https://www.consumeraffairs.com/spor...laris_atv.html

There are quite a few more like these. I got these from the first 10 reviews I looked at.

It's true that usually only people with problems go to these sites to complain. But there were 291 Polaris reviews but only 59 for Kawasaki and only 17 for Yamaha and a lot of those reviews were very positive for both those companies with Kaw getting a huge number of posiives. Polaris ran very negative all the time.

 

Unfortunately these are the same results I found two years back when I was doing research. Also have a number of people from a riding club in which the majority are Polaris owners. They all claim they like their machines but they do need constant work to keep them going. I am teased in good nature because I own a Kymco, but after two years + of hard work I can say I have had NO issues with over 800 miles covered. None of the Polaris owners in the club can match that!

 

On the first one, he says in another paragraph, "I will say so far that I'm getting fixed under warranty." So there's nothing they aren't covering because he rode his off-road vehicle off-road. That was a 2017 1000 before they beefed up the axles and bearings. Polaris should cover it since it was a design fault, but they won't. He hasn't broken anything at all on his 2015 850 H.O., so they aren't all bad.

The second one doesn't say whether the engine was fixed or not, so no one knows if it was covered by warranty or not. The dealer shouldn't be asking for money up front just to look at it. I'd go to a different dealer. Polaris used to cover belts if they didn't look like they broke from abuse. If they still do, a good dealer would try to get Polaris to cover it if it didn't look abused, but that dealer said it was. If it wasn't, then that's another reason to go to a different dealer.

On the third one the dealer said the warranty wouldn't cover it because the ATV was wet and dirty. He should have told Polaris what the dealer said. I don't think Polaris would refuse to cover it for that reason, unless "wet and dirty" meant he rode it in mud and water 4 feet deep. It sounds like that dealer was being an a-hole. For all we know it was covered by warranty and the dealer put that money in his pocket. The last sentence says he's taking it to a different dealer and there's no comment after that.

 

I was pretty bummed to see that the service was that bad. I know these are likely the worst cases but again I didn't see anything like that on Kawasaki or Yamaha. I found similiar issues with Can Am on another site. I know the first example the guy eventually got his problem fixed but there were a lot of others who didn't. I just posted the first 3. There were a LOT more. I realize Polaris sells a lot of ATV''s too but still, that's an awful lot of complaints. I'm going to talk to my daughter about the local dealership. She will know. It's her job to know. And I'll get the straight answer from her. My wife has wanted a 2 up for years and now that she's retired and the farm is being sold it looked like it was time. And maybe it will still happen. But right now I wouldn't buy one. Unless my daughter gives me better info I would suspect it would be just like my last Polaris. I spent a lot of money keeping that thing running. That's something I can't ignore. I had hope an extended warranty would solve that problem but apparently it won't unless I hear different from my daughter anyway.

 

Once burned, twice shy. I don't blame you for not wanting to take a risk on another Polaris. I wouldn't either if that was my experience. I think this is my sixth Polaris ATV, and if I had trouble like that with any of them, I'd probably have a Yamaha sitting in my driveway right now. If you want a 2-up, but not a Polaris or Can-Am, the only other choice I know of is a 2017 or older Arctic Cat.

 

There are things I really like about Polaris. I'm still waiting to talk to my daughter about the dealership just a few blocks from the Harley delaership where she works. She'll know how they do things at that Polaris dealer.

 

Polaris has been very innovative, coming out with a lot of things before anyone else. It's too bad they've apparently made a whole lot of crap in the last few years.

 

One of my beefs is with warranty , you read so many complaints about machines in the shop for weeks at a time for warranty work , why isn't in-shop warranty time credited towards the warranty ? If it's in for three weeks you should get three more weeks warranty ?

 

Stop it. You're making too much sense.

 

They usually have the $1,000 factory Polaris rebate at the end of the year... I paid $6,600 OTD for mine with one of these deals.