Took our new boat out for the first time and after about two hours had the autobildge warning keep kicking on. Confirmed no water pumping out the sides.  Opened the floor hatch mid ship and only a small about of water. Manually turned on the bilge and nothing. Noted on the small screening where you turn on the bilge the sensor seemed to be indicating bilge off/on but not turning on. Stuck sensor? Thoughts? Thanks in advance! Hoping to avoid a trip to the dealer. 

Does anybody have a file for just the sunset?  I am making a new bracket for a new winch and figure I could cut the logo out into the supports using the CNC plasma table. 

Welcome!

I had an older VLX and we always liked that boat (it was a 2005).  2013 will get you power wedge and surfgate tech so that's a great starting point.  

I can't comment on screen tech for that era boat, but I'd recommend that you take it for a test drive before buying.  Press every switch to make sure things work.  Page through the menu and make sure there are no active or inactive trouble codes listed.  Make sure surfgate and wedge work.  Make sure ballast tanks all fill and all drain.  Run  it up to wide open throttle.  Make sure the steering is smooth (if not might need steering cable replacement, they wear and corrode over time).  Make sure there are no strange vibrations when underway.

See if they know when the impeller was last changed (it's a rubber part that sucks water from the lake to cool the engine - most replace annually as a precaution).  Find out when the V-Drive and Transmission fluids were changed.  Oil is pretty easy to tell if it's clean or dirty on the dipstick.

When running the boat on the lake, open all the hatches and make sure there isn't any sign of water leaking from anywhere in the engine, from ballast, etc.  

That's most of what I can think of - good luck!

31 minutes ago, DAI said:

I wonder if their storage business is in a separate business entity.

That would get interesting real quick.. lot real estate/price just went to the moon if so! Haha

Honestly I believe they got a deal on that samsclub building.. but over the past two years a lot of that got eaten up by new boats.. storage alone could keep going them going there...

There is not a lot of good indoor storage options around that also service or not enough at least... 

1 hour ago, Cole2001 said:

Boat storage is huge cashflow. Hundreds if not thousands of boats for a few hundred dollars a month. Tommys has also established such a large cliental they can continue to service and store customers boats without selling a new  malibu and still be successful. 

I wonder if their storage business is in a separate business entity.