33 minutes ago, shawndoggy said:

towers / brackets / racks / electronics / vinyl / hardware etc etc etc are all captive manufacturer specific items now.  Shoot, Malibu even marinizes its own engines on the 2020+ boats.  So I'm not sure it's accurate that the boat can be 100% serviced without access to malibu's parts catalog.  Obvs shadetree hacks like myself can change the fluids, but when it comes to replacing a busted heat exchanger or something like that... that's gonna be a malibu specific part.

More so the mechanical side of it and basic servicing. Prior to Malibu doing their own engines indmar was the same whether Malibu or not and now the M6 is nearly the same as the zz6. 
Haven’t had a reliable Malibu dealer within a 5 hour drive where I am for 8 years. Let’s just say both the MC/Nautique dealers service the bu’s. And in this situation I’m sure Malibu will be willing to keep their customers by helping to source needed parts. 

Hi, I have an 08 wakesetter lsv that is throwing a low voltage alarm.. I’ve tested batteries which are good. At idle, not in gear  - volt meter reading 13.3 on batteries but boat instrument showing 12. Same readings from volt meter at fuse bank under dash..

Discrepancy between wet, voltmeter reads and wet boat indicate… By voltage testing everything looks good per voltmeter, but boat continues to throw alarms… I feel strongly that the alternator is doing his job and providing charge to batteries and voltage is appropriate at instrument cluster per volt meter but Dash instrument indicate low voltage…

anyone out there experienced the same issue? Boat is maintained to factory spec and we are original owners.. this issue came up late last season and is occurring again just after the winterization this year… I feel like the factory voltage gauge is not registering accurate voltage… any thoughts out there?

Did those work for the 2023 wetsounds amps ?

2 hours ago, Cole2001 said:

Any dealer non dealer can service a malibu. They all use the same basic parts for the most part, especially the older ones. It's just warranty that sucks. Experienced this when wizard lake marine lost Malibu

towers / brackets / racks / electronics / vinyl / hardware etc etc etc are all captive manufacturer specific items now.  Shoot, Malibu even marinizes its own engines on the 2020+ boats.  So I'm not sure it's accurate that the boat can be 100% serviced without access to malibu's parts catalog.  Obvs shadetree hacks like myself can change the fluids, but when it comes to replacing a busted heat exchanger or something like that... that's gonna be a malibu specific part.

On a serious note Malibu made $ on these boats once. What's better than once? TWICE! Well kinda but IMO they don't have a choice

Malibu should work out a deal with M&T to buy back these boats at MAJOR discount and Quickly, then sell back again protecting the market pricing. I don't see how Malibu can let these get dumped without killing other dealers leading to prices and margins getting cut further when financing expenses and margin across the board are getting slim for all parties..

Depending on how long this last these boats could be caught up in limbo for a long time sitting outside as well getting weathered, water, mold etc as I'm sure Tommys is probably not allocating labor anymore to keep up on LOT duties now since they kinda don't own them anymore. you know like leaving covers half off or not on and just assuming drain plugs are out while other cavities fill and mold.

On another note it's NOT going to be easy in this market to just go and pick up a bunch of dealers that want to take on expensive boats that don’t already have a lot full of other brand expensive boats.. 

Maybe go the Tesla route...