 Re: Mahindra Co. stability
For many many years we had two local tractor dealers.
One sold IH and slowly converted to Kubota quite a few years ago. They went out of business several weeks ago. They basically didn't provide service for any of their products.
The other has been a long-time McCormick dealer, who took on the Mahindra line about four years ago. The also sell quite a few brands of implements. I was up there the other day, and they may not be selling a tractor a day, but they sure looked busy. If anything, adding the smaller Mahindra utility tractors to their much larger McCormick farm tractors certainly seemed to strengthened them. But, they also provide excellent service and parts for all makes of tractors and implements, plus they provide on-site service.
As for stability -- I figure there will be parts available for my tractor long after I'm gone even if the company isn't here. I never had problems even finding parts for my old grey market tractors, like the Hinomotos, long after they went bankrupt.
By the way, I never got to use the warranty on my Mahindra. Nothing ever went wrong with it in the first thee years / 300 hours -- which is where I'm at now. I couldn't be happier.
Knute |