Mercury Marine Sad they do not stand behind the quality of their products Nationwide

 I have had my Mercury 20 hp motor less than a year and it gets one ding on the prop from a stump and it causes all of the internal gears in the lower unit to fail….BS. But because it is impact damage it is not covered by warranty . First of all it is an aluminum prop and the gears are hardened steel there is no way that a small ding should tear up those gears. The prop has rubber inside and should slip before all of the pinion gears strip out. If the weakest link , the first fail point in the lower unit are the gears that is a s**t design. Now I could see it if it had ripped off one of the blades of the prop or actually hit the lower unit on an object . But that is not the case. That tells me there was either a manufacturer defect or it is just piss poor design. You show me one fishing boat that does not have a ding on the prop. It is sad that they are not standing behind the quality of their product. So $1600 later I will trade this piece of s* in and go Honda.