POLL:: WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Buy Now or SnowCheck a 25 ???

[Solarguy]

So.
My brand new 2024 Turbo Summit X has been totaled and the Insurance company will be cutting me a check in the next week.
This means I have to make an interesting decission.

Do I go into the dealership and pickup another Hold-Over 2024 SnowChecked Turbo OR do I wait a month or so and just SnowCheck a 2025??

NOTE:
(I have a 2nd brand new 2024 Turbo Summit-X that I took on it's maiden breakin voyage today, so I will NOT be without a sled to ride, but won't have that second one as either a backup or a sled to ride with either of my sons..)

I’d buy a Polaris

 

[Dynamo^Joe]

I’d buy a Polaris

And then have this kind of trouble?

Am I expecting too much?

Story time- It's mid January of 2023... I decide I would like to find a new Boost. I locate one about 100 miles away on January 26th and purchase it. I paid MSRP. A week or two later head 14hrs west to ride. Immediately I notice a hand and foot numbing vibration. I try to troubleshoot and think...

www.snowest.com

When you buy a Poo, then it should come with 2 boxes of spark plugs.

 

[IDspud]

Take off your training wheels and get a 25 cat.

 

[NHRoadking]

You think they still don't have the proper international licenses and certifications for RF transmission yet???

I just don't think they are focused on the gauge's functionality as much as they should be. Doo misjudged the interest in a large, FUNCTIONAL gauge. Polaris and Cat did not.

Doo is a market leader in many ways, but their gauges have been lame for years and not getting better.

I used to think I didn't care until I saw the ones on the Polaris sleds and rode with them. Very nice features and the storage behind the gauge is awesome.

Doo dropped the ball on stock dash storage too.

Doo makes great motors, has some cool tech (SHOT is awesome!), great fit and finish, lame spring order warranty (bring back the 4 year warranty or at least 3), okay looking sleds (front end on Summit G5 still ugly), okay skids (too much trenching from steep attack angle), still too wide (move that disc brake), needs stock post-forward, much lighter and compact suitcase muffler so that side is as narrow as the other side, and tracks that last! Other than that, the G5 Summit is perfect.

 

[NHRoadking]

Take off your training wheels and get a 25 cat.

Which one? The 600 or the alleged 858?

 

[IDspud]

Both.
Not very alleged with all the 858 info dropped recently.

 

[CROW]

I just don't think they are focused on the gauge's functionality as much as they should be. Doo misjudged the interest in a large, FUNCTIONAL gauge. Polaris and Cat did not.

Doo is a market leader in many ways, but their gauges have been lame for years and not getting better.

I used to think I didn't;t care until I saw the ones on the Polaris sleds and rode with them. Very nice features and the storage behind the gauge is awesome.

Doo dropped the ball on stock dash storage too.

Doo makes great motors, has some cool tech (SHOT is awesome!), great fit and finish, lame spring order warranty (bring back the 4 year warranty or at least 3), okay looking sleds (front end on Summit G5 still ugly), okay skids (too much trenching from steep attack angle), still too wide (move that disc brake), needs stock post-forward, much lighter and compact suitcase muffler so that side is as narrow as the other side, and tracks that last! Other than that, the G5 Summit is perfect.

I must’ve missed the Cat big gauge…link?

 

[NHRoadking]

I must’ve missed the Cat big gauge…link?

Here it is on Cat's website:

NEW INTEGRATED GARMIN DISPLAY​

The 858 engine isn’t the only news for the CATALYST platform. We’ve added an 8-in. Arctic Cat G8 display, powered by Garmin to select 2025 CATALYST platform sleds.

 

[IDspud]

Sweet I hadn’t seen that.

 

[CROW]

Here it is on Cat's website:

NEW INTEGRATED GARMIN DISPLAY​

The 858 engine isn’t the only news for the CATALYST platform. We’ve added an 8-in. Arctic Cat G8 display, powered by Garmin to select 2025 CATALYST platform sleds.


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I really wish the manufacturers would make these compatible with each other.

 

[NHRoadking]

I really wish the manufacturers would make these compatible with each other.

Agreed! That would benefit all sled owners.

 

[christopher]

I really wish the manufacturers would make these compatible with each other.

if there was a COMMUNICATIONS STANDARD so we could ALL SEE EACH OTHER on the mountain in our group, that would be SPECTACULAR!!!!!!

 

[IDspud]

Sometimes we choose to ditch you tho.

 

[Blu Du]

we know the maps are coming and must of been really close to happening for the 24 snow check because it was an option the night they released the 24's but they took it off the site the next morning

 

[bobback]

It was a Horrible end to a great day of riding when the sled fell off the trailer on the way home.
Clearly you missed out on an epic thread!

Please post the link to the thread!

 

[EternalWinter]

we know the maps are coming and must of been really close to happening for the 24 snow check because it was an option the night they released the 24's but they took it off the site the next morning

Kind of like people that put money down on a Cybertruck in 2019 and are just now getting them....

 

[christopher]

Please post the link to the thread!

gotta wonder how you missed it...

HORRIBLE END to a great day and a new sled…

Was a hell of a great day of riding. Then just a mile or so from home going around a corner with my sled on my trailer for perhaps the fiftyith time, I suffered a CATASTROPHIC failure of the trailer side plate where the sled is bolted in… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

www.snowest.com

 

[christopher]

we know the maps are coming and must of been really close to happening for the 24 snow check because it was an option the night they released the 24's but they took it off the site the next morning

Ya, someone clearly thought it was a DONE DEAL for at least a few hours before they realized the error of their ways.
I also expect to see that.

 

[Teth-Air]

You think they still don't have the proper international licenses and certifications for RF transmission yet???

If not they might have been able to buy licenced technology by now.

 

[Teth-Air]

If Doo releases something special your insurance cheque is not going to be big enough to cover it. Just buy a hold-over NA to get you by for the low snow days and then order a snowcheck.