2016 Mercury 200 Optimax

[retired chem teacher]

Thanks for replies--I'm trying to negotiate a lower price on boat, motor, and trailer.   Keep hearing and seeing good and bad things about the optimax.   Sold a deck boat with a 250 Yamaha four stoke as my grandson and I wanted to get more into fishing. Really liked the Yamaha four stroke,.  I have been a Lund owner for long time and think they make decent boats is the reason looking at the pro-V bass.  Still have an older Fisherman 1800.  --wish this boat had a four stroke.  Will update on how things work out.  Wife says I don't need any more boats!!!

[fishinwrench]

Lund makes some fine boats.   Not always the prettiest and most functional, but they are built right for sure. 

You can always repower. That Opti has a lot of expensive parts on it, and those parts sell fast......So you can certainly recoup a good portion of the cost if you do it right.     

An example of doing it wrong..... would be trading it in to a dealer, and them ONLY giving you 3k off the purchase price of the upgrade.     You can part it out yourself and do far better than that.   

[fshndoug]

Good info as always Wrench

 

[Lvn2Fish]

On 3/7/2023 at 4:58 PM, fishinwrench said:

That's impressive 👍......if true.   But I'd sure challenge that claim. 🤔

But even if so, here's the thing.......The whole reason behind computer controlled DFI technology was to allow seamless operation & clean emissions during all circumstances.    

I must tell ya that if I had to sit and idle until my 1986 Evinrude XP (that is still on its original powerhead BTW) reached 120° before taking off everytime.....I wouldn't be fishing much during the coarse of a day. I'd be sitting there idling all day.    Metal & aluminum really doesn't change integrity much between 60 & 120 degrees, and in a DFI system neither does fuel atomization..... or lubrication .

Just out of curiosity....how many of those 800 Opti-hours do ya reckon were spent sitting at the ramp......or waiting to warm up before moving to a different fishing area ?   😅  The Verado has to take twice as long.... because it has a gallon of oil to WARM UP too.  

Am I making sense to anyone?   If not I'll just STHU 🙂

I know it’s not a 200 but my father and now brother have a 2006 Mercury optimax  150 original power head has over 1600 hrs on it . 

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, Lvn2Fish said:

I know it’s not a 200 but my father and now brother have a 2006 Mercury optimax  150 original power head has over 1600 hrs on it . 

I hate to start another argument about TIME on outboards 🙄 but I don't think y'all realize what you're saying.   

I'm not doubting that someone pulled the data from your ECM, and it indicated that much time.  What I'm doubting is the accuracy of that counter.   

If you spent 100 hours per year in the driver's seat of your bassboat .....at an average speed of 40mph.....then you've covered 80,000 miles of water in 17 years......and have spent enough on fuel/oil to have bought a brand new boat every 4-5 years.  

You need to find a ramp that's way closer to your fishing holes !    

[fshndoug]

Got to agree with you Wrench.

[Lvn2Fish]

58 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

I hate to start another argument about TIME on outboards 🙄 but I don't think y'all realize what you're saying.   

I'm not doubting that someone pulled the data from your ECM, and it indicated that much time.  What I'm doubting is the accuracy of that counter.   

If you spent 100 hours per year in the driver's seat of your bassboat .....at an average speed of 40mph.....then you've covered 80,000 miles of water in 17 years......and have spent enough on fuel/oil to have bought a brand new boat every 4-5 years.  

You need to find a ramp that's way closer to your fishing holes !    

It doesn’t sound crazy to me to fish a 100 days a year and run the motor for an hour each trip , idling or running . 

[Lvn2Fish]

I also have no doubt that y’all don’t fish quite as much as our family does . That boat has been used a lot . Also most of those hours are on lake of the ozarks . Which has a fraction of the public ramps that any of the core lakes . 

[fishinwrench]

9 minutes ago, Lvn2Fish said:

I also have no doubt that y’all don’t fish quite as much as our family does . That boat has been used a lot . Also most of those hours are on lake of the ozarks . Which has a fraction of the public ramps that any of the core lakes . 

I spend more time fishing than boat riding, that's true. 

 There's a good "public" ramp every 8-10 miles on LO.  (with only one exception).   

What lake has more ?  

[Lvn2Fish]

6 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

I spend more time fishing than boat riding, that's true. 

 There's a good "public" ramp every 8-10 miles on LO.  (with only one exception).   

What lake has more ?  

From Larry gale to brown bend is a ride. Our definitions of good public ramp must be different .