CaptRob
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Hi Everyone
First I'd like to say thanks to everyone for all of the good advice and info prior to my purchase, this forum has been excellent! A special thanks to @luanders for letting me join him in his 215 for a nice lake run. Well, we picked our 215 last Friday and it has been an eventful weekend so far to say the least. We left the dock on Friday after launching and made our way downriver about 10 minutes to have our port engine suck something up and basically start vibrating the boat like crazy. Hobbled back to MarineMax in Ft Myers (luckily just a relatively short ride across). Most of their crew had gone home but the Svc Mgr was able to get one of his people to get the boat out of the water. Discovered a small piece of tree bark that had made it's way through the grate into the port impeller! Got that taken care of and headed back out. Within 10 minutes I had a stbd engine light on with a warning code. Called my salesman, and the Svc Mgr, no one seemed to have any idea what this code was about. Code is a P2245. Svc Mgr tells me he has basically no staff that know anything about Rotax engines, even though they are THE dealer in the area. So now we are waiting for them to find someone on their team that can come have a look.
My salesman says no worries, probably just a faulty sensor. He says to go ahead and use the boat. We motored out last night to catch fireworks on the river, made two passes and the port engine (not stbd, which has the current warning light) quits. Would not restart due to a "low voltage" battery message. Motored back crippled at a very slow speed as I now have discovered the twin engine cannot do much w/o it's partner. About 3000RPM and we were lucky to see 3-4mph.
So now the boat sits, since the port motor will still not turn over (although the stbd still does) and I stare at it, waiting for someone at MarineMax to track someone else down that might know a thing or two about this boat. Right now I have to say my enthusiasm has really waned for this boat. Don't get me wrong. Love the boat. And I own a much larger boat so I realize all boats have issues. But if I'm having these issues at 36 hours total time on engines, it scares me to think what kinds of issues I'll have at 100 hours, 200 hours, etc. One more thing, I discovered the seats stain with watermarks from the factory canvas. Who knew?
Anyone else experiencing issues on my level, or is this just jetboat beginner's luck?
First I'd like to say thanks to everyone for all of the good advice and info prior to my purchase, this forum has been excellent! A special thanks to @luanders for letting me join him in his 215 for a nice lake run. Well, we picked our 215 last Friday and it has been an eventful weekend so far to say the least. We left the dock on Friday after launching and made our way downriver about 10 minutes to have our port engine suck something up and basically start vibrating the boat like crazy. Hobbled back to MarineMax in Ft Myers (luckily just a relatively short ride across). Most of their crew had gone home but the Svc Mgr was able to get one of his people to get the boat out of the water. Discovered a small piece of tree bark that had made it's way through the grate into the port impeller! Got that taken care of and headed back out. Within 10 minutes I had a stbd engine light on with a warning code. Called my salesman, and the Svc Mgr, no one seemed to have any idea what this code was about. Code is a P2245. Svc Mgr tells me he has basically no staff that know anything about Rotax engines, even though they are THE dealer in the area. So now we are waiting for them to find someone on their team that can come have a look.
My salesman says no worries, probably just a faulty sensor. He says to go ahead and use the boat. We motored out last night to catch fireworks on the river, made two passes and the port engine (not stbd, which has the current warning light) quits. Would not restart due to a "low voltage" battery message. Motored back crippled at a very slow speed as I now have discovered the twin engine cannot do much w/o it's partner. About 3000RPM and we were lucky to see 3-4mph.
So now the boat sits, since the port motor will still not turn over (although the stbd still does) and I stare at it, waiting for someone at MarineMax to track someone else down that might know a thing or two about this boat. Right now I have to say my enthusiasm has really waned for this boat. Don't get me wrong. Love the boat. And I own a much larger boat so I realize all boats have issues. But if I'm having these issues at 36 hours total time on engines, it scares me to think what kinds of issues I'll have at 100 hours, 200 hours, etc. One more thing, I discovered the seats stain with watermarks from the factory canvas. Who knew?
Anyone else experiencing issues on my level, or is this just jetboat beginner's luck?
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) but from what I understand, the engine cooling system is closed loop, however the exhaust system is cooled with a "traditional jet pump" style cooling system. So not clamping that inlet over no-wake speeds could still hydro lock the cylinders through the exhaust side just like the Yamahas.