Ok, I finally have a few minutes to write my experiences after finally taking out the wolverine for the first real ride.
Destination: muddy bottoms atv park
Thoughts:
Amazing!!!
First thing I did, day one was replace the big horn 2.0, they just don't grip, not even a little bit. They were replaced with the 28in mud lite's from my grizzly. 5 days later the wolverine has been baptised in the depths of muddy hell and risen from the ashes, shining like a diamond.
I faced foamy mud, soupy mud, thick sticky mud , down trees, and water above the wheels and the wolverine traversed it all. I managed to only get stuck twice, both by high centering in ruts left by other custom side by sides.
I never thought this thing would be able to go through as much as it did, I'm truly amazed. The confidence this machine inspires is nothing short of incredible. I took it up a muddy slope I'm sure was a 60 degree incline, diff lock, low, and pedal to the floor.....
I'd have never even attempted that on my grizzly, especially with a passenger.
We crossed a hard bottom swamp to get thru a section of trail. I was nervous because it was deep due to the massive rain storms we've been having, I'm talking the atv with us were water wheeling in it deep. 4wd low and water flowing over the lower portion off the hood like the bow of a ship and through it we went. We pulled out the swamp on the opposite bank that was a soft foamy, fluffy but thick mud where a couple sat and watched my group crossing. They immediately asked one of the club members what the side by side was, his reply "the yamaha wolverine, it's like yamaha's version of the rzr".
I could not be more happy with my purchase at this point, In all honesty if you told me I could go out and get any side by side I wanted, the wolverine would be my choice.
The other side by side we took, a polaris ranger xp900 on 28in terminator tires, broke an axle, busted the axle seal on the same side and lost a brake pad..the brake pad I'm sure was due to my friend not tightening them back the night before we left after replacing the broken axle on the opposite side. Smh
So my final thoughts:
Thank you yamaha for the steel skid plates! They make it a lot less scary crossing down trees that you know are going to hit the chassis.
Fender flares are a must and should have been included!
More than enough power to get the job done in harsh swamp conditions (with the right tires)
Ride quality it's second to none.
Needs a lift, to increase ground clearance. Once you add a cooler, tools, people and lots mud you lose about 2in of ground clearance.
Feel free to ask questions if you have any I put over 100 miles on it this weekend, hard Louisiana mud and trail riding.
