Re: Silent Choice
I found out about the sewer lines after I had the boat for some time. Looks like the marina was trying to make as much profit as they could buy cutting down their cost on parts. It is a wet exhaust system and the hoses had been on there for sometime. It got hot but nothing like a dry system would. Hell, marine grade hose can't even handle that. They took a lickin but weren't ready to burst or leak. Probably would have happened after this summer or during this summer. <br /><br />My engine has close to 750 hours but has been very well maintained. The people I bought it from babied it. They pulled it out of the river every week and wiped it down. The guy was a fanatic with maintenance so I know it was well taken care of mechanically. <br /><br />271 hours?? That's not even broken in where I come from. There are boats on the lake out here with 1400 plus hours with no engine rebuild. I've heard that most engines get overhauled around the 1000-1200 range. I'm going to drive it until it dies. Then hopefully I will buy whatever I want. I would love a Baja Outlaw. What I have now is nice because it has a cuddy cabin and the kids can go in there out of the sun. It's a classic at this stage of the game. Its clean and the 350 is pretty good on fuel. Dad has a 28ft Bayliner cruiser and that tub has the King Cobra 460 which drinks gas. <br /><br />I'm very leery of marine garages (not all are bad). I keep my boat at the lake and was out of state when my Dad gives me a call. At the marina where I store my boat there is another guy there with almost an identical boat and get this; his boat key fits my boat! Anyway, this guy wanted his boat tuned up and they got his boat confused with mine and worked on mine by accident. Well they try to call me but the marina gives them my dads number. He calls me and tells me the situation. He says they want to put "your old parts back on your boat or if you pay them, they will leave it". I tell him to tell the garage I will pay for their parts since they did it by accident but I'm not paying for labor as my boat didn't need a tune up. They wanted full price for everything so I said "screw you, you idiots tuned up the wrong boat, you should have just said you were sorry and left it at that". I wanted to be nice about it so I said I would pay for their parts so they weren't out any money. They apologize and agree to this. Anyway, they said they put in new points and cap and rotor, they rebuilt the carburetor and changed both fuel filters. The guy tells me the total for parts was $400 and some change and that he was going to be nice and charge me $300 for the inconvenience. I look up the tune up kit online and its $13 (cap, points and rotor), and one fuel filter was $3 and other was $11, the carb kit was around $18. This loser is trying to charge me $300 for what I could have bought online for under $50 shipping included. I get back to town and run down to the lake for the weekend. I take a look at the engine and they changed one filter not two (the cheap one at that) and they did put a new cap, rotor and points in it. The idiots didn't bother resetting the timing and they never touched the carburetor. The carb was filthy and they told me they rebuilt it. I call this scumbag up who treats me like a woman buying a car like. I told him he's not getting a cent now. Can't believe the guy continued to argue with me. He was caught and continued to tell me he did all this work. I told him he didn't do the work and wasn't getting paid, nor was I'm paying for parts that he never replaced. I should have reported this guy. What a scumbag.<br /><br />The thing about this is these guys do this to people all the time. Let's face it; most people have no clue when it comes to boats. Hell they charge $1000+ to winterize your boat down at Lake of the Ozarks. "Oh, you need an oil change, that's $400 dollars". What a racket!
