Whats Mercury thinking?

[rude tim]

I am having a new boat built and I am going to the dark side, 8.2L Mercury I/0 LOL. Anyway the new Mercury engines are DTS. Guess what? Mercury does not offer a controll that will mount on the port side of the boat! I want a port side steer boat just like all the other boats I have owned. My question is why would Mercury stop making port side controls? When people are paying the kind of money Mercury is asking for their product it is ridiculous that they limit you to starboard mount and dash mount controls. It looks like I will be able to make this happen with a custom made pod and Livorsi offshore drop in controls. This is going to cost me an extra $1000.

[Pulse186]

Corporate profit targets are what is driving Mercury these days, as long as they can sell multiple expensive motors for multi-million dollar boats they could care less about port side controls. Even if they did offer port side controls it would be quadruple the price because of the low volume.

What is the new boat?

[Speed Jr.]

If there was such a demand for port side controls, they would make them. Same with aftermarket companies, like Livorsi. Seems like logic to not produce something that is not common in this industry. Even your boat manufacturer that is building your boat didn't take in to account the request of port side mounted controls....Yet here you are just blaming Mercury?

[Petey]

The extremely cool way that Hydroskreamin' got around this problem, using the Racing version of the single engine DTS controls. Like Larry said, there are zero new applications that use a port side mounted box..

[HydroSkreamin]

Finished product

[scott reierson]

Very Cool Picture! Thanks. The interior and that cowl turned out great!

All that HP, TNT and Shift control in a Molex style plug in.

[rude tim]

If there was such a demand for port side controls, they would make them. Same with aftermarket companies, like Livorsi. Seems like logic to not produce something that is not common in this industry. Even your boat manufacturer that is building your boat didn't take in to account the request of port side mounted controls....Yet here you are just blaming Mercury?

If you read my post you will see that Livorsi does make a port side Offshore style DTS control which I am going to be using. Mercury will not give their customers a choice because they care more about profit than what customers might want. If Mercury needs to charge more money to make a port side customers like my self would gladly pay more. Also I told the manufacture of the boat that I wanted it to be port side steering, unlike Mecury they are willing to give the customer what they ask for.

[rude tim]

That is a great idea putting the controls in the seat. It works out great with the seat mounted to a base that can hide the wires. Innovation makes the world go round.

[FUJIMO]

...mercury licensed livorsi to manufacture their smartcraft dts technology controls for all mercury outboard, mercury sterndrive, mercury inboard & mercury racing systems...

[half fast]

Try and order your new Chevrolet truck with right side control and let us know what they tell ya . The reason mercury doesn’t offer it because there is no demand .

[HydroSkreamin]

That is a great idea putting the controls in the seat. It works out great with the seat mounted to a base that can hide the wires. Innovation makes the world go round.

I holesawed a hole for the wires at the control, and another at the port side of the seat base to run the rigging to the control module harness down the port gunnel.

[powerabout]

Try and order your new Chevrolet truck with right side control and let us know what they tell ya . The reason mercury doesn’t offer it because there is no demand .

https://www.drive.com.au/news/2022-c...for-australia/

[Speed Jr.]

If you read my post you will see that Livorsi does make a port side Offshore style DTS control which I am going to be using. Mercury will not give their customers a choice because they care more about profit than what customers might want. If Mercury needs to charge more money to make a port side customers like my self would gladly pay more. Also I told the manufacture of the boat that I wanted it to be port side steering, unlike Mecury they are willing to give the customer what they ask for.

Yes and you said the boat manufacturer had to make you a custom pod for it. Thats great of them. Okay, so according to your logic, when you want something different or custom, it's a manufacturers fault for not catering to your personal needs. I see. Boy them greedy companies....