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Shawn Kimbro · #1 02-06-2010, 02:31 PM

I ordered a HD unit from Jim at BOE Marine back on January 12, and the dern thing still hasn't come in. I've heard Lowrance is having problems shipping the HD units. Anyone heard anything? I heard there was a lawsuit by Hummingbird and wonder if the company might be having problems?

5th Tuition · #2 02-06-2010, 03:22 PM

Shawn; a friend of mine and I both want to have a HDS 7 installed before March 15th. Jim said to schedule a install in Feb. because March is so busy. I've gone to his web site and I see they are backordered as well.

I don't know the reason, but this is getting me to wonder what's wrong as well. I hope Toyota is not making some of the parts

. 5th (Marty)

#3 02-06-2010, 05:37 PM

shawn,
The lawsuit should not be holding it up, they are continuing to ship. I got an e mail from Lowrance about how they were continuing to ship and Jim at BOE told me the same thing. Certain distributors get an allocation of units I think, I guess it just depends when your time comes, but I could be way off on this. Lowrance is notorious for being slow, not having parts ready, etc but the HDS is well worth the wait you'll have. Hope they come in fast. One thing I realized is you get promised a date and you may as well ad a month onto that. My RADAR was the same way...good luck
Mark

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B-Faithful · #4 02-07-2010, 11:28 AM

Either it is a sign of the economy and companies not keeping inventory or that it is so popular that they cant keep up with demand.

wino · #5 02-07-2010, 01:36 PM

The first units had leaking problems so I assume they are replacing all those units first and it has put them behind in production. People at my marina tell me it is hard getting through to Lowrance and they are bad at returning calls.

#6 02-07-2010, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by wino

The first units had leaking problems so I assume they are replacing all those units first and it has put them behind in production. People at my marina tell me it is hard getting through to Lowrance and they are bad at returning calls.

I thought only the 8 had leaking problems? Lowrance is just terrible at getting units out...that would only impact the HDS, they can't get cables, add ons, RADARs, etc...don't know what the issue is, but it is well worth any wait you have to go through!