If I bought a brand new outboard, are they robust and reliable?
To explain, when I need a car I buy a new one and keep it until it conks out, so maybe up to 20 years. When i get a new one everything has changed so much. I never ever wanted electric windows because it was just something more to go wrong, and it did, and it was electronics in the door and what hassle and expense. Manual winding windows were great. I went a ride in a newer car than mine and things had changed even more, now there was even more electronics.....the car suddenly sounded an alarm and would only allow a very low speed and said take it to your nearest dealer, miles away, and it was hooked up to a diagnosis computer which electronically recallibrated the car management control unit (nothing actually wrong), cost a small fortune. I thought how much I was going to hate it when I needed a new car. Usually i never bother with a garage service, I do the basics myself, but computer electronic stuff puts it out of my ability and so I then have to be at their mercy and get charged all the time. What a dread. But what choice do we get. I think it even forces you to have the service at the dealer after so many miles of time. It's extortion.
Now i don't want to buy a brand new outboard and it be stuffed with electronics and management control this and that and have to go to a dealer. I just want to buy a motor, pay my money and that is it, I'll do the servicing, basic stuff, plugs, oil, etc. But will I be able to do this? What are new outboards like? And if they are stuffed with electronics, will it not matter because they are reliable and need little maintenance........or will I be forever at the annual mercy of the garage? Can I just buy a new one and get on with living?
To explain, when I need a car I buy a new one and keep it until it conks out, so maybe up to 20 years. When i get a new one everything has changed so much. I never ever wanted electric windows because it was just something more to go wrong, and it did, and it was electronics in the door and what hassle and expense. Manual winding windows were great. I went a ride in a newer car than mine and things had changed even more, now there was even more electronics.....the car suddenly sounded an alarm and would only allow a very low speed and said take it to your nearest dealer, miles away, and it was hooked up to a diagnosis computer which electronically recallibrated the car management control unit (nothing actually wrong), cost a small fortune. I thought how much I was going to hate it when I needed a new car. Usually i never bother with a garage service, I do the basics myself, but computer electronic stuff puts it out of my ability and so I then have to be at their mercy and get charged all the time. What a dread. But what choice do we get. I think it even forces you to have the service at the dealer after so many miles of time. It's extortion.
Now i don't want to buy a brand new outboard and it be stuffed with electronics and management control this and that and have to go to a dealer. I just want to buy a motor, pay my money and that is it, I'll do the servicing, basic stuff, plugs, oil, etc. But will I be able to do this? What are new outboards like? And if they are stuffed with electronics, will it not matter because they are reliable and need little maintenance........or will I be forever at the annual mercy of the garage? Can I just buy a new one and get on with living?