so I got Adrienne there he's standing under clouds look so he's he doesn't scrape up the whole catwalk area here just doing off the Susie's very good he looks after his truck and off we go [Music] so we're just taking it out on a short a test-drive here 750 horsepower guys this is the most powerful truck I've ever driven and it is of course Volvo's flagship for the moment now I did hear a rumor that they're working on a more powerful version than this 750 horsepower 16.1 litre straight-six cylinder diesel engine that's just a rumor at the moment because as you all know scania are bringing out a flagship truck that will have in or around 800 horsepower so volvo will have to fight back with probably an even more powerful version and scanning is flagship future flagship that has yet to be announced of course but for the moment 750 horsepower this is the most powerful truck in Europe at the moment cause I could tell guys just by pulling out of Dennehy's yard the accelerator pedal it's very sensitive I mean I barely had to press it and I was pulling out of the yard but a great sensitivity in the accelerator pedal and the comfort of course we have four airbags on the back axle and the front suspension on full air so the comfort just great but the gear shifts are very smooth I mean we can put it into manual mode and flick our switch on the side here and go down through our gears manually if we wish if we want even more acceleration from our gears but it still sounds good not as good as a v8 of course the sound of a v8 but still has a nice engine tone to it and of course we have our three-stage exhaust brake now this is not fitted with the retarder you can get that as an option it's just not fitted to this truck but we have a very light load on probably only 10 ton or less but I mean it's pulling it like there's nothing under trailer guys great power and this the three-stage exhaust brake I use this before when I took out the 540 horsepower fh5 540 first spin and good stopping power from your auxilary brake three-stage yeah the steering is quite accurate as well okay I'm in 12th gear down into 11th I'm just going to use the exhaust brake the three-stage exhaust brake to slow down at the roundabout here so I'm not using the brake pedal still not using my brakes and you'll see there just use my brakes now I'm right in the 10th gear so down into eighth going into this roundabout and coming off the roundabout I'm just going to power it up and give you guys a sound of the engine [Music] and the exhaust as well please hear what that sounds like so listen to these guys hear that listen there's a little bit of a poo off the exhaust but okay there's not a lot of weight on the trailer guys but it's just like effortless power going up the hill here very easy to do it's just like nothing to the truck so it's just not going up into 12 actually look at that's still pulling look 80 kilometers I'm arriving in a just under 1000 rpm look and something awful to put in power guys okay I'm gonna put it back into our tour here and the engine do its business and I turn around here at the top of the hill but it's just so easy the power I'm just going back downhill here we do have the I roll mode function so when the truck knows you're not using the accelerator or the auxilary brake it will essentially go into neutral mode and just freewheel back down so you see there on the dashboard it's gone into M so we will save fuel doing this on the auxilary brake as well you do have a button on the side here so you can set your speed going down a hill without keeping your foot on the brake pedal and wearing out your brakes so uh nice function there as well but just talking about software upgrades for the gearbox now say for instance you're somebody that bought a secondhand FH Volvo say for instance a construction work eh like the configuration on the gearbox might be different to this fh16 750 so you know it like depending on the application and what work the truck is doing you should really check and see what sort of software is being used on the gearbox because if you're doing long-haul you may want to configure your gearbox differently to somebody who's doing construction work on a daily basis and you can save fuel depending on what way your gearbox has been configured for our software but yeah so different software upgrades for your gearbox so yeah I'm going to drive back to Denny's and we will summarize today's video let's go [Music] yeah quite a truck oh yeah I forgot to show you the porn adrian has fitted an extra horn on this truck so let me just open up the door here so we do have the standard air horn here that's not a horn guys listen to this the train horn and listen whoa that's power guys that is power okay let's just knock it off here and hop outside yeah so uh that just about wraps up my youtube channel guys it's all downhill from here a funny person I really liked it though and I really liked it plenty more trucks to show you guys coming up but a where can it go from here guys what has Volvo up their sleeve and Scania coming up for flagship trucks I mean where's it gonna end up with 750 horsepower here it's going to end up over 800 horsepower in around that we do know that Scania is coming out with a flagship soon enough and then Volvo will have to follow it up with probably an even more powerful version who knows each one is waiting for the other to make their first move on the next flagship from Volvo Scania but this for the moment is still the most powerful truck in Europe 750 horses but yeah these guys wanted a quick mention as well look Kingdom truck and trailer for all your truck maintenance needs give them a call okay okay a huge thanks to Dennehy's for having me here today base down here and fairing for encounter carry I will chat to you all again next weekend for another video thanks for watching guys J [Music] what's the talk figure guys 650 newton-meters guys if you're ever tightening or not [Music]

Channel: Stavros969

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Length: 24min 34sec (1474 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 29 2019