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High Hanging RPM's

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Mine was careening fast towards a car parked at a red light, and I DID NOT have my foot on the throttle. I pushed in the clutch fast to avoid a collision, and the rpm's shot up to the rev limiter (7,000rpms) and hung there for 5-10 seconds. That's the kind of stuff class-action lawsuits are made of! Terrifying is an understatement. I'm at 485 miles.... bringing it into dealer for the 500 with this list:
1- occasional stalling
2- scary as crap revs
3- cruise control has never worked
4- belt loose (easy fix)
5- rough idle (plugs?)

Everything else perfect. Potential to be a really sweet ride, just need to get these wrinkles ironed out
 
I took my Slingshot in for its 500-mile service and an amazing thing happened. Polaris sent one of their computer/ECU specialist from Michigan to collect data from my Slingshot. The service manager and him spent most of the day performing various driving situations in order to provoke a stall or a engine rev, etc. and collected all kinds of data while doing it. And they did this in the rain! I'd say that's one heck of a commitment to both listening & addressing things. A similar situation was done with the RZR-570 with good outcome. Polaris seems to be doing whatever necessary to make a great product even greater.
 
I believe Polaris' intentions with the programming aligns up perfectly with what Otter is saying. There's a whole lot of inexperienced manual-shift drivers out there (and their girlfriends who want to try it to). So Polaris programmed in some throttle delays in order to assist the novice shifter with a jolt-free transition between shifts, up or down. Imagine your cousin's girlfriend going for a test drive and it suddenly starts raining. Trust me, in a wet turn, that lone third wheel in the rear is gonna need all the assistance Polaris can give it to avoid a jolted shift, which ultimately increases the chances of maintaining traction. So basically, this entire discussion thread is not really about hanging high rpm's, but about Polaris engineers going with such aggressive programming towards safety. To a normal-to-skilled driver, it just doesn't feel normal, hence our comments.
 
No doubt there is a problem. It does need adjusting, for sure. Hopefully, Polaris will be able to tweek some things based on all the data they just collected from my unit.
 
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