amsugg wrote:
boardjnky4 wrote:
my dealer often times DOES take parts off of in-stock boats to fix existing customer's boats because people are always anxious to get back on the water in the middle of summer and ordering parts takes time.
It kind of sucks, but it's ENTIRELY plausible.
and your said dealer has a bad reputation IMO and a few other peoples as well ..... and I don't care that its under new ownership that is just a lousy excuse to me regardless of if its true or not ..... no offense boardjnky not a jab at you personally(I don't know your relationship to dealer)
I know in my profession it would be a huge no no to switch pcms without changing the vin written in the pcm .... dmv would have a lot to say about that. I don't know how strict that stuff is on boats
I won't argue ProMarine's past. The previous owner really left that place with a black eye. It makes all the difference in the world that the owner is new and that the service manager is no longer there. It may have taken some time for the new owner to get things in line with where they needed to be, but it's happening and getting better every day. They are top notch in my book. A lot of changes have been made, you should give them a shot to make the past mistakes right. I think you'd be surprised.
FWIW (and in the interest of full disclosure), I have nothing to gain from ProMarine winning your business back. However, the new owner is a friend of mine and he busts his ass to help his customers and to help grow the sport of wakeboarding at every level.
Hours on a boat are a completely non-regulated metric like they are on cars. There also aren't any restrictions on emissions like there are on cars. I don't blame the OP for being skeptical, he spent a lot of money and he doesn't want to have to worry about this stuff. But, I can tell you that these things are more common than most people think. Hour gauges are largely inaccurate. My old boat, an 06 Centurion, (as disclosed by the original owner) had to have the hour gauge replaced half-way through its first summer because it wasn't recording ANYTHING. The dealer put a new one in with 0 hours. I know it's antidotal, but things happen and the hours counted end up being inaccurate.
In my opinion, if they're going to fix the issue with the computer and put the hours to an ACCURATE state which truely represents the real hours of the boat and is what you expected to be buying, then that sounds like a fair resolution. You're not going to get a 2014 boat for 0 difference in price more than likely. They're more expensive, and have surfgates so the price is probably a few thousand higher.
