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Originally Posted by 4Fun
$3600 is WAY too much for a rebuild. You can buy a rebuilt engine with a 1 year warranty for $1800 for that model at SBTontheweb.com. Maybe $500 to put it in.
The oil should have been full when delivered to you.
Where did the oil go? In the hull? is there oil in the coolant? Coolant in the oil? Check out PWCtoday.com for a wealth of knowlege on this. Go to the seadoo forum. They will help you get the info you need to talk at a higher level to the marina. By the time this is over you will know more than the dealer and will be able to winterize it yourself in a 1/2 hour.
One thing to think about is if they ran it on a hose in the yard during maintenance and left the hose running without the engine on, it will fill with water. Sure way to kill an engine on short order even 2 minutes on the hose without the motor going is disaster. This is NOT the case with a boat so even thought they should know this they might not.
I would also check your pump oil. It's unrelated but since they did such a good job with the engine it would be a shame to shell out another grand later to find out the messed that up too .
Colt are you Al by chance???
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The key to the mystery is where the oil went and whether they contibuted to blowing the engine. Oil use in a 4 stroke is very very minimal. So (as 4Fun indicated), the oil had to go into the coolant, bilge or cylinders. If that much oil burned in the cylinders, you would likely have a hydro lock...at a minimum a bellowing blue cloud of smoke. You should be able to see the oil in the bilge, if there was a leak. You might see the oil in the overflow reserve (coolant) if the oil leaked into the cooling system.
We had a mechanic do a rebuild on a 96 GTX and that ran about $3,000. I think that $1,800 is a bit optimistic. But the key here is why this happened and who is culpable. I am curious about the arrangement. Why did the shop agree to the $1,000 reduction? Did they admit anything?
Jetskier
