brand new MALIBU VLX breaks down

catalyst112 · Posted: Aug 03, 2005 11:54 pm Post subject: brand new MALIBU VLX breaks down

my friend just took out his brand new boat. during the 3 hour break in period, the boat completely shuts down and is inoperable. they had to get towed back to land and take it back to the dealership.

this happens to my friend during the first trip he takes after being on a mission for 2 years. what a bum out.

RUSSIAN · Posted: Aug 04, 2005 12:46 am Post subject:

uuuhhh, out of gas maybe?????

Catalyst · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 736 City: Kelowna

its probably something electrical, i have a new airsv211 and sometimes itll just go dead when you try to turn it on, the engine wont even try to turn. When this happens i just jiggle the throtle so a connection can be re-established and it then try the start button again and it works no problem. Very Happy

BillyOLDS · Posted: Aug 04, 2005 3:16 am Post subject:

sounds great, i hope if i ever spend 50,000 on a boat it needs its throttle jiggled to start. while they are at it they should make u crank it like old ass cars to start it or better yet get a pull starter so if ur battery goes dead.

sorry but i do not get why boats are going for so much and are so unreliable. a 50,000 dollar car would not do that. and its not just malibu, my friends nautique breaks down all the time and u have to jiggle the throttle to get it started.

catalyst112 · Posted: Aug 04, 2005 3:18 am Post subject:

so i just got off the phone with him...

the boat is out of the shop and running great

he also tore a ligament in his knee.

Cary K. · Posted: Aug 04, 2005 6:34 am Post subject: Re: brand new MALIBU VLX breaks down

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Aug 04, 2005 6:52 am Post subject:

bummer man, i hope everything gets fixed.

cfxomega · Frontside 180 Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 466

Nekkie · Posted: Aug 04, 2005 8:05 am Post subject:

what ever the boat, you are always going to have problems with it... and pretty much all the time. Small ones, big ones.

even if it's a $100,000 boat lol hell, the more expensive, the more problems you have and the more they cost you.

boats are just something crazy heh

one-eyed sailor551 · Backside 180 Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 1111 City: mahopac

we have to put my brother in a wheel and make him run just to start our boat Laughing

Grouch · Kickflip Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 3146 City: The OC

catalyst112,

he must have gotten the boat from Paradise...Those guys are so incompetant, I would not even take my toaster there for them to service. Let along buy a 60K boat from them.

one-eyed sailor551 · Backside 180 Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 1111 City: mahopac

grouch after what you did to your toaster last night i dont think any one will service it Wink

Grouch · Kickflip Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 3146 City: The OC

There is more than one way to butter your bread. Wink

one-eyed sailor551 · Backside 180 Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 1111 City: mahopac

grouch i wonder what would happen to the economy if you published a book Laughing

Grouch · Kickflip Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 3146 City: The OC

one-eyed sailor551,

I need a good publisher, do you want a job?

devotid · Frontside 180 Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 473 City: saginaw

ive got a 95 hydodyne grand sport21 that ive been banging on the starter with one of the cover polls for about three years now. Never left me stranded, its just part of the routine to get her started when shes cold..... but damn it ill do whatever she wants me to to ride.

xboard32x · Posted: Aug 04, 2005 12:22 pm Post subject:

we have 99 wakesetter and that was the first year they made them and they had the wrong computer chip and we fried two motors Shocked

but we havnt had any problems since then.