Please read very Important about Honda's Power steering Problem

MCDoig

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To all Honda Riders that own a Quad with Power steering!!!!!!!!!!!!

I own two 2007 Honda Foreman FPE the one's with power steering. A group of us where riding a couple of weekends ago and my wife and I had both quads out for the weekend. The first day about half way through the trip she stopped me and said that her Foreman wasn't steering and that she almost got thrown off of it, I just thought that she was having a hard time in the mud but when i got one the quad I couldn't even turn the wheels it was like it was frozen stiff. I thought maybe that the steering arms had got something jammed in them but everything look good nothing visually wrong. several of us tried to free it up with no luck so I ended up driving it back to camp it took me 2 hours to go 5km as i couldn't turn corners or anything with it. Got back to camp took the whole front end apart couldn't find nothing wrong with it finally it just seemed to free it self up. Took it for a 2k ride that day everything seemed ok. Next day got 3-4km from camp and same thing steering froze solid doing 30kmph not a very safe feeling at all as I almost hit a tree due to the fact that when it froze i was in the middle of a turn, looked underneath again no visual problems. Again 1+hrs to get it back to camp and it went on the deck and straight to Honda.

So i took it to Honda and told them what was happening and they had never heard of this happening to any machine, and said that the steering should never freeze up and that if the power steering fails that it should just steer like a normal quad does. The dealer checked the quad over and found nothing checked all the service bulletin's and found nothing, so they phoned Honda Tech which told them that they didn't know what was wrong and unless the dealer could reproduce the problem that there is nothing they can do. The dealer asked them if they could change out the power steering system ( $800 part) which the Honda tech guy told the dealer they could not authorize the change out and that the dealer would have to phone Honda's customer relations line to get approval to do so. So after 2 weeks and Numerous phone calls Honda is reluctantly changing out the part at the dealers request and has told me they still don’t know what is wrong and that I am lucky that they are even doing this for me as the dealer can not replicate the problem and that they are not obligated to do this work for free. My response to them was that this is a serious safety issue and could cause someone to get hurt if the steering ever froze up at a time in which they need the steering and also i am concerned being that I have an identical machine to which he said that until I could prove that this was truly happening there was nothing they were going to do about it.

So anyone that has a machine with Power steering in it please be very careful during operation especially at high speeds or in sharp cornering as the steering may freeze solid and cause you to crash!!!!! I have long been a Honda Supporter and their machine's in the past have been reliable has hell, but I can no longer support Honda after this incident
 

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2009 500 FPE power steering locked up last weekend. sent me into the trees,no injuries. its at the dealers as we speak. i have been a honda guy my whole life but this is not good. it appears there may be an issue with honda's power steering unit....no waring, no dash lites just locked up....
 

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Hey man I own a 2014 foreman same prob with me man I make it 10 feet and it locks up I didn't even get to bring it home lol it happend right at honda its been a month now im waiting to go pick up the bike its ridiculous and just like u ive been a honda guy my hole life no belts no chains work bike and fun they dont even know whats going on lol anyways just to let you know the 2014 are the same
 

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According too some on here Hondas never ever break down..........Some of them need to read this.
Honda reliability is WAY overrated nowadays........
 

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well my 2009 500 FPE foreman did the same thing on a corner but going very slow. it to was replaced under warranty but these dealers and Honda telling people they have never seen this before is ridiculous. I have been told this by other dealers about various units. Question them more and they will give you the truth. Hope no one gets hurt……..
 

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Interesting. This happened to a friend of mine that put aftermarket power steering on his Rincon. ...never though this would ever happen on a factory setup.
 

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Hope the new pioneers Don't have this issue. Sounds like a law suit waiting to happen, any steering should never lock up. Ridiculous
 
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