Posts by Phantomx

We decided after 2 years we wanted to get back into a slingshot. After trading my old one that I had highly customized and being pretty unhappy with the auto drive we got we decided on a 2023 Graphite blue/black R with a manual. It was kinda unfortunate to see they still haven’t fixed some of the basic issues after so many years. I just spent the last few hours trying to figure why the cruise wouldn’t work and I was getting a brake light switch erratic voltage error on my 1 day old SS. After some tinkering I think I finally got it adjusted so that my cruise finally works and the traction light hasn’t come on but took some delicate tweaking.

Now the next thing is to go in for service since the steering wheel is off by about 1 spline so it’s crooked when driving straight and there is some unknown error codes SPN516194 FMI:9 scared:39 error message whatever that means. Is that bad when the machines own diagnostics throw up their hands and go “ummm i don’t know” LOL. I think I’m gonna get the TricLED manual brake light switch and ditch that stilly magnetic switch they use to stave off future issues with it.

Otherwise the new ones drive really really nice and the new shifter and layout and ride command seems to be working pretty good.

Anyone rig up a generic headset to just pair with the ride command to trick the system into running car play?

Missed the community you guys and gals are awesome and I look forward to meeting up with everyone once again at some events in the future!

Did it fix all the lag issues and the slow screen start and graphics not coming up?

Wait you can get heated and cooled seats?????

They finally have there tools here so I’ll be taking mine to the dealer to have some updates done so we will see what it fixes. They have to fill an online form out as well and that is just now available now too.

I don’t know if you can add anything it would change the impedance, Factory units can be a bit finicky. If you run them in parallel it lowers the impedance and in series raises it. Your best bet to not put to much strain on the stock radio is adding an amp. It’s not very hard to do just put it under the driver seat I’ve done a few there now and it works great. The stock radio has no rear channels just left and right.

At that point it really opens up your audio options to add side pods, rear pods, waterfall to get more into the cabin. I have a 5 channel amp that runs the under glove box, replaced the factory speakers with the Memphis audio ones and a waterfall with 2 more 6.5’ speakers. The behind the head pods are great as well.

Here is the new 2020 so far with Mats, Wing, Roof and F4 (best windshield ever).

We now officially have our 4th slingshot we love them that much. My 2018 has taken a long journey and a stupid amount of money Here is a picture of the day I picked it up still on the lot at Cyclesprings until just recently.

There are a lot of mods that you can't see in the pictures. Some of the major upgrades include:

22" Rims/Tires, Stoptech big brake kit, Sway bar, Engine dress kit, CAI, Custom Tune, Header, Welter Exhaust, Twist Roof, Twist Wing, UAG Spoiler, Lite the Nite LED's, Custom Stereo with 2 6" JL Audios and all new 6.5's with waterfall, PRP Seats, NRG CF steering wheel, CF radio shade, lots of interior dress stuff, F4 Customs, LED's, Mats, and who knows what else LOL.

Yea basically adjusts the throttle latency, makes it more responsive, you can dial it up or down to make it less or more sensitive from lazy to super twitchy. It doesn't add any more horsepower just makes it more sensitive so it will fell peppier but it's won't be any faster, WOT is still WOT throttle and it doesn't change any engine parameters. if you run across a turbo and SC Slingshot, don't race him, you'll still lose LOL.

Personally I don't car much for all the hardware all over the place with that screen. I love the F4 windscreens personally. I've had the all the Rippers, and ridden in ones with the Nascar and the Madstad. Overall comfort the F4 is the best and its incredibly durable. I've had one on 3 slings for 4 years and it still looks great. I found it the best balance of comfort, protection, calm cockpit, etc.

Go for it, it looks great. My buddy has an orange madness with Corbins and the Wing looks fantastic.

It's an update issue. They have to do an update but nobody has the tool they need to do the update. The PDI list even says to skip over it.

You can do a few things to help for now. I had to try a few different cables but I finally found one that works consistently. When it does the radio is very very very slow to respond. You can still play music just click play on the phone. Eventually the radio will show the track on the screen but it will take a long time. I just don't use that screen. I think it's indexing your whole music library every time you plug in. Just flip to the nav screen.

The rider screens will take a long time to load to. Just remove the radio widget from that screen, flip to Nav and flip back they'll load up faster. Just control the music from your phone for now.

Also for Bluetooth make sure your phone is the only phone in the list, if you have more than one it just doesn't like it. There are no updates on line yet either for the 2020 only the 2019 and below.

Worked all day. Then did mostly nothing just like yesterday and the day before, and day before and day before and wait what were we talking about. Going a bit stir crazy to be fair. I mean you can only clean the cars and slingshots so many times before they even say "DUDE go do something else".

Yea they have to do an update but nobody has the right equipment to do it.

However I did find a workaround. I had to go thru about 3 different cables but I got one that works. The screens will still take forever to load and you can't use the controls but if you hit play it'll play through and you can use the volume control. Eventually it will load but it takes forever.

Also don't have more than 1 BT device. Delete them all and only put one.

The other driver ride command screens will also take forever to load. A workaround for that is to take the radio widget off the screens put anything else on but that. If you hit the nav button the map will show then hit the button to show the ride command widgets and they will load up.

Eventually the radio screen will load and you can see your tracks but it takes forever. I think it's indexing all the music on your phone every time you plug in.

SlingLow They are the same, I used a small piece of wire to check both my 2018 and the 2020 as close as my eye can tell they are the same.

This is what I measured. From the outside lowest point to the outside highest point. Using your standard tape measure

SlingLow If I'm doing what you asked correctly. If I measure the hoop diagonally from the lower "point" to as close as I can see the highest point it's about 15 3/4" give or take an 1/8th pending the angle your look at it lol

SlingLow do you need any measurements?

OrangeSlingFL yes I pointed that out in my post several times. Had she been back further it would have been no issue. As stated though the auto drive is clumsy in slow speed scenarios and the machine does lurch about so give yourself a few feet

Oh and what’s the best way to tell Polaris?

Thanks guys, appreciate it. SlingLow the bars as far as I can tell are exactly the same. I put the Twist big wing on the new SS and it bolted right up no issues as did the Twist Roof. So two big pieces that use different parts of the roll hoop fit perfectly.