It does'nt have an hour meter, My best guess is that it has around 300 hours at the most. I used it as a back up kicker for my charter business. I ran it to break it in and put a little time on it to make sure it did'nt have any problems before the warenty would run out. After that I flushed it and put it in stand by mode. The other one on the boat has about 3,000 hours and has never had a problem, so I never needed to use the one I am selling. The reason I am selling it, is because I have just sold the charter boat and Busness, to return to commerical fishing in Bristol Bay.