Well yeah if your gonna pay the stealership to add your accessories then your gonna pay out the ass. It’s your money , I couldn’t do it though . I’d do it all myself and use the extra money to buy more stuff. Plus when you do it yourself you can see how the buggy works and goes together. Which comes in handy when you break down in the woods. No AAA out there. Good luck
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When I was younger I did all that myself too, everything right down to rebuilding my motors. It was ATV's, motorcycles & snowmobiles then. Now I'm older, less 'pliable', with less time & even less desire to deal with the very many things I want done to this machine to get it how I want it. And maybe most fortunately, I'm better off with money to spare to have somebody do all this type of minutia & monkey wrenchin for me.
Besides, I negotiated a bit off on the accessories & labor to the point that I wouldn't be saving too much at all buying & doing things myself. I was ready too. The little I could have saved here & there monetarily would also mean me spending many hours myself on it to have this machine ready. & like they say, when it comes down to it, time is money. Honestly though, at this point in my life, buying time is more worth it than it ever was.Shitza tickin away buddy.
But ya, I absolutely get where you're coming from. In fact, my younger self would scoff at the older me paying a stealership (good one by the way) to do the crapload of accessories I'm getting put on this ride.
And.. Not for nuttin', prices really have gone crazy on recreational motorized rides.
For instance, in 2002 I bought a brand new Banshee for a little over 3K. I can't buy that Banshee used now for that price! Most asking prices are a good additional 1 to 3 thousand above that!
And after just looking, the Yamaha Raptor I bought the same year for a bit over $3,500 is now literally twice the amount of it's 2002 price at $8,199.oo!!!
So I can definitely 100% support anybody wanting to do their own work.
And if I could have walked in to a dealership & bought this machine new in essentially base form with little to no accessories instead having to wait 2 frikin months,.. I more than likely would have done the work myself. That's just not the situation I have to deal with where I live at this time of Corona delays & craziness.
