i have only 55 hrs and about 480 km and i though it should have been covered!

It just ****es me off that the same dealer that yapped so much about 5000mile belt warranty changed his wording awful quick when he handed me the bill!
awe well gotta pay to play!!

And for y'all saying i should have changed it myself i WOULD have if i didn't think that it would have been covered!!!!!

 

XP or not, big bore or not, if you are running in high range at low speeds you will smoke a belt. Its not hard to figure out, I smoked belts before, and its damn near impossible to wreck a belt in low range when you are opperating at low speeds in the woods.

I run low range in the woods when I'm traveling in a group because its slow going, and its what you should be doing, just because you don't want to put it into low or just think you don't have to, thats ignorant. Low is there for a reason, use it.

 

Low is preferred for slow riding, but if I do ride slow and leave it in high range it still does not smoke or blow a belt up. There are many ATVs without a low range that do not blow belts on slow trail after hundreds of miles.

Polaris, Scramblers, Hawkeyes, 400 H.O, Trail Boss, Yamaha 350 Bruin/Grizzly,400 Kodiak the list goes on.

 

for your belt i would say thats way to much for a new belt installed and i would check to see if your cluths are alined properly

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03 polaris sportsman 400
04 polaris sportsman 600
04 honda trx400
85 honda trx250

 

If the sportsmans didn't offer low range they would be geared lower. I'm not saying that high range can't be used at slow speeds, but people that like to snap the throttle all the time, and go over logs, and things like that will blow/smoke belts in high, and just because you don't smell or see smoke doesn't mean that you arn't hurting the belt..

 

I think the 850 has too much torque for the design of the clutch system/belt/CVT. You don't hear much of the 550's having belt issues. Maybe the guys with the 550's always ride in low gear.

 

The CVT belt system Polaris uses are as strong as the ones thet use on there snowmobiles and they go up to 170hp. If anything ATVs under work them.

 

Must be "cheap belts" on these 850's. They put the good belts on the 550's.

 

jeeeez I hope that doesn't mean my wife may be towing me home ........

 

Its the same belt design and clutches that come in snowmobiles that run over 200 hp and sleds with NOS and Turbos. I have a 800 myself and it runs like 150hp? and I run the crap out if it a speeds well over 100 mph and I never blow a belt from abuse, I chenge them when they get wore out, which happens about once every 1500 miles.

With this comparison, if you properly use LOW range you should get over 5000 miles on a belt. I don't get how people can't see this.

Saying a 45 rwhp atv will blow a belt when used properly and blaming it on the clutches is not a good excuse.