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Isn't Khols the best at this! Haha

Lots of them. Furniture, clothing, anything sold on tv to name a few. Whatever it takes for people to feel like they are getting a great deal they can’t pass up. Here in town, Nebraska furniture mart changed the verbiage from MSRP to SRP so they can have full control of the “great deals” they give.

Your comment about this tablet being useful for changing the light colors is spot on. My husband wanted this 2023 M220 for the wave. Well it does put out a damn good wave. The tablet leaves a lot to be desired!!

Had the same issue. I opted not to raise the torsion bars as I needed to store the boat in the garage over the winter. Made these up. Total bolt on and they have worked great.

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It may be hard to find a video or pictures of a thermostat replacement procedure for that engine online, because it is not a very common repair. Just curious, why does yours need replacement? Front of L96 engine with the T-stat housing on the left.

This industry msrp pricing is just plain stupid. 30% off msrp deals as standard, why? Just reduce sticker by 20% and give another 0-5% off like a luxury car dealer does in general, 8% if it’s old stock. what other industry routinely sells at 20-30% off? Is this to make people think they are getting a “deal?”

I would love to post a pic here to make sure I'm thinking it's the correct thing but I'm not sure how to do that? Csleaver any chance you can post a pick or lead me to a YouTube video showing it and maybe changing it. I believe it won't be a hard job I just don't want to take apart something I shouldn't.

I’m with you, this is the way it SHOULD be run. But sadly this isn’t how modern corporations do business anymore. All they care about is stock price. So the only thing that will incentivize them to buyback those boats and control the market price will be the risk of a long term stock price slump if they don’t buy them back. It would be a tough pill to swallow to take all that money they’ve been paid already for the boats in Tommy’s possession and give a lot of it back to them (M&T) just to keep market prices inflated for a few seasons. I could definitely see them keeping the money, cutting output at the factory the next couple years and increasing their incentives to dealers to compensate for their losses while the pricing evens back out over the next few years. In the long run many of their dealers will end up reselling the cheap boats from M&T. Someone will get a good price from M&T, then it will get traded in and resold 10 more times. If Malibu wins their case I doubt they worry too much about the extra boats M&T is holding. MBUU shares will get hit the hardest if they are found liable for the damages Tommy’s did to M&T.

Yeah this method seems to work if you’re part of the upper middle class and above. In my anecdote the guys parents were decently wealthy by todays standards and had multiple houses that he and his siblings could live in while they built their businesses and waited out the housing crisis. I know a few guys that live with their parents and own expensive fishing boats and do so in much less glamour and style but seem to make it work so who knows 😂.

Looks like same model as this one https://www.themalibucrew.com/index.php?/forums/topic/58671-1986-malibu-sportster/

Exactly someone's bonus is based on how little M&T looses... They aren't going to wheel and deal immediately.. as mentioned banks are not in the business of selling boats... So they will likely need to come down a bit soon and will likely come down more as it progresses.. soon they become a liability and we still don't exactly know if all or some of Tommy's locations are separate entities which may/ could charge storage fees to M&T !?!?!?

Easy 2 wrench job. Just make sure to pre-index the arms on the splined axles. I used a cold chisel to smack a mark into both the axle and arm. I pulled mine to replace a bent axle and greased the shafts for future maintenance if needed. You may have to use a “wedging device” to get the arm off, but it didn’t take much.

Does anyone know what size rear ballast bag comes in the 2015 24 MXZ? I’m wanting to maximize the wake and I believe they’re 500 or 550 pound bags now? Can anyone also tell me what the largest bag is that can fit in the back above the stock, hard tanks? TIA Joe

Hi all, my trailer rollers rub my driveway when pulling out or backing in and I'm afraid it's going to damage the driveway soon. So, I was thinking why can't I take the axle hub off the torsion bar and re-clock it so the trailer sits higher. Its new so it should come right apart. Thoughts?? T

Except that Tommy's is not a dealer any more.

Guessing no dealer can sell any new boat at any old price they want to. No way and large corp would allow a dealer to undercut their other loyal dealers. Wishful thinking.

I guess that works if you are ok with kids living with you forever;) Our deal was, you can stay as long as you are doing serious saving for a house. Otherwise the rental market is your oyster.

Beautiful day on Lake Havasu yesterday.

I wouldn’t consider <0.1% of total outstanding loans to be significant, or ~3.5% of what they have on their B/S for loan losses. But I’m not in the banking industry, so I could be wrong. Either way, I would not expect the Tommy’s situation to cause the bank to go look for a bail out from Uncle Sam (which was initially suggested as a potential).

The thermostat is located very low on the front bank 2 side of the engine, which is on the port side of the boat. You will see a large seawater tube and hoses that connect the rectangular thermostat adaptor housing to the the raw water pump.

Banks report numbers quarterly to the FDIC in a “Call Report.” It would be reasonable to expect banks to work toward mitigating anything statistically significant that would bring down the quarterly numbers.

I can’t tell you exactly where it is but I can confirm that it’s pretty easy to fix. Local Bu shop found mine was intermittently failing on my preseason check this year. I was only charged for the minimum 30 mins of tech time, it likely was a 10 minute job.

Are you able to bypass it and start it w a key on 2017? Obviously check all the grounds and put some dielectric grease in the connections but I assume you’ve been down that road thoroughly after 3 seasons of dealing with this. There is a chance that your throttle could be part of it. There’s been lots of documented trouble with the livorsi throttles, maybe it’s not sending the “I’m in neutral” message to allow the motor to start. After 3 seasons I would bite the bullet and take it to a good Bu shop and let them troubleshoot it. As far as the current issue with the screen, I would bet that the data on the stick got corrupted. Maybe get a fresh software DL on a fresh stick and give it a try.

I have not closely followed what's happening on the ground but if we are talking huge numbers of boats and Tommy's is out of trust, then I'd be surprised if the bank doesn't have say over the sales or that a receiver has not been appointed to control the sale of the collateral with court supervision. And if there are creditors owed money in addition to the bank then the person or entity controlling the collateral sale could/would most likely have some duty to reasonably maximize value to protect all creditors. I am sure it is a complicated mess.