Well, I hate to vent, but this seems the appropriate place for it. I made a post in June regarding impeller problems, and my engine locking up.

I had many referrals from these boards to go to Ski Hut on Old Hickory Blvd in Nashville.

At fist glance, those folks over there seemed to be ok, pretty nice, pretty helpful. After examining my boat and the situation which was the precurser of bringing it in, the folks over there told me, "my impeller went bad. It should be no problem and we can fix it in a couple of days."

Well, after a couple of days with no phone calls I followed up and they told me that is was fixed and waiting to be picked up, but they "just had to start it". After starting it, they informed me that..."oops, your starter went bad. Gotta replace it too." Well, after another week in the shop, and after following up many times I finally got the go to pick it up....again!

"We'll just run out there and start it." And to mine and your suprise, we got another phone call..."your engine has burnt up and you will have to get a NEW BLOCK!!!!!!" Hell, it will only be another $4,000 bringing our grand total of repair work on a KANGA with 45hrs to.........(drum roll please.....$5,300 and some change)... pretty nice huh, especially considering we bought it 3 weeks ago and all of this supposedly happened our FRIST time out on the lake!

So, they had to order another block...which would only take another week and a half and then about 25 hours to install. After giving them the OK to do it....(I had no choice)...they called me back 2 weeks later to tell me that the problem was a water lock-up inside the block, cuz the impeller couldnt pull it back out when it went out....and we could "come pick up the boat" (for the 3rd time) I went ahead and asked them to crank it first before they informed me I would have to purchase a new boat.........

Anyway- after a month of waiting for them to tell me water was in my engine and catching them in around 6-7 different lies, I actually got to get my boat. Thank God. But....rest assured, I WILL NOT be back to SKI HUT, EVER.

Im usually not one to bad mouth anyone or anything, but this was my experience and I would NEVER want anyone to go through the range of emotions I went through last month!

Have a great day and I hope see yall on the lake....FINALLY!!!


MemphisherMan