Looking to buy 4025, 4500, 5525 or 5500

SETex · Aug 19, 2008

Newbie here, I have been reading on an off for a while now, but now have about settled on one of the above machines with FEL and I am looking for some answers and opions on these tractors. Are the new 55hp tractors now using 3cyl turbo engines? Are their still some of the non turbo units out their in inventory? Do the 41&42hp units now use turbos also? My concern is that having a turbo is just another part that can break. What is the concensus I am very new to tractors is general. I have some experience with an on old Ford 3000. I will be doing some brush cutting and food plot work were I hunt, as well as moving some dirt, stumps and dragging firewood. Oh, and I will make sure to submit some pics when I take the plunge and thanks for any answers and opinions. Thanks

RedRiver · Aug 19, 2008

I'm sure there are plenty of the 4500/5500's without the turbo's still available. The 4025's do not have a turbo.

SETex · Aug 19, 2008

Thanks RedRiver, I used to live in coldwater, moved away in 2003 was your dealership there then?

RedRiver · Aug 20, 2008

small world! yes, we moved locations about 2 years ago. we used to be about a mile east of I-55 on Hwy. 4, now we are right on the main strip next to I-55 where Mcdonalds, taco bell, etc. are.

xlr82v2 · Sep 2, 2008

SETex,

Don't lose any sleep about having a turbocharger. Every big rig you see on the road is turbocharged, my Volkswagen Golf TDI with 230,000 miles on it is turbocharged, and I have had exactly ZERO troubles with it.

Turbochargers on Diesel engines lead relatively easy lives compared to the turbos on gasoline engines... the exhaust gas temperatures of a diesel are roughly half of what they are on a gas engine, even at full load.

I would be much more concerned about all of the idiotic EPA anti-pollution garbage that they are hanging on these engines these days than I ever would be about the turbocharger.

Amwellls1 · Sep 27, 2008

I love my 5525, I have had it about 6 months now. I was at the dealer today and noticed the 5525 in now a turbo. What is the deal with that. I love my 4 cylinder non turbo model.

LAWALLSTRACTOR · Sep 28, 2008

Amwellls1 said:
I love my 5525, I have had it about 6 months now. I was at the dealer today and noticed the 5525 in now a turbo. What is the deal with that. I love my 4 cylinder non turbo model.

Mahindra has had to make some changes, to meed the new EPA regulations.