What's it worth ?

[Mekanix]

Going to look at a 95 challenger tomorrow. Guy want's 1500 for the boat with trailer with some issues like bad upholstery and mildew. Besides that they said bad starter and a blown engine but the other one is new with low hours.

The trailer is no good and the hull isn't of any use to me so I asked for just the engines and the computer.

They said 600 for just that. It would include a good mpem and a good engine. Plus the other engine would be rebuildable or maybe something simple to fix. Both are less than 30 hours on them from being dealer replacements.


I don't have any use for the computer but thought it would be good to get. And I don't really have any use for the engines either. I just know they should be quite valuable next season when people start looking for them.
Would 600 be a good price for those parts ?

 

[Mekanix]

Thanks for looking. Turn's out its a 95 with two 650X's I think. Both starters seized. Thing was a mess but it did have a good computer. Both engines felt a little rusty while turning them over by hand. So I gave up on it. Would be nice to have the parts but I have no use for it.

 

[Matt Braley]

The 94 and 95 owner's facing dead MPEM's have good aftermarket options from Seadoosource these days. The MPEM's from those are not near as valuable as the later ones.

 

[Spimothy Leary]

From my limited research, Matt is correct, when I looked into it, the earlier ones didn't have a whole lot of value, but overall I think its good value, if your interested in a project those hulls have a lot of part on them that people want, switches, gauges, start buttons, storage door's, etc. But @ 1500 not sure if you will see a return on investment with the misc. But $600 for two engines and the MPEM is a very fair price and I can't possibly see how you'd take a loss on that purchase.

oops, edit, just read the 2nd post that they were 650's, not nearly as much value there as you'd have with 717's or 787's so I withdraw my comment. Those 650's don't have much demand since they are only generally needed by somebody that has a really really old ski to fix up, and the refurb's with warranty's on those are pretty cheap as well so it drives the value down further. If your bored consider a lowball ? The hull's once stripped clean, have pretty much zero value, at least I haven't found a way to make a dime off of them, i'm usually paying somebody to take them instead.

 

[Mekanix]

Right, thanks guys. I'm always looking for something valuable but in this case its just so much work for little dividend.

I thought they were 717's at first and I would have jumped on those or better yet the 787's ! But those are hard to come by around here.

In the mean time I'm always checking out the local for sale's when an XP or GSX comes up.

 

[Spimothy Leary]

At least when it comes to parts machines I have had the most success myself with 787/951. Larger demand and more consistent prices. I tend to look almost every day at the listings although I am also quite picky. I look at maybe 15 a year but only buy 5-7 at best.

717's many times in my opinion are better off being fixed up to resell as a whole.

The last boat I did was a 97 it was posted on this forum by another member and I ended up leaving work to go look at it and brought it home that same day. I have already received my return on the initial investment and the hull and trailer are already gone but I'll be selling miscellaneous parts out of boxes for another year.