Didn't Tommy's start out with just a few locations and then suddenly start buying up a bunch of existing Malibu dealerships?

51 minutes ago, bwski said:

One has to wonder????  

One thing Malibu is certainly guilty of here is putting WAY to much power with one dealer.  It seems incredibly risky to make a single dealer or group responsible for over 1/3rd of your total volume.  Then to make matters worse, convince them to take on way too much inventory.  While someone at the dealer has to okay the inventory, someone at Malibu also thought it would be okay to shove a huge pile of inventory on a essentially a single dealer even if they are spread throughout the country.  If that single dealer was crazy enough to take on too much, you risk losing distribution for 1/3rd of your volume!!!  Additionally, if one dealer is selling 1/3rd of the volume that  dealer had potential for incredible influence on the company. 

 

Tommy's is tiny compared to group 1, penske, auto nation etc. 
Big chains seem to be what manufacturers want to work with. 

Boy, I would pump the breaks HARD in this one. All four tower speakers "blown" points to an amp that failed, sending DC voltage out on the speaker outputs. 

There are three components inside the pod. A mid-bass driver, compression driver (tweeter) and the cross-over. All three can be serviced individually. All 12 components being blown or in some way failed is unlikely. Did the establishment explain what component(s) have failed? 

My issue ended up being a bunch of fouled spark plugs. Cap and rotor were in good shape. He also adjusted front float on carb. Head tech said I am literally the only true ski boat they've worked on this spring. The end is nigh, gentlemen. 

On 3/11/2024 at 8:31 PM, csleaver said:

On 2019 and older upper 12" Malibu screens, you will need to remove the two Allen bolts on the back of the  screen housing to remove the display.

Thanks for that! Super helpful. I don't remember seeing those but I was dreading taking the helm apart.