Great information on this board, before these methods of sharing information each of us had to fly solo.

Just dropped my son's Hawkeye off at the shop for the 3 time. First were for broken rear axles at the inner CV joint and as I now see from the board it was a common problem.

We just got back from Canada trip ATVing, the Haweye wasn't idling very well so I was checking the board and start seeing the issue with the breaking frame tabs that the lower rear A-frames connect to. I pulled the Hawkeye into the garage and sure enough mine were cracked as well, so back to the shop.

Once the bugs are ironed out it should be a good quad for the money. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-frown.gif[/img]

 

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Have you talked with the Consumer Safety Commission about the broken sub-frame as others have? They need enough reports so that Polaris will make it a recall and not charge for the repair after the warranty expires.

 

Do you have a link to the Consumer Safety Commission or any info on how to contact them?

 

I posted this on page 4 of this thread:

Consumer Safety Commision U.S. Government Site

https://www.cpsc.gov/incident.html

You can also report an incident or unsafe product by calling toll-free at 1-800-638-2772 or by sending an e-mail to info@cpsc.gov

 

OK. I just noticed that the Hawkeyes have only one brake in the rear on the left side. I guess because the diff is locked anyway??

 

My sportsman only has 3 discs. but on the left side hub u can see where a rotor bolts on. strange.

 

Right. With a live axle-type situation, a brake is a brake, anywhere along the subsystem. Odd that his one isn't near the center, though.