Should I send in my VS?

[Mr. Sandman]

Send it in for proper service. You spend that kind of coin on a reel you have to keep it maintained. Also, if the company stood behind their product, it should not cost you much at all, if anything.... If you ran it over with your truck that is one thing, but if you only used it as it was intended, then there should not be much of a bill.

[Striperhound]

send it in. I always hear about people getting big repair bills on their VS, never happened to me. I have a original 200 from years back and every year when it comes back from service it has a laundry list of things that were replaced and a big bag of old parts in the box with it. Never cost me more than the yearly service fee.