Posted by RodInNS on April 23, 2010 at 06:18:15 from (216.118.158.123):
In Reply to: Bombi posted by Ken Macfarlane on April 23, 2010 at 05:13:53:
We've got an Outlander XT Max. It's been nothing but trouble in the 3 years we;ve had it. First problems were electrical with the lights. Then the decompressor went to pieces taking the timing chain and guides with it while poking a hole in the valve cover. Got all that fixed under warranty, but cost was not all covered... took it home and a U-joint went to pieces. That required a new yolk on the rear axle and cross before it was fixed which I did myself. Now it's fouling it's plug on a regular basis. Not sure why just yet. It's also got a noise in the front when the FWD is engaged. Haven't looked at that yet. If it would just burn.... A neighbour has a Traxtor model that's a couple years older and he's had a lot of trouble with plug fouling and I don't think he got that fixed yet... and it's made several trips back to the dealer. In addition... I find this is a miserable bike to drive. I don't like the way the CVT is constantly adjusting itself. It doesn't descend grades smoothly.... always at this constant cycle of roll/brake, roll/brake.... On a flat cruise it requires 1/2 throttle to keep it moving at all. There's no gearing up and throttling back to save gas. It burns more gas than my 3.0L Ranger... which is quite accomplished at burning gas itself AND the Ranger will outmanuver the damn bike.
On the other hand... my brother has an Outlander HO which is a couple years older that he pounds the snot out of and he hasn't had any trouble with it to speak of, but I don't think it has the miles on it that this one does.... which is still only at about 4K miles. I will never, ever own another one.
The old yamabombers we had (Moto 4's) took constant pounding, and I mean POUNDING along with a lot of hard heavy work for nearly 15 years with lieelt more than a couple ring jobs before we retired them. We also had a Honda 300EX which was somewhere in the middle... but the crank splines went on that. Otherwise it was quite a good bike.... but there will never be another CanAm here and there will never be another CVT here... supposing I have to go buy a 20 year old bike and rebuild it.
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