More atv questions
 

Hello, I'm wondering how many miles a person could expect to get out of a Yamaha 700 grizzly with fuel injection before seeing serious engine or transmission trouble.
Assuming it was treated well, and serviced regularly.

A friend has one he'd be willing to sell me. One owner, and he looks after things well.
It has about 8000k on it. I'm a little nervous of the mileage. I don't expect I'll put to many on it myself though.
I'd use it a bit for game retrieval and maybe the odd trail ride.
Thanks for any advice.

I have one with 13000 and haven't touched the motor or trans. Routine maintenance and still runs strong.

Seen 6 or so come back from one outfitting camp with 20-25k.

quad
 

I put on ~1000 kms per year on my Suzuki 500 quad, presently at 12,000 kms thus best part of life probably already used up on Yamaha 700. You need to have light throttle finger and good maintenance to get over 10,000km on quad.

I'm guessing its priced accordingly. Pays your money..takes your chances.
Unless those 8k are highway miles ...Myself Personally, I'd pay a few thousand more and get a lower miler as I want to be the one that puts all those miles on er :)

What’s the price that he wants. That will help the most with a decision on to buy the unit. What year?

If you only plan to pull some game out in the fall with the odd trail ride now and then, and it’s a good maintained quad like you say, you should get many more years from her.

My family ran our CanAm, Polaris and Honda quads to 20,000 before we would retire them. Yes some repairs along the way mostly minor like fuel pumps, brakes bushings and ball joints, belts and crap like that. Never a major issue. People sell most quads way short for how long they are actually good for. And these atvs were used in ranching in the BC mountains, so hard long days in logging country all summer loaded with salt and fencing supplies, all the way to calving time in deep snow. They were not babied but were maintained. On a Yamaha or Honda I would not even give it any doubt at 8000km. Get a good deal because it’s “worn out” and enjoy it for a long time.

I know of many machines that have 20-40000 km on them. I wouldn't stress about 8000 km. Might be minor work like breaks, bearings, bushings etc, but that's life. If the price is acceptable, it's all good.

It's an '09 he wants to get $3750 for it.
And he did breaks all around, front wheel bearings and a new belt last year.
If that helps. Haha

So long as he hasn't swamped it, buy it and enjoy the ride!

Sometimes when they get swamped the cylinders get scored, you'll see it smoke if that's the case.

Girlfriends farm has a kodiak 450 with 27k km on it and only thing they did was regular maintenance and the only problem was the drain plug stripped out of it. I know this model kodiak is carberated and not a fuel injected grizzly but you can get a lot of miles out of them if you treat them right.

Sounds like it'll be a good machine.
Thanks for all the info

I'd go for it. Be aware that you might have to replace the half axle shafts if he's run it in the fully upright position on the suspension, or if he has a lift kit on it. check when he last replaced the battery, and check and clean the rad. Is the rad in the factory position, or on top of the front load bars??

Entirely depends on how it has been used and maintained.
If it's a machine that has been out mud bogging Caroline every weekend it could be trashed. Ridden and used as it was intended and maintained properly should be fine.

A neighbour of mine has a Honda Foreman that had 56,000 kms on it last I saw. And he has 4 teenage boys that have beat on it!

Impressive. My little 350 foreman (01), has 2300 km. Picked it up used (100 km). Looks like it will last my lifetime. Drive it about 150-200km season for hunting. :sHa_shakeshout:

He's a mid fifties guy. Trail riding mainly.
And the rad is in the factory position.

And I bought it tonight. Haha
Hope it works out