yamaha reliability???!

[MotoPsycho]

I seem to remember someone named Moto callin ME complaining about his subframe....what was that your local dealer told you...."pound sand?" Or somethin like that....who got your sorry butt taken care of...hmmmm Who? Hmmm let me think....Ohh thats right ME!!! So ya better be nice to me moto or i'll drive my sorry azz down to sheepville and kick your butt.....Just kiddin And i do not have a potty mouth All the time...!!

Shell

First of all... IT WAS A COMPLEMENT to you, you non-blonde, blonde! (DUUUUUHUUUHHH!!!!)

Ya know... all about how ya go the extra mile for customer satisfacti......
oh nevermind you dolt!!!

And if all it took was runnin' my mouth to get yer sorry azz down to sheepville, I would be the world's happiest man!!! I chatter every chance I get, but still yer not standin on my doorstep....DAMNIT!!!!!

 

[adrenaline junkey]

I seem to remember someone named Moto callin ME complaining about his subframe....what was that your local dealer told you...."pound sand?" Or somethin like that....who got your sorry butt taken care of...hmmmm Who? Hmmm let me think....Ohh thats right ME!!! So ya better be nice to me moto or i'll drive my sorry azz down to sheepville and kick your butt.....Just kiddin And i do not have a potty mouth All the time...!!

Shell

Lmao i heard this same story right from Mr motos mouth He was bragging on ya

 

[MotoPsycho]

AJ!!!! Yer alive!!! how iz'it? Didja ever pick up that scooter for the missus? Comin' to Jackson in a couple weeks?

 

[adrenaline junkey]

AJ!!!! Yer alive!!! how iz'it? Didja ever pick up that scooter for the missus? Comin' to Jackson in a couple weeks?

Yea I'm alive lol no we never did she road a few why we were in island park and she just said she wasn't comfortable. she wanted to spend another year on her doo. I wish i could we have a 4 day ride in McCall coming up the 19th

 

[MotoPsycho]

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Cool AJ. 4 days ridin' HAS to be cheaper than 4 days drinkin'!!! Wish we could see ya again. Have to do a Island Park, or Cooke trip next year! Tell the wife "hey" for me! (and that talkative kiddy too )

 

[adrenaline junkey]

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Cool AJ. 4 days ridin' HAS to be cheaper than 4 days drinkin'!!! Wish we could see ya again. Have to do a Island Park, or Cooke trip next year! Tell the wife "hey" for me! (and that talkative kiddy too )

I agree would be great to get together and ride watched some of your videos on you tube looks like some great places and snow. we should plan on meeting next year at tog or cook been dying to get over that way and the misses loves tog. I will tell them howdy

 

[BCBracing]

ask me about #1 in reliability! My brother ownes an 06 apex stock except for aftermarket axhaust, with 1500 miles on it and it completely blew up a month ago. It threw the rod through the case and did major damage. We delivered it to the dealer and they took it completely apart and said it was still rich and something in the motor was defective, best guess some valve of spring stuck down on the cylinder causing the piston to break up , and well the rest is history. The dealer says they have seen yamaha good will parts for sleds where stuff like this has happened, but the word we are getting is no deal from yamaha. I understand it is not under warranty, but they claim to be so damn reliable, that this stuff never happens, well it did! and now i am out of luck and 8000 dollars to put it back together. If you want my opinion you are better off going with a 2 stroke that may need more matinence, but at least you can do it. These 4 strokes are basically impossible to work on unless you are a yamaha mechanic, so i have to pay the dealer to rebuild it.
I guess you can say im pissed off I own a lot of yamaha stuff (double digits) these sleds are supposed to last longer, the manual even says the valves dont need inspected for 26,000 miles. Well I got 1,500.!
I'm going 2 stroke from now on and I'm definately done with yamaha! Anybody want to buy an apex?

hahahahaha good luck with that one buddy, most 800's out there are blowin apart, polaris 800's are blowin up within 1000 miles and the skidoo's are no better with their famous crank bearings and their 50 mile lifetime belts at 150$ a piece, my advice would be stick with the yamis, you must have gotten one out of a thousand that have blown up

 

[FreeAgent]

First of all... IT WAS A COMPLEMENT to you, you non-blonde, blonde! (DUUUUUHUUUHHH!!!!)

Ya know... all about how ya go the extra mile for customer satisfacti......
oh nevermind you dolt!!!

And if all it took was runnin' my mouth to get yer sorry azz down to sheepville, I would be the world's happiest man!!! I chatter every chance I get, but still yer not standin on my doorstep....DAMNIT!!!!!

whateva... I knew you were kidding ya goof. I talked to Yamaha today and sent Mr apex on the road (Hopefully) to some satisfaction. Funny thing never been a call logged from any dealer but me today on that sled... Things that make ya go HMMMM???!!!

Shell

 

[baapex]

it's true I talked to michelle today and it turns out my dealer, well used to be dealer, never even tried to contact yamaha and see what they would do. I feel like i've been totally used and abused. Thank you so much for your help and i'll let you know what happens, Hopefully my faith will be restored in yamaha, i have too much stuff to sell if it isn't!

 

[snowy1]

hope it all works out, but if it doesn,t these motors are not that difficult to work on, it doesn,t take any special knowledge, its just a 4 stroke motor, pistons, rods, crank, cams , lifters, and valves. block and head, if you can work on a 2 stroke motor you can work on these just get a shop manuel and follow directions the first time.

 

[Butta]

it's true I talked to michelle today and it turns out my dealer, well used to be dealer, never even tried to contact yamaha and see what they would do. I feel like i've been totally used and abused. Thank you so much for your help and i'll let you know what happens, Hopefully my faith will be restored in yamaha, i have too much stuff to sell if it isn't!

My advice, now that you see the REAL culprit of the "problem", is rethink spending any more money down at that stealership you went to. I think I'd have a heart to heart talk with the General Manager (bypass all the piss ant lower managers, being that they weren't any help in the issue) and I'd ask for a good reason why you would EVER take something back to them for maintenance, or spend any more of your hard earned dollars there when they completely screwed you.

*I'd also send Michelle a really nice St. Patty's Day gift, a nice Easter Basket, a mother's day card, etc etc etc...*

 

[Butta]

hope it all works out, but if it doesn,t these motors are not that difficult to work on, it doesn,t take any special knowledge, its just a 4 stroke motor, pistons, rods, crank, cams , lifters, and valves. block and head, if you can work on a 2 stroke motor you can work on these just get a shop manuel and follow directions the first time.

I agree...it's actually cleaner to work on , without all the carbon "gunk" and "goo" from the 2s mess. Just more moving parts, but there's no magic happening in there...

 

[baapex]

well I just got off the phone with yamaha and they don't care. It seems that it is a time issue and dosen't matter that it only has 1500 miles on it, they don't seem to care that the dealer says it was defective either the "time has expired" according to yamaha. So any way i'm right back to where I started with a blown up sled, but I did make a new friend. Thanks Michelle, i'll be in touch about that new motor. It turns out that yamaha dosen't really care like everybody seems to think they do, unless its in the one year warranty, then your golden. so it looks like you need to buy a new one every year if you want to be safe, too rich for my blood. Yamaha just lost a loyal family of customers, especially my local dealer!!

I own
1993 exciter
1998 big bear
1996 800 mtn max
1998 700 mtn max
1999 600 mtn max
2005 mtn vector
2006 mtn apex
2007 mtn apex se
2007 rhino sport
2004 kodiak
2004 kodiak
any buyers?
I,m out!

 

[Anti-Hero]

I was under the impression the apex motor was based of the FJ motors, i have little knowledge of the apex motor but the FJ motor is awsome i have over 62000 on the bike, with one rebuild at 45000. I hope you can find a motor though, good luck!

 

[BigFish BC]

apex is r1 motor vector, nytro are fj motor

 

[rynokron]

well I just got off the phone with yamaha and they don't care. It seems that it is a time issue and dosen't matter that it only has 1500 miles on it, they don't seem to care that the dealer says it was defective either the "time has expired" according to yamaha. So any way i'm right back to where I started with a blown up sled, but I did make a new friend. Thanks Michelle, i'll be in touch about that new motor. It turns out that yamaha dosen't really care like everybody seems to think they do, unless its in the one year warranty, then your golden. so it looks like you need to buy a new one every year if you want to be safe, too rich for my blood. Yamaha just lost a loyal family of customers, especially my local dealer!!

I own
1993 exciter
1998 big bear
1996 800 mtn max
1998 700 mtn max
1999 600 mtn max
2005 mtn vector
2006 mtn apex
2007 mtn apex se
2007 rhino sport
2004 kodiak
2004 kodiak
any buyers?
I,m out!

I understand that you are frustrated, and I would be too. Replacing all of your toys is only going to hurt you. Yamaha made their money off those deals long ago. Plus anything you buy will most likely be LESS reliable.
Sorry about your bad luck, but that's all it is.

 

[Turbo Tim]

I've been trying to blow one of these things up for 5 years and haven't had any luck yet (all with turbo's) .

 

[MotoPsycho]

...it turns out my dealer, well used to be dealer, never even tried to contact yamaha and see what they would do...

Amazing... same thing happened to me.

I think the dealers talk to their RTA first, RTA sez Yamaha won't work on it, and they (the dealer) never bother to pursue it...

...stealership....

BWAHAHAHAHAH!!! You hit that so hard it's singin' like a ten penny finish nail smacked on the head with a greezy ball peen hammer!!!

 

[snowy1]

sorry that you had bad luck with this sled, but thats all it was. it looks like you have purchased alot of yamaha products and no other issues, that in it self proves the reliability, the sled is out of warrantee, no other manufacture will take care of an out of warrantee vehicle, ford,chevy,dodge, skidoo,arctic cat, honda, you get the idea, if you want to go back to a 2 smoke thats your choice not hurting any body but yourself. I hope you don,t make all your decissions in life off of one bad experience when from your list you have had alot of good experiences with this product. good luck.

 

[paulharris]

only time i have ever heard of yamaha engines blowing up is when they are run out of oil. very strange