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| I Bought a 2002 Tundra 18' with walk through windows. I fished the PWT tourney on the pro side at Little Bay DeNoc in 2003 in my Tundra. I fished the Cable's Championship in 2004 at little bay. During this tournament we noticed that the bilge pumps were running alot more then befor. I opened the in floor storage compartment and found that there was ahole aprox. 10" long and water pouring in we finished the tournament that day. Thank god I had them put in an extra blige pump. This is were all my trouble started trying to get some one from tracked to help me. I took it to my dealer and they sent photos to the headquarters thet came back after 6 weeks and said I had to hit something they told me to go threw my insurance. I tryied to fight tracker by myself but got no where. Every time I would get somebodys name the next time i would call they told me that person didn't work ther any more. My insurance went over the claim they said we know you did not hit anything but we are not going to fight tracker. The Insurance company took 7 months to send check for new hull. I went back to tracker with check in February of 2005. They did not produce a boat until August of 2005. I brought the boat home and some of the rigging was not done right took it back to tracker in September of 2005. I did not get my boat back until March of 2006. So fellow fisherman please be careful with tracker boats. If you are trying to add up how long this took I count 20 months without a boat and not fishing tournaments. Oh by the way the Insunrance company dropped me to. I will save that story for another time. |
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| Fair, then do not click on the thread freedom of choice; you make the choice to look at this thread I did't make you. You make my point maybe there should be recalls, in the customer service industry 9 of 10 peple will not complain publicly 1 of 10 will. This tread was started by someone asking about trackers almost all were good so to give perspective bullets post are needed so people can have an informed choice about this product and its service after all its boat buying season. |
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| You get what you pay for. Cheap Price.........Cheap Boat. |
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Location: Rhinelander | Just a price observation: the Tundra isn't a 'cheap' boat. And a comment about Walli's last post, it's true 1 out of 10 might complain. It's also true near zero out of thousands who have the boat brand and have no problems will say anything at all. Human nature, I guess. |
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| I don't have a tundra however I do have an '05 Targa 18 walkthrough and my previous boat was a pro deep v 16 combo. Contrary to some of the posts on the net about Tracker quality I can tell you from first hand experience that they make an excellent boat. Some of the compaints about tracker might be very well be justified, however a lot of them are total B.S.
As is true with any boat you might buy, if you take care of the boat and don't do like a lot of guys do and beat the snot out of it you will have a boat that will last you for many years to come. I fish lake erie exclusively and have run both of my boats through some extremely rough water and haven't had a problem with either. A lot of these tournament guys have the nasty habbit of trying to get from point A to point B at WOT reguardless of water conditions. In the process of doing this the boat takes on heck of a beating. IMO from what I have witnessed 98% of hull failures are a direct result of the opperator abusing the boat. If we would just simply slow down and run the speed according to what wave conditions will allow most hull problems would be elliminated. |
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| If I buy a "new" truck (from any manufacture) and leave the lot with the pedal to floor and never let off, no matter if I am on a new stretch of highway, an old back road full of pot holes or a farmers plowed field, until something breaks, I hit something or I "blow the engine". Do you think the dealer or the manufacture is going to "take care of me"? I don't think so!!! But may people try blame the boat and/or motor manufacture for there own abuse. These warranty claims are only adding to the price of the next "new" rig anyone might buy. Tracker boats probably are not the Lexus's or the BMW's of the fishing boat world but they are a well designed and built rig. It hard to believe any post on these message boards anymore! |
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| Smooth, Dry, Fast?? You bet. I own a 18" tundra(2004) - have had 0 Problems. Name another walleye boat that can reach 52-55mph with only a 150hp. and still keep you dry in rough water. Simply put ride in one if you get a chance.
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| Tracker Tundra's are marketed to be the smoothest ride in rough water. I have a chevy product had some issues with 4x4 they fixed no questions, that all most people are looking for, with your statement of operator abuse suggests a bias a majority of people don't abuse there boats and when something breaks and the company hides beind operator abuse it gets them upset. |
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| And from everything that I have heard about the tundra it probably has the best rough water ride of any boat out there. That being said just because it is marketed that way doesn't imply that tracker is saying it is the best rough water ride at WOT! If you purposely drive your new car off a cliff that doesn't mean that the car manufacturer owes you a new car. If you take your new boat out every week and jump every other wave with it and crack the hull should the manufacturer have to repair your hull for free? In my opinion absolutely not! Just like the above post from "GUEST" said after fishing a couple of tournaments he developed hull problems. Was this individual pushing his boat to the breaking point? He is the only person that knows the answer to this question. I would say it is no coincidence that he developed hull problems after he fished these tournaments. If you are going to enter a car race do you go to the local car lot and buy a new chevy to run in that race?? No! Did I say that all hull failures are a direct result of opperator abuse? No just 98% of them. If you willingly abuse your boat to the point that it breaks then you should be willing to take the boat yourself to a repair facility and pay to have it repaired. The manufacturer of the boat is not the only place that is capable of doing repairs to that boat. |
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| Hi. It is me agian with the 2002 18' tracker tundra. 1st the reason I do nt want my nane on this post is that I am trying to sell my boat. I will say that this boat was in aprox 27 tournaments in the year an half I was able to use it . I take care of all my equipment so it can last for many years examlpe my 1989 chevy pickup has 210,000 miles on it. My problem with the hull was not the only problems I had with this boat . Their are just to many things to list what was wrong with tracker rigging to fixing little problems. Many people seen the damage to my hull and all agreed that nothing was hit with it. 2 different tracker dealers in my area looked at and said they think the trailer caused the stress cracks. Tracker told the dealers not to bother with this issue and case is closed. I was willing to drive boat and trailer to corprate headquarters because all there judgements came from photos. Last thing if tracker does not want us to push the boats then why does their Tundra commercials show the boats going air born in them. |
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| All good points. The manufacturers all claim their boats handle rough water well, even their commercials show their boats running fast in rough water. Yet when something breaks it's always abuse and not a warranty issue. I have owned many different high dollar walleye boats, glass and aluminum. The glass boats crack, usually at the transom and the aluminum boats develope loose rivets. |
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| Hey fostoriaohtodd, just curious, if you don't own a tundra, how can dispute anything being said on this thread.These people have first hand experience, and have problems that arent being resolved.I've been eye witness to some of what's being talked about ,so your not convincing me otherwise.I could tell alot of good stuff, but its not my fight, nor yours.So let these people be, cause there is validity to their arguments.If there wasnt,im sure the big tracker tundra pros would be on here discrediting this thread.Don't you think? |
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| Boomrr,
You said that the big name Tundra pro's should be on this board to discredit it. If they did, the complainers would say, the only reason that they are on here to argue for Tracker is because they are sponsored by Tracker . They are dammed if they do, dammed if they don't.
All boat brands have had or have problems, as was stated earlier, TRacker new they had a problem, and fixed it. They now have the generation 2 hull.
As I recall Chase was on here earlier, telling all, how great a boat the Tundra is.
Give it a rest. |
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| As i stated earlier, i have no vested interest in this argument.All i care about is that people with something at stake here, arent being bullied into silence.Especially from someone who doesnt have first hand knowledge. |
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Location: Rhinelander | Issues between the builder and a customer are not going to be solved here. It isn't our intent or mission to be a 'consumer reports' related website. This debate has no possible positive consequence in any way, and contributes absolutely nothing to the content of WalleyeFIRST. If you want to fight and argue, there's several places on the web welcoming that, use you mouse and head on over there. In the meantime, there's always two sides to every story, and we can't decide who's right or wrong here based on a series of anon postings. |
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