Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire My Polaris 700 EFI is in the shop again

I don't like sending my money overseas less than breaking down 30 miles from my truck. Honda makes a great machine and I hate spending the night in the forest unexpectedly.
You sound like someone who either works at Polaris or is loyal to familiy and friends that do, not someone who rides and is objective in his opinion.
In my book, there's something wrong with your testimony.

its a great model

you buy poorly built stuff by Americans, and in turn it doesn't last as long, so you have to buy another one sooner, thus keeping them employed. You're a patriot!

I never went through a whole tank of gas without having to take my 96 Polaris 400 to the shop for work. They never did figure out what the problem was with it. My brother has the same model with a serial # only a couple of numbers off from mine and he seldom has any problems at all. It is still going strong.

About 5 years ago a thief cut the chain on gate to our property and the chain to my Polaris. They stole my Polaris 400, my sons Honda and a trailer. My brothers Polaris was parked right next to mine and they left it. I couldn't have wished anything worse on a thief than that Polaris 400.

When I was in the market for an ATV last year, I visited a local dealer that sold Hondas and used to sell Polaris alongside the Hondas.

He told me that he recently stopped selling Polaris because they had too many problems and he was receiving too much negative feedback from angry customers, thereby putting his business' good name in jeopardy.

According to the owner of the shop, the Polaris machines hade a 42% return rate for warranty repairs. The Hondas had less than 1% warranty work over the same time period.

I bought a Yamaha....

7 pages and no one said buy a king quad and just ride??/ what gives here???....Suzuki! �First on 4 Wheels� .

See the above Suzuki buried in the snow.

I had a Yamaha Rhino that probably cost me double what I originally paid for it in repairs. Walked out more than once with that pos staying right where it crapped out. Come back n tow it out a day or 2 later and back in the shop it would go. I did a good bit of research before buying a Polaris XP 900. I love it so far and the fact that I spent the money on an American product is a bonus. I've had several Hondas and still have an 02 that I use regularly for hunting n work. I also have a 05 Polaris Sportsman 700. Both have their ups and downs but overall are solid machines. I have not seen much difference between them as far as down time or repairs. Regular maintenance n they do what they are supposed to. 163bc

Have an '06 700 EFI Sportsman that has been rode and worked hard around the farm and on hunting trips, only maintenance and a RR boot so far.

It handily hauls drunk 'Fire members back to their respective barracks as well.

Gunner

Yes Jim,
.. Yes it was. 1981 with a 1968 Polara, 383.. best muscle car I ever owned.

If you ride one into a lake it'll sink too.

I got it back today and feel lucky it only cost me $198. Mechanic did several things and isn't sure which was the fix, but I'm happy. I don't know if it's because it's hunting season here or what, but the repair shop was almost void of ATV's in for repair. Deer camp tomorrow. Ken

...... they don't come with a good driver ...u earn that! 800 rmk is for snow

Spoken from experience.


Ask me how I know Well about one of them at least; I buy Jap cars to support american workers

Well said. American made junk is still junk. Thanks anyway, but I'll pass on it.

I have had a Kawasaki Mule for 10 years now.Its a hard starter in the winter,but I have done nothing but put gas and oil in it ,plus change tranny and differential fluid.I haul 1500lb bails of hay with it and use it for hunting.It needs a muffler.It does`nt go fast,but it always gets were I am going.If this one pukes ,I will buy another.

Those and their 300 TRXs were hard to beat. Unfortunately, even Honda hasn't been able to meet let alone beat those machines (and their engines) in terms of reliability.





Walt, You do realize that this is the internet, and all you're going to get here are internet "tales", whether failures or successes.

Yep those 300's were hard to beat too.

my 96 400 polaris and 86 350 honda - being taken to the shop tomorrow for new pistons and getting bored. They are in pieces in tubs in the back of the truck. That '86 Honda has a fuel pump, an oil cooler, its water cooled and is full time shaft drive 4 wheel drive. Who engineers a 350 like that?

Bartering a Honda Big Red 3 Wheeler that is in the back of the truck for the labor.



also just fixed up an '86 250 Honda - thing runs like its brand new

Yep, mine too.

Wouldn't own a Polaris 4-wheeler, every friend and acquaintance who has regretted the day they bought it.

I've owned Polaris sleds and have had zero problems, but their wheelers have durability problems.

They don't make them like that anymore.