Axis Wakeboard Boat Forum

As others have mentioned, check out the gel coat and i mean really check it out. Take a flash light if need be and look it over.

You want to check for any swirls, cloudiness and cracks. Check around the pop up cleats, rubrail screws, the rear eye hooks, tow bar and tower feet for any spider cracks in the gel/fiberglass.

If you know how to check for air voids check the swim step platform at the rear of the boat for any air voids that will pop and crack the gel coat.

Make sure the walk through window opens and closes with out any issue and doesnt need adjustment.

Look all through the vinyl seats and make sure you have no loose threads, excessively loose seat skin, make sure the stadium seat slides in and out with out binding up. Also check the rear hatches and make sure they line up and close with out any problems.

Depending how well the dealer detailed it before you picked up you shouldnt find any random fiberglass pieces, nuts, bolts, washers, zip ties and other random things from the build but these items do get left behind.


Ballast- the PnP is easy to install but the way axis runs their rear drain lines is a little kooky. For everyone talking about the auto draining lines their is/was an issue of where the rear vents were installed. One way to also fix this is to have your dealer pull off the panel that covers the rear PnP line and make sure the small vent on the ballast looped is slightly cracked open.

The knob at the top/center of this picture is the valve im referring too.


The other issue with the rear ballast lines will be your fill hose that comes from behind that wall to the top of your bag will kink due to the extreme bend. This will severely slow your fill times. To fix this, have the dealer install a 90* elbow fitting like below.

90* elbow fitting for rear PnP


90* fitting installed



As for everything else, the dealer should go over all that with you. How the boat handles when docking, trailering, reversing etc.. Make sure they show you the perfect pass, surfgate, how to calibrate the speedo and run the perfect pass on either RPMS or speed as well.

And how to perform a reset on the surf gate. I have had to that a couple of times.

I suggest when the dealer does the test run with you on the water have someone surf behind the boat and wake board also if you can. Then when you pull the boat out while on the ramp pull the drain plug and have a bucket with liquid volume measurements. If you get more than a cup or so of water from the bilge area have them seal the rear cups by the swim deck and check for other leaks to the hull behind the carpet on the transom. Also, pay the money and have a professional install done on the plug n play and check it for kinks and leaks. Not a big deal on fresh water but a major issue in salt water.

I don't suggest sealing the cup holders for freshwater. They are made to drain into the bilge.

I've got this printed out. I'm going to distill it into bullet points and go forth.....

Getting it today. Sunny and mid 70s! Will post a pic or two when I get a chance.

Thanks to all!

Doesn't seem fair to me. You picking up your new toy while I'm getting more snow tomorrow, 20s on Wednesday, and more snow Sat. & Sun. Delivery is still more than 2 months away for me. Guess the Skidoo will have to help scratch that itchy spot.
Post some good pics for us northerners.