I've had a lot of problems with my Raptor 250 since I bought it from powersportsmax.com for my wife last christmas last year. To make a long story short, we have only ridden it maybe... 10 hrs. with no problems. I've had bareley no support from powersportsmax.com, (technichal anyways), always busy or put me on hold... call me back.... Never happened, even a credit card battle which I lost. Anyhow , one of the dealers from this website gave me the # for kinroad direct. Wow! I wish I would've bought this thing from them. And I could've, had I done more research. These guys have sent me parts i've ordered and not screwed around. I have them in about 4 days. They have helped me a couple of times. So maybe my wife and I will be able to enjoy this buggy this christmas thanks to this website and all of the dealers who are on here to help us and not rape us. Kinroad is not a bad product, just a couple bad dealers. Kid-n-me, is awesome and buggypartsnw also. I've talked to a few others on this site and I appreciate your help also.

You're welcome, sir!

That's what we're here for!

-Mike

could i get that # u can send it in a private message .. i have a 2009 kinroad 300 and can't find a spec sheet or a manuel so i can work on it myself....

Gary kinroad dont even have a manual for that 300. the only thing they have is the parts break down. If yopu do find one let me know

By the time you get done modding that beast, YOU'LL be able to write the manual.

i am sorry but it does'nt make any sense to me that a company would make something and not be able to give you a manuel to be able to work on it....

Gary if and when you do get a manual, it will be full of poo-poo from front to rear, at least that is the way most of the manuals are that come with buggies. Good for starting a fire, but not much else.

But i want one .... 3500.00 to 4000.00 is a lot to spend and not get a manuel just my way of thinnnking

The only company that I have seen that puts out a comprehensive owners/parts manual for their machines in Joyner. The other companies are getting better but still have a long way to go before they get good information on their products available to customers.

Glade

Carter's manuals are pretty good. I have the owner's adn teh service manual both and they are both pretty comprehensive.

what Matt said

may have to sell my kinroad and get a carter then

Just because you don't have a book?

I must say, the manual that came with my Coolster Challenger 6250 Dbl, was the most entertaining thing I have read in a long time. For example, can any of you guess what part the manual kept refereeing to as the oil tank? I believe they call the CDI a receiver or some such non-sense. Actually, they maybe referring to the rectifier, but who knows, I can’t make heads or tails of the wiring diagram anyways. Very funny stuff.

When Coca-Cola first shipped to China, they named the product something that
when pronounced sounded like "Coca-Cola." The only problem was that the
characters used meant "Bite the wax tadpole." They later changed to a set of
characters that mean "Happiness in the mouth."

When Braniff translated a slogan touting its upholstery, "Fly in leather," it
came out in Spanish as "Fly naked."

Coors put its sloga, "Turn it loose," into Spanish, where it was read as
"Suffer from diarrhea."

Chicken magnate Frank Perdue's line, "It takes a tough man to make a tender
chicken," sounds much more interesting in Spanish: "It takes a sexually
stimulated man to make a chicken affectionate."

When Vicks first introduced it's cough drops on the german market, they were
chagrined to learn that the german pronunciation of "v" is f --- which in
german is the gutteral equivalent of "sexual penetration."

Ford had a similar problem in Brazil when the Pinto flopped. The company
found out that Pinto was Brazilian slang for "tiny male genitals". Ford
pried all the nameplates off and substituted Corcel, which means horse.

When Parker Pen marketed a ballpoint pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed
to say "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you." However, the
company's mistakenly thought the spanish word "embarazar" meant embarrass.
Instead the ads said that "It wont leak in your pocket and make you
pregnant."

An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the spanish market
which promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of the desired "I Saw the Pope"
in Spanish, the shirts proclaimed "I Saw the Potato."

Not to be outdone, Puffs tissues tried later to introduce its product, only to
learn that "Puff" in german is a colloquial term for a whorehouse. The English
weren't too fond of the name either, as it's a highly derogatory term for a
non-heterosexual.

Chicken-man Frank Perdue's slogan, "It takes a tough man to make a tender
chicken," got terribly mangled in another Spanish translation. A photo of
Perdue with one of his birds appeared on billboards all over Mexico with a
caption that explained "It takes a hard man to make a chicken aroused."

Hunt-Wesson introduced its Big John products in French Canada as Gros Jos
before finding out that the phrase, in slang, means "big breasts." In this
case, however, the name problem did not have a noticeable effect on sales.

The Chevy Nova never sold well in Spanish speaking countries. "No va" means
"it doesn't go" in Spanish.

Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a
notorious porno mag.

When Gerber first started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same
packaging as here in the USA - with the ute baby on the label. Later they
found out that in Africa that companies routinely put pictures of the label of
what's inside since more people can't read.

When Pepsi started marketing its products in China a few years back, the
translated their slogan, "Pepsi Brings you Back to Life" pretty literally. The
slogan in Chinese really meant, "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back from the
Grave."

A hair products company, Clairol, introduced the "Mist Stick", a curling iron,
into Germany to find out that mist is slang for manure. Not too many people
had use for the manure stick.


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Gary, I think Sockman is on to something there. You should keep track of what you do and what problems you have and compile them into a book or manual of sometype. There are folks out there with the Phoneix that would love that and would be a big help to the newcomers of the sport. You would be the father of the 300 manual and who better to get you answers and help you than us?

i just want a manuel

The website for kinroad is : Runmasterusa.com , you can download the service manual there. The phone # for parts is : 1-888-883-8986, try to talk to Matt.

ok chuck sounds good... i may forget about the 300 after i get the hh250 home saturday...