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anyone here that owns or has owned snowmobiles? ive always loved to ride them, but it seemed silly to invest in one living in iowa since snow was hit or miss...now i live in an area where it snows very regularly. we've had 18-24" of snow on the ground for about 3 weeks now and its supposed to snow darn near every day this week and this is very typical for this time of year. at any rate, a buddy of mine has a ski doo mxz 550 thats been sitting on his property since 2008 and was only ridden in the first year it was purchased so it only has 210 miles on it. we believe its an 06-07 model but its the fan cooled edition so its not really worth a ton of money and its fast enough for me. his friend owns it and said he would sell it to me when i could come up with the money...i should be able to snag it for around $1600 and it was a $5000 sled new. he basically told me that if i want it, it will be waiting for me there. my buddy starts in periodically and takes it out for a ride. i drove it the last time i was there and it runs perfectly and starts well.

i'm just curious if anyone knows a little more about these sleds than me. i don't really like going fast, so the 550 is plenty big. some people have told me fan cooled sleds suck, but i've read a bunch of reviews that all said the fans in these are totally fine and they never have issues even when its above freezing
 
altrocker1 said:
anyone here that owns or has owned snowmobiles? ive always loved to ride them, but it seemed silly to invest in one living in iowa since snow was hit or miss...now i live in an area where it snows very regularly. we've had 18-24" of snow on the ground for about 3 weeks now and its supposed to snow darn near every day this week and this is very typical for this time of year. at any rate, a buddy of mine has a ski doo mxz 550 thats been sitting on his property since 2008 and was only ridden in the first year it was purchased so it only has 210 miles on it. we believe its an 06-07 model but its the fan cooled edition so its not really worth a ton of money and its fast enough for me. his friend owns it and said he would sell it to me when i could come up with the money...i should be able to snag it for around $1600 and it was a $5000 sled new. he basically told me that if i want it, it will be waiting for me there. my buddy starts in periodically and takes it out for a ride. i drove it the last time i was there and it runs perfectly and starts well.

i'm just curious if anyone knows a little more about these sleds than me. i don't really like going fast, so the 550 is plenty big. some people have told me fan cooled sleds suck, but i've read a bunch of reviews that all said the fans in these are totally fine and they never have issues even when its above freezing
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I used to ride, for me it was trailering up north to ride. Add The cost of a trailer if one doesn't come with it unless you can ride from home. Add gear, helmet, gloves and such.

I sold mine cuz the cost of travel and maintenance exceeded the fun.

I always rode 800+ sleds, which cost more too.

It was fun, they don't do your back any good. I could never ride again.

Not sure on the price he's asking, but it seems a bit high.
 
he is asking $2000...dealer book value is $2200 for one in excellent condition with normal miles, which would be around 2500 miles.

i can get it for $1600 and it only has 210 miles on it. it was only ever ridden twice other than my buddy starting and driving it around the yard. i'm not sure how my back will take it, but i can drive out my backyard and be at a trail that goes to all the way to canada in 10 minutes or less. i also would love to have it for ice fishing and goose hunting. i can't justify it yet, but the fact that he will hold it for me till i have the money means that it will be there when i decide to pull the trigger
 
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Hauling back from the RV show today.
 
I owned a snowmobile for a short time in college. Bought it for $25 brought it down and stuck it in my buddies house. In the dining room. We ran it on carb cleaner a couple times and I ended up selling it for $30. I guess it had a blown head gasket.
 
altrocker1 said:
he is asking $2000...dealer book value is $2200 for one in excellent condition with normal miles, which would be around 2500 miles.

i can get it for $1600 and it only has 210 miles on it. it was only ever ridden twice other than my buddy starting and driving it around the yard. i'm not sure how my back will take it, but i can drive out my backyard and be at a trail that goes to all the way to canada in 10 minutes or less. i also would love to have it for ice fishing and goose hunting. i can't justify it yet, but the fact that he will hold it for me till i have the money means that it will be there when i decide to pull the trigger
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just did ~150 miles this past saturday in the UP michigan, trails were not all that great because of the amount of traffic, (northern wisconsin is closed). I have a 00' skidoo 700 as a bigger guy I could use some more power and longer track for off trail, I got stuck a couple times in powder this weekend. The 00' is a low rider position that kills your back, my next one will be a rider forward position.

mine is the black and yellow

550 is one of the smaller sleds out there, might be a good starter sled but I could see you wanting to upgrade shortly, if I were you I would get at least a 700

I had about $200 into this weekend (fuel, food, hotel, trail pass) slightly cheaper then a jeep weekend...
 
Hey forewheeler, something I thought of, what if roll off that bed, what will stop you besides you dining room table?
 
shortxjdoug said:
Is it killing the interior and parking lights?
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it's dumb.

something is pulling mad amps on the IOD circuit and it's grounding through the dome lights.

I tried to be lazy this weekend and just took out the defrost relay, and that fixed it. I checked it after running it, after turn signals and hazards. Anything I could think of.

Drove it, dome lights came back on faint.
I'm just going to have to start stripping panels and inspecting the harness. it's obviously got a chafed wire or something that's randomly grounding to the body. I suppose somehow the bulbs are acting as current limiting resistors or it would pop fuses.

Currently I just pull the IOD fuse when I park, or it kills a battery with the quickness.
It's getting old.
 
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