First I would like to thank anyone taking the time to read this, I have no idea what to do and hope someone here can help. Here's the story, I'll keep it as short as possible:
My wife and I rented 2 Seadoos for the day on our vacation last week. We rode around on them for about 20 miles, stopping here and there to take pictures, then beached them to have a little snack. The way we were told to beach them was to ride them to about chest deep water, kill the motor, and let the current take us in. But the guy scared us so much that we killed the motor, jumped off where we couldn't see the bottom, and swam them in. Ate the snack, then swam them out to the same point and took off.
Mine started acting funny by going, slowing down, going, slowing down, then dieing. The whole time the gas needle was bouncing from quarter tank to half a tank. We agreed to see if maybe it needed gas. I got it started again, and took it slow to the gas station, about a mile and a half. I decided to put $20 in each at $3.34 a gallon, just to make sure we had enough. The problem went away.
So we took off, then about 4 and a half miles later(a total of 5.75-6 miles since we beached) hers died out of no where. Then never came back on. We towed it to the closest beach, called the guy who rented them to us, told him the problem with both. He said he did something to mine so we wouldn't have that problem again, but couldn't get hers working again(he was working on it for 20 or so mins in thigh high water). So he put it on a trailer and told us to meet him back at the rental place to get another one.
The one he "fixed" started doing the same thing again and again until we were fed up with it and got it towed back. 3 and a half hours after the first one died completely, we made it back to the rental place. 10 mins before we had to turn them in. So we calculated how much we owed for the time we did have them, paid, and went on our way to forget about all the hell we went through and finish enjoying our vacation.
That was last Wednesday. Today he calls me telling me that we sucked up a rock(which he later changed to rocks) which bent the impeller, blocked water from getting to the motor to keep it cool, caused the motor to overheat, a piston to swell, and knock out a spark plug.
So, after all this, my question is, is this possible? I can only see one place where we could have sucked up a rock/rocks, but could we have gone almost 6 miles without noticing? He told me that it couldn't have been at the rental because it wouldn't have run fast and we would have brought it back to switch it out. Well, the one that died was faster than the one that didn't. Also, would he have been able to notice any of this damage by taking off the seat and trying to fix it?
Any help would be appreciated, and if this helps, it was a Seadoo Bombardier GTI. That's all I remember seeing on them.
My wife and I rented 2 Seadoos for the day on our vacation last week. We rode around on them for about 20 miles, stopping here and there to take pictures, then beached them to have a little snack. The way we were told to beach them was to ride them to about chest deep water, kill the motor, and let the current take us in. But the guy scared us so much that we killed the motor, jumped off where we couldn't see the bottom, and swam them in. Ate the snack, then swam them out to the same point and took off.
Mine started acting funny by going, slowing down, going, slowing down, then dieing. The whole time the gas needle was bouncing from quarter tank to half a tank. We agreed to see if maybe it needed gas. I got it started again, and took it slow to the gas station, about a mile and a half. I decided to put $20 in each at $3.34 a gallon, just to make sure we had enough. The problem went away.
So we took off, then about 4 and a half miles later(a total of 5.75-6 miles since we beached) hers died out of no where. Then never came back on. We towed it to the closest beach, called the guy who rented them to us, told him the problem with both. He said he did something to mine so we wouldn't have that problem again, but couldn't get hers working again(he was working on it for 20 or so mins in thigh high water). So he put it on a trailer and told us to meet him back at the rental place to get another one.
The one he "fixed" started doing the same thing again and again until we were fed up with it and got it towed back. 3 and a half hours after the first one died completely, we made it back to the rental place. 10 mins before we had to turn them in. So we calculated how much we owed for the time we did have them, paid, and went on our way to forget about all the hell we went through and finish enjoying our vacation.
That was last Wednesday. Today he calls me telling me that we sucked up a rock(which he later changed to rocks) which bent the impeller, blocked water from getting to the motor to keep it cool, caused the motor to overheat, a piston to swell, and knock out a spark plug.
So, after all this, my question is, is this possible? I can only see one place where we could have sucked up a rock/rocks, but could we have gone almost 6 miles without noticing? He told me that it couldn't have been at the rental because it wouldn't have run fast and we would have brought it back to switch it out. Well, the one that died was faster than the one that didn't. Also, would he have been able to notice any of this damage by taking off the seat and trying to fix it?
Any help would be appreciated, and if this helps, it was a Seadoo Bombardier GTI. That's all I remember seeing on them.
