2004 Tige 22V

[tessa]

the seams on the '05s and later are different. I believe the '07s have a better vinyl.

According to the Tige rep the vinyl is softer and seams have been redesigned and should not have problems of older designs as of a conversation today.

[chpthril]

According to the Tige rep the vinyl is softer and seams have been redesigned and should not have problems of older designs as of a conversation today.

yours is definitely better then mine

[tessa]

yours is definitely better then mine

My what ?

[chpthril]

My what ?

Vinyl, man, vinyl

[tessa]

Gotcha re: Vinyl. been a long day. I am off soon as I read PMs....

[tessa]

Yeah, it's a lot of gas. Now that I think about it, I might have the 11 gph number wrong - this was a few months ago and it might have been 8 gph. It was a lot more than I thought it would be. The 24 gph is right though, at 5500 RPM with 4 guys in the boat, slalom mode, on a perfectly smooth lake. Slowing down to 35 mph dropped the consumption into the teens (I'm thinking 18 gph or so).

This spring when I go back out I can hook the flow sensor up again and double check. I've used the same sensors to check some other marine engines (stern drive merc's and 2 outboards) and it's usually pretty close to the factory installed gauges.

As for the vinyl, I don't get it. It seems like a design problem, and I've noticed the newer boats have the seams done differently so than mine so Tige has probably improved. I'm thinking of going to a local upholstery shop and seeing what they can do for reasonable $.

According to the rep for Tige they re did the stiching for 2007 and on boats. They realized there was an issue but they really don't know what the magnitude of the prplem is. At least they have addressed it.

[tessa]

The only problem we ever had was with the VDO automotive style electronic gauge cluster. The Speedo would when it wanted to and this was usually when we where tubing or cruising, and go on strike when when boarding or skiing When you would turn the Nav lights at night, the cluster would glitch out and the warning lights would come on and the gauges would wig out.

Waited till we were ready to sell it before replacing the $600 cluster. 4Winns only used the VDO's for 2 yrs due to high failure rates and went back to all manual gauges.

I think the automotive cluster VDo's went back to 04 as the first year. Their literature really pushed the benefit. I had no problems with mine with exception to two sending units,

[dogbert]

I think the automotive cluster VDo's went back to 04 as the first year. Their literature really pushed the benefit. I had no problems with mine with exception to two sending units,

Talk to spharis and Teamallen about the VDO instruments in their boats. They get brittle and just break. The Faria guages that Tige uses now are much better.