Authorized Kubota Warranty Service Provider? Part 2 of 3

[artf]

A close buddy bought a Chevy 1500 recently. A beautiful truck. On my very first visit after his purchase, I offered to take his hammer and put the first dent on the bottom of a quarter panel so he could be over that "new truck experience". Might as well get it over with. I suggested he do it, but he couldn't bring himself to do the needy.

After 8 Kubotas, I would have been "Displeased" about the hood, but really pissed with the overspray, especially on the radiator screen I have to clean 2x daily when bush hogging my fields. Any paint that made it through to the radiator would be a tech with a toothbrush cleaning it or a new radiator at no charge.

Then I would have considered the free services received. I'd still be pissed about the overspray. If I couldn't live with the crappy hood finish, as suggested, I would take it to a body shop to be repainted. I know I'd be turning the ratchet to deinstall the hood while questioning how long it would be before I scratched the hood (inevitable) with some branch and wondering if my OCD (CDO) got the best of me and my wallet. But if I cringed due to the finish every time I started the tractor (my problem), I'd get it refinished.

I'd use some mineral spirits to see if I could get the overspray off the hoses and other places the lazy tech, who couldn't take the 2 mins to find cardboard, sprayed. I've never seen a factory OEM part from Kubota with a bad paint job.

That Kubota model with cab is a sweet tractor for a small land owner and I hope you enjoy it.

 

[ljjhouser]

There are photos of overspray on the sides of the headlamps, inside the hood on the radiator screen and hoses, and the hood support stantions that support the hood when it’s closed.

I am surprised they didn't at least remove it and mask it before painting. Or if they really wanted it right, send it to a paint shop.

 

[ljjhouser]

No comment. Don't want you to 'WHINE' to Mohammad like you usually do.... Speaking of whining.

I won't comment either. I haven't practiced enough since it became an olympic event (discovered that last week).

 

[DieselBound]

THE issue in this thread is that of "confidence." I can totally relate to finding that one's confidence in a dealer is trashed: my Kioti dealer gets my tractor for warranty work, but for anything else they ain't touching it (not going to pay them for their "quality" of work).

 

[airbiscuit]

When a thread starts with Part 2 of 3 , ya gotta think a little OCD lies ahead. I'm not saying that the OP doesn't have some legitimate complaints, but some other stuff seems overblown. Not likely a guy I'd want to have a beer with.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

Drama

 

[DonaldP]

When a thread starts with Part 2 of 3 , ya gotta think a little OCD lies ahead. I'm not saying that the OP doesn't have some legitimate complaints, but some other stuff seems overblown. Not likely a guy I'd want to have a beer with.

That is soooo true!

 

[DonaldP]

not to derail too much, but the cobram 40 looks like it would be awesome for a small property owner. low CG, tones of traction with the 4 equal size wheels, manurable.

After doing some mowing with a new to me 72” finish mower, I’m beginning to see why a lower CG may become the next big advancement in tractor safety.

With all the rage of Cabs these days raising the CG over open stations, I’m beginning to see that there is a trade off that may sprout the inventive design minds at the tractor companies.

 

[George the Beagle]

Wow. I waded through all (or, in all honesty, most) of this and it appears to be a Kubota customer who had a legitimate problem who drove the dealer absolutely crazy with his obsession with detail and minutae. No winners here.

 

[DonaldP]

Wow. I waded through all (or, in all honesty, most) of this and it appears to be a Kubota customer who had a legitimate problem who drove the dealer absolutely crazy with his obsession with detail and minutae. No winners here.

Thank you for your feedback beagle !

An awesome and honest response to my posts.

The story, when observed from a distance, seems a bit like police - legally escalating a situation that resolves itself in the worst possible outcome for all parties.

Or a motorcyclist doing the legal speed limit through a busy intersection and being right, dead right when he is side swiped and killed by a driver not following the rules.

Thanks so much for your wonderful comments.

 

[DonaldP]

I hope this works out to your satisfaction...

But man, all I can think is...
... A Grand L3650 with cab for 2 acres!

Leaves me speechless...

Pittsburgh!!!

I attended an automotive and Diesel school there in the early 80’s. I talked badly of the town as an 18 to 20 year old.

10 years later, after much more life experience I realized how fortunate I was to have experienced one of the cities hit hardest by the export of steel and hard core manufacturing in the northeast during that time and into the 90’s. I tasted, but did not experience its culture in cuisine and art until many years later, but that is the way life unfolds.

Pittsburgh rebuilt it’s culture to some degree and is, from what I’ve been told, a beautiful place to live.

Are you in the “Outdoors with the Morgans” crowd out there?
I did update my post to reflect that I do have 3 properties that I own and manage, requiring the use of the tractor fit many many things, not just a single property situation. That’s why my first purchase was a trailer to haul it around.

You know, I have always been pretty frugal when it came to purchasing “things”.

I have experienced purchasing fixer-uppers for lots of equipment and took heed to folks here and in other venues saying that buying used buys you more effort for less money, while the opposite is also true.

I was very very close to buying a used L3940 with 2400 hours after watching vids and reading comments from “Waxman” who originally bought his L3940 new and did some amazing mods to it.

In the end, after a short deliberation I realized I’ve got way too much work to do to toss $25,000 at a used piece of equipment and then spending another $20k to make it mine (backhoe at $10k), and maybe $10k in possible required repairs over the foreseeable future.

So, at $45,000 I was so close to buying new…. Which I ultimately did.

First iteration was an open station, and again at the last minute realizing that moving snow at -15 degrees would not be as easy, or satisfying as my experience of doing so with my Fisher plow attached to the truck!!

Hence the L3560 HSTC with Cab.

Nothing is ever as it seems in these posts. There usually isn’t the breadth of verbiage to communicate everything - so what we are left with are snippets of factual events that dont necessarily tell the whole story. I suppose it’s better than nothing though!

Thanks so much for your feedback!