In January of 08 I ordered a brand new ZX190 with 175 hpdi. Since then many things have gone badly. I ordered with a larger trolling motor to start off and it came in with a smaller one. No big deal!!! Some of the locks on compartments would not lock!! No big deal!! Center cap blew off steering wheel on first road trip. on same road trip cheap plastic latch that holds ice chest door shut broke in half. Skeeter mailed me new center cap for steering wheel and ice chest latch. Also on first trip the transducer wire was ran wrong through trolling motor bracket and was pinched on first trip so lowrance on bow was useless. A few months pass and on board charger acted up and was showing warning light. I checked water and connections and in line fuses all before i towed my boat one hour to dealer. Dealer calls me back two weeks later saying they could not find anything wrong and wanted to charge me $200 for troubleshooting it. Final outcome was blamed on low water level in batteries which I checked before dropping it off. next on the list was the power trim issue most people had with the cheap plactic peice that kept breaking. Towed back to dealer the one hour haul and was fixed a week later. Later fishing a tournament with a full tank of gas and bouncing across the lake my gas guage stopped reading. It was sitting on empty. Bring bought back to dealer and they had to change a wiring harness because a wire was hitting a screw and grounding out. After fuel guage problem was fixed towed boat to another state to fish a tournament and when I put on lights early in the morning everything worked except tach and trim guage with lights on. If i turned lights off the guage began to work again. Dealer blamed it on a loose wire behind dash. After this issue was fixed the trim guage was stuck in up position. The trim guage sensor or relay on motor was broke and wire was pinched in half. This was due to a bolt backing out on motor and metal plate rotating enough to pull sensor for trim and snap it and cut cable for it. Now after a bunch of heated phone calls all seems to be going well. Went out two weeks ago and caught a few fish. Port livewell circ pump is went out. got home checked fuse and it was blown. replaced and it worked. fish tourney this weekend and fuse blew again. put new fuse in while fishing and blew instantly. called dealer today and was told it sounds like pump is locked up causing fuse to blow. WTF!!!!!!!! I cant win. And to top it off I have the chips on the rear of the hull where jackplate meets fiberglass. Thats another issue I read about on here that people seem to have on newer boats. Waiting on Skeeter approval for fiberglass repair. On verge of selling Skeeter and going somewhere else. Its costing me time and money everytime I tow boat an hour to dealer!!!!!!![]()
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