Best Yamaha YXZ1000R Accessories

These accessories help to take your YXZ1000R to the next level of comfort and convenience

If you’re looking for the best Yamaha YXZ1000R accessories to complement your hyper focused, high-performance side-by-side? You’ve come to the right place.

Here, we’ve rounded up the best Yamaha YXZ1000R accessories on the market today, encompassing everything from $30 door storage bags to high-end audio equipment.

Finding enough spaces to stow all your stuff can be a struggle in any UTV, but with these UTV door bags, it doesn’t have to be an issue on the Yamaha YXZ. These are among the most practical Yamaha YXZ1000R accessories on this list, giving you a convenient mesh pocket in which to stick your wallet, keys, sunglasses, and other small items while you ride, along with a fully enclosed pocket for larger or more sensitive items. Each door bag also provides a soft sponge knee pad so that you don’t bang your knee against the door when the trail gets rough, and they’re made from durable, reinforced 1680D nylon fabric, which is weather-resistant and long-lasting.

If you’re just about done with being pelted in the face by twigs, pebbles, and other trail debris, a good UTV windshield is a must-have. SuperATV makes some of the industry’s best, and this 3-in-1 Flip Windshield is one of our absolute favorite Yamaha YXZ1000R accessories. With a precision design that perfectly fits the Yamaha’s hood contours and hard-coated polycarbonate construction that yields a windshield some 250 times stronger than a comparable glass one, this windshield boasts a flip pane that can be propped fully open for maximum airflow or cracked slightly for full passenger protection with a moderate amount of ventilation. It ships pre-assembled and installs with ease, and it’s even compatible with most Yamaha YXZ1000R roof designs on the market.

Plenty of audiophiles know that if you want the clearest, kickingest audio available in your vehicle, you could do worse than Rockford Fosgate. Lucky for Yamaha YXZ owners, the high-end audio brand offers this complete, bespoke stereo kit, which includes a color touchscreen Rockford Fosgate head unit, a pair of full-range Rockford Fosgate speakers, and contoured enclosures designed to perfectly fit the YXZ1000R dashboard. That PMX-2 head unit is “element ready,” naturally, meaning it’s been engineered to withstand routine weather exposure, and it boasts four crystal-clear 50W audio channels for superb sound. The included marine grade speakers are 6.5” full-range units that deliver rocking frequency response befitting a well-respected name like Rockford Fosgate, and although the full kit is undeniably a bit on the pricy side, the sound quality more than makes up for it.

The importance of trail visibility can hardly be overstated, and with how affordable these Chupacabra Offroad side mirrors are, there’s little excuse not to add them to your list of Yamaha YXZ1000R accessories. Boasting 4”-by-7.2” convex mirror elements with impact-resistant black ABS housings and near-universal mounting clamps, these side mirrors offer plenty of adjustability and a clear view of your surroundings, while a nifty “breakaway” feature allows them to fold in instantly and safely in the event of an impact. But the best feature of all is the lifetime warranty, which ensures that you’ll be able to use these mirrors ride after ride, season after season.

Supplement your side mirrors and get the complete picture with this affordable, adjustable center rearview UTV mirror from XJMOTO. Most “universal” clamp-on rearview mirrors don’t fit the YZX1000R because while most of the roll cage is formed from 1.75”-diameter tubing, the bar that spans high up across the front of the cage is just 1.5” in thickness, which is smaller than most clamps go. This XJMOTO mirror features rubber clamp gaskets that help it clamp down to 1.5”, and they do a decent job absorbing shocks and vibrations to boot. The 15” width provides a broad, panoramic view of what’s behind the vehicle, and it’s a well-designed and constructed accessory with precision laser-cut steel brackets and an easy-to-install butterfly clasp system.

The factory Yamaha YXZ1000R tires – a specially developed set of Maxxis Bighorn radials measuring 29x9-14 front and 29x11-14 rear – are superb. But if you’re looking for a little bit more firepower, the ITP Mud Lite XXL can deliver, with 1.2”-deep lugs and a mud-focused tread design that’s equally at-home over loose and intermediate surfaces, rocks, ruts, and snow. With 6-ply-rated construction, the ITP Mud Lite XXL is lightweight for its size, and the available 30” tire height yields a slightly larger contact patch for superior traction, not to mention a raised ride height with more ground clearance. These tires are an even bigger upgrade on 2016-2018 YXZ1000Rs, which came with 27” tall tires from the factory.

If keeping your side-by-side’s chassis and mechanical bits protected is important to you, a pair of nerf bars or rock sliders ought to be on your list of top Yamaha YXZ1000R accessories. These ones from SuperATV are a very smart purchase, offering outstanding strength and durability with their 1.75”-diameter steel tubing and UV-resistant black powdercoat finish. Installation is a simple bolt-on affair, with no drilling or other modifications required, and these bars can be a lifesaver on tight, twisty trails, deflecting trees and other hazards that could otherwise catch a rear tire and cause a nasty crash, not to mention over rocks, where they help your Yamaha slide over without its underbelly getting all scraped up.

Raising the Yamaha YXZ1000R’s suspension can be done either using a set of lift spacers or installing a more complete lift kit with different shocks, dampers, and other components. The latter route is more expensive, but the advantage is that a properly good kit can extend your suspension travel and upgrade handling while keeping the suspension geometry more or less correct.

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