Maybe Kioti watched all of your videos on you tube.Then voided your warranty,Ya think ?? JimR,hope your tractor issues are over, good luck.
Wow, if that is the case approaching 700 hours and not one single pin is loose. More likely, Kioti was simply looking for BS ways to not honor a warranty helped by6 people like yourself with no clue about what they were watching. As in they must think SPAGHNUM where one can pull out a 1/2" round bit pf brush BY HAND is just like something growing out of hard pan.
And then helped by the moderators saying NEVER poo-popo almighty OEMS and deleting ANY reasonable discussion about one's problems.
It must be something like that, huh?
To say I'd NEVER purchase a Kioti again is an understatement since using a Piranha Tooth Bar voids Kioti's warranty.
When I specifically asked how I had abused my tractor, Tim Fox, the warranty guy refused to offer any explanation. However, in October 2015, my tractor video collection was rather limited, and I suspect that the video in question was my first and only use of the BX expanded cutting edge mounted on the OEM bucket or that I used a box blade to clean up a pad for building. I used the BX expanded cutting edge to run over light brush that is growing out sphagnum soil. The soil is so soft that I can literally pull the brush out by hand and if this is type of work is deemed abusive, then Kioti's are not designed for any kind of bucket work whatsoever as driving into a lose pile of soil is harder on the loader than running the loader on float over brush to see how well the BX-panded cutting edge worked. Moreover, if using a box scraper is deemed abusive, especially over and above using a subsoiler, then again, Kioti's warranty isn't worth the paper it is written on, as both tasks are expected uses within the industry for compact utility tractors.
Anyway, the whole episode of having my entire warranty revoked is super disappointing to me and has totally sucked any joy of ownership of this Kioti tractor out of me.
Meanwhile, one dealer in 2016 told me that they sold five Kioti tractors and all of the customers had mentioned my videos and the Russian importer of Kioti has asked for permission to translate and use my cold-weather starting video.
My trouble here isn't with the Kioti dealers, or with the parent company Daedung, but with the amoral culture at the American importer who without ever seeing my tractor voided my warranty and sucked the joy of ownership right out of the deal. Worse, my videos have helped sell a pile of tractors at this point benefitting the American importer, but because of the American importer's decision to not honor their warranty, they have changed me from a Kioti enthusiast who wanted to help Kioti spread goodwill and confidence in Kioti's products into a realist who wishes he had never purchased a Kioti tractor.
