Last year my trolling motor died, and I took it in to get it repaired. My motor has the built in transducer in it, and they said they've had trouble with them leaking. They replaced the lower unit.
Back in july I was fishing and hit the trolling motor button and got nothing, but then it took off. It started doing it more regularly and then quit completely. I took it to D&R Sports and had them look at it. 1 week left on the 3 year warranty.
They couldn't find anything wrong, it worked fine for them. I picked it up at no charge.
I took it out again and it did it a couple more times. I took it in again and had them check it out. They said because it was in before the warranty ran out it would be covered. He couldn't get it to act up again. After we talked about it he agreed to open the lower case and look at it. More water in the housing. He talked to MG and they were going to change it again with a redesigned housing. The tech, Dave, said he'd only seen 1 of the redesigned housings leak. Are you kidding me!! I don't want this to happen again, I'll have to pay for it next time.
When I bought the new motor I got the built in transducer because I ruined the one I had. (transducer and motor) The agreed to replace the housing with a non-transducer model and pay for a replacement transducer for my Lowrance. I'm still out the gas for the 8 trips to Kalamazoo, but I'm confident I'm good to go now. Except for the fact I have a huge side job I'm doing on the weekends and my daughter gets married in 2 1/2 weeks. :blink:
I'm still hoping to catch up with Andy in St. Joe to whack some more salmon, and maybe try to get to lake St Clair for some smallies with Mac and the gang. We'll see I guess.
Gene
Back in july I was fishing and hit the trolling motor button and got nothing, but then it took off. It started doing it more regularly and then quit completely. I took it to D&R Sports and had them look at it. 1 week left on the 3 year warranty.
They couldn't find anything wrong, it worked fine for them. I picked it up at no charge. I took it out again and it did it a couple more times. I took it in again and had them check it out. They said because it was in before the warranty ran out it would be covered. He couldn't get it to act up again. After we talked about it he agreed to open the lower case and look at it. More water in the housing. He talked to MG and they were going to change it again with a redesigned housing. The tech, Dave, said he'd only seen 1 of the redesigned housings leak. Are you kidding me!! I don't want this to happen again, I'll have to pay for it next time.
When I bought the new motor I got the built in transducer because I ruined the one I had. (transducer and motor) The agreed to replace the housing with a non-transducer model and pay for a replacement transducer for my Lowrance. I'm still out the gas for the 8 trips to Kalamazoo, but I'm confident I'm good to go now. Except for the fact I have a huge side job I'm doing on the weekends and my daughter gets married in 2 1/2 weeks. :blink:
I'm still hoping to catch up with Andy in St. Joe to whack some more salmon, and maybe try to get to lake St Clair for some smallies with Mac and the gang. We'll see I guess.
Gene
