wildlifeguy
New Member
good evening all,
Im having my boat mechanic (of 3 months) do some maintenance etc and inspection on the boat while its in the warmth of his boat garage.
He calls me today and says he's done some pulling apart, and based on last time in water performance 3 weeks ago, check on a couple of items I mentioned to him
- sluggish in water at full throttle start off. got it up to high rpm and it wouldn't go past 20mph. turned it around and got it out of the water.
he said that I need about $1300.00 in parts to get it up to excellent condition.
- said the rave valves on starbord are both shot ( it started on trailer no problem 4 hours after i pulled it out of the water). said the "peices" all went out the exhaust and no damage to pistons or engines.
- then a bunch of small stuff as pevious owner put non-stainless nuts and bolts in place of stainless ones during various times of "maintenance"
- didn't mention anything major other than the rave valve as major part replacement, so I asked for a parts list. He said he would only get parts from seadoo dealer as they are guaranteed and it works best as a part replacement.
-Tried to talk his way around getting me a parts list. He also said I was lucky as the rave valve could have gone into engine and it would have cost me $3000.00 to replace one engine?
Need your help here guys and girls.
am I being shafted? I want to trust him, he's been honest with me so far.... but $1300.00 bucks!! for what??
I asked him not to order parts until I get parts sourced other places.
So, rave valves? what's going rate online or other for new guaranteed?
Stainless parts- nuts and bolts etc.
Actually, where can I get seadoo engine parts guaranteed that you have purchased from and trust? that makes it simpler.
thanks
m
Im having my boat mechanic (of 3 months) do some maintenance etc and inspection on the boat while its in the warmth of his boat garage.
He calls me today and says he's done some pulling apart, and based on last time in water performance 3 weeks ago, check on a couple of items I mentioned to him
- sluggish in water at full throttle start off. got it up to high rpm and it wouldn't go past 20mph. turned it around and got it out of the water.
he said that I need about $1300.00 in parts to get it up to excellent condition.
- said the rave valves on starbord are both shot ( it started on trailer no problem 4 hours after i pulled it out of the water). said the "peices" all went out the exhaust and no damage to pistons or engines.
- then a bunch of small stuff as pevious owner put non-stainless nuts and bolts in place of stainless ones during various times of "maintenance"
- didn't mention anything major other than the rave valve as major part replacement, so I asked for a parts list. He said he would only get parts from seadoo dealer as they are guaranteed and it works best as a part replacement.
-Tried to talk his way around getting me a parts list. He also said I was lucky as the rave valve could have gone into engine and it would have cost me $3000.00 to replace one engine?
Need your help here guys and girls.
am I being shafted? I want to trust him, he's been honest with me so far.... but $1300.00 bucks!! for what??
I asked him not to order parts until I get parts sourced other places.
So, rave valves? what's going rate online or other for new guaranteed?
Stainless parts- nuts and bolts etc.
Actually, where can I get seadoo engine parts guaranteed that you have purchased from and trust? that makes it simpler.
thanks
m