Any word on building (BOOST) sleds?…
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Saw a couple more wrapped in white sleds come off the truck today!
I saw someone on FB showing off his new 22 146 Khaos so they are delivering them.
Dealer told me yesterday that they have had sleds showing up. Said Polaris was tired of everyone jumping on them about delivery dates so put later ship dates on them. The ones that will be later are the dealer ordered sleds and dealers were given options to back out of the stock ordered sleds if they wanted. Those would be last. And dealers were not getting demo sleds.. He has a Khaos slash on his floor that just came. Not sure if it is sold (snowcheck) or (snowcheck) someone backed out of it thinking it was not coming for a month or 2 yet.. I am sure it won't be there long.
Burandt posted a video today of a production 155" khaos boost with a data logger on it. Looks like Polaris is making some last minute tuning changes, almost wondering if that's what's holding up the boost models. It's been a couple weeks now since Dan Adams/ Matt Entz posted photos of the boost sleds on the assembly line, you'd think they'd be showing up at dealers by now.
The dealer got mad at me for putting my hand on the grip of that sled[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] “Sir, thats a sold sled!” Please don’t touch it[emoji1787] [mention]MikeMetzger [/mention]
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I thought the same thing about them getting shipped out. Or waiting on a part. I would of thought all the riding on them last spring would of been enough. We are almost half way through November, one month and one day.
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cortez
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And then he deleted the post after people were questioning why the sled was sounding so boggy in the bottom end. He claimed it was improper clutching and within an hour deleted the post. Can’t say this inspires much confidence for those of us paying over 20k for one of these sleds! [emoji51]
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I missed that part, was it noticable? so watched the 19 second video he posted after that. Then trimmed it to 17 seconds so no bottom end could be heard. There was a little blubber in the 19 second one. I guess my question is do the big manufacturers ever test ride sleds in the fall before they ship them out?
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cortez
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It all seems very unusual to me. To be test riding them at a point where they’re past due for delivery and nobody has seen one yet. To have one of your main ambassadors / pros trimming and deleting videos when people notice how poorly it’s running…. Suggesting it’s only clutching due to elevation but it’s an altitude compensating turbo setup that they claim has been in R&D and on the snow testing for a couple years now [emoji1745] if they send a sled out to Burandt they know damn well what elevation it will be ridden at, so I don’t buy the clutching comment for a second.
For me it just inspires zero confidence. It suggests that they don’t have the setup dialed yet which is possibly what the real delay on the boosts is…? just my opinion but I’m honestly considering selling mine off when it shows up and riding a NA sled or aftermarket turbo setup until they can figure it out.
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Well if you were being videoed
It may have tipped over and injured you!
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It’s only altitude compensating up to 10,000 feet I believe. If he is over 10,000 ft. it could be clutched to heavy. This is my first year on a Polaris and riding the demo boost last spring sold me. I am just trying to stay optimistic. I’m happy they are testing production units. But there isn’t snow in my area yet so I won’t be riding til after December 15th anyway. So I say test away!
I wondered the same thing so I asked a professional rider who's doing the Polaris test riding and he said mostly old men.
After last years 2.7 track driver issue I was thinking if one of the professional riders tested that driver set up they would most likely be able to tell within a few hours it was going to be trouble even if it didn’t ratchet the vibration was terrible.. There is also the possiblity Polaris knew it would be an issue and it was to late to address it and just decided to deal with it later.
There is no incentive for them to build a quality product they sale all the sleds they can make now and would even without supply chain issues despite a horrendous track record.
lastly regardless of how many years they were testing they were under a lot of pressure to bring a turbo to market to catch up with Ski Doo to have a turbo available.
I agree the whole thing seems strange. At this point they already offered to show people to back out of their SC so i would rather hear the truth about what is going on. And to bring a brand new sled out from Minnesota and not have it close to being clutched right seems like a cover up, I would have went back to their fancy heated trailer and tweaked the clutching and then took a video if it was a little bit off.
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100% I Couldn’t agree more. Where did you hear that they’re offering for people to back out of SC orders?
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I thought somewhere I seen an email saying you could switch a snowcheck to an in season model? More so for folks with the Jan/Feb ship dates. Can't find where I saw that. Maybe I am seriously mistaken...
[emoji23] I just chuckled and pictures the sick new sled, pinned between a tree and the snow on its first ride! Sure going to be worse off than my hand touching the grip..
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