Blue-doo155
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they sell aftermarket idle bypass valves on eBay for $30. It may be worth trying that before spending $200+ on oem. i'm getting a surge at idle so i'm going to give that a shot and see if there's any improvement.
Damn, there was a guy at the seadoo meet up last year with a Candoo, could have got him to do it for me. Those things are a scam as they only work with one ski or a few skis...
For $400 you get the hardware, software and 4 licenses (HIN #s). You can purchase an unlimited license for a price. Unless the guy at the meet up had unlimited licenses, I doubt he would have worked on your boat for free. Each additional license is $100. As for being a scam, I disagree. $400 for a "tool" that can do so much for your boat is pretty cheap in my book. Especially when you factor in how much it will save you in both time and money by not having to rely on the dealer to do the same work at their shop.
My understanding is that a candoo just reads codes, reads current values, and resets maint interval and throttle body stuff. That's not very much for $400, mainly considering that you get just 4 licenses. Also, there is no guarantee that it'll work with future generation boats. Also, does it work with 2strokes to program keys? does that count as a license too?
i'm new to seadoo's so i may be wrong here, but...if your getting an engine surge like many in this thread seem to be, but were not getting any check engine lights, then the candoo will be useless to diagnose this surge, correct? Not to say it won't be good to have for other issues..but, in this scenerio it seems like a guessing game
Well, it may just be that I need to reset my TPS, or whatever other components need resetting in the throttle body. I did put this engine into a boat. It used to be in an 04 GTX, now it's in a '97 Challenger. That being said, all the electronics, save the rectifier, are the same (this problem preceeded the new/improved rectifier).
I'm about to purchase an RXP, but am not sure that it'll be the right jet ski for us. So we may ditch that and get an RXT. That, together with my boat = 3 Candoo licenses used already. And if my 2 stroke requires a license, then I'm tapped out. $400 is just too much for such limited usability.
It's kinda funny that with all these boats out there for as many years as they've been around, no one can figure this surging thing out. Mine doesn't straighten out until after about 5k.
Noone knows. Nobody has been able to figure it out. The ones that have, their issues are different from other people's issues. Some guys have vacuum leaks, fix it and boats stops surging, some guys have a bad coil. Doesn't seem like this is caused by just one thing, but can have a number of different culprits.What was the problem?