Lowe W180 yes or no

[RUSS9999]

Looking at a 2003 Lowe W180 with a Evinrude 90hp. New sets. needs carpet. He is asking 5000. Is that to much for that boat?

[WIGuide]

Does anything else come with it? Electronics, trolling motor, etc etc? Do you know the overall condition? Is it scratched up? Dented? Are the decks wood? If they are is it solid or does it have a few soft spots? All these answers will factor into the value.

[RUSS9999]

It has 2 fish finders and trolling motor. Don't know if the decks are wood or not, that I need to find out. Need to see the boat but it's 6 hours south of me.

[Fishes in trees]

For a moment, I thought someone was selling my boat.   I need to go out to the shed and see if it is still there.   Mine is blue - and a 2002 and has a 100 Yamaha 4-stroke.    All i know is that if I wanted to replace my current boat, I couldn't do it for $5000.   Mine is in above average shape - with upgraded electronics and the 4-stroke is in premium condition.    I smack into stumps and bushes and trees so often that it is very scuffed up looking the entire length of both sides,  and I've made no effort to "pretty" that up in any way.

I don't know, my boat has always been in a shed, except when it got rained on when I was fishing or towing.   Then it always got dried out in the shed - out of the weather - with all the hatches open.   The back deck on that boat is wood and in my case the back deck is fine- no issues - the boat you're looking at, it just depends on how it has been stored.   If always stored outside, it probably isn't fine.

When I bought my boat, the dealer tried to tell me that a12 volt trolling motor was fine on that boat.   Not true - the LOWE WF 180 is heavy compared to tin boats of similar size.   My trolling motor is in the 70 lb range - and it is ok.   If there is any way I could fit an extra battery for a 36 volt system, I would have done it long ago.

Basically, I don't know what it is worth - I haven't had to deal with that particular problem.

Changing the subject - I thought I heard once that the boat dealer in Kirksville was a fairly decent one.   Can't they hook you up with a decent used boat.    Hopefully something that will meet all the screwy rules they have in the various reservoirs around Kirksville, i.e. Thousand Hills and Hazel Creek.    Good luck in your boat hunt.

[RUSS9999]

The dealer in Kirksville is telling me the boat is a 1,500$ boat. I am having a hard time thinking it is. He has 2 that I am going to look at. 90 is all you can run on Thousand Hills.  

[sage]

I have a 1998 170w it has no wood floors. They are aluminum. I love my boat , $5000 seems very reasonable to me if motor compression checks out fine. I love the layout of mine and with 2 live wells it's nice for tournament fishing when temperatures get warmer. 

[WIGuide]

19 hours ago, RUSS9999 said:

It has 2 fish finders and trolling motor. Don't know if the decks are wood or not, that I need to find out. Need to see the boat but it's 6 hours south of me.

Do you know what model the locators are and what lb thrust the tm is? There's so much variation out there 2 original locators won't add much value at all. Same with the tm, if it's a 12V and the original you can probably expect If I were in your position, I'd be asking for a boatload of pictures of it first since it's so far away. With so much of a boats value coming from condition and the motor I'd want to know as much as I could about those. 

[RUSS9999]

A lot that I need to know about the boat yet. I am going to be down there the first of next month on a fishing trip. Then I can see the boat. I know the man that has it. He had it up here last year. I seen it run across the lake, but that was all I seen of it then.

[RUSS9999]

Found out it has the original TM ,1 original locator and 1 newer one. Say's it's just short of a 1000 hours on the motor.