2001 Tige Metcraft Tower SNAPS...

[Bog]

of course he has a fix. He did a horrible job building that POS to begin with!! Props to Matt Dettman for hooking me up when mine broke a couple years ago

[Zacky]

Amazing! Our tower just broke in the exact same place (2001 21V)! We have already been in contact with Metcraft and was less than pleased with their response. They wanted us to disassemble the tower, ship the H frame and two side pieces (minus the board racks) to them, they would "repair the tower making it stronger than before", and ship it back. All for the extremely reasonable price of $250 to ship it, $250 for the repair, and I believe $250 for the return ship. $750 to repair that tower??? Are you kidding? Looks like this is a design problem that they should already have a solution to. Perhaps a recall is in order?

So what you guys are saying is that they can just ship the H frame for the repair?

bcskypilot, what did they quote you?

[bcskypilot]

I haven't heard back form Bob after sending my pictures in. From what I hear he was stuck in "Jury Duty". So, I am also stuck in limbo. My shipping prices are a little higher then what you have. Who are you going through and from where? With shipping costing that much I have been thinking about a different tower all together... With the number of towers that seem to have broken you would think something would be done... Please let us klnow what the outcome of yours is...

[Zacky]

After reading all of this, we are going to call them Monday morning and see about an entirely new H frame. This seems to be the source of all the problems. I will let you know after we hear from them...

[scootc]

Well, waddaya know! After reading this string I pulled the pads off my tower and found mine broken on the right side/rear link . The interesting thing is the left side was ok except one of the bolt heads was sheared off.
I'm going to take it to a local fabricator to see what they can do. Otherwise, for the $500-$750 it cost to go back to Metcraft, might as well buy a Monster tower and be done with it.

[bcskypilot]

Still no word back form Metcrtaft so I left another message for Bob this AM. They told me he may not be available at all today...

[bcskypilot]

Update. I heard back form Bob today and my tower is toast. With the tower not setting flush now on the boat there must be a twist somewhere in addition to my H bar being toast. Guess it's back to lets find a tower...

[scootc]

Fixed it!

I just picked the boat up from a local fabricator, who was able to weld it back together. I had him go ahead and weld up the entire joint - since I really don't plan to ever take the tower apart. This cost $100, which he told me was mostly the prep work and protecting the boat.
The pictures not too great because I took it with my crappy phone camera.

[Bog]

why the hell was the H frame a separate part to begin with???!?!!? Bob get on here and tell us about your creative engineering on that tower

[NICKYPOO]

Man am I happy I got rid of my metcrap. I knew if I didn't upgrade to something else, something bad was going to happen. Sorry it's happening to you guys. Just get rid of them. New towers aren't cheap but, what a difference it makes. I couldn't be happier to pay that bill.

[piggyfa]

Another person here with a broken Metcrap tower. I too could get nowhere with a call to Metcrap and ended up emailing them. I asked as someone suggested that they send me the 'H-Frame'. There response was: We can't just send you the H frame, because that would not solve your problem. We completely replace the couplings with a new pin system. This is the only way to be assured you will have no more problems.
Good Luck to all of us who have to deal with this issue.

[rpaxton]

I'm glad I read this. I will check my tower today. It sounds like we all need to get together and possibly look at a class action law suit against the tower manufacturer. It sounds like their tower design has several significant weak spots due to poor design and materials. I think they should be the ones to pay to fix their design.

[bcskypilot]

I've still been trying to work something out with them. I removed the tower this last weekend so we could atleast float on it over the holiday. It was really hard leaving the wakeboards behind...

[sagmanaur]

It sounds to me that if there is that many problems with this tower someone should get together with all of your names and contact a lawyer to get the towers fixed at their cost. It sounds like they designed a faulty tower! If this was in the auto industry it would be a recall.

BTW, has anyone had problems with the Wake Design tower from 04?

[lee]

We have a used 2004 tower white in color with black bimini top for sale if some one needs to replace a tower. It will fit 22v, 24v and with some help 21v and 23v.