What about Mitzubishi?

[Simi 60]

Originally Posted by grantmc

I've always remembered being told to avoid diesel engines made by companies that start with M; Mitsubishi, Mazda and Mercedes as they're nothing but problems. Sorry.

And here was me thinking it was all about paint colour

[Simi 60]

Originally Posted by Jim Cate

Whilst chasing parts from Noumea, one chap who was listed as a dealer said he had relinquished his dealership. When asked why, he said "what colour is your engine?". "Yellow, of course". "And what colour is a lemon?" he said...

True story, unnown relevance.

Jim

Well that's caterpillar out then.

I believe some of the vetus range use Hyundai base engines, I wonder what colour they are? (-;

[GordMay]

Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Asbestos.

[sailah]

I have a Mitsubishi S4L2 based marinized engine from Westerbeke, a 44b.

The actual Mitsubishi engine is great but I've had an inordinate number of issues with the Westerbeke side of things.

Currently at 960 hours. Cooling system, heat exchanger, starter (factory Mitsubishi part) have all failed.

[txg]

Originally Posted by okapi3

Yes, the price is low, and one could negotiate a much lower price if one were interested in taking on a "project" boat. We looked at this boat plus a couple others while we were in Martinique, and turns out this one has been on a mooring , unattended for going on 2 years now. Very dirty and weathered and in need of a lot of work. The broker made it clear that they would entertain just about any offer, but we were not interested in a fixer-upper.

We just looked at the boat from the outside about a week ago. Wasn't looking that bad anymore. Also the bottom looked like it got a fresh paint job. Less fouling than our own boat which was repainted in march this year.

[Siggiland]

Hi Paul,
by searching the Madif engine I found your post. I am also interested in the Santorin and would be glad for any kind of information you can give me on that boat.
Thanks
Siggi