well welcome back Steve Rob reviews today we're going to talk about my buying experience with
my 2018 km 570 XT and I'm gonna do a full review on it later so far I've got 7 hours on it and the
machine is just phenomenal except it's got one design flaw that they've actually put in there
I think it's a flaw they don't think it's a flaw for me it's not going to affect me at all but I'm
gonna do my review I'm going to show you exactly why I think can-am drop the ball on part of their
electronics so what I'm going to talk about today is the windshield when I bought the machine I got
a basic windshield installed at the dealer and loaded the bike up went up north and the
windshield you could just move it back and forth on the handlebars and you know you can't have that
you know it has to be on there rock-solid right so I get my tool kit out and I go to tighten it
up it was impossible to tighten up because they had if you ever seen an acorn nut it's not like
an ordinary open nut it's got like a bulb shape on the backside of it so when you try to tighten
it up it just backs up on the end of the acorn nut and you couldn't tighten it up anymore and
I thought okay like that's wacko so that's okay well I'll take the windshield off now I'll just
bring it back and show them right well I try to take the it's got two three legged little kind
of knobs there you undo them and you can just pull the windshield right off well when you go
to undo them and just go click click click click so you know there's like a weld nut back in the
plastic there somewhere that's broken both sides were broken so take it all apart and it was a job
taking it apart when you can't take the windshield off bring it back to the dealer I showed them and
they said absolutely you're right you know what we're going to give you a brand new windshield
so I said I don't want another one of them wind chills like that I want to upgrade to the one
with the full fairing and they said okay so what they did was they ordered me in a full fairing
kit and they credited me for the old windshield which I thought was just fantastic that's all I
wanted you know sometimes stuff just doesn't go right but you know what the dealership was
absolutely fantastic so I've got this windshield here last night I put it together oh my god what
a job this is you know what can-am if you're watching this I tell you what I'm just a guy
in the garage you know but I should be able to figure this out and do it properly and I tell
you what there's no way anybody can put this thing together the way the instructions call
for and do it they must have specialized pliers or something and if you're a Canon dealer you're
probably getting a good chuckle out of this video when you start some business but guys something
don't fit right I redesigned it myself and make it fit better okay so I'll show you right in the
beginning the biggest problem that I found as soon as I opened up the box okay here we go right here
this the first problem I found right here and if you take a look at this rate here this kit
must be installed on optical models only and by an authorized PRP dealer qualified mechanic now you
can go take a look at their instructions and the instructions are pretty good but they're not the
best and they don't actually tell you how to do something it's almost as if the dealer techs are
looking at these just to follow along but there's a lot of tricks to this and I'll show you so this
is generally what the instructions are and you have to attach this piece here and I explain how
that is just a total barge and that's all you get I want you to take a look at these things these
are some fasteners and these two self tapping screws I have no idea what they're for but I'm
going to show you about these here and how this is just poor engineering they could have gone
with you know good fasteners this is just cheap cheesy kind of stuff that I don't go along with
so let's take a look and see what the problem is here okay I got a good light on there and
what they have is they had these plastic studs that come up and you have to push these little
push nuts over top to hold the windshield on and you know if they were accessible that's fine but
no where are these accessible if you take a look down in there there's two down in there and it's
almost impossible to see you could see one there where I tried to put it on there's another one
further up and there's no way I could get that on you can see that one right there sitting up
right in there and there's one further up and guys they were impossible to put on so I'll
show you what I did well there's the windshield they're all completed and you know what I had
to put three rivets in here to make this thing actually be structurally sound and I'll take you
around the back side and you can see that you can see the one rivet holding on here holding on here
and right in here underneath there is a piece of weather seal well that doesn't even touch her go
close and you know putting putting the rest of it together was pretty basic and these are the
the clips which are a lot better than the basic windshield and it's got a tube that goes on to
your handlebars and these are quick releases so I'll be demonstrating this and see how it
fits in the future but overall I like the design but you know what it's all plastic everything is
plastic and I guess they had to reduce the weight I like the two cup holders which are terrific but
you know what when you have to start redesigning something that is difficult to put together you
know me putting in these rivets here was easy all they had to do was put in half decent fasteners
and set of them little things you see on the side of a little toy wagon so that's pretty wallet
there okay so there you go that's my little bit of a review of my complications that I found with
this windshield guys I'm not into this cheesy little push clip stuff and all like I mean to
me this is a $380 windshield there's no way that they should be going with all this you know cheap
cheesy hardware in my opinion I think it's cheesy I think PRP or can-am could have done a lot better
job on the design of the fasteners on this unit and actually put some half-decent fasteners in
there and made it simple enough that you could actually put them push clips on there without
having some kind of a specialized tool because there's no way you're going to get that em on
there so if you're thinking about buying one of these windshields you know what I would do I tell
the dealer to put it all together first and then give it to you maybe they got the tooling to be
able to do it but if you're thinking about put one of these together I wouldn't recommend it or
you're going to do like I am and end up putting in some rivets to put it all together so thanks
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I'm going to have a full review on the Machine up in the future so you guys take care now I Cheers