Where not to buy an outboard.
Sven and all, I hate to sound like such a naysayer but I had a very bad, let me repeat, a VERY BAD experience with *** in MDR. But for the fact that I hadn't recorded the serial number of the used to me Evinrude 9.9 long shaft that was stolen from the transom of our E25+ some 20 years ago, the two owners of *** would have gone to jail for receiving stolen property. You see, there was a junkie going around MDR lifting (literally) outboards from boats for drug money and he was selling them to *** for $100.00 each. An investigating officer from the LA County Sheriff contacted me after noting that I'd filed a stolen property report on the outboard a short time earlier. I told him that I could easily identify the motor by virtue of the Avnet-type military electrical connector I had on the 12v starter motor cord, the male half of the female that was still on my transom. Mind you, this was AFTER buying a Yamaha 9.9 from them, the result of me telling them my tale of woe. How they were able to look me in the eyes after that, I'll never know. More comes to mind as I type this. I remember their total incompetency in ordering the new motor for me to the extent that by other means, I stumbled onto their distributor and finally had to order my own motor from them to be delivered to *** for them to now add a profit they hadn't earned to the price and then sell it to me. It was only after this debacle that the Sheriff came to me and you know the rest. Sadly, *** is at the top of my "Never buy from these thieves (literally) again" list. Glyn