"Larry" expounded lugubriously:
WHOA! WHOA! W-H-O-A!!!
... we're never going to be buying ANYTHING from a
liar and scoundrel like YOU and YOUR COMPANY!

Did someone drop an SEI drive on your head as a child?

Ernest Scribbler wrote:
"Larry" expounded lugubriously:

WHOA! WHOA! W-H-O-A!!!
... we're never going to be buying ANYTHING from a
liar and scoundrel like YOU and YOUR COMPANY!


Did someone drop an SEI drive on your head as a
child?


I think Larry was just hammering them for posting
an ad in a newsgroup that is not for advertising.
The proper place for the post would have been
rec.boats.marketplace

BTW, since they brought their drives and warranty
to the attention of the newsgroup, I had a
mechanic install an SEI drive on my 1986 Maxum
last year. The drive looked well made and had a
very good finish on it, but it had serious gear
noise right out of the box. The mechanic and
another sterndrive mechanic that I had look at it
thought that it had been incorrectly shimmed at
the factory.

We contacted the factory and they said to run it
for ten hours, and if it was still making the
noise they would warranty the drive, although we
would have to pay for the removal and
re-installation (~$600).

We took the boat on a long trip up the lake with
the idea of putting the hours on it, and
unfortunately hit a submerged rock with the lower
unit on the way back. Obviously, that voided the
warranty. The funny thing was that the SEI drive
sounded better with the crushed torpedo, and water
mixed in the oil than it ever did before the
strike. That lends some credence to the idea that
the drive was incorrectly setup at the factory,
because the strike probably pushed the gears
closer together.

I then bought a factory new Mercruiser outdrive to
put on the boat, put it on myself, and had no more
trouble with the outdrive.

I think that SEI makes a good product, and hope
that they are successful with it, but in checking
around found that a lot of people were having
trouble with the "gear noise" problem about that
time. They may have found and fixed the problem
by now.

Don W.

Don W wrote in news:aWUPg.2017
:

I had a
mechanic install an SEI drive on my 1986 Maxum
last year.

Voiding the warranty, according to their written warranty, as I quoted....

You should have read the warranty and demanded they send a manufacturing
person down so you didn't void it....

It's all there in the fine print, just after that part about stampeding
elephants.



--
There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

Actually, they didn't quibble about the fact that
we had installed it. They were going to warranty
the drive. I just had to pay for the removal,
shipping back to the factory, and re-installation
of the new drive.

Don W.

Larry wrote:
Don W wrote in news:aWUPg.2017
:


I had a
mechanic install an SEI drive on my 1986 Maxum
last year.


Voiding the warranty, according to their written warranty, as I quoted....

You should have read the warranty and demanded they send a manufacturing
person down so you didn't void it....

It's all there in the fine print, just after that part about stampeding
elephants.

Don W wrote in news:rz2Qg.2193
:

Actually, they didn't quibble about the fact that
we had installed it. They were going to warranty
the drive. I just had to pay for the removal,
shipping back to the factory, and re-installation
of the new drive.



Not my point. My point it this is in DIRECT opposition to the statements
in the company's WARRANTY. Re-read my original reply to his false
advertising. Reread the warranty, itself, from:
http://www.sterndrive.cc/pdf/warranty91806.pdf

If you got different service from what this warranty plainly states,
consider yourself plainly lucky, indeed.....

"Ernest Scribbler" wrote in
et:

Did someone drop an SEI drive on your head as a child?




No, I was merely pointing out to a spammer that this is NOT the place to
advertise his product....you know.....where anyone can REPLY to the false
advertising and bull**** claims.....



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There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

"Larry" wrote
No, I was merely pointing out to a spammer that
this is NOT the place to advertise his product....

One man's spam is another's paté. The "Ad:" preface in the subject line
pretty clearly identifies the post for what it is, the poster makes no
attempt to obfuscate his identity, and the announcement involves a boating
related product in a boating newsgroup. Personally I'm not totally jiggy
about it, but it's not like SEI is flooding the group with such posts, so
I'm not so quick to put them in the same class as people peddling warez or
hawking cut-rate viagra. At any rate, what mostly struck me as odd was the
vitriol of your reply. Was it prompted by personal experience with SEI?

"Ernest Scribbler" wrote in
et:

no
attempt to obfuscate his identity,

No but he surely attempted to obfuscate his WARRANTY, didn't he?

Why are you defending this spammer?

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There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

"Larry" wrote
Why are you defending this spammer?

SEI can defend themselves if they want. I'm asking what compelled you to
take time out of your life to write a 4000 word reply to a "spammer." Have
you had any real life dealings with SEI or haven't you?

"Ernest Scribbler" wrote in
:

SEI can defend themselves if they want. I'm asking what compelled you
to take time out of your life to write a 4000 word reply to a
"spammer." Have you had any real life dealings with SEI or haven't
you?


Nope...just had nothing to do until the appliances were done doing their
thing. I've had dealings with boat companies and boat dealers for many
years, all smiles and promising the moon until the contracts are signed,
then turning to the warranty's fine print to show you what's covered and
what's not...no matter what I said when we were looking at the gelcoat.

I felt this was a new and different way of discouraging the spammers from
trashing the newsgroup. It seemed to work. The only replies I got were
from others who decided he needed defending from my pointing out the
TRUTH of his WRITTEN WARRANTY off his webpage.

I wonder about the defenders. Why? What possible defense could be
necessary because someone simply posted what the company publishes as
their responsibilities to their consumers and pointing out the difference
between his "statements" and the actual warranty the judge is going to be
reading when things go awry.

Sterndrive isn't special. Read any of their warranties and it says the
same thing. We cover everything, and nothing.



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There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.