Post by hondacat on Oct 12, 2011 7:26:03 GMT -5
"Buy New Or Repair Old"
I get this question all the time
There is no one simple answer. You have to look a a LOT of different thing from every different angle
take into consideration
The price of the whole project
A couple saying ring true with these sort of projects
"DO IT RITE OR DON'T DO IT AT ALL"
"FINISH WHAT YOU START"
"LEAVE NO STONES LEFT UNTURNED"
"YOU DON'T WEAR OUT ONE TIRE AT A TIME ON YOUR CAR"
The real challenging part of these decisions is to keep the budget in control if you spend more to fix than it would cost to buy new you just wasted your time and a lot of money
I have seen this many times and heard
"i could have bought a new boat for the same money and been fishing all this time"
OUCH THAT HURTS!
before you start one of these projects remember theses and what they really mean
"DO IT RITE OR DON'T DO IT AT ALL"
= If you don't do it rite cut corners cut costs and have to do it twice
the whole project falls apart like a house of cards especially the budget
"FINISH WHAT YOU START"
= The hardest part is thinking it threw to the finish what the whole project going to cost? What do you want it to look like when you are done and the most important part WHATS IT ALL GOING TO COST
"LEAVE NO STONES LEFT UNTURNED" =
"YOU DON'T WEAR OUT ONE TIRE AT A TIME ON YOUR CAR"=
These last two go hand and hand
couple good examples i have found over the years
if a floor is bad in a boat the stringers and transom are also going to have problems either rite now if you look hard enough or real soon
these part go bad in groups
if you fuel pump wears out on a IO your timing chain and water pump on the front of the motor are worn part their cost effective life cycle
two stoke carburetor out boards cost more to rebuild than they are worth these days when a rebuild is done rite because they waste to much gas
I have been rebuilding IO motors car engines and big diesel heavy equipment motors about all my adult life
There is no way i can buy all new wearing parts and pay to have ALL the PROPER machine shop work done to rebuild a IO/INBOARD
PROPERLY MAKING IT AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN NEW for the same price I can buy a new ONE
The money you save might feel better rite now but its the difference in many instances between doing it again some times soon and looking back on a decade of fishing with out a failure
its often 15-20% or less lets put this in perspective
about the same we leave on the table after breakfast a the restaurant
Who's service is more important the waitress or your boat motors?
MAY BE WE BETTER NOT GO THERE lol
Our job at the shop is to help keep you on the water
having fun is not just catching fish in this case its keeping it affordable
NEW OR OLD
Big or Small
WHAT EVER YOU DO A LOT OF THOUGHT AND CALCULATIONS NEEDS TO GO INTO IT BEFORE YOU START
NOTHING SPENT THAT DOES NOT GET FINISHED IS COST EFECTIVE
AFTER ALL ITS ABOUT THE FUN!!!
THE GOAL HERE IS TO GET THE MOST FUN OUT OF THE MONEY SPENT !!
I get this question all the time
There is no one simple answer. You have to look a a LOT of different thing from every different angle
take into consideration
The price of the whole project
A couple saying ring true with these sort of projects
"DO IT RITE OR DON'T DO IT AT ALL"
"FINISH WHAT YOU START"
"LEAVE NO STONES LEFT UNTURNED"
"YOU DON'T WEAR OUT ONE TIRE AT A TIME ON YOUR CAR"
The real challenging part of these decisions is to keep the budget in control if you spend more to fix than it would cost to buy new you just wasted your time and a lot of money
I have seen this many times and heard
"i could have bought a new boat for the same money and been fishing all this time"
OUCH THAT HURTS!
before you start one of these projects remember theses and what they really mean
"DO IT RITE OR DON'T DO IT AT ALL"
= If you don't do it rite cut corners cut costs and have to do it twice
the whole project falls apart like a house of cards especially the budget
"FINISH WHAT YOU START"
= The hardest part is thinking it threw to the finish what the whole project going to cost? What do you want it to look like when you are done and the most important part WHATS IT ALL GOING TO COST
"LEAVE NO STONES LEFT UNTURNED" =
"YOU DON'T WEAR OUT ONE TIRE AT A TIME ON YOUR CAR"=
These last two go hand and hand
couple good examples i have found over the years
if a floor is bad in a boat the stringers and transom are also going to have problems either rite now if you look hard enough or real soon
these part go bad in groups
if you fuel pump wears out on a IO your timing chain and water pump on the front of the motor are worn part their cost effective life cycle
two stoke carburetor out boards cost more to rebuild than they are worth these days when a rebuild is done rite because they waste to much gas
I have been rebuilding IO motors car engines and big diesel heavy equipment motors about all my adult life
There is no way i can buy all new wearing parts and pay to have ALL the PROPER machine shop work done to rebuild a IO/INBOARD
PROPERLY MAKING IT AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN NEW for the same price I can buy a new ONE
The money you save might feel better rite now but its the difference in many instances between doing it again some times soon and looking back on a decade of fishing with out a failure
its often 15-20% or less lets put this in perspective
about the same we leave on the table after breakfast a the restaurant
Who's service is more important the waitress or your boat motors?
MAY BE WE BETTER NOT GO THERE lol
Our job at the shop is to help keep you on the water
having fun is not just catching fish in this case its keeping it affordable
NEW OR OLD
Big or Small
WHAT EVER YOU DO A LOT OF THOUGHT AND CALCULATIONS NEEDS TO GO INTO IT BEFORE YOU START
NOTHING SPENT THAT DOES NOT GET FINISHED IS COST EFECTIVE
AFTER ALL ITS ABOUT THE FUN!!!
THE GOAL HERE IS TO GET THE MOST FUN OUT OF THE MONEY SPENT !!