New Ski Doo Snowmobile

[woodynh]

Originally Posted by MAXUM

Do your research first, and not by looking at the sales brochure. The Ski Doos are notorious for electrical problems, and the new XPs are also known to have trouble keeping body panels on the body. I know a couple guys that own them and between the troubles they have had along with the three new XPs I've ran across this year DOA on the side of the trail, heh you can keep em. Plus I have heard through the grape vine (some buddies that work at a dealer) that the XPs are very easily damaged beyond the point of repair, especially if you manage to catch or hit the front suspension on anything. No surprise I've looked them over real close, they are not exactly made out of anything that could take any serious abuse.

Think the rush is the answer, well my same buddies tell me they aren't selling. Maybe it's the 10K plus price tag and I haven't seen but a couple on the trails this year and I do a ton of riding. So you want the 800 huh, well again do your research, ever since the re-introduction of the 800 Polaris has had all sorts of trouble with these engines blowing up. I think they are not up to 5 yes 5 computer flashes trying to fix what can only be described as a fundamentally flawed engine design. Polaris frankly has only put out a handful of bullet proof engines, the 340 Fan, 488 Fan, 500 and 600 liberty liquids. Beyond that you're tempting fate. Polaris doesn't make the 340 Fan, not enough power I guess, replaced the 488 with the 550 only to have that engine suffer catastrophic failures (yes I know first hand I had one that blew not just once but twice) the 500 liberty liquid for some unknown reason was dropped, no doubt because there are those who are more concerned about the number decal on the hood than anything else. Even though that 500 VES (which I happen to own one) will have no trouble keeping up with the big bores and sip gas doing so.

This BTW is authored by a die hard Polaris guy.

The 500 polaris sipping gas. That is funny. I have owned all four brands and cuurently have one of each in my garage except for a Polaris. My buddy I ride with had a 500 for the last 4 years and we ride normal not to the bars all the time and he got between 12 and 13 mpg. Once in a great while in Maine on wide open trails he would get 14 mpg. Not what I consider sipping.

Ski doo by far gets the best gas mileage and the last two seasons I have ridden four strokes. An AC 660 turbo last year and a Yamaha Apex this year and still use more gas then most Ski doo's.