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Hey guys I am in the process of getting repower quotes for my 85 Mako 254. My local Suzuki guy came in at $18,625.91 for the engine and $5200 for rigging, and an additional $700 for the 990C0-00C10-KIT. Essentially making the final cost of the rigging $5900. All in with taxes added I am at $25463.95. To me the engine price sounds good, but I feel the rigging is coming in on the high side. I would love to hear some opinions on this.

REGMARINE26FS

are the controls/ guages part of the engine pricing? or did they add them into the "rigging" price?

toolate390

sounds pretty high to me

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Yes the controls and prop are included

mouse4x4

That rigging price is ridiculously high if the controls and guages are included in your engine quote.

REGMARINE26FS

then i agree wtih toolate390....sounds high...any conversion issues...(older boat, holes need to be patched?, etc?)

OldPete

That is crazy high. At that price, I'd call International Marine and see if it was worth it to haul the boat there and back!

Flatout71

WAY high

keleast

Don’t know where you are but Intl Marine in Ft Lauderdale advertises motor for 17,300$...... I got a quote for a 200 recently and rigging was about 3k

http://www.boattrader.com/listing/20...xxw2-102893662

Smoke n Mirrors

Get the shops hourly rate, and shop the install. Be sure to know exactly what is inculded (and thus, excluded too), and buy just the engine and what's included with it, and get a lrice for what you need thats excluded. If its mostly labor, even at a little over $100 most shops are getiing now, then yeah, that's ridiculously high.

REGMARINE26FS

my experience is that like for like without extraneous work, can range from 1600-2500...(pulling older motor, removing old cables, placing new cables, guages usually need to be refit, but not always, hang new motor, reattach, etc)....but changing motors / brands / size / can cost more....but not 6k

76 Mako 23

I was quoted $19500 for a single 300 installed or $18500 for a single 250 installed. This includes fly by wire rig kit for single station, 1 color digital gauge, harness, sst prop, installation, seatrial, and gimme 6 protection.

mystery

did you get a second or third estimate from other places? that would be the common sense thing to do...

midcap

Is that quote going to include dinner also?

That gauge is $414 on ebay.

I didn't look at the part numbers, but that's probably only $2000-2500 worth of rigging parts, plus the digital guage.

26 strike

I am in Monmouth County NJ. My hull is in good shape. It would just be switching out the old Merc 250 for the new Suzuki. I was actually thinking of going with a Yamaha F250 mechanical first, but I have heard a lot of good things about the Suzuki 300 so I am leaning that way. Add on the wait time for a new Yamaha and Suzuki looks even better

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That was the first quote I got from the closest dealer to me. I have three other dealers to talk to.

JoseG

Crazy high, call Int marine. I’ve seen under $19k out the door

ltlslick1

Check out Tuckerton Marine for Suzuki pricing. Last time I checked their pricing seemed pretty fair. Full disclosure, I have not done business with them.

26 strike

Yes Tuckerton is on my list. I'm pretty sure they will be at the AC show at the end of February.

DreamWeaver21

Agree it is high.