If you've got decent miles on your Prairie 650 or 700, I'd like to know how many. What problems have you had, if any? If you only know kilometers, could you please give me a rough estimate of miles? I'd love to hear from anyone and everyone! Thanks!

 

ok 650 2002 (one of the very first) 20,000km 15 hours shy of the big 1000 hours and going very strong; had lots of issues including an upper end engine job at 15,000km that now I strongly believe was totally premature. Even though I had the extended warrenty it did not cover the engine! It cost me over 15,000 CAN, (which my dealer at the time said was very good). Other things I paid for is the rear shock. Stuff that also kawi and me covered is the carbs, clutch, belt, front ball joints became weak, key switch, batteries, water pump, oil pump, rad cap, missing brake bolts from factory, cover over the air box was also defective, engine braker and a little more. Now the muffler is now toast. I know I had problems that other people didn't have and I believe because of how early a machine it was.

My 700: only problems is that darn belt hour limp mode thingy going off every 50-100 hours. Also it backfires on massive deceleration. Other than that the biggest problem is not enough seat time. My 700 has 3200km on it 162 hours. My gear adjuster is out but that's not even worth mentioning.