I bought a used johnson kicker, came with remote cables, along with all of the mounting hardware, ez steer bar and had them install it and couldn't be happier. I dealt with Fran himself, he was very straightforward and honest, answered lots of my questions up front, and in the end they ended up doing more work than they expected and didn't charge me a dime more, even after I offered to pay them more. (I am self employed myself) I considered buying the hardware myself and installing it, but it came out to be buy it all myself and save $250ish, or pay the $250 and have them install everything. A no brainer in my book, considering my lack of experience, and the fact that a lot of work on this boat is a PIA, which maybe is just the way boats are haha. They also never tried to talk me into buying anything. The only negative thing was that the work took longer than expected, but I suspect that is the nature of boat work at certain times of the year.

My one experience,