New Member Southern Idaho

Wow, hope that isnt a flaw in all of em? Was it whoops or jumps or just broke?

wow ! what do you think went wrong?

Woah, I'm sorry to hear that @cbuse4. what happened? How long do you have to wait until it's fixed?

Thanks for the reply’s! The shock mount broke while I was going through a rocky straight stretch in the desert. It caused me to flip on the passenger side. It’s been an uphill battle with Kawasaki and I have had to turn this into insurance. It should be fixed next week.

cbuse4 said:

Thanks for the reply’s! The shock mount broke while I was going through a rocky straight stretch in the desert. It caused me to flip on the passenger side. It’s been an uphill battle with Kawasaki and I have had to turn this into insurance. It should be fixed next week.

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I've heard similar responses about Kawasaki, they aren't the easiest to deal with. Which insurance company are you with?

Keep us posted on the fix.

sxslife said:

I've heard similar responses about Kawasaki, they aren't the easiest to deal with. Which insurance company are you with?

Keep us posted on the fix.

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I’m with Geico and things have been smooth with them and my dealer.
Kawasaki did not even offer replacement frame repair parts and as I said before have not been helpful. Luckily a local welding shop is rebuilding the shock mounting bracket and going to beef it up for me. Will post some pics of the repair once complete. I’m chomping at the bit to have it back. Hopefully this does not become a recurring theme.

Kawasaki is one of the better manufacturers when it comes to standing behind their products. I betting someone bottomed out the right front suspension hard at some point, which led to this failure. These shock mounts don't "just break". Can't expect Kawasaki to fix everyone's mistakes. That said, that's why we put insurance on them. Good to hear your's is taking care of you, and getting you back on the trails again. Ride on.

BobX2 said:

Kawasaki is one of the better manufacturers when it comes to standing behind their products. I betting someone bottomed out the right front suspension hard at some point, which led to this failure. These shock mounts don't "just break". Can't expect Kawasaki to fix everyone's mistakes. That said, that's why we put insurance on them. Good to hear your's is taking care of you, and getting you back on the trails again. Ride on.

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It broke at 138 miles. The entire 120 break in was riding on Idaho desert backroads. The 18 were at bulldog canyon OHV area in Arizona. My issue is during that 18 miles we were doing open desert riding with mild rock crawling... I just expected this “beefed up machine” to handle a little more. While I don’t doubt that Kawasaki does a good job most of the time, I never got a chance to even speak to a field rep nor did they do a site visit to my dealer to look at the machine. Here’s to hoping it’s happy trails from here definitely excited to have it back.

Damn first steering knuckles now shock mounts sighs