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my ole '09 Rhino with 27" 14"s goes just fine w/o PS.........

IF.........I were in the market for a new SxS.........

PS may be looked at........quads in these parts are old school...........

I tend to get lazy in my RZR with PS. It has steel doors which I've padded so I have a good arm rest. I find myself one handing it on things where I should use both.

I have a really disgusting picture of my hand that I won't post from hitting a stump with my mule while I was going probably too fast and looking behind me to see which way the log I was dragging was going. It jerked the wheel, jerked the suicide knob out of my hand, and the suicide knob bracket smashed my index and middle finger knuckles wide open.

As wildhobbybobby said, PS wouldn't help, and in my case probably be even worse because I'd probably still use a suicide knob and drive it even stupider than I do now.

I don't know how you guys drive these sxs with a suicide knob, one of my buddies has one on his Rhino and every now and then he hits something and I don't know he doesn't end up with a broken hand. I tend to drive with my hands open and not wrapped around the steering wheel, though sometimes I forget and that's usually when I hit something solid.

Instead of saying "hold my beer and watch this" I can just say "watch this."

Can you buy an after-market PS kit for an older Grizzly ?, seems like a tight fit with all the crap under there.

Yes. https://www.superatv.com/shop/yamaha/grizzly

OK, after mulling over the cost of having PS installed on my 06 660 Rhino I took the plunge. At 80 and with bad shoulders I figured what ta heck, its only money. Got the kit ($599) and had a good mechanic friend put it in. Wow!, what a difference. You can steer it with your little finger. The money spent took the place of a 243 I was looking at but it was monies well spent. My Daughter Sandi will also love it as she does most of the driving when we are Turkey hunting.

Best argument yet for it. I'd love it if my old quad was more comfortable to drive, but don't want to sacrifice 4 wheeling ability to get it. All the newer machines seem bigger, higher, heavier, and more expensive than I want. Although they float like a friggen caddy compared to my old Honda. But the old Honda really goes in the rough stuff, has a very low center of gravity, starts in any weather, runs cheap, never breaks down, does not have a low range and a bunch of levers to mess with, just point and go. Everybody seems to be building the next biggest, baddest machine, when sometimes smaller is more capable. I've hauled an entire quartered 5 point bull, two guys, and all gear out of a canyon on a Honda 300 4x4, so it's hard to ask for better bang for the buck. And hearing about machines not running or starting scares the crap out of me the places I go. I have a pull start backup and manual transmission so it can even roll start if the battery dies. Can't do that with all the electronic crap they load the machines down with now.

But power steering and IFS would be nice.

Even if you're still a young buck and can 'get over' the wrist snap that sometimes comes with whacking a root, root, or [bleep]head on your wheeler, at some point, God willing, you won't be a young buck anymore and whatever you did to your joints will come back to remind you. Power steering is a boon to those who have lived well along the way.