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From my years of experience I have found that for strictly off road it makes little difference, toe out might even help steering in soft ground, but move into hardpack or on pavement then toe in has an advantage due to front wheels being spread out due to physics of moving forward. I have also experimented on various machines and found that toe in normally favors the steering ability to most drivers. I have never found toe out to be favorable on the machines I have set up. Now with that said, I have never set up a Polaris machine, hard to believe a brand name would make the difference, but that could very well be.
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The suspension geometry is what determines toe settings and how much. Toe in will make for quicker steering off road but can be very dangerously twitchy on the road. Most all Polaris 4x4 ATV's are best from 0 to about 1/4" OUT. Honda SRA machines like the 500 Foreman require much more at around 1/2"-3/4" OUT or they are dangerous on the highway. I've set up several new Foremans for customers that came from the factory set at around 1 1/2" toe out.
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