POLARIS RANGER XP 900 ENGINE BRAKING

POLARIS RANGER XP 900 ENGINE BRAKING

Dear Sarge,

We are having a problem on our calf farm here in New Zealand. Our Polaris Ranger XP900 is used for most all chores and some of that includes stringing up electric fencing to keep the calves in. Some of our property has curly-looking drop offs and instead of taking the Tiki Tour, they go over the drop offs. Twice now our farm hands have started over the drop off and the XP just accelerated like it was in neutral. The brakes are good but we have had the tires lock up and slide and nearly wrecked once dumping our Chillybin out of the rear bed and dumping their Takeaway’s down the drop off. Polaris’s New Zealand national sales manager instructed us on the two-foot braking technique required to produce engine braking, feathering the throttle to keep the drive belt engaged while simultaneously applying the brakes! This gets a little unsettling when you free wheel down a drop off! We read your magazine every month and hope that this month you can help us too.

Hamish Hendrieka

Tauranga, New Zealand

No Worries Mate! If you can’t instruct your Boots on the proper Zooter driving technique, tell them to hump the electric fencing over the hills! Laugh Mate! Your instruction on engine braking technique is absolutely correct for Zooters without automatic engine braking. It may be just easier to give the troops something with a geared transmission and natural automatic engine braking like a Honda Pioneer 1000. Dismissed!

See UTV Action’s full test on the Pioneer 1000-5 here: TEST: HONDA PIONEER 1000 LE – UTV Action Magazine