what should i do about my new boat

[JASinIL2006]

Re: what should i do about my new boat

If they've been using the fix since 2005, I wonder why they just haven't adjusted their manufacturing to incorporate it? Why continue to make a boat with a known problem for 8 years?

 

[Pony]

Re: what should i do about my new boat

If they've been using the fix since 2005, I wonder why they just haven't adjusted their manufacturing to incorporate it? Why continue to make a boat with a known problem for 8 years?

Was just thinking the same thing.....

 

[GA_Boater]

Re: what should i do about my new boat

Probably because they save $1.22 in manufacturing cost per hull and they find it cheaper to field fix the few complaints. A lot of these are bought by first time boat buyers who don't know how it should handle. I don't agree with that philosophy.

 

[MH Hawker]

Re: what should i do about my new boat

If they've been using the fix since 2005, I wonder why they just haven't adjusted their manufacturing to incorporate it? Why continue to make a boat with a known problem for 8 years?

Thats easy to under stand, tracker is lazy.

 

[jestor68]

Re: what should i do about my new boat

They fixed the problem.

You can stop the bashing now.

FYI; Tracker boats are welding by human beings; not robots. Every once in a while, the welder applies a little too much heat and slightly warps a section(which is what happened here). The fix is easy, as the OP found out.

Since it was "repaired or replaced" under the terms of the hull warranty at no cost to the owner; I'd say Tracker full filled their obligation to the customer.

He now has a boat that performs as it should. And he didn't even have to call the Attorney General.

 

[WIMUSKY]

Re: what should i do about my new boat

I got with a tech from tracker about my boat. I was told that they had been using this fix since 2005. I told them that they could try it, with the condition that if it did not work, or if it disfigured the boat, they would replace it. They agreed. I picked up the boat last Saturday. What they did was weld a one/eighth bead, 10 inches long on each side of the transom, where the transom joins the bottom. If you did'nt know it was there, you would not even notice it. I took it to the lake. It is like operating an entirely different boat. I can run wide open with just myself or with another person aboard and the boat does not porpoise. The boat even handles better. It seems to ride higher on the water. It is unbelievable how those two little beads of weld changed the boat.

I would try and get that in writing before they touch it..................