Thread: Quad Advice

We have had a shit tonne of Kingquad 400/500 over the years and a few Hondas. Hondas have a better turning circle and are a bit more nimble, have cheaper servicing costs in general but the engines are nowhere near as reliable, our current 420 is in for a top end at the moment at 12,000kms because it's burning oil, always serviced on time etc. Hondas are like old Hilux utes, they get raved about for reliability etc but there comes a certain point in their life where that reliability depends on you throwing just as much oil as fuel at them, seem to have issues with ring wear and/or valve stem seals. Don't think I've seen a single honda 420/500 do over about 35,000ks without having the top end done at least once . We have a new Kingquad 500 and our old one has done 54,000kms and it's just been serviced and never really cost us much more than a few suspension bushes each year and it's had one drive belt.