An X3 MAX is a wonderful machine right up until the temperature drops. Four people, an open cab, and a windshield that does nothing about the air coming in sideways at the shoulders. Most owners start down the same road — a set of soft uppers off the shelf — and then discover the real problem with cheap ones: to get out, you unzip and fold the whole window, climb out, and then zip the whole thing back up again. Do that four times at a gas stop with cold hands and you will stop using them. The Kemimoto Soft Cab Enclosures with Metal Frame for the Can-Am Maverick X3 MAX are built around fixing exactly that, and they run $486.99.
The framed upper door is the point
Kemimoto leads with this one, and they describe the competition's problem plainly: for other upper doors on the market, you have to open the whole window to open the door, then get in and close the entire window. Their answer is a unique framed upper door — a door that is a door, built on a frame, that swings and latches as a unit.
That sounds like a small convenience thing. It is not. The difference between an enclosure you use and an enclosure that lives in the garage comes down to how annoying it is to get in and out, because on any given ride you are doing it a dozen times — gates, gas, lunch, checking a trail, letting the kid out. A soft panel you have to unzip every single time gets left open, and an enclosure that is left open is not an enclosure at all. One that opens like a door stays closed when you are moving, which is when it matters.
What the panels are made of
- Waterproof PVC and Oxford cloth with seam sealing
- Black powder-coated metal frame for rigidity
- No drilling and no cutting
- Installation instructions and all needed hardware in the package
Two details in there are worth sitting with. The first is seam sealing. Waterproof fabric is the easy part — almost everything on the market claims it. The seams are where enclosures actually leak, because every stitch is a hole, and a panel full of needle holes at the top of a door will drip on your leg all day in rain. Sealed seams are the difference between a panel that keeps water out and a panel that keeps most of the water out.
The second is the metal frame. A soft panel with no structure drums, flaps and balloons at speed, and the fabric wears itself out against whatever it is slapping. A black powder-coated frame holds the shape, which means the panel is not working itself to death every mile and the door has something solid to latch to.
And then there is the no-drilling part, which is the one that matters when it is time to sell the machine. Nothing permanent happens to the cage. The hardware is in the box, the instructions are in the box, and when the weather turns in spring the whole thing comes back off.
Fitment — check your trim, not just the badge
This is an X3 MAX kit, which means the four-seat car. Kemimoto's fitment list runs trim by trim rather than as one blanket year range, and it covers a lot of ground across the X3 MAX family, including:
- X3 MAX Turbo and X3 MAX Turbo R
- X3 MAX DS Turbo, DS Turbo R and DS Turbo RR
- X3 MAX RS Turbo, RS Turbo R and RS Turbo RR
- X3 MAX X DS Turbo, X DS Turbo R and X DS Turbo RR
- X3 MAX X RS Turbo R, X RS Turbo RR, and X RS Turbo RR with Smart-Shox
- X3 MAX X MR Turbo RR and X3 MAX X RC Turbo RR
Each of those trims carries its own year range on the product page, and they are not all the same — some start in 2017, some not until 2020, 2021 or 2024. So pull the exact trim name off your machine and check it against the full fitment list before ordering rather than going by "X3 MAX" alone. A two-seat X3 is a different kit entirely.
Who it is for
This is for the owner who wants to keep riding past October — the hunter heading out before daylight, the family that uses the back seats, anyone who got tired of arriving somewhere cold and wet. It is also the right call if you have already fought with budget soft uppers and decided the next set needs to actually open.
What it will not do is make a sport car into a heated cab on its own. An enclosure holds in whatever warmth you have; pair it with a heater if you want real heat, and expect to crack a panel open on a warm afternoon or you will cook. Plan on an hour with the instructions, and snug everything down before the first hard ride so nothing is flapping.
Order it at SxS Outpost
The Kemimoto Soft Cab Enclosures with Metal Frame for the Can-Am Maverick X3 MAX are $486.99, and they ship direct from Kemimoto's US warehouse with Kemimoto's standard warranty — no specific term is published on the listing, so take it for what it says. Browse everything that fits in the Can-Am Maverick X3 MAX collection, narrow it to Can-Am Maverick X3 MAX Doors, see the full Kemimoto lineup, or go straight to the enclosure kit itself.