Admin Would You buy Verados?

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This is John Eppehimer's exp. with 2005 Verado 275's.

In 2005 I was a really happy young man as I took delivery on a 2005 Hydra-Sport 33cc. This boat was everything I wanted in a fishing boat. To this day I still love my Hydra-sport but sadly my Mercury Verado's have failed me time and time again.

I had some issues in 2005 and 2006 but it seemed that everyone had the same issues and VERADO was very decent about getting everyone fixed up.

In 2007 hydra-sports made me a great offer to redo my 2005 Hydra Sport. So the boat went on a road trip to Sarasota and Hydra Sports hooked my rig up big time. She came back with new hard top and pipes, all new bolsters and seats, well I'll save you all the upgrades but the boat is upgraded to the hilt and Hydra Sports did an amazing job.

Sadly though when my boat came back up north and went in the water, things just went to hell in a bucket.

My Verado's have been torn completely apart and put back together. Every time I spend time and money to go pick the boat up and put it in the water the freaking motors take a shit.
I do not have the list in front of me right now but I think the boat has been towed back to a dealership about 10 times since 7/3/2006 when the boat went into the shop for the 7/3 repairs. the boat was then worked on again on 7/6, 8/21, 8/25, 8/26, 8/29, 9/11, 9/14, 10/03, 10/10.
So basically with work and busy schedule every time I was able to get the time to go enjoy this boat we would go and grab it, drop her in the water just to have it fail before getting to go fishing. I think 9/6/2007 we made one trip offshore fishing and one of the motors took a complete shit during the trip.
Sadly that was my only fishing trip on this boat since the fall of 2006.

The boat is again sitting at a dealership getting more work done to add to the above. Went down the other day to pick her up and attempt to get her ready for one trip this year.
Sadly when I got there we dumped her in the water just to have the center motor take a shit.

Something that really has gotten me pissed off with Verado is the fact that I have been nothing but nice.
I have kept my mouth shut out of respect that I was the owner of this website, and had hopes of one day maybe being able to work with Mercury in a business sense. So my thoughts always was to keep a level head and be nice hoping they would just do the right thing.

Sadly every where I turn around I see speak with people who had 2005 Verado 275's and had major issues amazingly a lot of people got new motors on their boats.

Well he I sit like a freaking asshole with three piece of shit Mercury Verado's on the back of my boat.

I am going to spend some time typing up all the repairs these motors have gotten. I will also keep this thread updated with info constantly from here on out with the progress of my motors.

Please post up any questions and pass this thread along to anyone thinking of putting the Mercury Verado's on the back of a boat.

It just really kills me that we have spent a ton of money to have a nice boat for me to enjoy fishing with my kids and friends and it just sits as a flower pot.

Anytime I tell the wife the boat is ready can I take the kids out on the water she says " NO WAY ARE YOU TAKING OUR KIDS OUT ON THAT BOAT WITH THOSE VERY UNRELIABLE MOTORS."

Hey that's great, spend $150,000.00 dollars to have a boat to fish with my kids and no way in hell can we trust the motors to take us out and bring us home.

Well that's the start of my story and what I get for keeping quiet.

Anyone that thinks I'm an asshole for posting this just remember I'm the one with a boat I cannot fish on and also the one who owns a killer boat that I can not sell as anyone who looks at the work list that has been done on these motors would have to be smoking crack to buy them for a decent price.

I want to say one last time, I FREAKING love my Hydra-sport, I would buy the 33c again any day of the week.

Thanks for listening to me *****.

Signing off
John Eppehimer


****UPDATE*****

Well as of today October 8th I received a very nice phone call from Mercury Motors.

We spoke in length about the issues at hand. It seems there was some confusion about my case.

I will say this when my boat ran back in 2005 and 2006 this boat ran like a ..... well you know. I posted for along time how happy I was with this boat and the motors. She was a gas hog but hell she was fast and could push her way through anything and everything so suckin fuel did not matter.

Well I will be giving the Mercury 275 a fair second chance.
Lines of communication are wide open and I will keep everyone updated on the progress of the new motors.

Not sure if I will get to use the boat this year since we leave for Mexico next week and then to Fort Lauderdale boat show and then to Disney, but a thanks giving trip to the canyons is not unheard of.

I for one would like to thank everyone for posting.

I am not looking to be treated as someone special I just wanted a reasonable resolution to this issue.

So progress was made today and I am very happy with the way I was spoken to today and the outcome of our talks.

Capt John Eppehimer

[Gut Wrench]

Wow!!! NO way would i buy Mrecury's.

Your Nitemare is alot worse than mine was..

I have not heard much bad about Verados but we are a Yamaha town(service and parts everywhere) so i would have been foolish to buy Mercury.

Seems your dealer should have already asked Mercury for new motors by now?

When i had my boat problems some thought i was an Ahole for posting,yeah right they are not the ones with 100k plus boat they can't use...

Really sorry to see some else go thru this...

[La Gringa]

That sucks worse than having a boat that got banged on the rocks upside down for three days....

at least we KNOW we're not going anywhere...

but to answer your question... no thanks...we'll stick with Yamaha!!!!

[wild1]

John after hearing of your problems and having friends that are having problems I would have to say no.

[TOMMYV]

No we are happy with our Detroits, thank you very much

[paul708]

John..sorry to hear you are still haveing merc problems.
sucks having all that tied up in a great boat and not being able to use.
after fishing on the boat a few times i can say the HS 33 is a great fishing platform..
But

Ya cant row the thing

come on merc. get the verados straightened out

[Wicked Deep Stix]

Not a fan of verados myself for many reasons but wondering why the title of this is directed at me?

[DEEP DEFIANCE]

I was A big merc fan at one time with several boats I had.The offshore and EFI mercs are ok.But the verado,no thanks.

[La Gringa]

Not a fan of verados myself for many reasons but wondering why the title of this is directed at me?

it's addressed to whoever is logged on.... so that it gets your attention... guess it worked...

[paul708]

it's addressed to whoever is logged on.... so that it gets your attention... guess it worked...

yeah. the programers have to have a little fun