Hi,

I bought some week ago a foreman 450ES 2003. this week-end my honda stop during a ride like it was out of gas. After 15 minutes it start wellbut run for about 5 minutes and stop again. I bring it at honda. They told me that there was a problem with the centrifuge clutch that broke other piece. My honda have only 12 hour (about 100). I have to wait 2 week for this pieces [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

I want to know if it is a common problem on this model?
Does this problem can occur often after repair?
And does other problem can occur later because of this problem?

Thank you

Zacker

 

Sorry, i have never heard of anything like this happening. I have a 2000 foreman 400 4x4 and have never had a single thing wrong with it. As long as warranty covers it, then i would let them fix it, and go from there. Sorry about your bad luck. I have heard lots of good things about the foreman 450 though, so i think when you get it fixed it will be ok. Good luck.

 

What nationality are you Zacker? Where are you from (I guess not the USA) My 2003 has 200 hours on it and I have had no clutch problems

 

003foreman: I'm from Quebec Canada

RedNeckE : This is why i bought Honda.. for quality. I hope I will not have more problem

 

I work at a dealer zacker and we have sold many 450's since 98 when they came out. Their reliability is very good IMO. I have seen only a handful of centrifugal clutch problems and no repeat failures. Haven't seen it cause collateral damage either.

 

Hard to beleive that you got a 1 ina milllion bad honda. My friend has a 1987 350TRX 4x4. He bought it new an the only thing hes done is a set of brakes an starter bushings! PLUS on top of that he also put his first set of tires on it. 15+ yrs on the original tires.That is increditible [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-cool.gif[/img] So that was my selling piont on getting a Honda.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]
You got a odd one. sorry to here.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-frown.gif[/img]