Ordering a WakeBooster

[Raymond Powell]

I have been trying to order a WakeBooster from my local dealers. I understand they are backordered and not shipping at this time. but nobody is even willing to take an order for one. Is this the norm or are there dealers out there taking ordered and or getting them in? Is there anywhere online to order one from yet? Thanks for any help or sugestions. In the Flint Mi area.

 

[MidnightRider]

I don’t think any dealer is currently able to order them. From what I’ve deduced dealers are getting in their preorders and most people that are getting them got their name on a “list” that they wanted one when they came in. I had my name on the list beginning of Dec and still waiting. 24’ packages have been showing up for a month or so but the 21’ packages are just starting to show up now at dealers. Last I checked sounds like for me it will be another week or two yet before I we see the 21’ packages at the dealer here.

 

[Scott Gore]

My experience has been exactly the same.

 

[Jack Long]

I ordered and paid for mine at the Nashville boat show this year. Was told it would be in by March. Now its almost June and still nothing from the dealer. So I called Yamaha corporate. They told me that each dealer was given the opportunity to order a limited number to initially sell "however they wanted."

So now I am wondering if the dealers are using them as a tool to sell new boats!

Has anyone in Tennessee received one and if so, did you buy a new boat or pre-order?

 

[MidnightRider]

Dealer here is saying they ordered a batch of 24' packages and a batch of 21' packages. They have recieved the entire batch of 24' packages but that Yamaha keeps pushing back the delivery date of the 21' packages. New date as of yesterday is 6/6. Always a chance the dealer is BS'ing me but I choose not to believe that for now. From the sounds of it the same story is across many other dealers.

 

[DavisAR195]

@John Mcpartland any word on your Wake Booster?

 

[NORCAL-GAS]

Dealer here said check back in June. Want to be added to the “list”? I said sure. Prob won’t buy one due to having to buy the “package”. Yamaha.

 

[cwood]

I ordered and paid for one last September. I spoke with the dealer today and he said the delivery date was updated to early June. He said his level of confidence on that date is low as Yamaha has continued to move the delivery date.

 

[Matt Phillips]

Same experience here. To get on the list, pay-up, and we'll call you when one is available. If this drags out very long, this will be a BIG MISS as this is the beginning of the season....people don't want their new toys they ordered ages ago delivered in late August.

 

[NORCAL-GAS]

BIG MISS, yes, but already happened. Season is here. At this point I’d rather wait for a knock off to be developed and pay someone else rather than Yamaha. Think about it, if someone made one for $500, who wouldn’t buy it. Again, Yamaha fail.

 

[MidnightRider]

yeah I just don't get. Even the dealer is perplexed. Big company like Yamaha can't get the manufacturing together for a simple piece of welded aluminum. There is a story behind all this I'm sure, just doesn't make sense.

 

[John Mcpartland]

@John Mcpartland any word on your Wake Booster?

Nothing yet.

 

[CDENsomnia]

My 2019 242X is suppose to come with one and the dealer said he hasn't gotten any for his 242X customers yet. I asked for an ETA and the dealer just shrugged his shoulders. So, just took my existing wake wedge and got the new bar to fit the new boat. Should be here shortly!

 

[Brad460]

Dealer here said check back in June. Want to be added to the “list”? I said sure. Prob won’t buy one due to having to buy the “package”. Yamaha.

I’ll probably regret asking...but why all the Yamaha butt hurt?

 

[Jack Long]

The New Yamaha WakeBooster - How It Works + Installation

Available as early as December 18'????????

 

[Renod]

The New Yamaha WakeBooster - How It Works + Installation

Available as early as December 18'????????

Maybe they meant December 2118...

 

[Hobson 76]

This is my very first post on jetboaters....
I have the 2019 212x paid for the wake booster package when I bought the boat back in March 19. I have been told since then backordered, we don’t know when it will be in I thought BS. This doesn’t make since, called Yamaha customer service they were not helpful just first batch had been sent out to dealers and only way can get one is if you buy a 2019 x series boat. I don’t know if it’s my dealer or Yamaha and it’s summer and I’m ready to try wake surfing in my new boat.

 

[Scott Gore]

I bought my Yamaha 242x e-series in late October of 2018 and just received my Wakebooster kit the first week of May 2019. That was after many phone calls to the dealership and many more to Yamaha customer service. It’s difficult to understand how a corporation this large could market and sell this product without actually having it on the shelf. Once you get yours, you’ll like it, it works great! Just gives you a bad feeling about Yamaha having to wait so long.

 

[Scott Gore]

This is what you can do behind a jet boat with the Wakebooster

 

[Scott Gore]