I bought my Mitsubishi from a grey market dealer here in town. He no longer does grey market but carries LS and Mahindra. Although they are cheaper than Kubota I went orange because the guy is a total sleaze - no dealer support after the sale. I could still buy grey marked but would need to travel eighty miles to do so. Their tractors do all have ROPS but my Mitsubishi has taught me parts can be an issue as well. I spent a few thousand more but I'm pretty sure my tractor has a support system behind it.
Are you part of the Yahoo Group for Mitsubishi grey tractors? It's a group of over 2,700 members with a very deep supply chain connection around North America. The group recently migrated to GroupsIO.
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Bolans and Iseki tractors use Mitsubishi engines and in many instances, the parts are easy to get.
With the Yanmar grey market tractors, it has both 'new' parts in the supply chain and used part dealers. There is even a UTDA dealer network now, mostly on the east side of the Mississippi. Also, the grey market Yanmars share sooooo many parts and engine types with the John Deere's as the JD's are either twins just painted green or siblings in JD green paint.
The grey market orange Kubota's are not well supported though. That is very hard to get parts.
Bummer you had a grey market sleaze dealer.
Today, Mitsubishi isn't making their own tractors any more. They have Mahindra build them and badge them.
Yes, having a supply chain behind you is VERY IMPORTANT. My YM2610 is basically a John Deere 850 with the shuttle power-shift. Plus, Yanmar sold YM 3-digit tractors here in the USA that are siblings to the international models too. So, the supply chain is still strong.