2019 Volvo EC480 Crawler Heavy Excavator

This afternoon, a supplier called to inform me to come and inspect a heavy-duty excavator, specifically this Volvo EC480. No plastic pop off on the volvo’s engine cover(no measure it must at least come with the car, too much trouble to take it apart), no coolant tank is full and transparent instead of opaque so you can check the level, no funny colors/loose pieces in the fluid. There is light dust in the Engine bay and it’s just lightweight, compared to some of the machines I see rolling out the back of the Skidstees without having a single spot in the Eng Bay with oil stains or dripping wet spots or on the valve bank, that’s uncommon for this size machine, though; let me look at the underside, wait, there’s not a single spot wet under the Hydraulic pump that I know of, no oil spills anywhere I’m looking, so just old dust, nothing dripping or wet that I can see. The tracks are at an average level of 80 to 85%. The center lugs have a good form, and the links are not bent or broken. I could see no wobbling or chipping of the sprocket, or idlers.

Cab is just plain stupid CLEAN. Either they haven’t eaten in this thing yet and still have the plastic wrap on, or they were just trying to clean it up to sell; both could be true as it is essentially brand new underneath the plastic and has a nice tan color. There is no caked mud or oil on the floor, gray head liner and not sagged, clear glass. There should be no bent hinges on the doors, they should swing smoothly. All the hydraulic lines were covered with those green hoses that prevent lines from being chewed through by meats and increase their life, which means someone took care that they wouldn’t be chewed through by some meat, as I did trace all the way from the cab, across the chassis, and nails to the valve stack and did not see any cracks or any weeping lines/contnections. Each of the big white Volvo cylinders with filters mounted on their side are recent-looking and the filter canisters are not grease-baked.I found bucket teeth and wear on the cutting edge (which was even), and pins on the boom and stick joints with no slop when looking and tugging on linkages. It’s dry – no grease blowout or chunks of bearings showing through (I could see neither from the position I was standing at) and swing bearing is out in the open under the platform. They are not chewed up or with missing pads, and tracked using steel triple grousers. No rusted or bent undercarriage frame, it’s painted to look good, when black. We made the most of the conditions during the inspection which was a bit bright out there so the detail I’m not as able to see but other than that this machine doesn’t look beat.