Decent small 4X4 quad?

Blue.

Member

Livestock Farmer

• Aug 30, 2014

• #1

Had enough of getting stuck with my 250es Honda,I'm after a reliable and frugal 4x4.

Are these any good ?
www.paulchuter.co.uk/item_detail.php?stock=369

How slow are they in 1st gear?

Always found my honda to be too fast in 1st gear always been good on fuel though.

Tia Eulb

 

devonshire farmer

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Devon

• Aug 30, 2014

• #2

Fed up with pulling @Flossie out, Ha Ha Ha
If you want slow then Kawasaki do a 300 klf with a hi low box and 4x4 good solid bikes

 

Blue.

Member

Livestock Farmer

• Aug 30, 2014

• #3

devonshire farmer said:

Fed up with pulling @Flossie out, Ha Ha Ha
If you want slow then Kawasaki do a 300 klf with a hi low box and 4x4 good solid bikes

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she wants a trailer for calves,no point when it can't pull itself.

 

Flossie

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Lancs

• Aug 30, 2014

• #4

eulb said:

she wants a trailer for calves,no point when it can't pull itself

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After pulling a half moon at some ramblers last week whilst straddling a feral Angus calf on the quad, I think it's the decent thing to do

 

rc mx110

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Location

Lanbedr Pont Steffan, Crapweatherigion

• Aug 30, 2014

• #5

eulb said:

Had enough of getting stuck with my 250es Honda,I'm after a reliable and frugal 4x4.

Are these any good ?
www.paulchuter.co.uk/item_detail.php?stock=369

How slow are they in 1st gear?

Always found my honda to be too fast in 1st gear always been good on fuel though.

Tia Eulb

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@Penmoel has one

 

Mursal

Member

• Aug 30, 2014

• #6

@Flossie no good telling us about it, take the tripod and do a video .................

You wont beat Honda and if you think its good on fuel, just get one with a live axle. Couple of Diesels knocking about, whatever they are like? The kids are bound to have a few pennies in the piggybank, well worth spending it on a Honda for @@Flossie, in my opinion !!

@eulb

 

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rc mx110

Member

Location

Lanbedr Pont Steffan, Crapweatherigion

• Aug 30, 2014

• #7

a motorized wheel barrow would be more use than a honda 350 or 420

 

Ali

Member

Location

Aberdeenshire

• Aug 30, 2014

• #8

Yamaha grizzly is a good bike and not bad on fuel.
Tows well too

 

sherg

Member

Location

shropshire

• Aug 30, 2014

• #9

Ive got a 500 and love it @Hilly and @neilo like theirs I think and @Penmoel has got a 400 there is a thread on here somewhere about it, I would think at that money you'd struggle to find anything that would get anywhere near it

 

Hilly

Member

Location

Scottish Borders.

• Aug 30, 2014

• #10

Ali said:

Yamaha grizzly is a good bike and not bad on fuel.
Tows well too

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Had a go on my neighbours and liked it.

sherg said:

Ive got a 500 and love it @Hilly and @neilo like theirs I think and @Penmoel has got a 400 there is a thread on here somewhere about it, I would think at that money you'd struggle to find anything that would get anywhere near it

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Mine has been good really like it, newer models are even better smoother and quieter my part time worker has a newer model to mine and its more comfortable.

 

sherg

Member

Location

shropshire

• Aug 30, 2014

• #11

Hilly said:

Had a go on my neighbours and liked it.

Mine has been good really like it, newer models are even better smoother and quieter my part time worker has a newer model to mine and its more comfortable.

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I had a look at the new ones and they look to of improved i'd better get saving

 

trook135

Member

Location

Hampshire

• Aug 30, 2014

• #12

arctic cat 700 diesel, damn cheap to run compared with our old 350 honda, not overly small but seems to go anywhere and is plenty capable tugging

 

Chuckie

Member

Location

England

• Aug 30, 2014

• #13

eulb said:

she wants a trailer for calves,no point when it can't pull itself.

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Would a mule/gator type thing not be more useful?

 

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Sheep

Member

Location

Northern Ireland

• Aug 30, 2014

• #14

Grizzly 450, Independent rear suspension, diff lock, automatic, hi/lo box, switch on the move 4x4 and plenty powerful enough.

Tbh I think a defender 90 would be as good value as a gator/mule and they are far more capable.

 

neilo

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

Montgomeryshire

• Aug 30, 2014

• #15

sherg said:

I had a look at the new ones and they look to of improved i'd better get saving

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When did the new ones come out? I downgraded mine to a 500 in the Spring, and like it a lot. Got power steering on now, as I'm getting old and infirm, and I've got used to bright yellow quads.

 

itsintheblood

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Location

south west in over the knap

• Aug 30, 2014

• #16

Having worked and sold honda bikes in a previous life , you will struggle to beat what you had for reliability and ability to run on fresh air, however had a 420 here and thought they were pants and agree that the yammahas look good , but I'm hearing very good things from the family about the new honda 420 (better on fuel)
It's is fairly big as it shares the same plastics as the 500

 

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pickuptyres

New Member

• Aug 30, 2014

• #17

Grizzly 450 is a good solid small bike. Nice and light, but low box to be able to tow and climb anything, and don't know if it's important, very stable, more so than the grizzly 550. Very noisy though, a bit of a drawback.

As for Honda, the 500 auto is another excellent bike, quiet, stable, super reliable, but heavy on fuel, and being discontinued soon. Haven't tried old or new 420 so can't comment on them.

 

itsintheblood

Member

Location

south west in over the knap

• Aug 30, 2014

• #18

Do the grizzlys have engine breaking ? Kawasakis have virtually dissapered from this area after the autos having no engine breaking ....... Who wants to be jack-knifing with a trailer down steep hills

 

Mursal

Member

• Aug 30, 2014

• #19

Yes agree, engine braking is important, we welded the centrifugal clutch on ours (because it was gone), so it will now hold at tickover, proper job. The clutch on the gear change is plenty .........

 

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Big Al

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Location

Middlewich

• Aug 30, 2014

• #20

eulb said:

Had enough of getting stuck with my 250es Honda,I'm after a reliable and frugal 4x4.

Are these any good ?
www.paulchuter.co.uk/item_detail.php?stock=369

How slow are they in 1st gear?

Always found my honda to be too fast in 1st gear always been good on fuel though.

Tia Eulb

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I've got one, its the first quad I've had so I'm afraid I can't draw much of a comparison to anything else.
It seems generally well built, its got CVT gearbox so doesn't have any gears, it will happily move forward from about 2 to 40 mph (maybe a bit faster but I'm not that brave) without the need to change gear.
It will pull my mobile handling system around without any problems on dry flat land
Can't say I've ever been stuck and was driving through some very wet ground in the winter taking up electric fencing.

If anything concerns me about its future reliability its the electrics, in the past few days its not been starting straight away as it hasn't recognised the transponder in the key.
The rear brake light was also triggering a warning message on the display for a while but it has stopped now.
Maybe residual value could be a problem too when selling it compared to a Honda, but then its cheaper to start with so hopefully the depreciation will be about the same.