NumnuT_AUS wrote: Never owned an Etec, I'm sick of the no servicing for 4 year hype .. Would anyone buy a 4 yr old second hand engine that had never been serviced?, I'll stick to my 4/ thanks |
smudge wrote:
You could always get it serviced more often. I have an E-Tec, it's been good. I know a guy who said he had an E-Tec and it let him down 3 times when the on board computer thingy failed so he replaced it with a Yamaha now he is happy as. I'd be miffed too if I had a 200hp motor that failed that spectacularly every year. Just one point though, it turns out it was a FICHT and not an E-Tec. In his eyes though it was the same thing. It appears that OMC had a real lemon and that has cast a long shadow over the Bombadiers brand. Maybe if they changed the colour it would have helped . |
Murph wrote: I've had a 90, 115, 150 & 175 E-Tec. They have all been great motors and not a problem from any of them. The servicing thing seems to bug a lot of people and to be fair the USA hype style advertising is in my mind misleading in this regard. The manual says that servicing is every 300 hours or three years BUT if used in salt water you need to get it checked over yearly, which is what any responsible boat owner would do. |
Steps wrote: I think the bad rap comes from when they went to the Fich injection....that hurt them pretty hard and these sort of things tend to hang on in the 'market attitudes' for many decades on...for anything. Over the yrs, espec if buying 2nd hand.. if one goes thru brands around the time/ age one is looking at....there is usually 1 brand that stands out.. still around. And 2 brands stand out to me over others johnson/ evenrude (even thu I dont think there are many fich engines with the bad injection still around) and merc just as bighorn does (big time) for 90s 4x4s |
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