How many read the ATV mags...lots ! Has anyone considered writing in to the tech Q&A colums with the King Quad reverse problem? Mags such as Motorcycle Consumer News work as an owner advocate and if this were a Suzuki motorcycle problem, MCN would have contacted Suzuki for an official answer, in support of the owner complaints. Your thoughts?

 

darn good question....somebody should be able to answer that...

 

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Good Idea, this problem has not been brought to the masses attention yet. I went to my dealers shop today and asked a guy with a king what he thought. He said he had not heard nothing of the problem other than the letter Suzuki sent him. I told him about the forums and whats been going on. He was shocked he had not heard anything about it.

 

I am new to this forum and have some news about the Kingquad reverse problems. I bought a new KQ about 2 weeks ago and I lost reverse while harmlessly trying to reverse out of a snowdrift with only 2 hours on my machine. It is in the local shop and they told me that suzuki has sent over a shipment of entire engine assemblies to replace defective machines. He couldn't tell me if they had been redesigned or were improved over the first quads sold, but he reassured me that my quad was receiving a whole new engine/drivetrain assembly next week and that suzuki is taking this issue seriously and is doing everything in their power to save their flagship model.

 

theres some pic out there of the new fix for it.....they pressed a roller bearing into the transmission gear, so the shaft now rides on a roller bearing instead of a plain sleeve type bearing. However....supposedly its only for the Canadian market... Duh eh? Maybe thats bad scoop, but at ATVsquad.com there a post with a link to the pics and aforementioned info. It was also said that all machines made after december would have this update in them....I don't believe that one because this fix has obviously not been around since december.....mechanics on these sites said that upon failure they were being replaced with the same shaft, gear and bearing as the unit that failed. This is all getting to be a hassle....suzuki is certainly not doing a good job of getting accurate information out to everyone to stop the rumor mills....especially when their own dealers don't know whats going on

 

OK now here is something to think about.

Assuming - at this point still an assumtion- Suzuki fixed the problem with the redesigned bearing I pose the following:

Will people still be stuck with the de-tuned ECM?

Is this fix strong enough not to have to worry about the reverse restrictions?

Even if it is strong enough what do you wanna bet Suzuki stays with the new de-tuned ECM as insurance against putting more stress on what still may be a less than optimum part so they don't have to pay to swap out ECMs yet again on effected machines?

Even if the new bearing fixes the problem there are still some things to be considered.

 

You guys are all right.....we dont really know what going on, but we deserve to know.. I posted the link to the pictures from a dealer in Canada that received the new parts for fixing the reverse problems. That in itself is hard evidence that they are actually trying to at least fix the problem. When we will see it here in the USA, Nobody Knows for sure.