On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:39:13 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

On 1/24/2007 3:36 PM, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:55:20 -0600, lid wrote:

Nope, I'd done nothing but baby the thing in clean deep water.
Personally, I think it had dried out (gone k-put) new in its crate so
I wanted the warranty to cover it. But to install a new impeller, they
charged me $140..... WTF?? Last replacement on my little Evinrude was
half that amount. In addition to expensive parts, they also take
forever to get here. Time in the shop has been spent mostly waiting on
a part (we're talking a couple of MONTHs in one case... fortunately
they were cold weather months).

Hmmm - that reminds me of Yamaha parts. Although I haven't heard any
negative things about Honda's small engines including their generator
engines.

I do know that they have a rather strange attitude for an outboard
manufacturer. I was actually present at a presentation the Honda rep
made at my dealer and one of the questions was about warranty and
technical support like schools and the like. The Honda rep basically
said that Honda felt that their engines were so good that technical
support wasn't needed nor were schools.

And I do know of a case where they had a problem with a Honda 225 and
actually went to a Honda auto dealership to ask one of their mechanics
to come and look at it because Honda hemmed and hawed about sending a
technical rep.

I know there are dealers who have had Hondas and don't anymore and
it's not because of cost.

Having said that, I've never heard of their small engines having
problems though and see an awful lot of them around various marinas.


My local dealer handles Yamahas and Hondas, but all the boat lines it
sells come with Yamaha pre-rigs - Parker, Grady, one or two others. It
has a couple of Hondas on the floor, especially the smaller units. Also
sells a lot of Yamaha portable gasoline generators.

TriState has also become an authorized Honda service center, which has made
some of the folks in Breezy Point very happy!