I have a 22 23lsb that I am having some brown liquid oozing up from the flooring. It does not have a smell or feel oily, but it is very slick for your footing on the floor. Seem like it happens after being out on the boat on a hot day, with a lot of in and out of the boat from swimming. I currently have my boat at the dealership for other warranty work, but they can’t recreate it and have no record of ever seeing this before. Anyone experience anything like this? It is a major concern because my wife slipped on it. They are ready to call my boat finished, but I’m not satisfied with their lack of findings.
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Other pontoon forums have talked about this as well. Most get fixed under warranty due to manufacturing issues and possibly the adhesive not properly set up or inadequate curing times, water getting trapped beneath the floor and the chemicals / adhesives reaction to it and it leaks through the seams. By chance to you have understkinning on your boat or is your wooden floor exposed under the boat?
The picture i posted was from a 2024 suntracker i saw on another forum. Looks like your picture.
I would most definitely have your dealer re-look at it and tell them you for safety reason this is unacceptable. Some sun tan loations will discolor your vinyl seats and flooring but its not a oozing stain like this. Its more of dried "burn" into the material.
Many examples on this forum of the dried "burn" spots for various reason in flooring or seats
We have had our pontoon for 2 years, bought brand new and last summer noticed some orange spots that look like rust on the floor. Now it seems to be spreading. I have tried everything I can think of and nothing gets it off...Help!
The vinyl flooring on my 2016 Bennington is turning tan to orange in spots. This will not come off. There are multiple places this is happening. There has been no abuse or anything spilled on the floor. Is this a problem that the warranty would cover? what should I do?
Does it go away or is it leaving some sort of stain? Any chance you’ve tried to “capture” some you can share with the dealership, or if after getting it back (assuming it happens again), you can try to get some into a small jar with Q-tip?
That said, this seems very off, and I gotta wonder if it’s along the lines mentioned above. I would think it would be covered under warranty, but the challenge would be recreating it. Can you do any kind of water test with dealerhsip tech to get it to happen again on the water?
I have a 22 23lsb that I am having some brown liquid oozing up from the flooring. It does not have a smell or feel oily, but it is very slick for your footing on the floor. Seem like it happens after being out on the boat on a hot day, with a lot of in and out of the boat from swimming. I currently have my boat at the dealership for other warranty work, but they can’t recreate it and have no record of ever seeing this before. Anyone experience anything like this? It is a major concern because my wife slipped on it. They are ready to call my boat finished, but I’m not satisfied with their lack of findings.
Thanks
It does not leave a stain. It seems to happen when the floor is saturated and liquid comes to surface when walking on the floor. I wish I would have saved some of the liquid, and just on a whim took a photo. Each time it happens, the wife and I think the other one has spilled a drink and we wipe it up. After a couple of times this happening we finally looked at each other and said what is this. Especially after my wife had her feet slip out from under her.
Dealer has documented it and will get with Bennington to see what they say. In the mean time they are delivering my boat back to wait on Bennington reply. When it happens again I will definitely make note of causes in case nothing is done about it. It is definitely a safety concern. Dealer is certain I have brought something onto my boat to cause this problem. It is only the wife and I on our boat and I assured him we did not.
Thanks for the replies and I will update as I deal with this.
