Thanks guys. The windshield and the rear box can come off easily for utility use. That's how it would be setup for Maine trail riding.
Sounds similar to how I use mine. I have a '14 Outlander that I have different setups for summer/winter. I have 10,100 miles on it so far. Setup for winter work: Setup for summer play, getting ready to eat one of the freeze dried meals I had on the trails that day. Getting ready to tow my buddies Yamaha Viking which blew a belt at 2,000 miles. I had my nephew with me.
No, this model was before they had the lifetime warranty (or whatever it is now). They started doing that a couple years after he bought this one. He now has an RMAX, which does have the belt warranty. The only difference in the clutches that Yamaha/Suzuki/Arctic Cat use vs the others is they have a wet clutch setup that keeps the clutch from spinning when at idle. Whoop-to-do. LOL Belt wear doesn't really happen at idle. It's just a marketing thing. He blew his belt because he was abusing the hell out of the machine trying to keep up with us over those 2,000 miles. LOL
I thought the belt warranty was a interesting thing, considering that I never had to replace a belt on my sportsman 500HO. Then I picked out a new atv for my mom in 2020, a leftover '19 Yamaha Kodiak 450. She was all enamored with that warranty on the belt. I I asked her how many belts the Polaris went though in the 17 years or so we owned it. None was the answer
Only broken belts I recall were on Kawasaki Brute Force with huge oversized mud tires and "no sense" operators...
ATVs and SXSs are completely different animals when it comes to belts. Quads rarely ever blow them. UTVs are a different story.
