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Quality - Nick - 04-21-2014
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px">Dear all, just to inform you about the quality of Tiara. My family owns a Tiara 3100 open made in 2011. The boat arrived from the yard with one zf coupling on one engine and one chines coupling on the other engine instead of a ZF coupling. The chinese coupling obviously was not working, so it has been replaced (warranty) thanks to ZF Italy. Then the ladder was rusting and the portholes as well. Ti</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px">ara sent new ladder and new portholes but the problem remained. Then Tiara admitted that they use Aisi 304 instead AISI 316 for ladder and portholes(and the portholes are not even polished inside). We had to change everything with Aisi 316 at our expenses (you will not notice the problem if your navigation is on lakes). But the story is not over : the boat was always nosing up, with a consumption of approx. 97 liters per hours at cruising speed of 25/26 knots (a bit less then 26 gallons per hours), and the minimum glide speed was around 18 knots which made the navigation in rough sea difficult and uncomfortable. Thanks to a friend who is a famous off shore pilot and as well a mechanic, we found out that the 3 blades propellers are inappropriate for the boat. We made a 4 blade propellers and we added a 5 millimeter intruder. Now the boat has a cruising speed of 24/25, a maximum speed of 30/31 (against 31/32), a minimum glide speed of 13/14 knots and a consumption of approximately 73 liters per hours at cruising speed (a bit less then 20 gallons per hour).
And the boat is not nosing up any longer.
We believe that the perfect result will be obtained with an intruder of 7 millimeters, but we are safisfied enough with the results.
I passed all the details to Tiara but I guess they are not interested in improving their products.
Conclusions : Tiara makes expensive low quality boats, and has a very poor quality control as well.
Maybe in the past was different, when Tiara was well known to make the Rolls Royce of the sea, but now they are like Riva, only the name remains. Good luck to all the Tiara owners.</span>
Quality - Nick - 04-21-2014
Forgot to say, our boat has 2 Cummins diesel engine 330 hp each
Quality - trit21 - 04-23-2014
So, how about a little more information here as your boat is 3 years old now. Did you buy it used? New? What yard are you talking about? OR are you just trying to be vengeful and post bad things about Tiara? But please post more information as your information is very sporadic. My 2000 Tiara 3500 with 3 blades props cruises at 25knots, burns 21-22 GPH and is a pleasure to drive and fish. You ask no questions so I guess the entire point to this post was to just complain.?