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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | kjgmh - 6/6/2020 8:15 AM
We carry Yamaha, Mercury, Honda and Evinrude. If I look back at if a motor had to come in for warranty work, either factory campaign or something wrong, here are my top of the head numbers. Evinrude - 100% over the last couple of years, every motor we sold had to come back to the shop for either factory campaign or issues. Mercury - 20% and most of that was for factory campaign work. Yamaha and Honda - 10% or less. If we had a problem with EV and we had to work with factory tech service, it was like they where throwing darts at a board and we where guinea pigs for them. They where never sure what was going on. Any other OEM, that never happened.
I'm guessing this 100% would be from the G2 engine design? I have not heard of many G1 engines having issues except for when they first got rolling...that I would call normal bugs just like optimax had back when they started rolling with it.
JD, not sure...I have not looked into that aspect of things, but I am sure the etec is not going away as I believe the snowmobile engine line will most likely stay on that track unless that is something they are looking to go away from as well. The only assumption I could make about any of this (I've done no research here so this is very much a tongue firmly planted in cheek) would be the G2 models (going off of the above posting) was becoming too costly to continue working on (given so a significant amount of warranty work etc.). I can only hope they will sometime come back in at some point....but with the other good options out there, probably not going to be anything we see.
Steve
Edited by VMS 6/7/2020 9:47 AM
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