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Um, I mean, they ain't that new no more. Pretty sure they came out like what
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16, 17, 18, something like that. So they're six, eight years old
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So coming up on, I want to say it's 16 when they came out
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So we're coming up, we're eight years, we're coming up on a decade. So they ain't that new
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But most of the issues that we've seen with those are starter issues
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Um, what most of them are wire harness issues by and large in the very, very
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brand new ones, like the early, early, early models, there was some shift actuator issues, those are all pretty much gone
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The starter issues for the most part, those are gone. I mean, that kind of comes and goes
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There was a diverter on the cowling where the cowling would be taking in
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water when they was trimmed up and it would go down and trip on the starter and they would fail and they made diverters to divert that water
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But that again, you know, that's early stuff. And then there was, you know, back in COVID, I mean, they've been calling
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them COVID engines now, like for any engine that was built during COVID
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regardless of the brand, we've had problems, seen problems with components. Um, there for a while, there was no oil filters for the engines because one of
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the manufacturers that was manufacturing the oils just said we're done manufacturing oils and they had to find a whole new supplier for all the oil filters
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So, you know, there was that problem. Other than that, most of the problems are all gone away
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The, I mean, even the, even the wire harnesses, I don't think that, um
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they're failing as they were. They've kind of figured that out. There, they had an FSM problem for a little while, but again, these were like
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you know, component problems based on the supplier, based on the components
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You know, it wasn't really a V8 engine problem. We don't see V8s blow up that much
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So as far as the block and the other platform goes, it's, it's a solid platform
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I mean, if you look at it, the engine is, is lightweight, torquey, and
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built like solid all the way around. That's why you can see that platform is basically the entire Mercury lineup
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Now from 200 up, like V6, V8, V10, V12, they're all basically the same engine
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just with, you know, more of them stacked up. So it's a very solid platform
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Weight wise, torque wise, like really good, but common issues. That's mainly what I can think of as far as that
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So early years, starters, the FSM issues, the wiring harness issues, shift actuator
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issues, but again, most of that stuff's all been done away with, except, you know
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like, and it would be batched out between years. So like, you know, this model serial number to this model serial number would
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have, you know, let's say if it was an FSM problem, this one would have it based
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on this is the period of time when the FSM builder, you know, the supplier was
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messing those up so that, you know, those are those kinds of related things
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But I wouldn't say that there's any common issues outside of those that have
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not been addressed and fixed and, you know, kind of done away with
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