Stop sale notice on All Kawasaki Teryx Vehicles

Will update more once we have more information..... but this is a big deal.

 

[Nikal]

This is a good thing. It acknowledges that Kawasaki is acknowledging there is a problem, and we now need to hope they do a complete fix and not just primary clutch failures. The secondary is probably the cause of most belt failures, and there might even be an air flow issue through the CVT to cool the secondary. Looking at the secondary it’s very different from the other brands. The helix is on the back side and the sheaves have no cooling fins to move air, but also to pull heat out of the sheaves.

I’m hoping for a complete overhaul of the CVT.

 

[El Chorizo]

This is a good thing. It acknowledges that Kawasaki is acknowledging there is a problem, and we now need to hope they do a complete fix and not just primary clutch failures. The secondary is probably the cause of most belt failures, and there might even be an air flow issue through the CVT to cool the secondary. Looking at the secondary it’s very different from the other brands. The helix is on the back side and the sheaves have no cooling fins to move air, but also to pull heat out of the sheaves.

I’m hoping for a complete overhaul of the CVT.

I hope you are right. Would love to see this problem solved once and for all. You would think it would have shown up in testing!!!

 

[Nikal]

I hope you are right. Would love to see this problem solved once and for all. You would think it would have shown up in testing!!!

Makes you wonder how these cars are really tested. IMO you need the average Joe driving them as they are the ones who find the short comings. Speed UTV was the same way, but that was because their test and preproduction parts were more superior to the production parts subbed out to contract suppliers in Asia.

Could be the same for the Kawasaki, but I think the design of the secondary is questionable. Plus Kawasaki made a big deal about the primary clutch having a bearing for the belt to ride on when not engaged. They made it sound like it’s revolutionary, yet every other SXS UTV has had that bearing forever. I kinda think Kawasaki is behind the curve on the CVT game and probably should have seeked out an experience company like Team Ind to design and supply clutches. Arctic Cat did that with the Wild Cat XX to speed up the learning curve and to bring a better car to market quicker with better performance & reliability. Now they have designed their own Adapt clutch. So many good things about the XX platform, just for some reason Textron & Arctic Cat treat it like a stepchild. I hope it gets a revision and maybe Gen 2 now that they have new ownership.

 

[Nikal]

Here’s what your formal Kawasaki Teryx H2 consumer Stop Ride Recall letter will say.

 

[El Chorizo]

Thank you for the post.