Elstar Tank EAE250

Good value for money, happy with it so far – We got it 2nd hand to drive around our property. Overall we are happy with it. My wife finds it easy to drive (except take off, see below) and it starts well every time. It's so basic that doesn't require much maintenance (oil gets black and thick very quickly though, we change it every 20-30hrs to be safe, and it's a pain, read below). A few… Read more

regrets: 1) The plastic trim on the rhs is badly designed: it covers the 'window' that let's you check the oil level (I drilled a hole, see photo) and doesn't let you access the filler cap that also acts as a dip stick (see photo). So any oil change requires to remove and put back 8 bolts. On the other hand, the plastic trim on the other side is fully open when there's nothing to access! 2) The final gear is too long, forcing us to slip the clutch a lot to take off and uphills challenging with a passenger, even in 1st gear. And we rarely use 3rd gear and I don't even know if there's a 4th. Haven't found a bigger Sprocket for it yet, but will keep looking. Oh yeah: the 4 bolts holding the rear sprocket snapped! Not a big job to replace, maybe they are meant to act like fuses?

soon as u get it change your air filter! – It came in a box was packed ok with steel frame crate to protect the quad, was mostly assembled only had to put on the wheels and handle bars, anyway I have now owned it for 4 months and use it daily, the quad its self seems good has good power but the air filter is terrible it has a paper filter that allows dirt to flow directly through it as the… Read more

quads rear wheels throw off a lot of dust when riding, don't try and oil it, it will only fall apart on you, do your self and the engine a favour and get a foam one for it as continued use of the original will surely kill your engine over time, other than this the quad good so far, it takes steep hill's okay has good pulling power, and nothing has broken yet, and I have given it to it here and there and it takes it, good bang for your buck, more than I expected from a Chinese quad bike for sure.

UPDATE 26/04/2020

Clutch gave out today while riding up a steep hill moving firewood, it was giving me warnings it was on its way, have done a lot with this quad over the last 2 years its been a workhorse, i have beaten it and it took it, pulled tons of firewood up steep over the 2 years, sprayed weeds and Ratstails with a 60L weed sprayer every summer, took it pretty well, I use this quad at least 2 times a week to 4 times a week for work and to get me around my property, i kept it serviced, the engine still runs strong and starts first go, but now for the bad parts, in the pic below, the parts in the red cracked and needed welding up a few times, ended up having to add steel plates on the under side to reinforce it, also the chain Tensioner Idler under load ends up letting your chain jump off the rear sprocket and destroy the rear sprocket bolts (pics below replacing bolts and sprocket and a crack repair ) so in the end i had to relocate the chain tensioner idler and weld it closer to the rear sprocket, and haven't had an issue since, but other than those few issues it runs good and did the job, now i gotta replace a clutch, if I didn't ride it hard I think the clutch would of lasted much longer, would I buy another one after owning one? well that depends on my budget, you can get a good second hand Japanese quad for $3000 if you look long enough, after owning it this long there has been times when I needed more power, like towing power, I would like to be able to pull around my small box trailer, this could do it but it didn't like it, and it would be much better to have independent rear suspension, if I were to buy another quad bike, I would try getting a good second hand Japaneses quad bike.

this quad still has life and runs strong and I will fix the clutch and continue to use it.