On Jun 28, 10:24*am, TinyTim wrote:
.... the high incidence of new model Mercruiser starters *early
failure *is endemic to the pervasive *decline in business management
ethics and general skill. *If these folks do not get on board with
Edwards Deming precepts...every body loses.....country .....customers
and labor. *

My son in law had to remove his motor starter after 150 hours of
little use. *I saw it. *I could not believe the inferior construction
of the brush holders. Tin parts installed in a tin can design. *I
heard rumors Mallory is running full tilt *as people wise up to
Mercury's inferior OEM network and *then switch to Mallory. I hope
that is fact. *But the cost of labor to remove and replace an I/O
starter is huge as many of you know. .

Mercruiser has become elligible for inclusion in the most
destructively managed U.S. corporations... the dirty dozen. I wonder
if Bombardier will fix OMC and then try to straighten out Mercury
Marine? *If only Kiekhaefer could rise from the grave.

Unbridled greed and no respect for *their customers, *dominates too
many American businesses and institutions. * Mercury Marine has joined
that nefarious club.... and boaters have to suffer accordingly.

I believe the starter motor in question is one of these, and yes, they
are crap.

http://www.allpointsmarineco.com/view/8066/333339/

way over priced (to the consumer) and really slop-shoddy construction.
They copied a poor design and made it worse.


As cheap as these starters are built. Mercruiser is probably paying
the swami's as little as $19.99 on like a 30,000 piece contract.

"Hey! It made IT's warrenty, wadda you griping about, eh"

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