Dealer Yanmar dealer in Texas
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normde2001
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Try RCO in Austin.
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careyo63
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If your looking for a Yanmar tractor are you watching CL. for your area. They show up all the time.
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WM75Guy
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Unless your just stuck on Yanmar Athens Tractor is now selling Mahindra. Go see Burton, they have a good selection on the lot.
YannyMan
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Hoye Tractor is also in Texas...
clemsonfor
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Think through all your options. You may want to take a skeptical look at RCO from a few recent posts here they seem to be no better than any of the VN sellers. I forget the thread title, but something about a dealer in the midwest or west or just dealer in general. Anyway Car Doc, a member here bought from them and was into the head for a teardown rebuild 1 yr later. The owner pretty much shrugged him off and would not help, not even sure if it was in the parts warrenty period or not? Then another member chimed in on the same thread and said he had a similar experience.
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Who was it that sold the Yanmar to that guy up at high altitude in Colorado? I think it was from Texas.
The new owner posted that the delivery guy worked an hour to get it off the trailer. I'm not sure they ever got the engine started.
I think he said the one shipped wasn't the one he had picked out.
The buyer never could start his "Factory Reconditioned" shiny new Yanmar without extraordinary effort. He bought a compression tester and adapter, and found the compression way below spec. He then made fairly significant repairs which still didn't make it usable at his altitude. I saw that model tractor ('needs repair'), many miscellaneous test tools, and parts, injectors etc all on Ebay in that region; I'm pretty sure from this guy after he gave up.
As I recall, the seller ignored his calls and wouldn't return his messages while all this was going on. When he eventually spoke with an owner after he had done many repairs, the best he was offered was "ship it back [1000 miles?] for repair, you pay shipping both ways" but no reimbursement for what he spent attempting to make it meet spec.
Whoever that seller was, didn't exactly cover himself with glory.
This is all from memory. Does anyone have a more accurate recollection of that drama?
The new owner posted that the delivery guy worked an hour to get it off the trailer. I'm not sure they ever got the engine started.
I think he said the one shipped wasn't the one he had picked out.
The buyer never could start his "Factory Reconditioned" shiny new Yanmar without extraordinary effort. He bought a compression tester and adapter, and found the compression way below spec. He then made fairly significant repairs which still didn't make it usable at his altitude. I saw that model tractor ('needs repair'), many miscellaneous test tools, and parts, injectors etc all on Ebay in that region; I'm pretty sure from this guy after he gave up.
As I recall, the seller ignored his calls and wouldn't return his messages while all this was going on. When he eventually spoke with an owner after he had done many repairs, the best he was offered was "ship it back [1000 miles?] for repair, you pay shipping both ways" but no reimbursement for what he spent attempting to make it meet spec.
Whoever that seller was, didn't exactly cover himself with glory.
This is all from memory. Does anyone have a more accurate recollection of that drama?
This is LCI Industries. They are VN tractors. Where mine came from. They did warranty 90 days but after that I had a multitude of problems that I covered on my own. Not going to down them, I blame myself somewhat. I am now much more educated than I was. I think sometimes people expect to much with 30 year old tractors. Just my opinion.
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As I recall, both your tractor and the other one in question were both well out of warranty, and quite a distance from the dealer. Surely the dealer's responsibility runs out at some point on a 30 year old tractor.
I bought my tractor from a small dealer just down the road about 10 years ago. The only warranty was, "If it breaks any time soon, we will fix it". I would never buy a used, big ticket item that I couldn't thoroughly inspect before purchase.
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clemsonfor
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I somewhat recal all that but thats better than my memory, i only remember it after your post.
I didn't have the luxury of having a dealer just down the road and neither does half the other people here so you cant compare my experience with yours I was taking someones word and I value truth and honesty above everything. I wouldn't have seen this problem if I had looked at it in person.
It was hidden and was a slow developing problem that was evident only after a few hours of operation that something wasn't right like I said and it took 95 hours to completely rear its head and that happened to take a year which in my mind is way too soon to be doing major work on anything. Call that well out of warranty if you want.
Where did I ever say I expected a 30 year old tractor to be warranted after the time limit go back and read what I did say.
I had to take someone else word that the engine had been gone thru properly yada yada and at the end it wasn't and there were a few other things wrong I have never mentioned either.
Like I simply said the OP could search the posts and make up his own mind and decide for himself if it warrants caution.
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normde2001
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http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/2224535-post25.html
(Purchased April, 2009, diagnosed Nov., 2010, 6 mos. warranty.)
(Purchased April, 2009, diagnosed Nov., 2010, 6 mos. warranty.)
normde2001
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I don't need one. Just complying with your request.
Still waiting on you to comply if you want to be that way about it.
"Where did I ever say I expected a 30 year old tractor to be warranted after the time limit go back and read what I did say. "
Btw since you decided to stick your nose in my business and insert foot in your mouth you may as well know another fact.
I paid just short of $20 k for my tractor with backhoe and shipping so yes that gives me privilege to complain when my tractor doesn't make the second oil change before a major repair and I could go on.
Guys like you who post on here all the time and don't have any where near the investment some do are out of your league giving them advice when you don't know all the facts. You really don't have that much worth saying to me and besides that you didn't buy from RCO so what makes you such an authority in this thread?.
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normde2001
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"Try RCO in Austin."
It started from this and you took over from there, (and then insisted on denying the facts).
Have a nice day.
clemsonfor
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Read up fellas, fast. I have said things far less aggressive than this to others and they have dissapeared in less than a few hours. Thes last 4 or so posts may not be here in a few days. Then those who read what i have just written will be like "whats this guy talking about?"
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