Recent Metal Detecting Finds and My New Polaris Big Boss 6 Wheeler
My New Polaris Big Boss 6 Wheeler
Well it has been a while since I last wrote, why?
Because it’s been bloody too cold to metal detect!
Thats my excuse, but seriously I have been a bit too slack, yes because it has really been cold, but also because I have been doing other things, my other interests, such as going bottle hunting quite a lot.
But over the last couple of days I have been getting back into my metal detecting and it has been bringing me some good finds which I will write about over the next couple of days.
Around four weeks ago I bought myself a brand spanking new Polaris Big Boss 6 Wheeler, something I have been aiming to get since I left the Royal Australian Navy 18 months ago, which will help me get to places where my car just can’t get to.
It is a great machine, but the very first day I used it, I had a major problem which really pissed me off.
On the assembly line at Polaris somewhere likely in America, they did not do their job properly, and I found this out the worst way possible.
I was around 40kms from town in the middle of nowhere and all of a sudden the instrument panel started flashing “overheating engine” and I started to panic saying to myself “why does this always happen to me? Buy something brand new and the day you get it, it breaks!”
I stopped the bike, and found out that there was a “Coolant Leak” there was coolant leaking from underneath the bike, and I had no choice but to ride the bike home, very slowly with the engine light flashing on and off warning me about the overheating engine.
Thankfully I got home ok, cold and pissed off.
The next day I did a inspection underneath the bike and saw that a “tiny bit of a gasket” protruding from the water pump (See attached photo)
Man, I paid $16,000 for a Polaris, which is supposed to be one of the best quads in the world, and they stuff up my bike on the assembly line!
How the hell would they miss that gasket sticking out of the water pump?
Anyhow it is under warranty and I took the bike back to the dealer and it was fixed straight away, and thankfully no serious damage done (that I am away of)
Anyhow this happened four weeks ago, I am going to write to Polaris about this and see what they have to say for themselves.
Anyhow, it is still a great bike, gets me to places I have never been to before and it’s great to be back writing about my stories at
LostTreasure.com.au
Polaris Assembly Line Stuff Up! Protruding Waterpump Gasket
