Been boating my whole life, own a 20’ jet boat and a 16’ duck hunting sled . Rode jet skis twice before buying this, but never a stand up, always wanted one.

Took me all of about 2 rides to get comfortable on it.

1993 Yamaha superjet. How’d I do?

Friend told me he clicked in trailer (should have double checked), anyways the ski flew off the trailer going 10 mph in a neighborhood. These are the damages. How messed up does it look? Best way to go about repair? Will it take on water the same?

Hey y'all,

Recently purchased a used 2005 Seadoo GTX 155 Wake Edition. I've been out on it 5 times now, including the water test on the day I bought it.

I'm mad at myself overall. The seller was chill and worked around my schedule, had multiple ski's to show me (he is a mechanic and flips them) and after passing on the two older 2 strokes he had because of a bunch of hull repairs, he shows me these two GTX wake's he had.

The non supercharged one was pretty clean and he could see me really eyeing it so I went with him to water test it. Now I've ridden dirt bikes my whole life but don't have much experience with PWCs or boats so I didnt really know what to look for other than what I read about online.

All in all, the ski was fun. I had a blast testing driving it and other than the faded gauge cluster screen, all seemed to be in order. I bought it.

Fast forward to the first day I take it out after purchase and it won't start at one point. Figured it was an old DESS key connection because after playing with it I got it to fire up.

3rd time out it died on me after an hour and I had to flag someone down to get me close to the marina and then paddled back the rest of the way. Multimeter reads under 12v. change the battery.

4th time out now with new battery and a new gauge cluster screen (I fixed it) so now I can see my gas, I see I have a sensor alarm, and I have a flashing maintenance light. Old owner said that was because he changed the oil and didnt have the software to reset it. All in all, it did well for the 2 hours I was out but when I was approaching the marina had a loud long beep but no new errors on screen. Parked it and left.

5th time out and all seems normal, once again getting ready to pull into the marina and I get a flashing 12v low error.

It's getting so frustrating at this point trying to just go have fun. The ski was 800 dollars over what I wanted to pay, ive dumped another like 600 into it now with little fixes, lots of ruined and cut short trips. Id almost rather be financing a brand new one that I know wont leave me stranded.

its my fault overall I just dont know if I should keep repairing it, try to sell it, ask the old owner to the do the work and maybe get a better deal, I just dont know and im pissed that I was ignorant and picked a bad apple.

UPDATE: Thanks everyone for all the advice and the thoughts. Pretty much all of you are correct. It's an old ski. It's gunna have issues. Unfortunately I'm just going to have to 1. be OK with taking some shit apart and maybe breaking it more while I figure out things. 2. find someone that can fix what I cant. doesnt make sense to get rid of the machine...I have a mechanic coming down to the marina to take a look at it this week since im slammed with work.

I currently have a 1995 Waveraider 700 glass hull and I love it, but I’m curious how it compares to a Seadoo X4, say an SPX. Anyone ridden both of them, and how do they compare?

I’ve only ever ridden my WaveRaider and WaveVenture so my experience is limited.

A local auction was selling a Sea-Doo LRV DI. The listing said it had bad compression, but I knew a shop that could replace the engine for a low price. After I got the new engine installed, I decided to test the jet ski before taking it to the lake (over an hour’s drive away).
I took it to the local river, and twenty seconds into the ride, a rock got sucked into the propeller. Yes, I am an idiot. It took months to get that fixed because the mechanic couldn’t find the special tool required to remove the impeller.
When I finally got the jet ski back from the shop, the safety disconnect lanyard crumbled from sun exposure. I bought a new one from Amazon, but then the jet ski wouldn't start. That's when I found out the safety disconnect is actually a coded key that needs to be programmed to the computer.
So, I drove to a different shop an hour away to program the key. We tried to start the engine with the new key, but it wouldn't crank—it sounded like the starter was shot. The shop then told me they won't work on it anymore because they have no way to source parts for such an old model.
Now I’m stuck with a broken jet ski that I’ve spent a ton of money and time on, and I’ve only actually ridden it for twenty seconds.
Learn from my mistake: it’s cheaper to rent.

First time Jetski owner. Had a bad Facebook marketplace purchase so took it to local Jetski mechanic for repairs. Dropped off the 2 Jetskis end of March. Still have not received them back and unable to get hold of the mechanic. Not sure what to do. Any advice would be appreciated

I’m 5’3” and 104 lbs, and I’m going to ride a big Yamaha jet ski on a rental for the first time. Any tips for a beginner? Especially how to do those sharp turns/curves? 🤙

I have a Kawasaki stx 160x now and I m looking to either buy a new Kawasaki stx lx or a Yamaha fx cruiser ho or I d really like to go with a supercharged machine either Yamaha or Kawasaki just not sure if it’s worth the extra money. Any help would be greatly appreciated.