5 CHEAP UTVs Everyone IGNORES (But They're Absolute Goldmines)

Last month a guy apologized for his 2007 Yamaha Rhino before he even shut the truck door. It needed a carb clean and a wet clutch adjustment, about a hundred and forty dollars in labor, and it fired on the first crank. Parked beside it was a three year old thousand cc sport machine that cost twenty two thousand dollars new and was already on its second engine. The side by sides nobody wants are almost always the ones that refuse to die. Twenty two years in the bay, and these are the five I would send my own family to buy. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS VIDEO Number 5. Kawasaki Teryx 750, 2008 to 2013. A 749cc ninety degree V-twin with a belt, filters and oil as the whole maintenance list. Rough ones sell for a little over two thousand, clean ones for six or seven. Pull the air filter and look for oil pooled in the airbox. The factory breather routes into the intake, and a catch can or breather kit fixes it for about a hundred and fifty dollars. Number 4. Kubota RTV900, 2004 to 2013. Diesel, hydrostatic transmission, no belt to burn, sold by tractor dealers so recreational buyers never see it. High hour farm units start around five thousand, clean low hour ones with a cab run twelve or thirteen. Check that the range shifter slides in at a full stop with the brake pressed, look for oil weeping at the front axle seals, and check the hydraulic fluid level. Number 3. Yamaha Rhino 660 and 700, 2004 to 2013. Cheap because of the rollover lawsuits, not because of the drivetrain. It carries the Grizzly 660 engine and the Ultramatic belt system. Running ones sell around four thousand, rough ones for three. Look at the rear wheels. Two inch spacers and no rear sway bar means the 2009 repair program was done. Ask what oil it runs, because automotive oil with friction modifiers glazes the wet clutch. Stop the count. A machine's price is set by fashion. Its lifespan is set by its drivetrain. That one rule is why all five of these are underpriced. Number 2. Honda Pioneer 500, 2015 to today. Fifty inches wide, a real five speed gearbox with paddle shifting and no CVT belt at all. Used prices run five to eight thousand, the most on this list, and still the cheapest way into a beltless Honda drivetrain. The clunk on shifts is normal. Check the shocks for leaks and the A-arm bushings for slop, because the short travel suspension bottoms out. Number 1. Kawasaki Mule 610, 2005 to 2016. A 401cc air cooled single that tops out at twenty five miles an hour and will not die. Used prices run from twenty six hundred to fifty five hundred with most around four thousand. Pull the shroud and look at the cooling fins, check the belt for glazing and the sheaves for grooves, and expect a carb clean if it sat on ethanol gas. The one weak point nobody tells you is the small oil separator canister that freezes in cold weather and blows the dipstick out. Ten dollar fix, twenty minute job. YOUR RULE FOR TONIGHT Open Marketplace, search the words farm, ranch or estate sale, and cap the price at six thousand dollars. Skip anything listed as fast, lifted or built. When you go look at one, do not start with the body. Kneel down and start with the drivetrain. Check the oil for milk or metal, pull the CVT cover if it has one and look at the belt, and shift it through every range warm. If the engine and transmission are healthy, the plastic does not matter. Ugly is a discount. Chapters 0:00 The $4,000 Rhino that only needed a carb clean 0:47 Number 5 Kawasaki Teryx 750, 2008 to 2013 3:37 Number 4 Kubota RTV900, 2004 to 2013 6:27 Number 3 Yamaha Rhino 660 and 700, 2004 to 2013 9:39 Stop the count. Price is fashion, lifespan is drivetrain 10:18 Number 2 Honda Pioneer 500, 2015 to today 12:50 Number 1 Kawasaki Mule 610, 2005 to 2016 16:23 Your rule for tonight and how to shop for these Tell me in the comments the cheapest machine you ever bought that turned out to be the best one. Year, model, what you paid, and how long it has lasted. The comments on this channel are where the real list gets written. Subscribe @TheQuadDoctor for four honest ATV and UTV buying videos every week from a mechanic who has no dealership to protect. I'm Cody. Keep it running.