Re: Hour Meter Accuracy??
I once bought a brand new hour meter to bolt on the engine, it worked great.
but the my dadthought he had a great idea and fitted it to the dash instead.
previous to this i got some fantastic mounts madeup for the engine to help with vibration, the boat was lovely and smotth.
this made the hour meter total crap on the dash,as this one worked on vibration when the engine was actually running ha ha ha
instead of my dad just putting it back on the engine, he asked if i could put the old mounts back so the vibration made it work on the dash.
i never told him what i was actualy wanting to call him ha ha .
but in the end i just bought him an electric one so he could watch the time drift by while engine running.
most hour meters only give the hours that you know as most owners buy new ones for their boats.
so seeing an hour meter means absiloutely nothing.
i also used to know a guy who sold secondhand boats, he used to put hour meters on the boats he sold.
i also know for a fact that he used to put new ones sitting on his compressor in the workshop till they showed about 150 hours.
this made people think they were getting boats that had only done 150 hours, when they were getting old worn out stuff.
so never ever go by the meters, on newer engines its computerised,but even they are easy to tamper with !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!