I've used this heat stuff from D.E.I called "Floor and Tunnel II" on the entire insides of my xmr's plastics. I couldn't used my heat shields with my muzzy exhaust so I had to remove them. The only thing between the plastics and the exhaust is the stuff from D.E.I. In fact is so close in some places that it is only maybe an half inch from touching the exhaust. Even with it that close nothing has melted AND it stops the heat. I believe it protects up to 1750 degrees of direct heat and there is no way the exhaust gets t hot. Regardless if you cover the plastic areas with his stuff you won't have any trouble. In fact I've even put it under my left rear fender and then put heat tape on the edges to give it a finished look and to keep dirt from getting under it....the stuff is awesome! You won't be disappointed and it is adhesive on the back. Here is the link
https://www.designengineering.com/c...gn-engineering-inc/heat-sound-barrier/floor-tunnel-shield-ii-heat-sound-insulat

 

And a few pics of what I did

 

One of the fender with heat tape on edges

 

Another

 

i didn't wrap my exhaust because that causes heat build up and rusts your pipes. And there is no need to do so, if you put this stuff everywhere that is causing issues

 

Thanks for the link, that seems like an easy fix, I'll be looking into that. I've been talking to a friend of mine and he told me the same thing about the wrap causes heat build up and rust and he suggested a heat shield would be better. I do have room for a shield, just need to figure out how to attach it, and I already have a couple idea in my head how to do that. Maybe a combination of these to methods would work really good. The only good thing about finding out about this now, is that it is winter and I don't do much driving in the winter.

 

Well I got some good news and some bad news, the bad news first; there was a lot more damage to my bed than I realized. I had a large box bolted in the back and it was covering an area that was melted down pretty bad. The attached pictures show it from underneath and from on top (the pictures don’t do it justice as to the extent of the damage.
The good news is a mixed bag, evidently BRP realized that there is a problem there and they have made a heat shield for that area, and believe it or not, it is reasonably priced (just under $50). My Can Am service manage was really very helpful in finding the part number (715003431) and they actually had one in stock. The bad part of that is in keeping with BRP’s policy in not standing behind their product, they will not step forward and offer the fix to their customers that they know is a design flaw.

 

Here's a picture of the new heat shield, it attaches to the bottom the the bed and there is also a small heat shield that provides additional heat protection to the fuel tank that is exposed near the muffler.

 

Sorry to read about your damaged bed.

I have carefully inspected the bed at my 6x6 but cannot see any melting or traces of too much heat.
Maybe because of the different exhaust pipe?

I will get the shield anyway, better safe than sorry.

Edit: I called my dealer, he told me that these shields was a part of installing the Apache Tracks. According to him they had no reports of melting here in Norway without the shield and tracks.

 

Glad to hear that yours is OK, I know you have had it longer than I've had mine, so maybe you won't need this shield (maybe it does have something to do with the difference of the tail pipes, yours being a short straight pipe and mine a long "S" pipe). The 1st sentence does say "All 2014 & 2015 6x6 Outlander vehicles need to be upgraded with this kit when used with track system".
I just started taking mine apart so I can install this shield, I'll take a couple pictures and post them later.

 

They installed that new heat shield when I bought my tracks, I haven't noticed any melting , But I will take a closer look. My long tail pipe rattled loose & lost it in the bush not long after I bought it & they replaced It with the short stubby one under warranty

 

The tail pipe coming loose seems to be a common problem, both mine and my brothers came loose and were hanging on by 1 bolt when one of us noticed it, so we didn't lose them. Interesting that they replaced it with the stubby one. I wonder if they found a problem being caused by the long "S" pipe.

 

I think there was to much vibration with the long pipe. If they had replaced it with another long pipe I was going to weld a u bolt to the bottom of the muffler & clamp it there as well to stop the vibration. Just ordered the alpine flex plow, I already have the tracks so plowin snow will b a blast this winter. Ran the tracks a bit last spring, cant wait to put them back on. this thing is a BEAST on steroids

 

While doing my valve adjustment, I found some more melting problems (on the CVT exhaust hose). Put another small heat shield covering that area, but then wanted to figure out why we're having these issues and other 6x6's are not. In another post when discussing putting on a BRP Snorkel kit, [FONT=&quot]“Frozennuts” said that I should be careful about changing the CVT exhaust location because the factory location provided some heat reduction from the exhaust. After mulling this information over, I elected to install the snorkel kit anyway, but now I am pretty sure that "Frozennuts" was correct and this is the cause of the problem. [/FONT]

 

Here is what I fabricated up. I installed the BRP heat shield as soon as I purchased it. I only used everyday hand tools to fab it up. I did however use C-clamps and some angle iron as a DIY metal brake. I made it so there is only about 1/8" of clearance between the new shield and the bed box. I use 1/4" bolts where I could and rivets where it was tight to get in to. The internal bed box now is only warm when on an extremely slow ride. It's 1/8th aluminum but thinner would be just fine.

 

Nice job, mines similar but your looks better.

 

He he he, I think I may have some fun this winter with some metal work. Love the work you did there Tigger800max. I haven't had any melting issues that I have seen. Hey chief, how is the can-am heat shield working for you? When I bought my 6x6, I was told by the parts dealer to either do a "can-am upgrade" with the short stubby exhaust pipe and pay for the extra piece, or do an "Alaskan upgrade" with the long S-exhaust pipe via a cold drink and a sawzall. That cold drink was good!

 

Haven't had any more melting issues, but I did reroute my belt exhaust back to it's original place to help with a little cooling (the snorkel kit put it up by the pod). My legs do get hot and I still plan on doing ceramic coating this winter to the pipes, then I will put the belt exhaust back up to the pod. So you dealer called it an "can-am upgrade" to put the short stubby exhaust pipe on? wow, I haven't cut my tail pipe off yet, but I probably will now. Tks.

 

I cut my tail pipe off as soon as I heard you guys had them fall off. We just picked up 2 more 6 wheelers and cut those off before they even hit the field. That long pipe gave me a bad feeling so we will see what happens.

 

Yeah, it was the "canam upgrade", my dealer recommended the other approach if I had the tools. Happy that I did trim the exhaust down, I've been in some deep stuff that probably would've jammed the tail pipe up and through the bed. My heat deflector tape is showing signs of wear with some tears and so I will be looking into a heat shield myself in the near future.