Kawasaki Teryx H2. What upgrades?

[onanysunday]

So these cars look to be really good out of the box. I would purchase the five-seater so I have three seats for my three grandsons in the back. Can you get away with buying one and not doing any upgrades? I don't need a big bumpin stereo. I personally kind of like the retractable seat belts when you're crawling over rocks. Although I don't know how safe they would be at a 90 mph crash. I do like the new color combo instead of green. Although I'm thinking about keeping my krx1000 so we have two cars. Another green one and they could sort of be twins. I was strongly considering a pro r4 seat. But they are too tall to fit in the box trailer which I might use for towing. The Can Am Maverick looks like a really good car but I had an X3 before and you sit so far down in the car I did not like it in the rocks. Performance was awesome and that was only 170 horsepower car. Plus that thing is absolutely a massive beast. And more money plus adding a triple seat in the back. Not completely off the table though. These guys seem to really like it. Although not much for Rock bashing.

definitely need to get these clutch issues figured out though. Can't imagine spending that kind of money and then having to buy a clutch for it.

 

[onanysunday]

I liked his review. Although it sounds like the stock suspension might be a little on the stiff side for desert and mountains. Which is where I would most use this car at least to start with.

 

[NIKAL]

@onanysunday I don’t think for the average guy the suspension is going to be to stiff. I know the feel Nick likes and is looking for, and you’re not going to get that out of a stock tune suspension. @Sand Shark said it actually feels really good, but the front is a bit soft for the dunes. And again it might not actually be too soft, but the valving might be allowing it to blow through the stroke on the steep transitions, but that same valving might be great for general desert running.

IMO the H2 was not designed to be a crawler or rock machine. I think Kawi KRX loyal’s want the next greatest Kawi, but the H2 was not designed for what the KRX does best. This is not a gen 2 KRX but it’s a purpose open desert wide open designed machine.

I think once Kawasaki gets the clutches sorted out, and when I mean sorted out, I’m not just talking about the failing exploding clutches, but it needs to be reliable and not eating belts. So I hope Kawasaki does not stop with just solving the primary clutch failures, but takes a hard look at why the clutches they had tested for months or years prior to release worked fine, but now they don’t.

But once sorted the car should be a top 3 contender in the class, with the Pro R & Mav R.

 

[Sand Shark]

I liked his review. Although it sounds like the stock suspension might be a little on the stiff side for desert and mountains. Which is where I would most use this car at least to start with.

I have not taken my out to the dirt yet, but I think the suspension will work fine and not be harsh or too stiff. In the dunes in the soft setting you don't really feel the chatter bumps, in medium setting the chatters bumps are minimal and in the firm setting you can feel some of the chatter bumps but it is not teeth rattling or kidney shaking.

I am hoping to hit the dirt maybe next month or for sure in March and will have a better feel for how it works. I know in the dunes the front end will blow through the compression on some of the transition faster than I would like. It will scoop some sand up in the front. The rear works well in the dunes.