They've lost control of QC! Too busy pushing them out the door so Johnny Morris can gobble them up!

Mercury is sinking faster then a Brunswick bowling ball!

Oooouuuhhcccchhhhh, gonna be cool if we start seeing problems in the future, an I’ll think to myself, “Andy called it!!” Keep it up team marine!!

I work at a Mercury/Yamaha dealer. Yeah, i've seen this happen. I've also seen various important fasteners around the engine that are not tightened at all, or severely overtorqued causing cracks. Pretty much every single engine i service has some kind of oil, water or fuel leak. Most technicians just turn a blind eye to the problems haunting the V8's and V6's, because after the warranty is over, it's the owner's problem, and Mercury doesn't pay the dealers enough for us to want to do these jobs.. If you have a Mercury V8/V6 produced before 2022, it WILL leak salt water from various points of the exhaust manifold (because they DIDN'T REMOVE THE CASTING MARKS ON THE SEALING SURFACES, and designed all the other o-ring grooves poorly). Other very common faults: Gear shift actuator (sits underwater. not watertight), defective starter motor (water leaking directly onto it due to poor design of the top cowling, your dealer can remedy this), Defective/leaking power trim unit(early engines had bad PT motors, older engines leak everywhere), peeling large chunks of paint from all parts made of aluminum (Extremely common, over 90%), And many more. 2,5% of our engines serviced per year are Mercury, and the rest are Yamahas. This year we had a few warranty jobs on Yamahas (updating ECU's + minor service bulletins), but the 4 engines currently in took 2 weeks of work to fix all leaks and problems, and we have to wait until spring before the parts finally arrive. Pretty much everything we order is on back order. 300H service kits are over 2 months away!!! WHY choose Mercury?!

I am glad I switched to the SHO.

I'll be expecting your Christmas card come December Mercury! :)

As a proud Wisconsin resident I vote to move Mercury to Illinois because Illinois sucks and Mercury does too!

Keep it up Mercury!

Looks like the starter bolts were lose; see all the play when he moved it around. Try that with another motor and see. Perhaps that was / is the problem....

That’s just a shame. Never understood why some things like that get changed my motor is 20 years older than that thing and it’s mounted solid like why go and just fuckery it all up

Anyone experienced a miss once in the plane and cruising it’s dripping on and off 300rpm . Pretty much throughout the rev range. A local dealer told me they do it from brand new?? It’s a 225 2021 V8 XSPRO

That doesn't look like a QC problem. That looks like a design problem. Why add compliance to the starter motor mounts to a degree the bendix actually loses mesh with the flywheel? This is gonna make me go look at my 2.1L 115 now...

You could see metal shavings flying when you rolled it over. Why the heck would you put rubber grommets on a starter. So when they wear out or fail, they take out the flywheel too.

😲😲😲

And Yamaha pulls ahead for the lead.

Have u seen this on all years or only newer c*v*d motors?

I made the switch from Mercury to Yamaha 2 years ago. Will not go back to Mercury! They had the worst customer service I have dealt with.

40 hours on mine and it’s been in the shop more than on the water. Mercury could care less.

What an effin joke

Anyone experienced a miss once in the plane and cruising it’s dripping on and off 300rpm . Pretty much throughout the rev range. A local dealer told me they do it from brand new?? It’s a 225 2021 V8 XSPRO