Joe Breaux

Well I was curious about where parts really come from.. I looked in my shop corner where I pile old parts fro ATVs. Motorcycles , Corvettes etc.. Guess what? NONE of the old parts from my Hondas say MADE IN CHINA! .. In fact 2 old starters , latest was a 2016, say MITSUBA Corp .. I looked them up. " MITSUBA was founded back in 1930, and is located in Shinagawa, Tokyo and are a major supplier to various American, Canadian and Japanese manufacturers ... Correct me if I am wrong Bill, but isnt TOKYO IN JAPAN? hmmmm Not one part says CHINA!

the dreaded Massimo head gasket syndrome.. just hope your head isnt cracked too like mine was .. Check your oil for coolant .. will look milky

Try with engine hot

Thanks , I appreciate that. I have always tried to help other members as much as I can. Apparently Bill has been going on forums trying to counter Massimos bad reputation.. How else was he informed of this "big" meeting of executives and what they decided to do? sounds fishey to me.. ✌️

You dont have to leave. I can ignore you .. I have 2 ex-wives, I have plenty practice.. You call it whining? I call it WARNING others not to buy your Massimo products.. And I am in Whiskey Bay LA. Let me guess, you are in DALLAS TX where these are assembled? Are you the one i talked to on the phone? .............. If I offended anyone else, I apologize.. I just dont like being called a liar, much

In my nearly 500 posts, have any of you ever seen me post false or misinformation as he has? Those you who know me know I DO have IT ON TAPE from the phone call with the rep.. As I have stated many many times as far back as the time I joined the forum. Its on PISSED OFF CONSUMER .com too And if I was pushing for a brand, wouldnt I be schilling every day for it as he OBVIOUSLY IS DOING FOR MASSIMO ? hmmmmmm now whos working for a company?

Linhai is not YAMAHA.. read their website. They "engage in joint ventures with Yamaha" but they are not Yamaha owned . Which still brings us back to most of ours have HISUN engines which Massimo rep admitted ARE JUNK and thats why they switched to Linhai. Just sayin

I would bet its a head gasket failure.. Check your oil for coolant . It will look like chocolate milk . This is a plague on Massimo engines.. Mine had a cracked head too.. fill the radiator , put cap back on, run the engine and watch for air bubbles in the recovery bottle as it heats up

WOW!!!! clearly you are a liberal democrat.. Truth means absolutely nothing to you.. Or is it you actually work for Massimo and are desperately trying to counter the horrendous reviews on every website on the planet? .. Find me all these satisfied Massimo and Hisun owners on here... NAME THEM.. you talk nothing but bulchit.. Why are you here if yours is so great? Clearly you dont need help on such a FABULOUS machine ? Let me guess, you dont really have one of your own, just the company demo? .. You dont like my opinion, dont read my posts or block me... I wont be cancelled by a rabid leftist bully wannabe . I have nothing further , dont bother me, I wont respond

I would not have sold in to a friend. lol.....Dont need to now.. Spent $$$$$$$$ converting to YAMAHA critical parts.. its running good now.. The MSU 500 is a 95% clone of Yamahas RHINO machine , but with cheap chinese made parts .. that Massimo refuses to warranty .

It took many calls and unanswered messages before someone actually answered their Tech line. Guy was a jerk , refused to help in any way .. He even told me their HISUN engines were complete junk and they had switched to LINHAI engines , a Chinese Co. cloning Yamaha engines but with cheap parts. . So they dont warranty HISUN . Someone said Linhai is owned by YAMAHA... not true.. Its a Chinese owned co.

I wish I had paid the $4K more for the Honda Pioneer.. I would have saved money after 6 times in the repair shop that Massimo refused to pay for .. 1st time, it was 1 day old when it broke in its 1st mile .. I even tried to trade it in at a big loss.. HONDA would not take it and it was brand new with ...haha warranty..haha

WOW! They have updates Support and , let me guess, hired NEW STAFF just to help us? That makes 4 times since 2018 when I bought mine that they have tried to delay us til warranty runs out. .. Dont believe it.. Its just another scam to get sales on existing inventory.. There is a class action lawsuit building against them now. They sucked then, they suck now and they will suck in the future... When I tried to get them to pay shop for warranty when mine was only a week old, Rep told me on the phone.... "THATS NOT GONNA HAPPEN!" and hung up on me

They ALL have stopped working on them everywhere. They dont get paid! A Massimo warranty is about as good as Joe Biden's mental acuity .. I am shocked you could trade it.. Honda refused mine with almost no miles on it

Gritty mud? hmm.....have you checked for a head gasket leak? Sounds like coolant in the oil. mine has never looked like that in my HISUN 500 engine.. Not even the break-in oil it came with.. I changed that at 15 miles after Head Gasket leak, and then cracked head issues. then once more at 100 miles after waterpump fail. . and now I change it every 400 miles.. It looks fine at 400mi but I change it anyway. Amazon oil filters and Castrol Actevo M/C 10W40

They have Covid? That cant be , he wears a t-shirt material mask. NO VIRUS can penetrate a T-shirt.. Just ask Dr Falsie .. lol You know, I cant find a single person that admits they voted for the Presidential Vegetable in WH.. Does anyone believe that potted plant actually got 80 million votes? Really? 16 million more than Obama? Only fools think he is legitimate ............................BTW just looked at 2 other dealers not too far away, they both have plenty ATVs and some UTVS.. HONDA, and POLARIS .. mostly the 1000cc $20K versions... How far are you from Mississippi or Louisiana? It must be because they had huge inventories already.. The Dealer I bought my last Honda ATV from said they sold 30-50 new units per month. That was pre-covid . Everyone claims there are no new trucks on lots too. Yet before Christmas, I went to our RAM dealer and drove home in a brand spanking new Ram Crewcab Bighorn in about an hour.. and got a huge trade in for my 2017 Ram.. Ya just gotta look.

Maybe thats where all your dealers inventory is.. ON A TRUCK STUCK IN CANADA! Good luck buddy.. hope you find one soon lol

I started thinking about that, so Looked on My Honda/Kawasaki dealer's Inventory... it said they have 192 various units in stock , ATVs UTVs and MCs ... Even our local Lawnmower shop has2 Kawasaki UTVs and 3 KYMCOs. Seems odd since EVERYONE here has at least two ORVs . I have 5. You would think they would be sold out? Why do you think there are none to be found in your area? Do they just not sell that many there normally and they just had no inventory before COVID? ?

I dont need to think long and hard on who to vote for, and I promise you I did not vote for the current senile old fool in the WH that cant string two coherent sentences together and cant answer a question without the answer written down on index cards ahead of time.. How on earth is this man allowed to be in charge? If anyone voted for him, you should hang your head in shame. .. But then I never lived my whole life on govt dole..

lol exactly.. and Non-Existent warranty service, not to mention ,no shops will touch them unless you pay CASH UP FRONT [ and not even then at most] because Massimo never pays them. And just because Yamaha parts might interchange with some Massimo parts, does not mean the chinese made parts are the same quality as the YAMAHA built. You pay less for the Chinese stuff... AND YOU GET LESS ..Its that simple. BTW, my Massimo is HISUN not LINHAI engine/trans ..or at least started out that way. Now its mixed Hisun/Yamaha engine. Guess what? The Yamaha parts did not fail!! . I speak from disappointing experience with both Massimo quality, or lack there of, and the atrocious Service or lack of ANY there of. .. just my opinion

avoid the Chinese built UTVs.. the reliability is horrible. And getting warranty service is non-existent .. better to buy a good used name brand than a brand new cheap Chinese knock off .. I ll take a 10 year old Honda over a brand spanking new Massimo ANYDAY!

typical of Massimo tech line.... NO ANSWER, NO CALL BACK... They are truly the worst company in the business .. And forget finding a shop to do warranty work............. I wish someone had told me before I bought one. that sounds like a starter issue to me . loose bolt, damaged gear teeth, misaligned .. check bolts, Remove the starter and check the teeth on drive gear

make sure your oil is approved for WET CLUTCH applications.. Do not use Full Synthetic Automotive oils .. I personally use ACTEVO m/c oil from Castrol 10W40 in all my ATVs, UTV and M/C

Really? I could not disagree more! If you seriously think a HISUN engine in a Massimo is exactly the same quality as a HONDA engine..you must be brand new to UTVs And my local Honda dealer handles all warranty without fail.. I have bought 4 ATVs from them.. Have yet to pay a dime . Massimo has never paid for a warranty claim in 12 years of selling them.. BTW Hondas are manufactured in the US. Only the engines/transmissions are imported.. From JAPAN , not China .. So I just dont see how you can say what you did?

great might be a bit overreach.. lets call it adequate, or maybe good. ..... lol It does run well now and always did well in mud and muck.. But the first two years were .just..... ride for an hour, load on trailer ,bring to shop.. PAY $$$$$ , repeat... repeat, repeat ,repeat... It got really frustrating . I warn everyone to avoid Massimo. Unless you are a UTV mechanic and can make repairs yourself , or you just have lots of $$$ and like a challenge. lol