Scarab 195 ho died on maiden voyage

[Chwtom]

So I bought a 2014 195 HO, has 22 hours. Did a sea test and ran great except would get kind of bogged down for a few seconds if I gunned it. Sounds like that is pretty normal.

Brought it home (6 hours from place of purchase) and put it in the water. Ran great for the first ten minutes, got it up to around 44 mph with 2 adults, 2 kids in it. Then the wrench icon came on and it wouldn't go more than about 6 mph. Would occiaionally over-rev the engine without me increasing throttle if I went faster than that.

Got it to the dock and shut it off while I got the trailer backed in. Then it wouldn't start at all. The dash screen just set service required or something like that.

I did notice some loose weeds floating on the water while I was running the boat around. Nothing thick or more than a foot long, and the water was deep enough that I wasn't near any weeds on the bottom. When I got the boat out there was one thin weed strand inside the intake grate by the impeller.

Would a little weed like this be enough to cause the problem I had? I dropped it off at a local dealer but who knows how long it'll take for them to look at it. Pretty disappointing though.

I will say the lake where the boat will normally be used has basically no weeds.

 

[Pirana]

Could possibly be that it ingested something and bogged the engine down causing the "wrench icon" to come ON. Now if it only went 6 mph, if the ecu limited the RPM then it could have been in limp mode. If you gave it all it had and only went 6 mph then could have damages the impeller and suffer from cavitation. But I'm no expert. Just from what has happened to me before.

 

[Ron@Scarab]

The wrench Icon is for maintenance. Sounds like an overheat issue at the moment, possibly. Any code numbers come up on cluster?

 

[Chwtom]

It's at the shop so I'm not sure about codes. Didn't notice one but I was distracted. I'll try to post an update when I hear something.

 

[Chwtom]

Scarab dealer looked at it. They said the wrench icon was from being due for an oil service. They said that shouldn't make it go into limp mode. Also said there were 5 or 6 error codes on there, said they were from when the boat had about 8 hours on it. Not sure if that would do it? I'll see if they can tell me what the codes were. Not sure why it would work fine and then suddenly not work. They said they took it out and had no issues.

Also said it probably wouldn't start because the lanyard was out, maybe I bumped it out without noticing it.

 

[genwrx]

Scarab dealer looked at it. They said the wrench icon was from being due for an oil service. They said that shouldn't make it go into limp mode. Also said there were 5 or 6 error codes on there, said they were from when the boat had about 8 hours on it. Not sure if that would do it? I'll see if they can tell me what the codes were. Not sure why it would work fine and then suddenly not work. They said they took it out and had no issues.

Also said it probably wouldn't start because the lanyard was out, maybe I bumped it out without noticing it.

Along with the lanyard, also make sure it is in Neutral