I fear the same! Around my area Kubota is consolidating dealers and it gives you no choice on dealer..... only a corporate minded organization. I miss the small single store dealers that actually gave a damn.
Not an issue for me actually as my dealer (even though he's a one store operator and farmer to boot, is a volume dealer and sells compact tractors but his bigger business is the large Kubota tractors and land Pride stuff.
I will say that far as corporate and regional reps, Kubota is hiring yuppie types that don't know their butts from a hole in the ground when it comes to issues. Had that experience with the new BV round bailer I bought last year. Was having issues with the net tail not coming out quite far enough after wrapping and cutting, so it wasn't cycling (wrapping) on the subsequent cycle and the regional rep made a farm call (with the lead tech from the dealership) and could not get the tail extension length correct so when he left, Dennis and I figured out what the issue was and fixed it. Glad it was a mechanical issue, not a computer issue or both of us would have been lost.
I don't consider that to be 'kosher' by a long shot, least we were able to correct it.
Problem is, these new bailers are all computer driven and being 73, I'm pretty much 'computer dumb'.
One of the major reasons why I keep my pre 4 tractors as the new ones, besides all the EPA hardware (DPF and Urea Injection and all that are computer controlled) and candidly, at my age, I want as little to do with that as possible.
Bad enough using this laptop to communicate with. Have a cell phone but I never 'text', just use it for normal calls and nothing more and I actually prefer and so does my wife, a landline.
