by me, christain ,ben and one of his buddys started out about a hour or two in it christain x tie rods bent and axle came out.he left to take it to big 4 to get looked at so me and ben hooked up with other guys and road.sorry i cant remember names well, but good guys to ride with ,glad to run into them.we road all day had pretty good time.
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Rainemaker- Posts : 29
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Yeah pretty disgusted about how it all went down. The dirt road we were on should not have bent my tie rods. I am waiting on Big4 to find out if it is to be covered under warranty or not. I talked with a few other people this has happened too and one guy had the same thing happen to him. Except he was in the sand. His tie rod bent and it broke the spindle dropped his front end and flipped him. $9600 later his machine is almost running again. So yeah i'm down for a bit until I get word back from BRP if they are going to warranty it or not, should find out late tuesday or wednesday. Either way when it gets home I am breaking out the welder to do some modifications 
I can assure you it wont happen again.
On the plus side we met some really nice people out on the trail. Hope to see them become members here and go riding with them again.
I can assure you it wont happen again.On the plus side we met some really nice people out on the trail. Hope to see them become members here and go riding with them again.
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Rainemaker wrote:Yeah pretty disgusted about how it all went down. The dirt road we were on should not have bent my tie rods. I am waiting on Big4 to find out if it is to be covered under warranty or not. I talked with a few other people this has happened too and one guy had the same thing happen to him. Except he was in the sand. His tie rod bent and it broke the spindle dropped his front end and flipped him. $9600 later his machine is almost running again. So yeah i'm down for a bit until I get word back from BRP if they are going to warranty it or not, should find out late tuesday or wednesday. Either way when it gets home I am breaking out the welder to do some modifications
On the plus side we met some really nice people out on the trail. Hope to see them become members here and go riding with them again.
Hopefully BRP will step up and take care of it for you....one of the sometimes negative effects of being a new model....sometimes the buyer is the guinea pig, instead of the R&D department
Rainemaker- Posts : 29
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I really hope so. Can Am in their infinite wisdom will not sell tie rods for their machines. You have to get a new steering rack instead. and the shocker about all that is the Axle is more than the entire steering rack. I am already over $1k bucks in just parts not to mention what the labor would be to install everything. I made sure the dealership understood not to order anything until they were sure BRP was going to cover it under warranty. The dealer understood my position and is willing to go to bat for me so we will see what happens. I was able to confirm that the BRP sponsored racers are having this same issue. So they are aware of it, just not sure if the racers deal with the same engineers the consumers do.
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I sure hope they step up to the plate and cover it
under warranty. This machine has less then 10 hrs on
it and hell I was riding with you most of them. You in
no way abused this machine.
under warranty. This machine has less then 10 hrs on
it and hell I was riding with you most of them. You in
no way abused this machine.
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polaris sure would stand up to the plate. lol
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Awesome vids Goob 
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Any word yet ? Honda had a big recall on tie rod ends several years ago, that is very dangerous they should take care of it before they have lawsuits from a high speed crash and someone getting hurt.....
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yeah can am is going to step up and take care of it.glad to see that happen i think they got a problem with that. hey thats better then a eng problem
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