griffontamer
New member
Hi all,
We have purchased some pricey machines that seem to have a growing number of issues arise and BRP is reluctantly sort-of addressing some of them while we are stuck paying out of pocket to fix the poor design on others.
I am not (YET) saying that I regret buying my F3S; but I DEFINITELY regret giving up the RS-S. The more I learn (surprisingly only through this forum, never directly from BRP) about warranty campaigns, recalls, common issues etc on the F3s, the more I think wow, they really should replace all of our units with ones that don't have bottoming out suspensions, cracking frames, leaky instrument clusters, gravel noise in clutch baskets, brake line failures and whatever other problems that riddle these beautiful and fun but perhaps not-ready-for-public (at the time of initial release) machines.
My F3s acted up last weekend (unrelated to all these other things), ran like total poo upon restart, can't reproduce the problem now, waiting to have some time to take it to a dealer for code scanning. Other people early on complained about their SE6 randomly going into limp home mode, causing dangerous situations (mine is a manual and no limp mode but a couple of times during the forementioned ride it barely ran and was unridable, also causing potential hazardous situations).
My RS-S, which was pretty banged up by a previous rider, never skipped a beat, never had any frame/suspension/brake/etc issues, was a blast to ride and I miss it so much. I only wish BRP would make the F3 as tough and reliable.
I do realize that often first-year models do have bugs that need to be worked out (which was my hesitation in buying the F3 and it's my fault I chose to do it against my better judgment); but I honestly have never seen first year motorcycle have so many issues, and surely with more to be discovered.
The point of my rambling on is that I feel that we as a group of owners could get BRP to address all those issues without us having to spend our own dimes on better shocks, clutches, etc. How would we go about doing that?
We have purchased some pricey machines that seem to have a growing number of issues arise and BRP is reluctantly sort-of addressing some of them while we are stuck paying out of pocket to fix the poor design on others.
I am not (YET) saying that I regret buying my F3S; but I DEFINITELY regret giving up the RS-S. The more I learn (surprisingly only through this forum, never directly from BRP) about warranty campaigns, recalls, common issues etc on the F3s, the more I think wow, they really should replace all of our units with ones that don't have bottoming out suspensions, cracking frames, leaky instrument clusters, gravel noise in clutch baskets, brake line failures and whatever other problems that riddle these beautiful and fun but perhaps not-ready-for-public (at the time of initial release) machines.
My F3s acted up last weekend (unrelated to all these other things), ran like total poo upon restart, can't reproduce the problem now, waiting to have some time to take it to a dealer for code scanning. Other people early on complained about their SE6 randomly going into limp home mode, causing dangerous situations (mine is a manual and no limp mode but a couple of times during the forementioned ride it barely ran and was unridable, also causing potential hazardous situations).
My RS-S, which was pretty banged up by a previous rider, never skipped a beat, never had any frame/suspension/brake/etc issues, was a blast to ride and I miss it so much. I only wish BRP would make the F3 as tough and reliable.
I do realize that often first-year models do have bugs that need to be worked out (which was my hesitation in buying the F3 and it's my fault I chose to do it against my better judgment); but I honestly have never seen first year motorcycle have so many issues, and surely with more to be discovered.
The point of my rambling on is that I feel that we as a group of owners could get BRP to address all those issues without us having to spend our own dimes on better shocks, clutches, etc. How would we go about doing that?
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