- Oct 6, 2006
- 12,155
- Boat Info
- 1996 450DA
- Engines
- 3116 Caterpillars
Mercruiser has a past practice of "pulling the tomato off the vine before it is ripe". In the marine world this is simply releasing a product for sale to the general public before it is fully developed and tested. This means that you and I get to do Mercruiser's new product prototyping for them. Not only that, we get to pay for that privilege.
I bought this lesson in the early 90's with the Mercruiser Sport Jet in a 13ft. Sea Rayder. In the 2 years I owned that boat, I put 4 stators @ $780 ea and 3 diode packs @ $259 ea. plus labor before Mercruiser's start/diode pack ver 4.0 solved the problem. My friends accuse me of holding a grudge and I guess that is right because I swore that I would never again be roped into paying for another Mercruiser's incomplete product development. .......and I haven't.
I'm guessing the Zues system is about 10 years old, so perhaps they are getting close to having it figured out.
I bought this lesson in the early 90's with the Mercruiser Sport Jet in a 13ft. Sea Rayder. In the 2 years I owned that boat, I put 4 stators @ $780 ea and 3 diode packs @ $259 ea. plus labor before Mercruiser's start/diode pack ver 4.0 solved the problem. My friends accuse me of holding a grudge and I guess that is right because I swore that I would never again be roped into paying for another Mercruiser's incomplete product development. .......and I haven't.
I'm guessing the Zues system is about 10 years old, so perhaps they are getting close to having it figured out.