Axis Wakeboard Boat Forum

Hello All!

I have a 2011 A20 that I bought new and has only 36 hours on it. No problems with the boat until now.

This past Fall I preformed all the Storage Procedures listed on this Forum. I live in the mountains of Colorado and we can have extremely low temps for extended periods of time so I also removed the battery and kept it in my heated garage. The boat was then stored in a un-heated garage for 6 months.

I pulled the boat out this week. I reversed all the Winterizing Procedures (replaced plugs, reinstalled the battery, etc), attached a 'fake-a-lake' and fired her up in the driveway. Almost immediately I got a 'Service Required' message with loud beeping across my dash. I scrolled through the gauges and oil pressure, temp and volts all seemed to be normal and the motor ran fine with water coming out of the exhaust normally. I shut off the motor, restarted it and the alert returned after a minute or so. Motor still runs fine and will even rev in neutral. I shut her down again, checked the oil (fine), and decided to put her in the water to test again. I fired her up on the trailer in the lake, ran fine but still beeping. I let her warm up on the trailer, took her for a quick spin around the lake and she ran fine. No hesitation, no RPM limit, temp is fine, oil pressure is fine, no water leaks.

Is there a way to decifer why the boat is giving me the warning without hauling her out to the dealer? I do all my own maintenance on all my toys/vehicles and I'd like to solve this myself, especially since it seems like it might be a minor issue. Also, I'm 100 miles from my Dealer so it would be an all day ordeal to get the boat to Denver, not to mention the diesel cost there and back.

Any guidance or advice would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Max

What size engine do you have? It sounds like a knock sensor wasn't installed properly while winterizing. You should be able to get a code off of the diagnostics section of the display. Put that into google and it should help you.

The boat has the standard 350 in it with no cat.

I would check the knock sensor. The 330s don't have the knock sensors, the 350s do. One should be located on each side of the engine. They are typically removed during winterization cause they are part of the engine block draining system.

Scroll your info to something other than depth, like air temp or lake temp, the older boats had a software glitch that would cause the service beep if it was on depth when you key up. I replaced the tach twice in mine and it still may do it once in a blue moon.

Thanks for the helpful replies.

I fired her up today to check knock sensors and play with the toggle switch, and low and behold, no more beeping (knock on wood!). I didn't do anything to it except let it sit in the water overnight. My guess is she didn't like having the battery disconnected for so long.

I went for an hour-long cruise and no beeping the whole ride! So I guess she just needed to wake-up and fix herself.

Thanks again for your responses!