I Just Bought My First Bass Boat | Don't Make These Mistakes 

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Yes, I didn’t think to mention this. This motor however starts ultra fast as soon as I turn the key every time since I have had it. Thanks for watching

Excellent on your purchase! Thanks for watching and the sun! Much appreciated!

I’ve got to 65. I think there is more to squeeze. But I rarely have the water conditions for it thus far.

They were really really great boats then!

It was a great boat honestly! Its already gone back to Illinois for a high school kid!

Thanks man!

Excellent advice! The motor is so quiet, starts immediately every time, gets on plane super fast, just great. Question for you, are you running a 4 or 3 blade prop on yours?

Advice taken! On the hunt for a new boat this year!

What do you mean by 50/50.

@@variedterrainfishing You either got a lemon or a good one. The emm was the main problem with these motors.

Great advice I didn’t think of. My dad waited a long long time for his 360 and livescope to become available.

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Thanks for that. It handles very well. Rides smooth, handles most things very well!

Oh and obviously my 88 Ranger has been repowered with the 98 Rude which is why I'm asking because I read this in the Ranger manual which came with a different motor, I don't know what it originally had on it though.

This is what I heard. However, I have had a few folks in the business tell me,since I have had it, that the most important thing really here is to make sure it is a non ethanol gas. Unfortunately, some places have ethanol in their gas as a standard and they will offer a non ethanol in like. 91 octane. Not every place does this. But this is common to see. I would imagine an 88 non ethanol is perfectly fine.

I don’t understand this comment.

@@variedterrainfishing Your video was decent, not bad, not great, room for improvement over time. You must have a lot of disposable income, Ranger boats are hella expensive, even used ones. Most of us can only dream of owning one of those for bass fishing. So many other boats even huge pleasure boats are way cheaper, it was a jealousy comment lol.

@@riverpirate1022 Thanks for watching man! I appreciate your feedback! I bought Bitcoin when it was really cheap!

This one is pretty quiet. Thank you!

It was in the 97-99

This was garage kept. 2012 motor, 2013 Trailer. Min Kota Ultrex , Hummingbird Helix 10 and 12. Boat cover. Paid 20k

@@variedterrainfishing Great Price. In January of 2022 (this year) I purchased a 2002 Ranger 520 Commanche VX for $21K from Premier at the Lake. No Spot Lock, No Current Electronics. Love the boat. Mercury 225 Optimax

And it came with original matching trailer with new tires.

@@emontgomery1234 dang! Well I’m selling it now! Currently for sale $19,900. Nothing wrong with it. Actually In better condition now! Just time to move forward and get a new one!

I never have had an issue with this motor. Half a key turn, it fires up. It’s not loud, and it runs my boat 70 mph. It doesn’t use a ton of gas or 2 stroke oil either!

If I remember correctly it was right under 100.

compression print out was 97-99

I have a mechanic. According to the mechanic for my Evinrude, they went out of business due to government regulation. It’s probably the reason we don’t see 2 strokes in a lot of sports much anymore. Dirt bikes, 4 wheelers, boat motors. Got everything for 20k

The Evinrude is not junk. I have an Evinrude a little older than that and it's still running great. Haven't had any trouble finding mechanicscto work on them.

There are lemon motors by every manufacturer.

I hade a 150 Johnson Ficht for 15 years. Very good engine. Really no problems. The problem with those motors is they were prone to blow up before the redesign. But they blew early. Usually well before 100 hours. I did take a little hit when I traded mine in 2014 but engine tested out fine. Good compression and passed leak down. Enjoy your boat!

@@variedterrainfishing The E-TECs are actually great motors. The FICHT motors were garbage.

I have heard this, but what is your reason and experience for not buying from them?

@@variedterrainfishing First they sold me a boat they had a stop sale on. There was an issue with Merc outboards having a seal issue on a exhaust manifold. Bass Pro was pushing me to come sign papers for financing. When I signed the papers put my 14K down they set a pick up date of boat for the next week. They needed to install some batteries. I get a phone call two days before to pick boat up saying they can't let the boat leave until they check this manifold. Well this was around Christmas and their mechanic was off. They could not look at this until after the first of the year. The first of the year came around and sure enough this engine had a bad seal. Well they couldn't tell me when seal would arrive to replace. It took three months. I made two payments and paid insurance on a boat that was sitting in Bass Pros lobby. Finally they call and say part is here and pick my boat up. As I was driving (three months after I bought) to Bass Pro I realized I never got my documents from my county Treasurer. When I got to Bass Pro to pick boat up they told me that my Country Treasurer was behind and I would have my documents in a few days. I left Bass Pro with a boat with no tags/no title. Got pulled over and was detained for several hours while the cops figured out I didn't steal boat. On Monday morning I called my elected country treasurer and long story short she never got the documents from Bass Pro. A few hours later she called me back saying she just got the documents in the mail. Bass Pro lied they didn't send those documents to my county Treasurer until the day before I picked them up. I pressed this really hard and was finally told they by manager they dropped the ball and forgot to send my documents in. They lied they tried to blame someone lese. Than add this to them selling a boat that had a stop sale. I believe they did this causes they wanted this sale 80k boat before the end of the year. This effects level of sales bonuses typically with boat and car sales the number of units sold over a year. They never apologized. NEVER. I won't ever spend another penny with Bass Pro.

Wow, I do not blame you at all. That sounds awful. Sorry that happened to you. If you don't mind me asking, which Bass Pro was this?

@@variedterrainfishing Altoona Iowa (Des Moines). There is even more. I added Active Target to the boat and paid an additional 500 bucks to have it installed. Long story short they only thing they did was run the wires and mount the controller in rod locker. They lied to me about this working. Two things. Software on HDS needed upgraded so it was never configured. Once I got that figured out I discovered they never connected the “awake” wire (yellow wire). Not only that they mounted transducer to the cone on trolling motor pointing 90 degrees off of center. I demanded to speak to regional sales manager and all he did was defame Pros Choice Marina. Claimed Pros Choice won’t service boats they sell. I lit Bass Pro up on social media including RU-vid. One person apologized for this and you will never believe who that was……Jimmy Houston.

@@CousinPete420 Tell me you had some resolution to this.

Excellent advice, thank you for this!

Compression test first, if compression is good no need for a leak down test.

Only time will tell. Its a 2012 with 400 hrs.

Oh come on. So far, it’s been a great motor! It had 390 hours on it when I got it

Dumb!

You must be one of those guys who runs a Force.

I like it.

Thanks For Watching Scott!

He never claimed to be an expert. Get a clue yourself Scoot. Can’t you appreciate that he spent a lot of time and energy making a video to share an EXPERIENCE. He shared it on a platform made for it, and shared it with people interested in viewing this exact topic. He says exactly that in the video. Your comments and negativity to someone you don’t know aren’t called for and I bet you’d never say anything remotely similar to someone in person. Man up, Scoot and don’t be a hater. That’s not the purpose of the comments section. If anything in this society today, be kind and realize someday you may need kindness in return.

So what was he ignorant about Scott? `Sounds like you are an expert.

Mr scott no need to be a rude ignorant jerk!! Seems to me this young man did quite the research and is sharing what he did with others. I see no reason to call him an expert just an informed first time buyer. This should be a great example for other first time buyers to look at and follow.

Shut up Scott

Thanks man! Much appreciated!