I don't care what you call yourself here on TBN, or elsewhere on the net. Those who can discern facts from fiction will decide if you're constant rant against Kioti, importer, manufacturer or dealer(s) is valid from their own good judgement, regardless of how many videos you throw out or other poor me, I've been wronged by the corporate machine victim stance you maintain.
Few people on TBN chose to show their own smug faces as their avatar; but that is your personal choice, and garnishes what it will.
I have to agree with IT, that you give only what you want us to know, and not the entire story.
Your comparison of a lawnmower to your Kioti tractor is a PATHETIC attempt to prove your 'point' about how weak your tractor is.
As a for instance, I've often thought it would be nice to have a bigger Kioti with a cab, like you have. BUT, when I consider that I don't have to deal with all the downside of DPFs and final Tier IV, and the need to have a larger bay in which to house the taller tractor/cab, not to mention the additional expense associated with trading my DK-40 in on a newer model, I decide I'll stick with what I have.
So, if for a moment I lose my perspective and have a pang of envy or jealousy over what you may have in a tractor vs. what I have it quickly fades away when I come back to the basics of what I have is what I need, and it serves me very well in almost all situations where I ask something of my tractor.
For you, Eric, on the other hand, it seems nothing is good enough for you. I get the desire to improve on things, and make them better, BUT that doesn't mean they aren't often good enough as they roll off the factory floor. You CHOSE to add cab insulation, and lights and 3rd function, etc. No problem, until you decide to reengineer the way the tractor performs, according to your view of what it should be doing, vs. what you say it is doing. I'm referring to the thermostat and temp curve and DPF regeneration cycles.
I get, and agree that what you were told may not be the case as to how often YOUR engine goes into regen. It may be your specific tractor, it may be your specific tractor AND your Minn climate, I can't say; I'm not there experiencing what you are.
Here the most important thing: most anyone other than you would be here on TBN asking for assistance from other members regarding your tractor's issues. Then the likely course of action would be people encouraging you to keep at your selling dealer and Koioti corporate to resolve the issues under warranty. This often takes time, which you may or may not feel you have to spend, but it is the process that consumers like all of us here at TBN, and elsewhere, have to abide by when trying to resolve conflict with the manufacturer/dealer entities.
My personal take on your videos, what I've seen of random clips of them posted in various threads here at TBN, is your attitude is smug and condescending toward Kioti's product and that they're a bunch of idiots who if they only knew as much as the Oracle then things might be OK and smooth sailing would be commonplace.
It occurs to me that you would likely not be pleased with any other brand of tractor, had you chosen one instead of Kioti. I believe you did lots of research, from what I recall of when you first came to TBN, on Kioti and other products, and chose Kioti for some reason, I don't recall what specifically, over the other candidates.
I think you expect too much, and when disappointed by the end result you chose to rail against anyone and anything except possibly considering that YOUR CHOICE may have been what was where the error lies, not with Kioti or some pieces of their corporate chain.
You can't take the operator out of the equation. YOU are the person at the controls of your tractor. It's not a mini-ex, or dozer, it's a 60 HP tractor with FEL and whatever implements you attach to it.
Here's what really irritates me about your way of going about seeking resolution to your real and or imagined issues with Kioti as a whole.
You seem to be on a crusade to prove you're right and Kioti, in this case, their importer is wrong. You throw up videos like chicklets, every two minutes you have another one to show how they screwed up and you came to the rescue of their stupidity and from your POV need for them to reengineer most aspects of their tractors. You don't appear to be attempting to gain cooperation with them, rather you seem to want to prove how superior your knowledge is to their poorly thought out end results, which YOU chose to purchase. Rather than playing by the rules you want to shame them and garnish supportive 'eyeballs' against the 'machine' of them/their American importer, etc.
You seem to not grasp the basics of you, like all of us, bought a tractor from a seller of tractors; then instead of going through the methods outlined by the contract you agreed to when you bought your tractor, you decide that when it comes to your tractor, you make up the rules and abide by what you deem valid to your specific situation. Sorry, Oracle, it doesn't work YOUR way. There is a legally binding contract between you and Kioti, Daedong, (not DaeDung) as you wrote earlier in this thread.
Each party has obligations under the contract, BUT ONLY Kioti has the ability to void one's warranty for cause. If in fact this has been done to you and your tractor, and you are feeling you were somehow wronged by whomever you claim wronged you under said contract, then your recourse is to sue them in court for what you claim is the harm to you as a result of breach of the contract.
Sometimes exposure of wrongdoing by videos is a way to go, and I'm not saying this is the case with your tractor, BUT going to videos first before trying to use the normal channels of conflict resolution is probably not the best choice. Why? The details of your situation, regardless of how biased it may seem from only hearing your perspective prove my point. Where are you at with your tractor? Nowhere from what I can discern. Why? Because your approach has rendered many 'eyeballs' but little more than smoke and mirrors when it comes to positive results, at least for you.
And continuing to consider going nuclear is just going to make whomever you're railing against dig their heels in even deeper.
You seriously ought to consider reaching some sort of agreement with whomever you feel is the appropriate party, Tim (?) or whoever your gripe is with, and agree to cease your endless rants on video and here on TBN for the chance that they might consider 'fixing' your not working shifting fork or whatever it is you think is in need of fixing under warranty. Then go your separate ways forever. Otherwise you will continue to lose the battle with them, regardless of how much you think you video smear campaign is working. Trust me; it's NOT working, at least not if you want something positive out of it....
So here's a novel approach to consider: how about without visual aides, stating your case from where you think things started to go wrong with your dealer, Kioti corporate, or the American importer, without all the embellishment and comparison to lawnmowers and the like. Basically tell us the story from the POV of us never having heard any of it previously, so one can try to understand and possibly empathise with your plight. Can you do that ?
