trust me be firm out of pure customer satisfaction I think they will do something for you!!!!! it my be they pay for the part and you pay labor or it could be a 50/50 split. anything they do for you you will be better off than having to take the full brunt of the cost!!!! let me know what happens!! good luck!!!!!!!!!

boating & fishing prices have no reason. considering what all the ecu does & what it took to engineer it & make it, that price seems more reasonable than guys spending $750 for a cooler. 300 hours does seem a little premature. i hope that is the problem, not the symptom of another issue. my merc went through 3 or 4 switchboxes before we figured it was a ground upstream causing the problem.

you could get the dealer to write it up as a Dewalt part and write it off

I like that idea of the dewalt write off phat .... the cooler was an impulse buy i guess ..... but it did have great reviews.

lumber, i didn't know you got a cooler. was not trying to be smart a**, sorry

Yep, was not ranting about things like that. A used ECU off of eBay is rarely a good investment, simply for the reason you pointed out. But the price I quoted was valid. My point was the outrageous prices charged for marine equipment in general. They (the makers of such) would have us believe that they have to charge more because of extra steps necessary for marine use, and, to a point, they are correct. But if a part costs $100 to make normally, and $150 to make for marine use, it should NOT give them the right or the ability to charge $2000 for it! But since they know that without that part your $15,000 engine will not run they feel free to do such things, and from where I sit, it's just plain wrong.

(And as far as EEPROM's go, anyone with the right equipment and knowledge should be able to reprogram one. But dealer only software is closely guarded, just so that they can charge whatever they want).

My best friend is a Yamaha dealer. He often has cases like this. With enough input from himself and the boat owner, 9 times out of 10 Yamaha steps up and takes care of the issue with at least a 50% discount on parts but sometimes when they see the hours etc, they will eat 100%.

Def worth trying !

I hope something works out like this for Lumber. If it were on a 3000 hour commercial crab boat I'd figure well you got the goody out of it, but 300 hours on an obviously meticuously maintained and lightly used boat is way too soon for something that important and costly to go bad.

I would think that they will give you a computer. I don't deal with etec's but I know Merc and Yamaha take care of their customers. I replaced a f350 powerhead that had a freeze crack in the head due to poor drainage. The motor was 3 years out of warranty. Yamaha sent a new short block and heads for free. My Merc puked an air compressor 4 months out of warranty. Merc sent me one for free. I'm sure they'll do the right thing. Gotta get her going for next weekend.

At 300 hrs isn,t it time for the first service? Witch i heard is about 600.00?

I had my 300 hour service at 189 hours an it was somewhere in that range