Snorkels notwithstanding, anything over about 6-inches deep will do lasting damage to your RZR and will end-up costing you dearly in the long run. RZR's WERE NOT designed to run in or under water.

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6"? Thats ridiculous. This is an offroad machine not a Honda Civic. :banghead:

Does going through deep water accelerate wear on bearings, bushings, tierod ends, ball joints, etc? Yes, but so what? Its a toy. Do the proper maintenance and you will be fine. You wont be able to go 10000000 miles without a problem like some of the people here. You will be replacing the parts I mentioned fairly often if you do ride in lots of water/mud.

The short answer to your question is that you can safely go up to the bottom of the seat if you have to. If you plan on doing that often, you should snorkel it...Or at the very least seal the belt box, duckbills on the intake ducts, and dielectric grease all your electronics.

 

Mine cost to much to take swimming...

 

Ive had mine up to the skid plate with no issues thus far, but i dont believe i would go much deeper than the. Splashing water on it is different than completely submerging it into water ya know.

 

X2:ride::ride::ride:

 

Been to the floorboards with mine. Not really into mudding so that's good enough for me

 

X2

 

The engine intake and belt intake are in the side of the bed. The belt exhaust is lower think it's somewhere right around where the bottom cushion of the seat it. Thats about how deep you can go before get water in the CVT without snorkels.

I've taken mine thru plenty of water, one of my favorite things to do is ride the river. Yeah it means more maintenace and cleaning to get the water ans sand out of where it shouldn't be. But it's well worth it to me.

 

Thanks for the info what is a CVT?
Thanks

 

I sometimes go through water to just wet any leaves in the skids. And, if you are not pulling them after every other ride, you have leaves if there are leaves where you ride.

Water damage is less than fire damage, dealt with both on a atv. Not on a RZR though.

 

Ive had mine right to my chest no prob thus far now i have snorkles so we will c how it goes

 

Do you throughly wash your RZR? If so you get water in many many places. I take mine through the river then throughly was all the mud and sand out allowing most of the water to drain and the rest to evaporate. The humidity in the air will rust uncoated metal best buy a bubble to keep it in I guess. Yes a rzr that never see's water might last longer, but if I didn't buy mine to leave under a cover in the shed. Mine gets rode and rode hard and like every atv I own I'll do the maintance it needs and it'll be around for a long time.

Don't be scared of water, youre missing out on a lot of fun. It's a RZR not a prius

 

Right on,,, I dont care what my RZR is like in 10+ years,, but I do care how much FUN i have with it in the next 3-5 years.. After 4-5 years of FUN in my RZR i will have gotten my money's worth out of it.

Im not into deep mud, but we hit creeks and river bed all the time with 6" up to 1.5ft of water and it is a blast!! We did not buy our RZR to keep it in the garage under a cover.

Ride hard, have fun, hit the water! If you go deep buy snorkles, and enjoy your toys!

 

cat be scared ur whole life hit that hole

 

Don't ride in WV then....thats the majority of trails and there isn't an alternative route! I hate water and would much rather ride some dry Utah/Arizona trail.....but, for now...WV mud is where I'm stuck.

Btw...a bit above floorboards is very common for me.

 

Exactly, same here. Sometimes there is NO way to avoid water and mud and muck, best advice is to just not let the mud set in tere for a long time. Try and spray it out. Water is water, unless you have an indoor arena, you will encounter water, more water when you wash it than just a simple creek crossing, if they erode that fast, then they would be falling apart left and right.

 

base of the seat without snorkels and chest deep with my experiences.

 

It's a toy, meant to be used until worn out! Play with it in the garage like some here are telling you, or play with it outside where water exists. Just have fun where ever it leads you, it's just a toy.

 

Thanks waistdeep these guys are scaring me....

 

Yeah and service it regulary.

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Wow! Looks like I stirred-up a hornets nest. So be it! However, before I abandon the topic all together, I would just like to point out that it almost invariably seems to be the guys running deep water, "mudding", and rock crawling who have the most problems with their RZR's. Then, they show-up on the Forum bitching, pissing, moaning, and crying because Polaris won't warranty their water-flooded engine, or they smoked their belt after flooding their CVT housing, or their fan-switch corroded and shorted-out, or they broke their axles while trying to push, not roll, their way through a deep mud-hole, or they broke their A-arms, crushed their skid-pan, and broke their frames trying to crawl over boulders as big as their RZR. Or, they whine because their water-soaked electrics quit on them and left them walking 5 or 10 miles from camp. And every one of them screams bloody murder when they have to take their RZR's to the dealer to get it repaired because of their own stupid behavior, or cry because the replacement parts needed to repair all the damage they did cost so much.

Pardon me, but am I the only one who sees a repeated pattern in all of this? And why do you suppose it is that there are members on the Forum who have thousands of relatively trouble-free miles on their machines, while so many others, with the same machines, can't make it through a day's or a weekend's ride without somehow screwing-up their RZR or breaking something. Must be the machine's fault, right?, and not the ignorant and stupid operator.

So ya, go run your RZR through chest-deep water and waist-deep mud, and bash it into big boulders, and then snivel and whine when it leaves you walking and facing a big repair bill. Personally, I'll be laughing my ass off and thinking, "What a stupid, moronic bastard; he deserved it! That and more". End of rant..........

Cheers

 

You're right. We should all ride on the street. 14" of suspension travel will soak up those potholes really well.

 

You're right. We should all ride on the street. 14" of suspension travel will soak up those pot holes really well.

Or you could come follow me through the desert and some mountains, and then we could talk about some pot-holes, that is IF you're still in one piece and rolling............

Cheers

 

Right. Because mine gets muddy it will just fall apart if I try to follow you on dirt.

 

I agree, people who abuse them and dont do maintenance on them and the bitch about it, shouldnt be allowed to bitch because they neglected their machine, but those of us who does the regular maintanence and actually respect our machines will get a long life out of them. Just remember barrzr when you wash it, water gets in it everywhere it does when you run it through the creek. Its very rarely mine is in water to the skidplate, but it has happened before and couldnt be helped.

 

The only thing I bitch about is crappy axles (sand guys bend them all the time too) and wheel bearings. These bearings suck. My Brute Force is a straight up mud machine. 31" tires, wheel spacers, and its always under water. Still on factory bearings after over 1100 miles and they are tight. The RZR doesnt go in near as much mud and I've had to change most of them out twice and I think I'm at 970 miles?

 

^^ I 100% agree. I have had my RzR over my steering wheel deep several times. Regular maintenance, dielectric grease and throttle control is what works for me. No I may not go 90mph everywhere I ride, but I guarantee you I always make it back to my trailer with ease.
As with ANY machine or piece of equipment if it's neglected, it'll leave you stranded EVERY time. I don't care who you are or what you ride, proper maintenance on any vehicle, it'll last you linger than non maintenance.
So what if I run mine off in a lake, pond, or mud hole. Last time I checked, no one is making the payments on this RzR but me.

 

We all set our machines up for our ride style and preference and to ride in places that are available to ride. Mine is set up for trail riding in the eastern mountains, that will involve crossing mudholes ,rock crawling, bouldering, hill climbing (and sometimes sand on top of a ridge line which is a fascinating geological formation) and sometimes creeks. I am trying to minimize the deep water holes, but sometimes just not an option.

I do not buy trophy pieces to look at in the garage, if this thing is not used and worn after I have owned it for 3 years, I did not need it. Do the maintenance and ride it where you want to.

For the record:
2009 Grizzly rode hard and in water mud mountains, uses no oil, trail ready (Lot of money in mods to protect the machine) 3000 miles in 2 years.
1990 Ford Escort 400,000 miles gave to my son, he made a field buggy out of it for three years, crushed it for 500 bucks.
2001 Ford F-150 200,000 miles, gave to my son for daily driver.
2013 Razor S LE, 600 miles in 2 months, rough terrain, zero issues ( Lot of money in mods to protect the machine).

Do the maintenance, if you screw it up, man up and say so, and take ownership of the problem that was created.

Most of our screw ups are on Youtube, because eventully, I am going to laugh about it, so I learn to laugh sooner than later.

Here is my son in a water crossing this summer, we did the maintenance immediately, and most important, already knew what to do in worse case scenario as this. Also consulted with our mechancics at the dealership, no long term problems yet.

 

Staying away from water all together cause your frame will Rust is way out. If you live in the desert I'm sure thats pretty easy.. If you ride in the mountains there is water and mud everywhere. Some mud holes you can avoid, but your not going to be able to ride and avoid it.. Now running a RZR through chest deep mud and water all the time I do think is very hard on them. For us its very common to have water up to our floor boards. If it gets to the bottom of the seat I start looking for a better way..
Bearing, bushings, Tierod ends all that kind of stuff will wear faster with mud and water. Thats why when guys on here that live in a desert say they get 4000 miles on their bushings and the guys on the east coast post they get like 600 miles. It always starts a debate. I my self would rather ride in the woods up in the mountains then I would a dry dusty desert.. Heck I don't like to ride in the middle of summer in woods if it hasn't rained.

 

I my self would rather ride in the woods up in the mountains then I would a dry dusty desert.. Heck I don't like to ride in the middle of summer in woods if it hasn't rained.

It's pretty bad in the desert, especially if you're in a group and not in front of them lol. Every environment is going to be bad in one way or another for wearing down parts. I'm not a mud guy and don't understand how people can have fun splashing through the same mud puddle over and over(and than have to clean all that mud off?!?!), but everybody has a different idea of fun. I don't plan to get 100k miles out of my rzr, but I do plan on having fun in it. There will be parts to replace no matter what you do with it. If you can't justify the cost of the maintenance than you should probably find a different way to have fun.

 

its so funny with past topics like the guys that had there pipes cracking on there rzr's and wondering why? this is part of the price you pay when you take a nice hot headpipe and run it threw water'' this causes crystal effect to the metal and turns the pipe to glass'' this will follow by cracks over time,, very commen with water vs hot pipes'' after i brought this up last time, i got beat up members on here:sad: so now i just say this,, i give way to much money to soak my 900 but im always willing to park and watch somebody else hit the ponds with there machinesopcorn:

 

I find bar rzr posts generally annoying.

 

Yup

 

We've had our asses wet and floorboards full and still chugged along slowly. If you go fast you'll splash water around and into the belt intake.

 

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