Serial # 2030

[GManBart]

Kioti uses a alphabet code for year made.

Has anybody explained/decoded it publicly?

 

[GManBart]

Yes you are correct the older tractor serial number information did come out long after there production, and the published information if I am not mistaken was from a private source, can't believe I forgot to include that info. So basically we agree.

If enough people got their dealer to tell them what year their machine was, and we pooled the responses, we might be able to do the same thing, or at least start to narrow it down.

 

[murphy1244]

Has anybody explained/decoded it publicly?

Yes..Thats how I heard about it.

 

[GManBart]

The serial number for my R4047 was 2106012661.

Edit to add: I ordered it in December of 2012, and it was delivered in Jan of 2013, but I have no idea of knowing how long it was at the distribution facility in NC, or how long it was on a ship from Korea before that. I guess it's possible it was made in 2011, but more likely 2012.

 

[ozley]

Here is the tag on my 5030

 

[jacob59]

If enough people got their dealer to tell them what year their machine was, and we pooled the responses, we might be able to do the same thing, or at least start to narrow it down.

Bingo GManBart. I'm looking ahead, say 5 years from now. I want to sell my tractor. I list on the common mediums one advertise farm equipment on. I have a intrested, serious buyer. They would like to know the year of this tractor, and all I can tell them is that I bought it what I thought was new in the year xxxx.
That won't fly in my neck of the woods.
Jack

 

[GManBart]

Bingo GManBart. I'm looking ahead, say 5 years from now. I want to sell my tractor. I list on the common mediums one advertise farm equipment on. I have a intrested, serious buyer. They would like to know the year of this tractor, and all I can tell them is that I bought it what I thought was new in the year xxxx.
That won't fly in my neck of the woods.
Jack

Why not just call your dealer and ask them? You would have had the answer two days ago, and you'd know it was correct.

If you later go to sell it, and they don't believe what you tell them, give them the serial #, and they can call an LS dealer, or contact LS themselves. Nothing we're going to come up with here is official, so it always comes back to contacting the manufacturer, or a dealer.

 

[GManBart]

Here is the tag on my 5030

When did you buy it?

 

[ozley]

When did you buy it?

Spring of 2011 I can't say for sure but I think it had at sticker that had a 2010 built date on the cab I'll check when home.

 

[HarryN]

The serial number for my R4047 was 2106012661.

Wonder if they use the Gregorian calendar method. (or a coded variation of it)
If so, your serial number reads it was made on the 106th day of 2012.
Our company uses it, so customers have no idea how to figure it out. I do not like that approach!