Hello all! I am new to the community, and I would appreciate any help I can get on this topic! I have been riding sport quads all my life and just recently made the switch to Utility’s by purchasing the new Grizzly!
I bought the bike the past Friday and am loading it on the trailer and at the dealer and begin to hear a little rattle…I get the sales guy to come check it out and we take it back to the shop and pull the plastics off and it turns out to be the heat shield needed tightening….so at this point I decide I’m going to thoroughly check out the bike when I get it home.
I get it in the garage with a flash light and look over every aspect of the bike and notice that 3 bolts are missing in spread out over the front and back finder connecting the inside fenders to the bottom skid plates! I immediately begin to panic and think "what have I bought, this is some bike that someone threw together trying to punch the clock and get out of work early on a Friday". I then start to feel the exhaust and notice that there is a fair amount of play in the actual muffler and the pipe coming out of the back of the muffler….I can move them from left to right….I checked the header where it goes into the engine and there doesn’t seem to be any movement.
Ultimately what I am getting at is, Is the exhaust movement on the new grizzly normal, and the back and forth play there intentionally? ….also Ive sense replaced the screws that were missing…would this worry you? I couldn’t find where anything else is missing so I’m hoping it was just a small fluke and I haven’t gotten a for lack of better words "lemon"….ANY insight or response would be beyond greatly appreciated!
PS…sorry for writing a book!