I need to purchase a ATV or a UTV. What is the annual cost of owning a UTV? Are they worth it?

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It seems that the UTVs are expensive to buy and maintain. Can someone present me with their real value?

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Usually air filter and change all the fluids (engine oil, trans, diff oil) once a year. Air filter and engine oil and filter more if needed. Otherwise has been gas and go. I’ve had a couple axle boots tear and need replacing on my previous utv.

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I have had several. I know run a polar rzr. Because I pull a trailer for everything because it’s faster to change out a small trailer to me than unload my ranger or general boxes. We also multi use it for trail riding with the family.

Get one you’ll enjoy it. I have a 4 seater.

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Bought a Can Am Defender HD10 last spring. Cost was $21,000 Canadian. I’ve put 4000 miles on it and it is my most used piece of machinery on the farm. Initially it is expensive but maintenance is simple and haven’t had a single breakdown yet. Should last me many years and continue to bring value to my operation.

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Have 2 Honda 4 wheelers and 2 Kawasaki mule pro fx and wouldn't be without them love the mules other than they are belt drive. Have to  change that every 5 to 6000 miles but other than that change oil and tires. Have 16000 miles on 1 mule and  also on 1 4 wheeler

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I have both,  RZR 900S and Honda rancher 420. RZR gets used for scouting, fencing, general running around. Rancher gets used for calving, chasing cows, and spot spraying.
The rancher hasn’t seen anything other than maintenance, RZR  has had the secondary clutch replaced, but seems to have an accessory habit that makes it much more expensive.

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Would not do without either.  Between my Defender and my Honda Foreman, put close to 400 hrs/yr on them.  That’s a lot of saved truck miles (and wear) saved.  If we were not 100% irrigated, their value for me would diminish significantly.  Converted to Can Am over Polaris and so far wouldn’t go back.  Far fewer CV axle issues and my available Polaris service was undesirable.

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Our Polaris Rangers seem to last 10,000 miles on the ranch. Expensive per mile but they do some amazing things.  We use 4 Honda rancher foot shift 4 wheelers for irrigation. The simple Honda's are amazing! Good price, you can lift them, they run forever. The foot shift is a must on these machines if you want to hold a spray wand or a drink.

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We have two JD JD825I, one kawasaki brute force and one Yamaha grizzly.  Have not had much trouble, JD gators both have over 10,000 miles and rarely leave the yard.  We have replaced a few belts and a park brake on each.  The atvs don’t get as much use but both have been great.  I hate buying them because it seems like you could go buy and older pickup for the same price but you cannot get the same work done as efficiently as you can with UTV or ATV.  A must have like a good set of wrenches!

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Maintenance on mine has been cheap, oil changes, upgraded lights. I'll never be with out one again. Use it all the time to check cattle and fence and move equipment around

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We have a **** Deere 835 gator with heat and air. Priceless at calving. Handy the rest of the time. Just service and go.

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I bought a Can-Am UTV last fall and i love it.  We haven't had any issues with it so far just normal maintenance.. it's been a great machine and we have just under 2000 miles on it.

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I bought  Ranger 900 in 2013.   Put 7500 miles on it...did nothing but change oil.   Paid $14450 for machine and all accessories.  Got $9850 for it when i traded it

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Of you’re working by yourself a lot, I would go with an ATV and save some money over an UTV purchase. If you work in pairs or more, and plan on hauling heavy stuff, but the UTV. I’ve got three Polaris Rangers UTV’s and two Honda ATV’s and after you bite the bullet of purchasing one, the cost is relatively minimal if you do proper maintenance. Both are pretty expensive anymore, but I fell they save much bigger repairs on things like pickups trucks. Best of luck.

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We have both, atv much better with cattle, utv everything else.  I like atv for going down pivot roads and row crop, but we bought a Polaris 900 trail razor that fits 30” rows.  Initial cost is stupid, but love them.  Make sure you keep air cleaners checked, and electric fans running, boots and cvc joints will fail, but that’s part of it.  Had bad fan on mule diesel, lost motor, spent 4500 to get it fixed, lost air filter on 700 grizzly, smoked motor, 3200 to fix with a lot of other stuff.  Mule has 3900, grizzly has 9700 miles.  They are just like a pickup, treat them like shit, you have shit, do maintenance they will work great, i would quit farming and go hold a slow, stop sign for asphalt company if you took them away from me

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We probably put 200 hours a year on our UTV and probably another 50 our an ATV.  Anything from simple upkeep and maintenance around the yard, to gathering rocks after tillage, doing tile repair work, hauling wood and spraying, to parts delivery in the field instead of running out trucks through corn stalks.  We work our UTV and ATV hard and we haven't had many expensive maintenance issues with them.   I wouldn't be without either.

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I need to purchase a ATV or a UTV. What is the annual cost of owning a UTV? Are they worth it?

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