Marine Remote Control Box 8M0059686 for Mercury top Mounted Outboard Engine Control

Used part in boat twice when it completely failed leaving is stranded in the middle of the lake. Interval gears skipped and locked throttle and shift linkage out of position.Internal components do not have the quality and not built to the tolerance necessary for safe operation.Unfortunately, just outside of return dates and currently stuck with a $200 pile of metal and plastic. Do not purchase!

This item showed up, we have rental boats, needed one, bought two. Both of them out of the box did not work. One only goes forward, one only in reverse. Unlesss you depress the high idle, but that does not mean you have gears just revving. After taking one apart to find the initial issue or failure, every single screw, nut, etc inside was less than hand tight. If you buy it be prepared to rebuild it out of the box. On top of that, the gears were installed 180 off which is why no forward or reverse on the other. There’s no quality in this unit, plastic washers are broken, the plastic incident is flimsy as a grocery bag- save your hard earned American dollar and precious time, and buy another brand, this is a total rip off, trust me as a marina owner/operator.

This remote control box gets some bad reviews but they are unfounded. I bought this after watching the install video from Pontoonstuff.com (toms toons). I knew what I was buying. Its perfect. Works really well on my recent restoration. I did of course have to buy Gen II control cables to go along with it. My only complaint is I followed the included instructions for connecting the cables to my 1999 Force 90hp 2 stroke. On my shakedown cruise I was quickly apparent that the shift was back to front. Backwards. Reverse is forward, forward is reverse. Again, no big deal, just moved the cable to the other lever but pay attention to your old setup and know if you need a pull or push and don't get it backwards like I did :-)

Upon installation, throttle does not work and get stuck badly doesnt come out of gear. I put new cables gen 2 and nothing..cheaply made inside.Apparently took too long to install it.So now i'm not covered with the return horrible.

Do not buy!

I ordered this controller and I received a box with 2- damaged controller’s, wires had been cut and loose parts inside the box. The backs of the controllers were missing as well as many other parts, the mechanisms themselves were loose and falling out of the control box. It appears as if I were sent a box of rejected controllers. Unbelievable poor quality!

Upon first use got stuck in gear and was a disaster from there. Installation was such a pain too, horrible design and probably wouldn't last a mount before disintegrating. Look for others and don't waster your time like I did. As a charter captain in south Florida I really needed it quick and now I'm set back even further

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