What brand of outboard engines is most KNOWN to be poor quality?

[Island Time O25]

Years ago my first boat came with an old Achilles dink and an even older (early-mid 60s) Archimede 3.9 by Penta. Probably made even before Volvo bought out Penta. Funny enough it worked ok just looked too ancient to run. Prior to selling that boat I obtained also an older (early 90s) a 9.9 Evinrude which constantly gave me trouble. But my buyer given the choice of the motors of course selected the Evinrude. Ha-ha-ha. And I still have that 3.9 in a friend's shed.

Anyway, the gist of my story = better your motor looks like an old egg beater, the older the better, than a shiny newish model, even if from alibaba. Most folk, including thieves, go for the shiny blink and forego the beat up oldies.

[Jim Cate]

It's funny! We bought a new 11.5 foot hypalon RIB and hung our decrepit old 15 hp Suzuki on it... ran, but had bits falling off from corrosion, etc. The dink was stolen off our stern whilst hanging on a friends mooring off Battery Point in Hobart (high rent district).

The druggies who copped it ran it up the Derwent to Bridgewater, took the nearly worthless motor and tipped some petrol into the dink and set it alight... a 6 week old 5000 dollar boat discarded and a 200 buck outboard retained.

When faced with intellects like this, your disguise scheme seems doomed!

Jim

[Group9]

Originally Posted by CarlF

Sears

Although getting the rust and yellowed plastic details may be a graphics challenge.

I bought one of these in college for $50 that I never got to run LOL.