Melting Plastic
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UTV Inc. Here's your next project.
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Any of the test ride vid's I watched the Mavericks were not getting ridden hard enough to melt anything
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wide freakin open
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LAMO yup...been that way from the 1st minute the tires touched dirt.wide freakin open
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You think a 1/2" ? I was planning on using steel fender washers for spacers since the steel won't soak up the heat as quick as the aluminum, and would leave about a 1/8" air gap.Maybe I'll double that up.
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melting plastics....lol....im an expert on that now. i had a polaris back in 2010, brand new, 50 miles in, with moderate riding, no harsh crap, melted the back air filter box and nearly caught air filter on fire. polaris responce was "it must be an isolated incident". ok, fine, except a quick internet search brought up so many posts i stopped reading them. its cool, they replaced it and stuck some tape over it.
my front plastic hood always had a bad bow effect in it, they claimed plastic shrinkage (ya right, shrinkage..lol)... checked out other dealers found about 75% come that way. real shotty work and fit... move forward about 300 miles and the back air filter box is once again melted, plastics dripping like lava down on engine, after 30 days and 3 complaints including to the consumer safety board, they decided to fix it. this all within 4 months of new.
1 week later and 1 trip later, my son was riding passenger and said to stop, the plastic tabs that hold seat on had melted off, seat had melting holes in it and nearly on fire. once again polaris claims this is teh first they heard. hmmmm, why do they sale a seat mount fix kit with steel prongs....lol..never heard of it huh? again do a search, its everywhere. 2 weeks later. guess what, air filter box AGAIN. they put a new one on and said there done with it, apply some heavy layers of heat shield tape, wrapp it 10 times, drive lower than 30mph... that is polaris who said that to, that would make it look like a giant silver ghetto job there and no way to get to air filter, a horrible band aid that wont even fix it... from that day i was done with the crap polaris makes. this is a sore issue with me, how they have awful customer service, blaim rider, say they never heard of it, lie to customers, act like its our fault on something like a melted air box??? on a new machine. these machines shoudl be made to ride how you want. I could go on with 2 other issues but you get the point.
my front plastic hood always had a bad bow effect in it, they claimed plastic shrinkage (ya right, shrinkage..lol)... checked out other dealers found about 75% come that way. real shotty work and fit... move forward about 300 miles and the back air filter box is once again melted, plastics dripping like lava down on engine, after 30 days and 3 complaints including to the consumer safety board, they decided to fix it. this all within 4 months of new.
1 week later and 1 trip later, my son was riding passenger and said to stop, the plastic tabs that hold seat on had melted off, seat had melting holes in it and nearly on fire. once again polaris claims this is teh first they heard. hmmmm, why do they sale a seat mount fix kit with steel prongs....lol..never heard of it huh? again do a search, its everywhere. 2 weeks later. guess what, air filter box AGAIN. they put a new one on and said there done with it, apply some heavy layers of heat shield tape, wrapp it 10 times, drive lower than 30mph... that is polaris who said that to, that would make it look like a giant silver ghetto job there and no way to get to air filter, a horrible band aid that wont even fix it... from that day i was done with the crap polaris makes. this is a sore issue with me, how they have awful customer service, blaim rider, say they never heard of it, lie to customers, act like its our fault on something like a melted air box??? on a new machine. these machines shoudl be made to ride how you want. I could go on with 2 other issues but you get the point.
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and y i would double that at least. 1/2 or slightly more is perfect
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