Roswell towers

longlakerider16 · Newbie Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 5 City: Sudbury

Just wondering if anyone can give me an idea of the price and quality of the Rowell Towers and if anyone would recommend monster towers over that company..

darty · Addict Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 522 City: Lexington

quality seems to be good...however, they are quite expensive from everthing I've seen. If you're looking for a good looking, cheaper tower i'd def. go w/ monster...if you don't mind shellin' out the extra, go w/ roswell... (i would assume that both are about the same quality)

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

I think you can find a better tower for the money. Check out Sampson towers if you're looking to spend that much. They custom make it for your boat.
http://www.samsonsports.com/towers.html

I think the Monster is better built. It depends on what style you like.

Brit Rider · Posted: Apr 11, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject:

longlakerider16, Here's a tip.

hit up loudliquid.com, they offer a tower almost identical to the roswell stuff... quality is comparable in my opinion but it includes racks and its also about 800 bucks cheaper!!!!

RWA Factory · Newbie Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 8

L L Rider,

Our new 2006 tower is very different than our Area 51 which was smoething similar to what Loud Liquid began building.

Just so you know what you're getting with a 2006 Roswell Tower, our new Area 52 S.I. has a ton of features for the price:

Chrome Polished Finish & Roswell Tek Coating- You get a hand polished finish standard (if offered typically a $300-400 option) that accentuates any stainless features of your boat. You also get a new coating for 2006 that virtually eliminates any maintenance commonly associated with Aluminum- No oxidation or polish up keep.

2 3/8" tubing- Tougher looking and stronger tower.

Billet Side Plate- Increases tower strength and with the S.I. edition you get Billet tines included making a tower package complete with board racks.

Injected Booties- Covers up rear leg hardware and finishes the tower look- More complete styling and finishing touch.

Dual Tow Head

5 Year Limited Warranty

If you want to e-mail me your location I will make sure one of our sales guys gets you a local dealer and new 2006 pricing. I think you will be impressed when you look at features and price together.

marc@roswellwakeair.com

Natman · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 873 City: Eddy TOWN

roswell is cool, we got quoted close to 5k on one, with racks and bimini, cant remember that tower name, went with titan III insted, suites out boat better

WakeTech · Addict Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 949 City: Edmonton

Roswell = Expensive, nice product but I really don't understand how they can justify their prices

RWA Factory · Newbie Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 8

Wake Tech- I think you need to have a look at our 06 pricing before making a statement like that. In the past we may have been on the higher end of pricing but we have always been at the forefront of innovation and quality.

For 2006 an entirely new product line has been launched and your general statement that Roswell=Expensive is mistaken.

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

I've been severely disappointed with my Roswell tower. While I like the look, the design of the rear legs is terrible. To expect 2 set screws to prevent all lateral movement is laughable.

I just got the tower back from the welders last week who permanently soldered those joints to add some strength to the thing. Before that it would sway back and forth over a foot of lateral movement. That was after tightening those set screws down all the way. Then after that didn't work I drilled a notch in the joint and put the set screw inside the joint. That didn't hold so I went to the welders.

One of my board racks broke with 2 boards in there just crossing the lake, hit a big roller. Called Customer service and got no help - less than 2 years after purchase. They told me to talk to my local rep about buying another. I called him up and he has no idea how much it's going to cost. I had to take that to the welder and get the main bar bent back and the joint re-soldered.

It's in better than new shape now because of measures I have taken and over $200 spent. But I would expect better from a tower at that price.

I wasn't going to post that but if you're going to play the uninformed card on these guys I'm going to give an informed opinion.

Hopefully the 2006 line isn't the POS that the previous years were.

Brit Rider · Posted: Apr 13, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject:

RWA Factory, Firstly, I think its great that companies show up on these boards to back up their product. So props for that.

These boards offer a great place to talk freely about products and learn from people and or inform them of the correct answers and build upon knowledge.

In line with the above I have a Q to shoot your way if you have the time.

I understand that you guys aim to create the higher quality goods (this is obvious to anyone who has checked how much machining goes into all of the tower hardware). But what is the TEK coating? And what make sit different/better than the opposition? What is the actual process - clear chrome? anodising?

RWA Factory · Newbie Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 8

B Rider- TEK coating is a new finish we've been developing for the past 18 months. We have always been aware of the upkeep associated with polished aluminum yet the Chrome polished finish has always been our most popular. We set out to develop or borrow technology to coat the aluminum to prevent the oxidation etc. that necessitates the upkeep.

What we came up with is TEK- It is a clear spray coating that not unlike a powder coat, gets baked on. It is also cured over a period of time before packaging and eventually shipping. This ensures a permanent bond with the tower. It is somewhat simillar to many of the coatings you will find on high quality rims.

The advantages of TEK are the eleviation of manual upkeep of the polished finish- Like a powder coated tower it will look better if wiped down to get rid of water spotting but unlike exposed aluminum it won't oxidize and dull.

As far as I know we are the only company offering a coating on POLISHED aluminum (I may be wrong here). To my knowledge the other options are anodizing (dulls a polished finish therefore we searched for an alternative) which tends to be done to brushed aluminum pipe and powdercoating which both require little maintenace like TEK has accomplished for polished aluminum.

NAW · Posted: Apr 17, 2006 7:18 am Post subject:

Would an '06 Supra that was built this month have the TEK coating on the tower? (assuming Roswell manufactures the tower)

RWA Factory · Newbie Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 8

NAW- We are Supra's OEM accessory manufacturer. The towers are made by a different vendor (Xtreme)

pilot_ryder · Posted: Apr 20, 2006 1:23 pm Post subject:

they look good but there really expensive

steve-o · Posted: Jun 23, 2006 6:37 am Post subject:

i had one on my old boat and i would squeak every time a rider would pull out of the wake. Pretty weak if you ask me

brandybmw · Newbie Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 1

I ordered a boat with the Roswell wakeboard tower 7 weeks ago. The boat was manufactured and delivered in about 2 weeks. We spent 5 weeks calling & asking the dealership where the wakeboard racks were. I finally called the boat company directly who immediately called Roswell. Roswell has outsourced part of the rack to a supplier overseas (hmmm, let me guess - China?) and their supplier was not meeting the demand. They finally got the parts into the US where they sat in customs for who knows how long. Roswell assured us it would arrive on a Wednesday, 7 long weeks after ordering the boat with the tower. We called that Friday, expecting to have them for the weekend, only to find out they still hadn't been received at Roswell until Thursday. So they are 7 weeks behind schedule, and guess how they shipped them??? Yes, ECONOMY. If Roswell had overnighted them, we could have had them for the weekend. So we get to spend another weekend cramped in our beautiful new boat with our wakeboards (no, not our guests) again sitting in the bow. I guess customer satisfaction doesn’t matter much to Roswell once they’ve got the money in their hands. In the end, Roswell is responsible for choosing to have their parts made overseas - they should have had a backup domestic supplier in place. From what I understand, the boat dealership has had trouble with Roswell all summer long. The boat company is responsible for its choice to use Roswell as its tower supplier too, so I hope they will consider using a more reliable company after the experience we’ve had. If I had known how aggravated I would be I would have avoided Roswell. Be warned. Crying or Very sad

heroldmike · Criminal Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 68 City: toronto

my friend has one i think he said it was about 3000, its nice no noise or anything but it seems a little overpriced for wat ur getting