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New Ride 2016 LSV


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Thanks guys! We love the boat! Color is black, white, and vapor blue no metal flake. The wave is nasty=awesome!

Surf band,,,,,, well i tested it in the boat, and it worked, but once in the water i could not make adjustments. Not sure what happened.

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Surf band,,,,,, well i tested it in the boat, and it worked, but once in the water i could not make adjustments. Not sure what happened.

My dealer called Malibu, and they gave me this to try: There are two plugs on the harness for the surfband RF receiver located just behind/below the sport joystick (see pic below). Moving from one plug to the other helped my surf transfers (still not reliable, but went from working around 1 out of 10 tries to around 1 out of 3 tries), but wedge and speed adjustments still are useless.

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I find it odd that some feature like this would be released without thorough testing. So, you figure at the factory, when they were developing it and testing it on the water, it must have worked fine. Or they would not have released it.

So why do we already have two reports of poor functionality with the production units built for the public?

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I find it odd that some feature like this would be released without thorough testing. So, you figure at the factory, when they were developing it and testing it on the water, it must have worked fine. Or they would not have released it.

So why do we already have two reports of poor functionality with the production units built for the public?

It could just be that both of us have bad units, but does anyone have one works correctly or has heard of someone with one that works? There is not a very large sample size out there yet.

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I was more enticed to order a 2016 LSV because of surf band but sounding like a serious fail so far. May just buy an existing 2015.

Don't forget about the 5 year warranty!

If the wrist band has issues the Pacific Northwest crew will be all over this like flies on..........! Well, you know!

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Or they would not have released it.

Happens all the time.

I think these towboat manufacturers are getting in over their head with all the technology they are rushing to incorporate.

Modus Operandi seems to be (1) announce cool new feature (2) put feature(s) into next model year boats (3) let early adopters (customers) figure out exactly what the problems are in the real world (4) fix issues with software update or other patch if it's not a software issue (5) repeat next model year.

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It could just be that both of us have bad units, but does anyone have one works correctly or has heard of someone with one that works? There is not a very large sample size out there yet.

Not a large sample size, but I don't personally know anybody with a '16 yet. Not a ton of 2016's on the water quite yet, so 2 on the forum with issues this soon is a little alarming IMO.

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