re: Thinking of buying this boat

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Don't Xpress boats have a lifetime hull warranty? If the hull is warped, I would think this would be covered, so why hasn't the owner reached out to the manufacturer to get it fixed? Definitely a red flag. . .

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Long story long - My buddy has a 16ft Xpress side console. Had a slow leak in it for a few years, leak got very bad when we were on Toledo a while back and was filling up the rear compartment almost sinking the boat.

We got back and looked around, we found a 4" crack up towards the front on the passenger side. There was about 1ft diameter of hull that was warped and flexing around the crack.

He calls Xpress and they tell him to get fricked. He told them the only reason he bought that boat was the "lifetime warranty on the hull". They say there is no such thing, the lifetime warranty is only on the welds on the transom.

He got the crack welded up a few weeks ago for $120 and boat is dry as a bone, but the welder told him to be expecting it to happen again in the distant future with that warped patch of metal flexing.

Just a heads up