Anyone had this happen after a boat sale?

[airdvr1227]

Re: Anyone had this happen after a boat sale?

As is no warranty...that means if it breaks in half tomorrow you own BOTH pieces.

 

[Mule Laker]

Re: Anyone had this happen after a boat sale?

Ya I know the risk of selling to family and friends. Or basically anyone who has your phone number in their address book. Ha!

I'll get the stinkin' $30 cable and be done with it.

 

[Mule Laker]

Re: Anyone had this happen after a boat sale?

As is no warranty...that means if it breaks in half tomorrow you own BOTH pieces.

Tail light warranty? When I can't see the tail lights anymore it's out of warranty?

 

[frantically relaxing]

Re: Anyone had this happen after a boat sale?

I have this kind of crap happen all the time.

Way back when I sold my 24' Reinell, the guy who bought it went straight from my house to a Hitch shop to have an extended receiver made (to end up flush with the back of his 12' Camper). Shop was less than 5 miles away, and he blew a wheel bearing on the way there. The shop told him the axles were 3000# and the rig weighed in at over 7000#, so he needed new axles. He thought I should pay for one of them. I ended up paying for HALF of one. (I towed that boat over 12,000 miles the 4 years I had it, with no problem)

We owned our Sea Ray (the one we still own-again in my sig) for 4 years, it needed a gimbal bearing when we bought it, it never needed anything else. When we decided to buy the Sun Runner, our friends wanted the Sea Ray. The morning of the second day of the first weekend they took it out, they stopped for fuel. Unbeknownst to them, on the way to the gas station a head gasket let go. While filling the tank with gas, the gasket filled the #5 with water. And as luck would have it, the engine fired before #5 could hydrolock. Pushed the crank out of the journals, which cracked the block above the journals. If the crank would've been only 1/4 turn farther, it would've hydrolocked and only needed a set of head gaskets. I coughed up $300 towards the motor they found for it. In the end we got the boat back (but that's a whole nuther long story)

Back in 1995 I bought the wife her '89 Mustang GT convertible. Last year her son wanted to buy it. She doesn't drive it much, so what the hell. Until then I'd replaced a fuel pump and the alternator, and valve cover gaskets, not bad for 17 years. The kid had it 2 days when someone on the freeway offramp plowed into the right quarter panel. Then it started stalling out for no apparent reason. The guy who hit him's insurance covered the quarter panel. He got it back, great repair, and a couple of days later while eating at a restaurant some 'hole ran into the left taillight, busting it up..

He gave us the car back. (guess it didn't want to leave?)

 

[gm280]

Re: Anyone had this happen after a boat sale?

If I had sold a boat that I represented as being sound, and it ends up it's not, I'd fix it, or take it back. Because I gave my word that it was sound. (I know a man's word doesn?t mean dittily squat any more but mine still does.)


Note: I don't mean to say the OP was lying or malicious, I guess he just didn't know the cable was broken.

I have to side with "Wind dog" on this one. I too am a man of my word. And if I said that the boat was sound and it broke on their first trip out, I would replace the part or parts and tell them it was an unforeseen issue... BUT, I also would state that once they retrial run it and everything worked correctly that that was all of the warrantee I'd give them...period! Otherwise they may think you will simply fix everything for who knows how long after the sale...