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We bought a 2019 23 LSV last year brand new in August. We have been having issue after issue. Anywhere from latches breaking, having to have the battery replaced 2 months later, to the battery draining itself and putting boat in after having it out from the previous weekend and it wouldn't start. In June we were surfing with our daughter behind the boat when the engine cut off. It didn't want to crank and then finally did, then half way home it just quit. We had to be towed in. The dealer came out and "fixed" it, for us to get back in the boat the next day and find it was doing the same thing. Long story short we had to tow it to tow ramp to be pulled out and taken to dealer. They had to replace all the relay switches as they were all bad. We have had so many issues with our screens. The wedge won't move to the desired place. (they've also already done everything they can to the wedge with out actually replacing it to fix this.) They've replaced the 12in screen, and they swapped out the viper for a 2nd time and it's still not working. We still can't get our radio to change using the joystick. We've had the fuel pump changed 3 times since June. This past saturday we were out surfing and the boat popped up service warning. It was acting sluggish to crank. It did crank but service warning kept popping up. We had low fuel pressure. It was about 46 It's idling really low pressure. The code the boat was reading was High Fuel Rail Pressure: spn:94 FMI:0 We checked oil and it was full. We had just filled up boat 3 hours prior. We had half a tank then when we filled up. The techs have swapped out everything.... I literally have a list of like 25 items they have fixed on our boat. The service department has gotten a lot of things fixed, but the wedge continually not working, and the engine and fuel problems are coming back. Like at this point I'm wondering if we have a lemon. We shouldn't be having this many issues on the boat and it's literally a year old.... We've done every scheduled maintenance. It's been worked on 10 times since May... And it's still not fixed.... After they swapped out the fuel pump yesterday it appears to be running fine, but now I'm nervous every time we go out. The fuel pump shouldn't be going out after only putting 20 hours on it. This is the 4th fuel pump we've had this season. I just don't know what to do at this point. The Malibu rep offered to do some upgrades to our boat, but there wasn't much we didn't have on our boat to begin with. It came pretty much fully loaded. But at some point these upgrades aren't adding to the value of our boat when it's going to come to resale value because of all the issues we've had. We've had 2 other boats prior to these. We switched from a center console to have more fun at the lake. Both were older used boats, and we never once had to put either in the shop to be worked on. And we used them in salt water a good bit. I love our boat when it's running right, but it's not reliable anymore. Any suggestions?