LEMONS!

[MessickFarmEqu]

Thirteen pages and no one mentioned Erskine snow blowers. Bought a new 1845C hi-flow with Erskine 2418 hi-flow blower.

Just an FYI, its likly there is nothing wrong with the blower, its the configeration your using. Skid steer snow blowers need enough flow to spin fast, its possible that the high flow blower needed more flow than your high flow machine was pushing. Its usually best to opt for a standard flow blower on a high flow machine.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Ok maybe it was just me that had bad luck with Mazda's I had maybe a 1980 RX3 or something to that effect a very nice looking car with only about 40K miles. That thing woud just die driving along. The weirdest thing. I would get under the hood and wiggle things which didn't make much difference. Start it up and drive away. It scared the snot out of me when it did it in the middle of an intersection. The car was approprately lemon yellow. Then I had a 1988 Mazda van that had about 80K I bought used. I found paper work in it showing a rebuilt tranny.. Hmmm well that should be ok! Wrong! The tranny went out on me so I had it rebuilt for about $1800.. Ok well it should be ok now! Wrong! That went out less than a year later.. Still under warranty.. Someone did me a favor by rear ending me on the freeway and totaling it out.:confused2:

 

[Lumberjack1903]

And even though I'm still fond of GM, year of my life have been stripped away from me by those d@mn 6.2L diesels! I'm on my third (the 1987 GMC 1 ton in my avatar) and at the first sign of trouble, I'm yanking it out and stuffing Cummins 6bt in there.

That is a sweet ol' Tank you got there. 6BT would be awesome

 

[drroadster]

Bought new TYM 603 cab with loader may 2011. 28 hours on the meter and few months later in august 2011 the motor seized... I had to pay dealer to pick it up 4 weeks ago. Haven't heard a peep from them since. I am having attorney write letter to manufacturer asking for refund. Will update as things progress.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Drr did the selling shop do a walk around with you on delivery to check all of the fluids and give you some time to learn the machine? Just curious if that would be a get out of jail free card for them?

 

[Dr_Zinj]

So you held a grudge from 1983-2010. 27 years. Man, I'd hate to be on your bad side. :laughing:

Yar, he's a lot like I am I guess. At least it's a character flaw I'm aware fo.

Reminds me of Queen Elizabeth Winton out of David Weber's Honor Harrington series. Described as holding a grudge until it died, then had it stuffed so she could continue to look and glare at it whenever she wanted.

 

[zonta223]

Have really only had problems with 2 brand name products.
One was a Mazda Van. Did 90,000 miles in it. Went through 3 sets of universal joints, 4 sets of brake pads, a gearbox, 3 cam shaft drive belts and numerous other things. Luckily for me it became an insurance wright off.

Number Two was a John Deere "Greene Machine" line trimmer.
sent the wife down to buy a stihl one when I was away from home.....and the dealer talked her into the John Deere model........Never ever ran right......over 3 years cost me more than its original price in repairs....became famous in our household as the "Dear machine"............spent more time in the repair shop than at work.....At the end of 3 years the dealers told me that they could no longer get parts for it............Think I cleared the warehouse stocks out with my one machine lol

 

[Builder]

Speaking of lemons, I heard GM made so many lemons they are in the process of trying to get the government to put up funding for a new juice factory!

My GM truck is the most reliable vehicle I've ever owned! :thumbsup:
Anything BUT a lemon.

 

[Builder]

I see a lot of S10 complaints here, but I have a different opinion on those:

In college I had an 89 S15 GMC Jimmy. Other than a couple starters (misplaced heat shield) and a gas tank, we got approximately 225K miles out of that little bugger. I miss that little truck. I gave it to my brother, who left it in a field for a few years. It started to rust out, so it really wasn't worth keeping.

We did have the digital dash go out at 80K miles though. It would disappear for a few years, then magically re-appear. Always held the correct mileage though.

And even though I'm still fond of GM, year of my life have been stripped away from me by those d@mn 6.2L diesels! I'm on my third (the 1987 GMC 1 ton in my avatar) and at the first sign of trouble, I'm yanking it out and stuffing Cummins 6bt in there.

I think there's a lot of folks doing that :laughing:

fordcummins.com - Increase Horsepower with Ford Cummins Diesel conversion kits

 

[Builder]

I wish I could say the same about my 2002 Montana

I hear ya. Wife and I had a Ford windbag minivan that lifted heads after ~60K miles. Right after warranty expired.
However, I'm not scorned enough to say that Fords are all lemons. You can get a bad one from any brand. Best to sell and move on if it's not a keeper.