Sorry I'm new to this forum and had posted this in the wrong forum. I have a couple of questions see if someone with more common sense would shine some lights on this.
A few days ago, i bought my first used jet boat. it was the 2008 seadoo speedster 150 for $8700 with 66hrs usage. i thought it was a good deal so drove 3 hrs across state for to pick it up. the person that sold me the boat promised me that there are not a single thing that needed fixin on the boat so i took his words for it. Mistake #1, i did not take the boat to test drive it on the lake before purchase because we are 2 hrs from the lake. I just had the guy start the engine on land for a few minutes. I'm not a mechanic but the engine sounded great to my ears. Mistake #2, I checked every part of the boat for problems except for the intake. When took the boat home i realized that i needed craw under there and take a look at the intake. This is when i found the broke intake grate with signs of tow ropes being ran over. I did a google on this and it seem like a lot of folks had this problem. Boat ran over ropes broke grate. This got me worried so i had to take the boat to the lake for a quick test drive. I have not had a good look to see if the wear ring or the impeller got damaged or not but the boat would not top speed at 7500 rmp. based on the reading from the boat, it shown around 40mph top speed at max throttle. From what i had read from the forum, top speed on the 2008 should be around 50mph. Boat seem to run fine on water but would not hit anywhere near 50mph. I have contact the seller about the issue and he told me that i don't know anything about the broke grate. He also offered to buy back the boat if i'm not happy with it.
so my questions to you (who got more common sense then me) is that how much would something like this cost to get it fixed? Would you just return the boat? Would you try to replace the grate and see if this fixed the problem. I'll try to take some pictures of the grate, wear ring and impeller and see if you can tell if i would also need those replaced. Impeller and wear ring sounded expensive. I kinda like the boat and would like to keep it but also afraid that this problem would cost too much to fix.
thanks in advance for the reply.
JC
update -
I went ahead and take off the broken grate. checked the impeller and wear ring. they both look fine. i took some pictures but haven't figure how to upload or insert to this post. i inserted the photo to this post but can't seem to see it.
A few days ago, i bought my first used jet boat. it was the 2008 seadoo speedster 150 for $8700 with 66hrs usage. i thought it was a good deal so drove 3 hrs across state for to pick it up. the person that sold me the boat promised me that there are not a single thing that needed fixin on the boat so i took his words for it. Mistake #1, i did not take the boat to test drive it on the lake before purchase because we are 2 hrs from the lake. I just had the guy start the engine on land for a few minutes. I'm not a mechanic but the engine sounded great to my ears. Mistake #2, I checked every part of the boat for problems except for the intake. When took the boat home i realized that i needed craw under there and take a look at the intake. This is when i found the broke intake grate with signs of tow ropes being ran over. I did a google on this and it seem like a lot of folks had this problem. Boat ran over ropes broke grate. This got me worried so i had to take the boat to the lake for a quick test drive. I have not had a good look to see if the wear ring or the impeller got damaged or not but the boat would not top speed at 7500 rmp. based on the reading from the boat, it shown around 40mph top speed at max throttle. From what i had read from the forum, top speed on the 2008 should be around 50mph. Boat seem to run fine on water but would not hit anywhere near 50mph. I have contact the seller about the issue and he told me that i don't know anything about the broke grate. He also offered to buy back the boat if i'm not happy with it.
so my questions to you (who got more common sense then me) is that how much would something like this cost to get it fixed? Would you just return the boat? Would you try to replace the grate and see if this fixed the problem. I'll try to take some pictures of the grate, wear ring and impeller and see if you can tell if i would also need those replaced. Impeller and wear ring sounded expensive. I kinda like the boat and would like to keep it but also afraid that this problem would cost too much to fix.
thanks in advance for the reply.
JC
update -
I went ahead and take off the broken grate. checked the impeller and wear ring. they both look fine. i took some pictures but haven't figure how to upload or insert to this post. i inserted the photo to this post but can't seem to see it.
