Thread: Help Me Spend $50

Originally Posted by sunshine

Well, got the boat all ready Saturday afternoon, went to fire up the fish finder and it won't even flicker. Lowrance Elite 4hdi. It started not reading the map card a couple weeks ago, so I figured something was up. Bought it in February, so should be good under warranty. Anyone dealt with Lowrance warranty service? Read some horror stories from a few years ago talking 30-90 days turnaround time.

Fished a bit (though blind) Saturday afternoon on Lake Marion, wind was screaming, surely drifting much too fast even with a drift sock, couldn't tell my speed without the GPS. Nothing.

Decided to go to Medard Reservoir in Plant City to see if maybe we could get lucky on a sunshine bass or specks drifting the open water and throwing a rattle trap. Wind was fine early, started blowing by 10:00. Ended up catching a 5-6lb catfish is all.

Calling Lowrance today, if turn around time looks to be pretty long, I may just go ahead and pull the trigger on a Helix that I'm going to be using on the pontoon and bass boat.

my personal experience with lowrance is top quality customer service and a no questions asked return policy. dropped my hds7 gen2 last year when it was out of warranty. even though it was my own fault and not covered under warranty, i had a new, free unit with new transducer and all the power cords two days after i called them ..... free shipping. i am a believer in lowrance!!!!