Help in buying a 150 sportster

[Mydooing]

Hi Everyone,
I'm new here and looking to buy a 2006 SeaDoo Sportster 150 (215). I was wondering if there is a problems with hi hours on this boat. it has about 80 hours one it and has been serviced every year at a dealer. I also heard that maybe there is a 100 hours problem is this true? Also what should i look for when checking this boat out or any other 150 sportster or speedster. Any input will be help.
Thanks for your help and time.
Mydooing

 

[timmyboy76]

hrs are fine, but b4 purchasing, have "dealer" check out, especially the supercharger. Thats the 100hr "service" your probably hearing. These need serviced then. Ask/find out, if the "charger" has the upgraded metal washers if not, then thats another "expense"...WATER TEST that boat.

 

[Mydooing]

Thanks timmyboy76 I will for sure.

 

[seadoo_mike]

i just bought a 2006 150 sportster, if you cant water test the boat, a seadoo dealer can hook it up to a computer and read the motor (it's called B.U.D.S) it will read hours on boat from new, how the boat was ran (rpm's), if it ever had any diagnostic issues, and a bunch more info. my boat had 35 hours on it when i bought it, and the boat looked like new, motor was clean as a whistle, so it looked like the previous owner took care of it. pulled oil dipstick and oil was clean (not black) I ran the boat on the lake for the first time and ran perfectly. before the second time out i had pulled the supercharger out and just replaced the washers with steel (riva) washers and new needle bearings, put charger back in and did an oil and filter change with the new oil from seadoo, (synthetic blend) and changed the spark plugs, the boat did not come with an hour meter, so i installed an hour meter and have put 8 hours on boat since, I am going to replace just the oil again when i get to about 10 hours or so, just to keep the charger happy, I think after reading alot about the charger that it is in your best interest if you have a charger to replace the oil a few times throughout the season to keep everything clean and lubed, and that will help with charger failures. I plan on pulling charger before next season and doing a complete rebuild to 08' spec's and then just doing a couple oil changes throughout the season again, keep your oil clean and i dont think you will have any problems with the charger, rebuild it once every 100 hours or less and power on.

 

[bo799]

i just bought a 2006 150 sportster, if you cant water test the boat, a seadoo dealer can hook it up to a computer and read the motor (it's called B.U.D.S) it will read hours on boat from new, how the boat was ran (rpm's), if it ever had any diagnostic issues, and a bunch more info. my boat had 35 hours on it when i bought it, and the boat looked like new, motor was clean as a whistle, so it looked like the previous owner took care of it. pulled oil dipstick and oil was clean (not black) I ran the boat on the lake for the first time and ran perfectly. before the second time out i had pulled the supercharger out and just replaced the washers with steel (riva) washers and new needle bearings, put charger back in and did an oil and filter change with the new oil from seadoo, (synthetic blend) and changed the spark plugs, the boat did not come with an hour meter, so i installed an hour meter and have put 8 hours on boat since, I am going to replace just the oil again when i get to about 10 hours or so, just to keep the charger happy, I think after reading alot about the charger that it is in your best interest if you have a charger to replace the oil a few times throughout the season to keep everything clean and lubed, and that will help with charger failures. I plan on pulling charger before next season and doing a complete rebuild to 08' spec's and then just doing a couple oil changes throughout the season again, keep your oil clean and i dont think you will have any problems with the charger, rebuild it once every 100 hours or less and power on.

I understand you are not supposed to use synthetic oil in the supercharged engines.

 

[seadoo_mike]

bo799--this synthetic blend is right from BRP and is good to use on all normal aspirated and supercharged engines. the mineral oil from BRP is not being manufactured anymore and at this time is very hard to come across any left on shelves. PPG in florida told me that they have put all there BRP mineral and full synthetic oils on half price sales to get rid of them to make room for this new synthetic blend, the problem originally with using the synthetic for the supercharges were that the washers were made from ceramic and broke down that material, but if you replace or have the metal washers you can go and run synthetic if you want to. amsoil ran a bulletin that said that there full synthetic oil was engineered and tested for seadoo superchargers and had less slippage then that of seadoo oils. I just stuck with this synthetic blend because it has seadoo's name on it.

 

[robertm]

bo799--this synthetic blend is right from BRP and is good to use on all normal aspirated and supercharged engines. the mineral oil from BRP is not being manufactured anymore and at this time is very hard to come across any left on shelves. PPG in florida told me that they have put all there BRP mineral and full synthetic oils on half price sales to get rid of them to make room for this new synthetic blend, the problem originally with using the synthetic for the supercharges were that the washers were made from ceramic and broke down that material, but if you replace or have the metal washers you can go and run synthetic if you want to. amsoil ran a bulletin that said that there full synthetic oil was engineered and tested for seadoo superchargers and had less slippage then that of seadoo oils. I just stuck with this synthetic blend because it has seadoo's name on it.

Very interesting. Didn't Seadoo replace some original ceramic washers with a ceramic coated steel washer though? If thats the case then the blend will break down the 'improved' Seadoo washer. (I understand in your case you replaced with the Riva all Steel washers)

 

[seadoo_mike]

I was under the impression that seadoo's washers were titanium coated.

 

[bo799]

HUH, now I have no idea what to think.

 

[robertm]

I was under the impression that seadoo's washers were titanium coated.

Your right. I don't know what I was thinking :banghead: