Opinions on outdrive...

[Sea Ray guy]

I was just courious if anyone on here has had any experiance with sterndrive engineering's outdrives?



They are a local company here in central Florida and offer a 3 year "Fault Free" warranty and I am wondering if they truely stand behind their products so if anyone is using or has used one of their drives please let me know your experiance with it.

Thanks
Jesse

 

[gerryb]

No experience but I do look at their ads every month in the boating magazines. They only offer Alpha drives and Bravo I's lowers if I recall. I know they do not have BIIIs. I'd be worried about a business like that right now.. what good is a warranty if they close-up shop? I bought a piece of equipment (electronic motor flushing units) from a manufacturer, did all the research, great warranty, etc.. and he closed down the following year. I never installed the kit - not sure if that is a good thing or not..

 

[Pakmule]

I put two of them on my 270 late last season and so far no issues. I only have about two hours on them though. Fit and finish is very nice and from my research 90% of the problems that people ran into were because they installed them wrong.

I had them installed and my mechanic said they fit like a glove. Perfect replacements for the Alphas I replaced.