KING QUAD REVERSE FAILURE ISSUE IS IT BOUND TO HAPPEN OR IS IT ONLY A FEW BIKES?
Apr 6, 2005 | 08:01 PM
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REVERSE ISSUE IS IT BOUND TO HAPPEN OR IS IT ONLY A FEW BIKES?
Hi all ex- arctic cat owner here!Just bought a new 05 KING QUAD. I'm pondering a question, it might be a stupid one, so bare with me. I'm wondering if the reverse failure issue is inevitable or if it happens only to a few bikes? is there a luck factor or am I staring down the wrong end of a shot gun? I'm wondering if this has happened only to a few guys and has been blown tottally out of porportion. Is my thinking totally wacked or is there hard evidence PLEASE HELP!!! P.S. It could be that I'm so in love with my KING QUAD I can't see anything being wrong with it!!![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]
Apr 7, 2005 | 05:49 PM
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KING QUAD REVERSE FAILURE ISSUE IS IT BOUND TO HAPPEN OR IS IT ONLY A FEW BIKES?
Find your VIN number and search the forums, there's a thread that specifies the specific numbers that have the flawed shaft.
Oh and the reverse issues refers to a flaw in early runs of the KQ of the reverse shaft (don't quote me on that), anyway premature failure of reverse gear. The shaft is updated in the recent prod runs of the bike.
Oh and the reverse issues refers to a flaw in early runs of the KQ of the reverse shaft (don't quote me on that), anyway premature failure of reverse gear. The shaft is updated in the recent prod runs of the bike.
Apr 7, 2005 | 08:58 PM
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KING QUAD REVERSE FAILURE ISSUE IS IT BOUND TO HAPPEN OR IS IT ONLY A FEW BIKES?
I've seen about 20 failures on the forums, which if that number expanded it would look like 10%! But the national failure rate is much much less then that. I think it is a matter of time, but I could be wrong, my freind also has a KQ and went looking for trouble. Backed it up hills backed it into snow banks, backed it into a mud pit, just trying to tear it out and get it fixed for free with the updated parts. This has been his mission for every weekend for 4 weeks! So far it seems to be doing fine?
Others have posted that they were just hardly giving it gas and had it fail...so could just be "luck of the draw". I'm just going to run mine, I have 5 years to break it under the new warrenty..so not going to worry about it!
Others have posted that they were just hardly giving it gas and had it fail...so could just be "luck of the draw". I'm just going to run mine, I have 5 years to break it under the new warrenty..so not going to worry about it!
Apr 8, 2005 | 05:31 PM
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KING QUAD REVERSE FAILURE ISSUE IS IT BOUND TO HAPPEN OR IS IT ONLY A FEW BIKES?
Originally posted by: MonZooki
I've seen about 20 failures on the forums, which if that number expanded it would look like 10%! But the national failure rate is much much less then that. I think it is a matter of time, but I could be wrong, my freind also has a KQ and went looking for trouble. Backed it up hills backed it into snow banks, backed it into a mud pit, just trying to tear it out and get it fixed for free with the updated parts. This has been his mission for every weekend for 4 weeks! So far it seems to be doing fine?
Others have posted that they were just hardly giving it gas and had it fail...so could just be "luck of the draw". I'm just going to run mine, I have 5 years to break it under the new warrenty..so not going to worry about it!
I've seen about 20 failures on the forums, which if that number expanded it would look like 10%! But the national failure rate is much much less then that. I think it is a matter of time, but I could be wrong, my freind also has a KQ and went looking for trouble. Backed it up hills backed it into snow banks, backed it into a mud pit, just trying to tear it out and get it fixed for free with the updated parts. This has been his mission for every weekend for 4 weeks! So far it seems to be doing fine?
Others have posted that they were just hardly giving it gas and had it fail...so could just be "luck of the draw". I'm just going to run mine, I have 5 years to break it under the new warrenty..so not going to worry about it!
Apr 8, 2005 | 05:41 PM
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Monzooki thats the kind of the answer I was looking for I'm also wondering wether I should kick the snot out of it so I to can get this fixed but I'm worried that i'll do other damages aswell. My warranty is only 6 months you mentioned you have a 5 year warranty how did you manage that? Am i missing out on something?[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-frown.gif[/img]
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