I posted on another site my  opinion of the 2022 GForce 800 trail UTV. I am 69 years old and have had 15 Quads, 20 plus Trail & Moto Cross dirt bikes as well as lots of Harleys. I bought this UTV with  just 900 miles on it, from someone I knew.looked new when he delivered. But he did tell me he bought for his daughter in Montana to commute to her job from there ranch into  town about 15 miles away. As well he told me he never serviced it as of yet, So adding my goodies lights, turn signals and more. I serviced this with only 900 miles on it oil was black, air filer plugged solid. I waited about a month till his title showed up, By this time this UTV looked as good as new. steam cleaned at my shop and interior pulled out to clean completely before I took it out as I bout it to street ride, and maybe tow behind our motorhome. But with only 50 miles my wife and I have put on it, and is still under 1K mileage. My next post will be all of the issues I have found, have had to repair myself. I did contact factory but no replies from them, which now I see is common place with them. Thanks for viewing.

Hello. This is my first post regarding my 2022 GForce 800 trail. My experience is 55 years of all types motocross,quads of a lot styles as well as Harleys. I just sold a Polaris 800 Sportsman 4x4 interested in the side by side UTV,s. I am not a rock climber or serious off road abuse  user. Having 40 acres next to Lake Shasta, and 8 years ago moving to northern Idaho Quads, UTV,s can be ridden on the street here and having hundreds of miles of trails rite near our home. I had a friend tell me he was selling his 2022 Gforce trail 800 . He lives in Montana sent me photos, a short run video including a trailer. the 800 had less than 900 miles looked like new, so a little investigation decided to buy it. He delivered it as well, But lost title so I said no problem I already had plans to make mine in my shop, lights,turn signals and detail it like new as I did. The Gforce really was no damage, and other than normal trail dirt I was impressed. All the goodies were added, I had the suspension & the UTV looking like show room. Title came Had it licensed in Idaho with idea of really just using in streets. Or travailing behind our motor home.

Now without getting into exact details of all the issues I have found with this, I said to my wife are you kidding me for what even these about $14K new cost.. Yes I know the cost of the cost of all others. First off the brakes had to be repaired by me, excessive vibration, low end power, cab heat in just a short amount of ride time, I have only put less than 50 miles on this, When I took seats out  fuel pump leaking a good size amount of fuel around fuel pump directly under passenger seat, 3 missing zerk fittings, Buyer never serviced this bike even at 300 miles as recommend. No worries he told me had not, But 900 miles I will do it in which I did, and it needed it air filter plugged, oil almost black. also I was not happy about how noisey this one is. I installed a baffle, a little bit quieter. Then I dealt with windows vibrating so bad, I took apart and used isolation pads I already had to help keep vibration to a minimum. Now I have to address the excessive cab heat from the tranny & motor. My whole story here is I would not recommend these to no one. Look at the forums on these. questions get asked but some of the answers are so vague its funny. I did try and contact CForce with my disappointments as well as danger of fires, as there have been, totally ignored by factory. No they never answered  my questions. So now even digging deeper, I can see a lot of complaints against these various styles of UTV,s. So with less than 50 miles I have a new looking side by side that looks cool for an entry level machine and gets cool comments. This bike has left the factory with lots of things, that most riders would have to take to a shop to battle there issues. Poor Design. Now before  I go farther I have friends here with the Hondas as well as Razors who have expessed issues with theres, and after paid in ewxcess of $20 K new.  Thanks for reading Rick

[UPDATE: ISSUE RESOLVED. See this post for more info: https://cfmoto-forum.com/800ex800/power-issues-on-800-trail/msg52158/#msg52158]

Desperate for some advice here...

During my last few trips my 2021 800 Trail (625 miles and 50 hours of use on it total) has been acting weird at higher RPMs. Would not get above 4600ish RPM in high gear. Almost like a governor was on it. Low gear seemed normal. And no, it's NOT the seat belt or air filter.

Dropped it off my my local shop last month. They said valve clearance was slightly out of spec and they resolved that. $300 later = issue remains. Then they said my "rollers and CVT in drive pulley were flat spotted and needed to be replaced". + $350 later = issue remains.

Now I'm being told that the "drive shaft is misaligned" and it needs new everything CVT (drive shaft, clutch housing, clutch assembly, gaskets, etc). First time any clutch work has been done on it so no idea how this happens and they aren't able to tell me how either. All this to the tune of +$800 more. Parts are ordered but they have no clue how long it will take to get them (weeks or months they claim). And ask me how optimistic I am that will fix the issue...

Of course, none of this is going to be covered by my useless extended warranty. So ~ $2k in parts and labor later I'm quickly loosing faith my CFMOTO!!!

Does any of these make sense to you guys? Are all of those CVT/clutch parts required to be replaced just to do the drive shaft?

Does it sound like a "misaligned" (whatever that means) drive shaft could be causing this power issue? To my knowledge they haven't even hooked it up to a scanner to see if it's some engine/software/tune issue before throwing all of these parts at it.

UPDATE: ISSUE RESOLVED. See this post for more info: https://cfmoto-forum.com/800ex800/power-issues-on-800-trail/msg52158/#msg52158