I am just asking the question.

My old man has a 2006 Tundra based on the Freestyle chassis, Has anyone seen this type of sled get tweaked with minimal impact?

The reason I ask is that I borrowed my fathers Tundra to take my 5 yr old son for a ride. I was on a trail, and hit a stump that was just covered by a little bit of snow at about 10-15 mph. The sled traveled over the stump, it was a good but not a very forceful blow. The impact bent the whole sled to the point of 3900.00 worth of damage. Is this normal on these sleds? I have heard of one other case very similar to this with a log over the trail buried under the hard pack.

The tech. at the dealer told me there wasn't a lot of reinforcement in the freestyle chassis and this shouldn't surprise me. I would expect a sled to take a little more abuse than this. I am trying to get some input from the Ski-Doo crowd to see if this a common issue.

Hit a stump once,coming to a complete stop,1-2mph just at the point of stopping bumped stump.Bent tunnel in footrest ares,pushed trailing arm back bending mount.ZX ski-doo.Its amazing the amount of abuse this sled had taken without damage only to have it bend like that on a low speed bump.Fluke?

I have had this happen to 3 friends on the REV chassis. All were going slow "under 15 MPH" and caught there ski. End result was a bent chassis and a repair bill exceeding $3500. Two had insurance and one wishes he did. We have ridden all of our sleds hard and never a problem. All damage happened while running parallel to railroad tracks.

well i know a guy wit a freestyle and he hit a like 30 foot jump and broke both shocks and coming home wit no shocks he hit a a stump and the sled was bent like a acordian the thing bent soo much the handle bars were 4 inches back the stump was like the front bumper length he hit it because there was soo much snow it was covered and hewas in the bush in the fluff and he hit it at like 20 mph the sled was totaled a nother kid hit it 2 days later on a polaris pro-x and he broke his front bumper and his hood mounts he drove away

I have a 97 skidoo and I hit a small rock at about 10 mph bent the tunnel and totaled the trailing arm. It took alot of abuse before that without doing anything to it, its weird.