I have 10 hours on my 500 Ho sportsman and the plastic melted on the bike above the exhaust also the seat melted along with the brakets on the breather box ...This happend with about 4 hours of riding at the Wish I Could Marango Swamp ride In Hebert La over the weekend.. has anyone else seen this.... i also seen 2 other bikes that i stopped a 700 and a 800 that was worse than mine Has any one else seen this ???? The dealer who has it now said he was calling polaris to see what the fix is and if this is a problem that has been reported....Has any one else had the same problem if so what did you do and what did polaris say if so please respond Thanks
Wyant

05 Sportsman
front brush buard
rear double bumper
2500 warn winch
27in 589 ITP rims

 

I noticed that mine has a heatshield type tape on the backside of the plastic in that area. Can you remember if your machine had that or not? If not, than that is definitely your problem.

 

yeah it has silver tape on the inside of the plastic but not anough from what we can figure thanks for the help

 

if you get it back and it has very little silver tape order some and cover the whole area around you exhaust that should work..

 

Is this the same Sportsman 500 that most people say is the tried and true
Polaris that has all the bugs worked out of it? So they need some silver tape
to hold them together, and if the tape falls off (or is never put on by the fat
bastard on the assembly line to begin with), the exhaust melts the plastic?

Go to Honda or Yamaha, they wont melt when ridden.

Polaris, Made in the USA. (for all that's worth)

 

Shut up, if you don't have any worth while information don't even type.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/img]

 

lay down teh crack pipe and read, this is PLASTIC, not the machine it self. if you wernt so ignorant and mindless you would see

 

He must not can read and is on crack as far i am concerned he can stay on the (yammmahaaaa and hundu) forums
and that is right POLARIS MADE IN THE USA!!

 

nice.

anyway, this has been happening to ALL 05's, theres been a few posts about this on this forum so far. the plastics are coming too close to the pipe and their melting. polaris is gonna give you a new set of plastics for that area and just more tape. go up to walmart and splurge a little and get the 3M tape. its really good and you wont have the problem again. for 06 their replaceing the tapes anyway.

 

Just thought everyone might want to have this info and jump on this band waggon Polaris want help us so we must do it our selves!!!1-800-638-2772 Let them kow just how concerned you are with this issue and how Dangerous it can be ((U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

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