It appears to be "the luck of the draw". Normally I would not go to such drastic measures but they have not been very responsive when it comes to fixing problems in a timely manner. I am sure it will all work out. Thanks.
Posts by Frankhpns
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As it turned out after several components were replaced without success and having the SS in the shop for the better part of 13 weeks since purchased in February, it is now being suggested by Polaris that the main wiring harness be replaced. This entails significant labor and the harness costs about $1700.00. I had requested that under the circumstances the vehicle be refunded or replaced and I gave them a reasonable time to make a decision before I engaged a law firm that specializes in UCC and Magneson-Moss Federal Warranty Act litigation. They never responded as I thought. The SS is in the shop with and 30 to 60-day estimate for repair. I have since contracted with a law firm that has taken the case on contingency, Options 1 replace the vehicle, 2. Refund me my money, 3. repair my vehicle, and reimbursed me for unavailability and diminished value. If they fix it I will sell it immediately because I doubt the machine will be brought back to new status considering the extent of the work required to replace the harness. I regret ever buying the Slingshot and would never consider buying a Polaris product again.
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Having a vehicle that is covered by a lemon law issue makes it a LOT cheaper to reach a solution with the manufacturer. Since the Slingshot is not covered by the lemon law, any legal action is going to be MAJORLY expensive. No lawyer would take these cases on a contingency basis, and any quality law firm billable hourly rates would probably start at the $300 per hour for paralegal work on up to the high hundreds per hour for am associate attorney. That alone makes manufacturers less than inclined to settle early on based on simple statements of "I'm going to sue". Trust me on one thing - as a LOT of forum members here know, I was screwed out of close to $10.000 from a Slingshot aftermarket vendor. After speaking with several law firms, the best consideration I was able to receive as an offer to represent me was writing a letter threatening legal action which received no response (Just as I had told them it would). They then returned the remainder of my retainer and said it would end up costing me close to 90% to 95% of my damages with no guarantees of a winning judgement. Plus even if we were to win, the odds of collecting that judgement would take another few thousand dollars. So as much as it sucks, big business is in the drivers seat and could care less about how many unit sales they lose from bad reviews as there are people willing to step up and fill the voids. Not all buyers do their research before tossing their hard earned money at a limited production product. Bottom line. I'm out the original amount plus legal fees and can't even use that loss on my tax return.
I had even thought of starting a go fund me page to raise enough funds to make me whole and any extra funds would be used for some big time partying in Maggie Valley during the next Slingshot event.
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I have a 2023 SL which the chassis fault light's went on. Subsequently numerous other fault lights appeared including fail to accelerate on the way to my dealer. After two weeks Polaris decided to replace a break magnetic sensor switch which was not in stock. I purchased it from another dealer and provided it to my dealer. Polaris is reimbursing me with no issue. I bench tested the switch and could not find any problems with it. After I got it out of the shop everything worked good for a day. The chassis light came back on and this time it also showed up check engine light which went away after several hours. It now shows a misfire code in the diagnostic screen and is back in the shop waiting for instructions from Polaris. Being an electronic tech, I suspect it is either a ground fault, possibly firmware or a defective CPU.
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Let's see how long we have to go b4 we find out....After waiting two weeks, Polaris wants to have my dealer replace the brake position sensor switch. Problem is that there were none in stock and they are back ordered a month. I found that several dealers in Florida had one and I asked Polaris to transfer inventory from that dealer to mine. After two days of going back and forth with Polaris, I decided to buy the part (($120.00) and have it shipped to me. I took it to my dealer this morning and hopefully will have the SS back tomorrow. I sent Polaris the invoice which they would reimburse me for. Time will tell. It is a mag switch made in China. If it fails again and my dealer seems to think it will, I will replace it with a Slingmod mechanical switch and be done with it.
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That is terrible, glad they resolved it.
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Been through polaris working with dealer. My 15 was in the shop fot 3 months. Good luck.
You're scaring me.
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Apparently the dealer mechanic has to work with a Polaris tech. So far Polaris has told him to replace a break position sensor switch. It has not arrived as of this writing. If that does not fix the problems they start over again. Swapping parts to fix a problem can take a long time. It looks like Polaris looks at similar reported problems reported and that have been repaired as to a guide of what to do on the next failure report. They have to submit warranty claims for everthing they do. Not very customer friendly.
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The Magnuson-Moss Federal Warranty Act is what most lawyers in the auto litigation business use. It is essentially a Federal Warranty enforcement law. Most people don't know anything about it. It works well for vehicles not falling under state lemon laws.
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Having a vehicle that is covered by a lemon law issue makes it a LOT cheaper to reach a solution with the manufacturer. Since the Slingshot is not covered by the lemon law, any legal action is going to be MAJORLY expensive. No lawyer would take these cases on a contingency basis, and any quality law firm billable hourly rates would probably start at the $300 per hour for paralegal work on up to the high hundreds per hour for am associate attorney. That alone makes manufacturers less than inclined to settle early on based on simple statements of "I'm going to sue". Trust me on one thing - as a LOT of forum members here know, I was screwed out of close to $10.000 from a Slingshot aftermarket vendor. After speaking with several law firms, the best consideration I was able to receive as an offer to represent me was writing a letter threatening legal action which received no response (Just as I had told them it would). They then returned the remainder of my retainer and said it would end up costing me close to 90% to 95% of my damages with no guarantees of a winning judgement. Plus even if we were to win, the odds of collecting that judgement would take another few thousand dollars. So as much as it sucks, big business is in the drivers seat and could care less about how many unit sales they lose from bad reviews as there are people willing to step up and fill the voids. Not all buyers do their research before tossing their hard earned money at a limited production product. Bottom line. I'm out the original amount plus legal fees and can't even use that loss on my tax return.
I had even thought of starting a go fund me page to raise enough funds to make me whole and any extra funds would be used for some big time partying in Maggie Valley during the next Slingshot event.
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Having a vehicle that is covered by a lemon law issue makes it a LOT cheaper to reach a solution with the manufacturer. Since the Slingshot is not covered by the lemon law, any legal action is going to be MAJORLY expensive. No lawyer would take these cases on a contingency basis, and any quality law firm billable hourly rates would probably start at the $300 per hour for paralegal work on up to the high hundreds per hour for am associate attorney. That alone makes manufacturers less than inclined to settle early on based on simple statements of "I'm going to sue". Trust me on one thing - as a LOT of forum members here know, I was screwed out of close to $10.000 from a Slingshot aftermarket vendor. After speaking with several law firms, the best consideration I was able to receive as an offer to represent me was writing a letter threatening legal action which received no response (Just as I had told them it would). They then returned the remainder of my retainer and said it would end up costing me close to 90% to 95% of my damages with no guarantees of a winning judgement. Plus even if we were to win, the odds of collecting that judgement would take another few thousand dollars. So as much as it sucks, big business is in the drivers seat and could care less about how many unit sales they lose from bad reviews as there are people willing to step up and fill the voids. Not all buyers do their research before tossing their hard earned money at a limited production product. Bottom line. I'm out the original amount plus legal fees and can't even use that loss on my tax return.
I had even thought of starting a go fund me page to raise enough funds to make me whole and any extra funds would be used for some big time partying in Maggie Valley during the next Slingshot event.
Which FL dealer has it now? Adventure Motor Sports.
Sent from my SM-G998U using Polaris Slingshot Forum mobile app
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Having a vehicle that is covered by a lemon law issue makes it a LOT cheaper to reach a solution with the manufacturer. Since the Slingshot is not covered by the lemon law, any legal action is going to be MAJORLY expensive. No lawyer would take these cases on a contingency basis, and any quality law firm billable hourly rates would probably start at the $300 per hour for paralegal work on up to the high hundreds per hour for am associate attorney. That alone makes manufacturers less than inclined to settle early on based on simple statements of "I'm going to sue". Trust me on one thing - as a LOT of forum members here know, I was screwed out of close to $10.000 from a Slingshot aftermarket vendor. After speaking with several law firms, the best consideration I was able to receive as an offer to represent me was writing a letter threatening legal action which received no response (Just as I had told them it would). They then returned the remainder of my retainer and said it would end up costing me close to 90% to 95% of my damages with no guarantees of a winning judgement. Plus even if we were to win, the odds of collecting that judgement would take another few thousand dollars. So as much as it sucks, big business is in the drivers seat and could care less about how many unit sales they lose from bad reviews as there are people willing to step up and fill the voids. Not all buyers do their research before tossing their hard earned money at a limited production product. Bottom line. I'm out the original amount plus legal fees and can't even use that loss on my tax return.
I had even thought of starting a go fund me page to raise enough funds to make me whole and any extra funds would be used for some big time partying in Maggie Valley during the next Slingshot event.
The vehicle is not covered under the Lemon Law in Florida, it is however covered under the Federal Magnasun-Moss Federal Warranty Act and is quite effective in getting issues of the nature settled without expense to the owner. Most people don't know about the law.
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Before you get all excited about Polaris having to buy your machine back, maybe give the dealer an opportunity to solve the problem. It's probably nothing serious, and should be fixed easily. All vehicles are not perfect, unfortunately yours is having a problem, but it's solvable and you'll be back on the road soon!
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I am not excited about the issues and buying back the SS would be my last choice. I am hoping the dealer who I did not purchase it from, and Polaris has an opportunity to correct the problems. I am however not going to purchase a new SS that has failed after only 300 miles have it repaired and then have it fail on numerous occasions in the future. I see on quite a few occasions that Polaris has often had quality control issues with the SS. Although not related, I also have had several major issues with cars I have owned that required litigation to ultimately resolve the problems of bad quality control. If their quality control, testing, and engineering are improved then they might not have these sorts of problems.
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The federal Magnasun-Moss Warranty Act law is completely separate from any state lemon law which in this case does not apply.
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You are correct, I am a biomedical electronics tech and am well aware of ground issues. They get three times to fix it and then it is replacement time under the Magnuson-Moss federal warranty act.
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New Slingshot with about 300 miles. The first fault light was the chassis failure. The second failure light was a brake failure. Headlights are misaligned. On the way to the dealer, the dash alarm lights lit up like a Christmas tree and the SS went into a fail-to-accelerate mode. I got to the dealer and am now waiting for Polaris to troubleshoot with the service tech over the phone. He indicated it is either an open ground somewhere in the system or a defective CPU. Hopefully, it will be resolved in a timely manner.
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Having numerous Harley's and various assorted motorcycles over the better part of 50 years, quite frankly I don't give a damn what they think. Slingshot's are registered motorcycles in most states. Having said that, I get a friendly biker wave about 90% of the time.
