Re: E-tec 75 or TLDi90
Winoandino,<br /><br />So few E-Tecs have actually been sold that there is no substantial track record for its reliability. That was the only negative point that I have ever made about E-tecs. E-tecs are "best performing, most fuel efficient, lowest maintance, and cleanest line of engines available", please.....you have got to be kidding me! Stop reading from the Evinrude brouchure and exercise a little common sense. Some of the the E-Tecs are absolute dogs. Some have marginal advantages. The point of my previous post, if you will actually read it, was that E-tec technology was not, for the most part, new and that other than being three star rated....they are not any better. People who knock other peoples products tick me off, thats why I do not do it. Another thing that ticks me off is people who haven't got a clue about what they are talking about. I do not sell Yamaha or Mercury engines and could care less about how well BRP is doing. I sell between 400-500 loose outboards every year and in the last year only two consumers have even asked me what I thought about E-tecs. My response was that I had never heard about anyone having a problem with one. <br /><br />I hope E-tec works out for BRP. I really do. From everything that I have heard...no one is having breakdowns....yet. But the few that have hours on them don't really make up enough to say "Look At The Great Record Of E-tec", because there is no track record. In a few years, "Pirate Bob" or whoever, will have run his new E-tec and put a couple of thousand hours on it. Until then the jury is still out. <br /><br />As to Hype verus fact. Name one fact, other than emissions that makes E-Tec better than any other brand...there isn't any. In an individual model of E-tec you can cherry pick one stat over another brands stat in the same hp, but thats like racial profiling...it's just wrong. <br /><br />Tomorrow, next month, next year, someone's advertising hype will directly target E-tec. Someone will than proudly say that that brand is the best. And I will say the exact same thing about them as I say about E-Tec. Do not believe everything that you read and only time will tell.
)<br /><br />75 cheaper by £200, but 15hp less, PLUS TLDi needs about £150 service per year while the 75 needs about £50-70 for impellor each year. So I guess 75 is about £4-500 cheaper over 3 years.<br /><br />My mechanic says a merc 75hp 4 stroke (which he's trying to sell me... nah..) is plenty to push the boat, so I guess the 75 2 stroke will also suffice.
