Snowmobile VS Truck

[posnick]

i drove by this and everyone was still there shoveling the truck out of the ditch. sled was a mess!

 

[bighiter]

Polaris takes safety very serious. If you hold the throttle wide open for more than 4 seconds, the ECM will initiate a sequence where the exhaust side of the piston scuffs, you start to lose compression, then the engine dies.

hahaha ... Actually had to laugh out loud on that one. :d

 

[magnet]

Don't polaris sled have a etc switch thats supposed to kill the engine if the throtle sticks just like the quads do. Glad to here he's all right though.

the safety switch is only for if the cable breaks and throttle is stuck wide open lever returns to closed and engine dies. real bugger when they start to f up and kill the sled every time ya stop.
the next post after the qouted one was a gooder though lmao.

 

[youngpolarisguy]

Oh i know there a pain in the a$$ i have had them screw up the quads, but i accually had one on a sled once were the cable was not broken and the slides were frosen about half open and every time i let off it wout die, accually worked.

 

[foxrider]

ya my buddy is ok. his sled doesnt have a tether. its a 2010 polaris RMK800. its all getting taken care of legally right now, insurance was contacted and so forth. about 4 grand damage done to the guys truck

I imagine he might have broke his wrist?

 

[KVF 700]

ya i cant see the tether being of much benefit in this situation. if he didnt have time to hit the kill switch, he would not have had time to pull the teather and/or jump off. Chances are this happened all within a few seconds very close to the roadway. Say there was in fact a tether involved, and the rider bailed, sled probably would have darted into traffic anyway.

That's besides the point. good thing nobody died.

 

[rsw84]

Polaris takes safety very serious. If you hold the throttle wide open for more than 4 seconds, the ECM will initiate a sequence where the exhaust side of the piston scuffs, you start to lose compression, then the engine dies.

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[pistonbroke800]

I heard all about this one. The company truck that hit him is the same company i work for. oops

 

[powderpilot]

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X2!!!!!! Sure glad my sled doesn't have that feature!!!!! Almost peed my pants!

 

[talkinghamster]

X2... Im sure its gonna start some kind of debate on whether sled should ride in ditches.... not on here but publically. The media will have a hay day. Personally, I love cruising them, but theres a lot of people that have issues with it. Time will tell....

he got a reckless driving ticket for 402 dollars.

 

[S.W.A.T.]

Polaris takes safety very serious. If you hold the throttle wide open for more than 4 seconds, the ECM will initiate a sequence where the exhaust side of the piston scuffs, you start to lose compression, then the engine dies.

How would one go about hill climbing. I have always owned a Polaris and never experienced such a thing. But this is good.


Who rides ditches anyways?????

Ditch banging is about as useful as a sled that looses compression with the throttle wide open.
Just sayin....

 

[snoqueen]

Polaris takes safety very serious. If you hold the throttle wide open for more than 4 seconds, the ECM will initiate a sequence where the exhaust side of the piston scuffs, you start to lose compression, then the engine dies.

LMAO.....that's awesome!!

 

[MATTIAC]

nice to see hes ok.. i think id shat my pants if a sled came out of nowhere and cremed my truck..

 

[BC Sno-Ghost]

Just happy to hear the drivers of both truck and sled are ok. Obviously this could have had a very different outcome.

 

[craptabulous]

polaris doesnt have any means of dealing with a stuck throttle ? sounds like they should have something equivilent of the yamaha tors system

 

[ZakAttack]

Yes I drove by this accident and was swearing up and down at the traffic going so slow, ha I guess with good reason. Wrong place wrong time I guess who could ever predict.. happens so fast you don't even know!