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    Bad battery clamp ruined our day

    I just wanted to get the word out to you guys what happened to us today. We took our 22v in on Friday for the 20 service and had the dealership install a second battery. They knocked out the job in three hours for us and we came home.

    Got to the lake at 9:45 on Sat, backed the trailer in and started up the boat. To my dismay the engine was chocking, smoking, an annoying alarm sounded and I had no throttle. During this worst 5 minutes of my boating life 12 boats had congregated up on the hill waiting to put in. I called the dealership and they ran me through some troubleshooting and I tried to fix the problem two more times by putting in and the same f-ing thing happened.

    We drove 120 miles to the dealership and they ran some diagnostics and couldn't find the problem. They installed two brand new batteries and in doing so the main clamp that Tige installed on the wire that is about the diameter of an index finger fell off. The coating had only been stripped about 3/8 of an inch and the crimping was done really poorly. Basically what happened is when they installed the second battery they moved the factory installed battery to make way for the second and in doing so stretched the wire causing the clamp to come loose but not off.

    So the moral of the story is check your Tige factory installed battery clamps. Oh and by the way it got up to 93 today and it just killed my wife and I not to get out and enjoy such an nice day.
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    I used to be a member in the past.

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    I feel your agony my friend!

    We took our Tige to the dealership to have a second battery and an isolator installed. When we picked up the boat we found that they had drilled into the interior of the boat when mounting the isolator. The dealership offered to fix the fiberglass but after missing several boating days waiting for the fiberglass guy to return from vacation, we finally went and took the boat. We lost money driving the F150 to and from the dealership multiple times and now have to explain the four screw holes to our passengers. Not too impressed with the dealership right now. This sort of stuff makes the decision to upgrade to a 22Ve from this dealership difficult.

    Moral of my story is too check all work done before leaving the dealership.
    Last edited by switchV; 07-09-2006, 09:13 PM.

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      #3
      I definately agree with inspecting all work done before leaving the dealership. In our case they did the oil change first and said they fired it up and had no problems. The battery installation was the last thing done. If it had been first then they would have caught the problem. Oh well lesson learned.
      Formertigeowners.com
      I used to be a member in the past.

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