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I am installing tower speakers in R3 surf. The wire jack labeled tower speakers has two sets of white wires and two sets of orange. The wires in the tower are blue, when I connect to the only blue wires seem to be unused by the amps, it back fed my helm speaker with zone 4 sound. Need help ...

Names definitely don't land never did illuminate with nav lights on. Can anyone else confirm if they are supposed to. Maybe there just not hooked up, but just look like they are just ingraved and not back lit.

I just wish the switch names were illuminated so I dont have to use my phone to find the right button. Let alone it not have the right name.

Yeah, my dealer is not worth a flip. We are considering contacting Cobalt to switch our servicing dealer to another in Nashville TN. We dealt with this same dealer with our previous boat and had the same issues, but we where held to a sales territory for Cobalt so had to order from them. Huge ...

I didn't think this would be a technical fix or just an adjustment of habit. But like every store or dealership I deal with nowa days, the salesmen or employees just don't research or know there product well enough to help in anyway. Frustrating to say the least.
Thanks to everyone for your input ...

These dealers are a joke, they sell boats and that's it. Yes, this should be done before every delivery. They know it's an issue. We should not have to calibrate a dam thing on a $100k + boat. At least it's not like my Malibu where I would get a low fuel warning beep and on the screen every 5 min ...

The pump does not close. It's just relying on the impeller to stop the flow. Just imagine the head pressure of that tank which is 5 times higher than the pump and tubing. Its just pushed back out until the pressure equalizes. Which in the tall tank, it looses almost half the water. At least after ...

I only put the 300 in my R3, max people and full of ballast and have not had a power issue whatsoever.

The JL sub they put in is actually a very good sub, you can play with amp settings a bit to make sub kick in at a higher octave. I also changed all the cockpit speakers a bit also. The factory sets them very high to limit distortion, mine a more full range now and sound great. I also added an ...

I would think most that use those coolers trailer there boats and it makes sense to build your cooler at home or the gas station right on the boat. We build coolers up at the house and take them down to the dock, when we go out on the boat we bring a cooler with us. That's not so funny, just ...

No those compartments are still there in the surf edition. Just not easy to organize or access those areas when you have passengers aboard. I think they should eliminate the "built in coolers" that I would never use as such and make them better storage areas. There is so much unused space under ...

I believe this is the 4th or 5th year of the WSS edition R3's. I know for sure it was 2017 when tabs and ballasts were introduced. WSS has been around awhile. First year for full glass dash. These simple bugs would be worked out by now if they were going to do anything about it.

All great points and appreciate the info and will try all. We went with the R3 because we own a lake house with a huge dock and do not spend the entire day on the boat, we go in and out throughout the day with smaller groups. Hence the smaller boat, the 7 is more my speed and size I'm comfortable ...

These really are just annoying little quirks that are frustrating as on operator and I will work them out over time. I hope Cobalt would appreciate the input and maybe make some of those changes in upcoming models.
I'm not the know all of water sports, this is my opinion and what I have found to ...

Wake board racks instead of surf racks, standard Roswell rack only will hold 1 surf board each and bungee will not reach to secure.
No Flush mounted cleats, the cleats grab ropes all day long. And the the grab rail around swim deck has opening on the sides that grab ropes also.
Tanks leak down due ...