Most reliable ATV?

[Dpetersen12]

Honda all day as far as reliability

 

[Giddy]

Honda has been the most reliable with the least maintenance for me. Yamaha has been good but I have had more seals leaking with it and I blew up my Polaris within a month but it has been running good after being rebuilt.

 

[Bighunt531]

Polaris sportsman 570 4x4 but it has left me stranded when battery died this on the other hand runs like a top electric start and pull, if you use these correctly they are pretty nice to have

 

[Bighunt531]

Nothing outlasts Honda...their three-wheelers are still used as daily drivers in my neck of the woods...think about that for a minute....

Just put new swampers on mine!

 

[SaltyUte]

Honda. The shit I've seen on or done to four wheelers growing up in NW Florida was just comical.

 

[7mmremmag]

Any air cooled semi auto trans 4x4 honda from the late 80s through 00s.

 

[WCB]

Never had one but know a bunch of friends and Hondas are solid....I have a 2004 Yamaha Bruin and it is the best wheeler I have been on...nothing fancy but it has plowed snow, hauled gear in and out of countless mud filled snow goose fields, been rolled 1/2 dozen times, and been put through the paces and to this day I have had to only do one "tune up".

I've been on some of the new Yamaha Atvs and see no reason they would be any different.

 

[Mtnboy]

There are other choices that have better features and performance, but if reliability is paramount, a Honda or Yamaha and nothing else comes close.

This. End of discussion.

 

[N2TRKYS]

I’ve always had Suzuki atvs and still do. I recently bought a new Honda and quickly wished I had bought another Suzuki. I won’t make that mistake again.

 

[krohboy]

I have a Polaris Sportsman 570, I use it heavily for Ice Fishing and moving snow at home. Have had zero issues with it and it was fairly inexpensive compared to the other options.

I hear the most common complaint is the battery so I replaced it and relocated it for easier jumping and keep a jump pack in the storage box, but haven't ran into the issue myself.

 

[Wapiti1]

Suzuki was the most reliable by a fair margin when I worked at a shop. Honda had efi issues and Yamaha had suspension and drivetrain issues. Polaris just kind of fell apart over time in a more general way.

Jeremy

 

[shredder97]

Honda rancher 420. No bells and whistles, just durability.

 

[trazerr]

Honda followed by Yamaha. Born and raised in a small farming town. Every farmer had Honda’s. Nothing else. My family had a fourtrax 300 that just wouldn’t die. After that two Ranchers and now a Rancher and Pioneer 1000. Out of all of them the only things my family has replaced in 35+ years are batteries, oil, tires, and one choke cable on a 2001 Rancher.

My farm buddies would abuse the crap out of their Honda’s. Used hard daily with minimal to zero maintenance. Yet they had 10-15 year old Honda’s still going strong.

A friend had an old fourtrax back in high school that we launched off a cliff bear hunting. It then became the rig that would pull us around the fields on sheet metal and such. One day it didn’t want to turn over. We checked the oil. Not even a drop on the dipstick. Added some that we found in the shop for tractors and she started right back up. We just couldn’t kill them and we were young and pretty dumb!

 

[Sparkey24]

Most Reliable Honda, Most comfortable with good reliability Polaris

 

[cobbc03]

If you’re set on four wheeler, I’d go Polaris or can am. I would recommend a UTV over a four wheeler though. Just upgraded from an 04 sportsman to a 20 ranger, and I wonder why I didn’t years ago.


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[fmyth]

I vote for Honda. In 1980 my brother and I bought a Honda ATC 185. We lived on a farm so we rode the hell out of it until we both graduated from school and moved on in 1986 & 1988. In 1990 we gave it to my uncle who ran a big Corp farm in Hardin MO. In 1993 the big flood washed his farm, house, all his equipment and our ATC away. 2 years later he was working for a contractor repairing roads and levys when he found the ATC up in a tree where the flood waters had left it. He was able to get it down with the help of some friends. He changed the oil, flushed the gas tank and gave it a new spark plug and air filter. He still putts around on it today.

 

[ZachW]

I personally like Honda four wheelers.

 

[browning2480]

Lots of folks say to avoid Polaris, but I love mine. Use it all year in every condition imaginable and have never had an issue. I slap a plow on every winter to clear my driveway and all the surrounding sidewalks. Ice fishing, trail riding, off road no trail riding, mud...go everywhere and do everything that anyone else does.

Same thing here. Guess my 1998 Sportsman didn’t get the memo that it shouldn’t be reliable. Thing has been going strong with no issues and many trips from the Midwest to Colorado.

 

[fmyth]

Same thing here. Guess my 1998 Sportsman didn’t get the memo that it shouldn’t be reliable. Thing has been going strong with no issues and many trips from the Midwest to Colorado.

Same with my 2014 RZR900. Getting close to 9k hard miles and it's never left me stranded. No major repair work either.

 

[Pacific_Fork]

The only reason I chose a Yamaha grizzly 450 over the comparable Honda model back in 2014 was better ground clearance. You can’t go wrong with either imo.