Hi all, I recently bought a brand new Crestliner. Since I just paid over $20k for a boat, I of course looked it all over, and I'm disappointed. 1st of all, one of the four $225 seats had minor cuts from a razor blade. 2nd, there was a medium sized flat spot in the texture on my lower dash assy. 3rd, there was two marks in the paint from where the factory rested the boat on the freshly painted hull. 4th, the tachometer had a round piece of plastic stuck to the inside of the lens. 5th, the engine would not hold its trimmed position, it kept leaking down. And lastly, the quality of it was cheaply made, and there were drill shavings all over.
In all, I'm somewhat pleased with the overall design of the boat, and my dealer has been great. The dealer said they'd fix it all, but as with all boat repairs, it's taken a long time to get the parts and get it fixed. If the Asian or German market made boats for the USA, then I would have bought one of them. The Crestliner I bought reinforces that fact that major manufacturers in the USA still doesn't care about the customer, they seem to only care about the bottom line.
