BROKE MY WEDGE!

(raspy) · (raspy) **Join Date: Mar 2007** 08-21-2008, 2:18 PM

SO im shredding as per usual and the wake is super washed and and for the most part just fricked up.So we stop and BAM!!!! wedge is bent to the ••••• and broken and can't be fixed. Anyone know of any places or websites where i can get one. Its a manuel wedge for an 05 VLX. In or around Vernon/Kelowna BC, Canada. ONE LOVE!!!

(Message edited by raspy on August 21, 2008)

(erik_c) · (erik_c) **Join Date: Jan 2005** 08-21-2008, 2:47 PM

Take it to a dealer its under warranty (maybe), the bolt snapped off and the force bent it. Ask about your warranty I think it is three years.

(kvoman) · (kvoman) **Join Date: Aug 2006** 08-21-2008, 2:54 PM

You're in luck, someone is selling one in the For Sale Forum.

(polarbill) · (polarbill) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 08-21-2008, 2:59 PM

I am pretty sure that is a known defect and it shouldn't matter if it is under warranty or not. Unless of coarse you hit something with it. Were they still making the wedge with bolts holding the foil/plate thing in 05?

(dadthedriver) · (dadthedriver) **Join Date: Jul 2004** 08-21-2008, 3:14 PM

Yes they were and also my 06 has them. Should check the bolts every now and then to make sure they a tight.

(calabriaryder) · (calabriaryder) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 08-21-2008, 3:40 PM

I think I have enough spare parts to rebuild you one for your boat, how badly messed up is it, what are you missing / need?

(btr1) · (btr1) **Join Date: Feb 2002** 08-21-2008, 4:08 PM

I bought a replacement one a few years ago and the bolts sheared off last summer. When I took it to the dealer I was told that the warranty was 1 year on my replacement but that the warranty is 3 years if it was the one originally installed on the boat (by the dealer/factory of course).

Depending on when you bought the boat in 2005 it may still be under warranty....

(tcaz) · (tcaz) **Join Date: Aug 2008** 08-21-2008, 4:55 PM

Does the wedge work well? Never tried one and have heard varied things on it.

(hawk7) · (hawk7) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 08-21-2008, 5:12 PM

sorry to hear about your fricked up wedge, is there a certain point in which the wedge is more likely to break/bend/snap/get fricked up?

(raspy) · (raspy) **Join Date: Mar 2007** 08-21-2008, 7:24 PM

ohhhhhhh deeeeeeam!
i imported it from the states. bitch bastards!!!! hahah hmmmmm dude the wedge ends lives. period. makes the wake just goofy. Just bad luck on my part. I still love malibu for life.

(xmarksthespot)

Have you seen the mastercraft TV commercial bein hard on Bu's and the Wedge?? If you have, just tape it up!!! hahaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joXHoWz5vPM

(rmaloney) · (rmaloney) **Join Date: Jun 2008** 08-22-2008, 12:28 PM

Get the floating wedge, the new manual wedge to replace it. You'll love it. Plus if you contact Malibu they'll likely make you whole. The bolt is a known issue for your model year.

(deltagrubber) · (deltagrubber) **Join Date: Nov 2003** 08-22-2008, 1:33 PM

Tego - That vid is hilarious, and the Tige one too. Good stuff!!
I second the power wedge replacement, as long as the bracket is he same. The manual is a bitch....

(hbguy) · (hbguy) **Join Date: Jun 2005** 08-22-2008, 1:46 PM

"Plus if you contact Malibu they'll likely make you whole. The bolt is a known issue for your model year."

Not likely.

(bcrider) · (bcrider) **Join Date: Apr 2006** 08-22-2008, 2:58 PM

Call Performance in Langley. They are a Malibu dealer

604-881-0123

(watson_134_lf) · (watson_134_lf) **Join Date: Nov 2007** 08-22-2008, 4:09 PM

ya, same thing happened to me this year..... ive got an 05 and it only had two bolts in it, but the new one they sent me had three, and it should hold up better

(rkitz44) · (rkitz44) **Join Date: Sep 2005** 08-27-2008, 9:55 AM

Get with the dealer. They redesigned the bolt design on that one. You can get a replacement one of the redesign. The idea of getting the new floating one would require the new wedge plate also.

(wake1823) · (wake1823) **Join Date: Dec 2005** 08-27-2008, 10:34 AM

wake is better w/o the wedge.

(to_blind) · (to_blind) **Join Date: Mar 2007** 08-27-2008, 10:42 AM

i second sam.

(rkitz44) · (rkitz44) **Join Date: Sep 2005** 08-27-2008, 10:47 AM

Yeah more weight instead of wedge. Get out of the hole better and will save you gas as well

(raspy) · (raspy) **Join Date: Mar 2007** 08-27-2008, 4:21 PM

nah boys the wedge owns my life.