"Joshuall" wrote in message
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I have a Lowrance Global Map 2000 GPS and fish finder unit on my champion
bass boat currently. There's a button or two that's acting kinda funny and
Lowrance tells me the unit can no longer be repaired, but they will swap
it
out for a not so bad price.

Here's my question. Can anyone tell me how many hours it should take to
remove the old unit, shoot through hull transducer etc and put the new one
in. I got a quote from a new service dept I've been using (their hours to
repair stuff seems to be all over the charts) and I can't believe it's
accurrate. Their estimate is $1009. and if their rate is like $50.00 an
hour
that's half a dang work week! I'm not very mechanically minded, but I just
can't believe that's an accurrate price. Labor would be more expensive
than
the similar unit I'd replace it with!

Anybody have any ideas. . . . and NO . If I tried to do it myself as
mechanically minded as I am it would blow the boat up first thing I turned
it on. So that's not an option for me.

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God Bless America

Josh The Bad Bear


I'm with Charles here Josh. If you can operate a baitcasting reel, doing a
thru-hull transducer wouldn't be *that* bad. ;-)

Honestly though, do you know for sure that the new unit isn't compatible
with the old transducer? Is it that old?

I do agree with your assessment of you service department. Unless I am just
way off base, $1000+ for a LCD install sounds outrageous. Even with a
shoot-thru transducer. They simply aren't *that* difficult to deal with IMO.
Running the wires can sometimes be a chore, but those guys are supposed to
be the pros and able to handle such things in shorter order than us average
joes, and not take so long that they tally up a huge bill like that...you
sure they weren't including the price of a new unit? lol