I have read a thousand thread this week just to get a handle on good and bad points. Some of the information has been great, this is a great forum!
Just my opinion:
The good: I love the air box, I see a lot of people complaining about it and I know Polaris has a history of bad air boxes, but I think the 900 was well thought out. May not be great for you sand guys, but I am in the North East and we have dirt, dust and mud. I love the high intake with prefilter. The prefilter could be a little better but I see where they offer almost an outerwear type prefilter now. I did grease around the edges like some members suggest. I so bad want to buy a K&N style filter, but cant find a reason to do so, especially since it will sit lower and next to the exhaust, unless I just buy a drop in style K&N and I may do that yet.
The OK: The interior is OK, my friends just bought the Can Am Commader 1000X. It has a gate shifter, nicer seats and steering wheel, a tac and just overall looks higher quality. It also has front bumper and rock sliders as standard. But I recognize the 900 is what it is, a pure performance machine and you really don't need a BMW interior.
The bad: The shifter, it suck, Polaris needs a gate shifter. It too hard to go from P to Reverse. I always end up going to N first then back to reverse. The steering weal is pretty cheep also. I just bought a new steering wheal and shifter handle already because they look so cheep. The axles look pretty small also, I dont do any crazy jumps but we do see a lot of rocks and side hill climbs, only time will tell if they hold up.
The irritating part: No oil viscosity listed, only use Polaris oil. Not to start an oil thread, but that is total crap. Even Harley the king of buy OEMfluids tell you if you cant use Harley oil to use a good quality diesel motor oil.
Anyways, love the 900, even though is sounds like I am complaining, nothing is perfect, that is why they have aftermarket.
Just my opinion:
The good: I love the air box, I see a lot of people complaining about it and I know Polaris has a history of bad air boxes, but I think the 900 was well thought out. May not be great for you sand guys, but I am in the North East and we have dirt, dust and mud. I love the high intake with prefilter. The prefilter could be a little better but I see where they offer almost an outerwear type prefilter now. I did grease around the edges like some members suggest. I so bad want to buy a K&N style filter, but cant find a reason to do so, especially since it will sit lower and next to the exhaust, unless I just buy a drop in style K&N and I may do that yet.
The OK: The interior is OK, my friends just bought the Can Am Commader 1000X. It has a gate shifter, nicer seats and steering wheel, a tac and just overall looks higher quality. It also has front bumper and rock sliders as standard. But I recognize the 900 is what it is, a pure performance machine and you really don't need a BMW interior.
The bad: The shifter, it suck, Polaris needs a gate shifter. It too hard to go from P to Reverse. I always end up going to N first then back to reverse. The steering weal is pretty cheep also. I just bought a new steering wheal and shifter handle already because they look so cheep. The axles look pretty small also, I dont do any crazy jumps but we do see a lot of rocks and side hill climbs, only time will tell if they hold up.
The irritating part: No oil viscosity listed, only use Polaris oil. Not to start an oil thread, but that is total crap. Even Harley the king of buy OEMfluids tell you if you cant use Harley oil to use a good quality diesel motor oil.
Anyways, love the 900, even though is sounds like I am complaining, nothing is perfect, that is why they have aftermarket.
