Shrekky wrote: Cam belts on 4 strokes are easy, and only every 1000 hours, or ten years to be sensible? other than that, a 30 dollar oil filter, 80 bucks of oil, every year, an impeller occasionally, and spark plugs occasionally unless you are doing massive hours.. i know some do need fancy plugs at 50 bucks each, but if you are considering the pros and cons between 2 stroke and 4, service costs arent a valid issue. |
My current outboard is a 225 Honda, so maybe not relevant, but I would think the labour and parts are pretty similar. But a service cost around $500 or $700 if I need to change the plugs. So far I have had 300hrs on the plugs and they seem fine. Over 3 years I have clocked up 550hrs, other than servicing every hundred hours I have had to change the High Pressure Fuel filter which should have been done at servicing. Other thing was an oxygen sensor which was a known fault with those outboards and fixed under warranty.
2 Meke wrote: Get a Suzuki four stroke. No cambelt, uses a chain. |
strx7 Do people realise that cambelt's degrade with time not just running hours/kms ???
[/QUOTE wrote: Don't know about outboards but my wife's corolla had a cam belt recomme |
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