06/11/2026
It seems endless with dealerships and repair shops half assing repairs instead of doing them correctly. On todays episode we have a poor lady that has counted on a local dealership to take care of her machine and paid good money so it's ready to enjoy for the summer. Instead she got her machine with the seal between body halves not in its proper Channel. Instead it was pushed out to the edge where the two machine halves bolt together and what does the dealership do when they put the haves together and the seal is out across the mounting hole? They punch a hole through the seal and bolted together anyway so she has water leaking in the side of her hull on her spark. If that wasn't enough they had dropped tools down inside the JetSki and instead of fishing them out they just left them in there to bounce around. Then broke a bunch of the plastic washers to the mounting bolt because they were all over torque. And when her son took it out to ride it it was taking water and when he rolled it over on its side out in the water the battery came out of the tray because it had no strap and shorted out electrical parts.
The other machine that came in recently had the impeller replaced And they just didn't put in the rubber boot on the front of the impeller where it goes on the driveshaft which serves two purposes. The first one is to hold the grease for the spines on the shaft sealed to keep excessive wear off of the driveshaft. The second is that rubber boot is tapered so that the water coming into the impeller is a solid flow so the machine gets maximum drive from solid water. Without it the water coming in catches the lip on the front of the impeller without the boot and creates an air pocket which then intern disturbs the water flow and creates cavitation. And then after neglecting to put a boot in or any grease, somehow must've lost some stainless bolts for the jet pump and just put regular ones in which turn to rust and made it difficult to get them out while trying not to snap them off.
Why cut corners? it just creates more problems and makes the repair worse than what you started with.