Question:
Dear Motorhead,
In picking your best 150 horse sled, come back to it in a year and report all the problems with it also. Just check out all the forums, there are lots of issues.
Mike
Response:
Thanks for your email!
As you can imagine, we have had relatively limited exposure – from a reliability standpoint – to the new XP Rev. Having said that we did run a limited build 800 R XP last season for almost 2000 klicks. This sled had some issues – all of which were addressed in the full-build MY 08’s.
Our 800R Renegade X has over 2000 klicks on it this year and has been reliable and trouble free free from a durability standpoint. However, we agree, there are myriad ride compliance and shock/spring/seat issues as it relates to comfort on the XP.
Ski-Doo is well aware of these issues and is responding. However, we were assured the full-build XP’s would ride much better than the limited build we had last season – unfortunately, we accepted Ski-Doo’s word on this but it didn’t happen.
The 800 XP is a great sled – it needs a suspesnion re-calibration to make it all it was promised.
Thanks for your comments – they are appreciated.
Motorhead Mark
