I was thinking of getting Polaris guards, but worried they might break when cold. Also thinking of the heated grips, I'm wondering how easy it will be to wire them on my TBoss.

 

i know several people who use heated grips very eays to hook up, if not sure a dealer can do it. They work great. You can almost go gloveless on even 20 degree days. Used to have them on my Honda.

 

i was looking at geting the "hot grips" brand for my sp500. i want to know if they are as comfortable as the stock ones? from the picture they look "hard" and uncomfortable, Help!!!

later
jon

 

Hey Guys~
Before getting the handlebar heaters, I would seriously get some gauntlets that wrap around the handlebars. Using just them, and keeping the wind off your hands, you could ride all winter with a light pair of gloves. I have the hotgrips on my two 400's and they work very well on the Explorer. The scrambler's alternator is only rated at 150 watts and can not produce a lot of heat with the hotgrips. The Explorer and 325 both have 200 watt alternators and I know the Explorer can produce some very good heat! The hotgrips are somewhat hard, but are by no means uncomfortable. I'm not exactly sure how difficult it is to wire them in, but if you have a wiring diagram of your machine you should be able to follow the instructions that SHOULD come with the grips. The hotgrips come with a toggle switch with an off, high, and low position. Well worth the 30 bucks I paid! Hope this info is somewhat useful!

 

I believe you mabey wired them wrong, because hot grips on the high setting only draw 15watts. It will make no difference on a 150w or 250w system. The hot grips should get uncomfortably warm in the high position and you should not be able to leave them in hi for more than 15-20mins if its 20 below.

www.hotgrips.com

 

I have had two sets of the hot grips they were both great.
The first set was the older style hard rubber kind, they kept me warm but would give you blisters after a while. The next set are their new atv model they are alot more spendy but they are also a-lot nicer feeling much softer. Be sure to read the wiring diagram carefuly one style is in series and the other set goes in parallel, if you get it wrong you can melt them down.
All in all I'd say they were money well spent.

 

Newer scramblers/sportsmans have a 250 watt alternator.

 

I mounted "Hot Grips" and a thumb warmer on my Xplorer.

see:
http://www.geocities.com/rspoonland/atv/atv.html

 

Bought the heated grips and thumb warmer when I bought the quad, today I picked up the Polaris hand guards. Tommorrow I get to try out the wind guards in 0 degree fahrenheit weather, so we'll see how that plastic handles the chilly stuff. We'll actually thats cool weather, when it gets to about -30, then we'll have a chilly test of the guards!

 

I wondered if the hand guards would get brittle and break in the cold ??