I’ve got a Deere dealer 3 miles away and a Kubota dealer 4 miles away. I bought a Bush-hog at the Kubota dealer last year and I’ve been going to the Deere dealer every 100 tractor hours for the last (19) years for oil filters. That’s all I’ve needed from the dealer thru my first 1200 hours anyhow.
Having a closest dealer is a nice bonus. At the time I purchased the tractor, I got costs for comparable models from Deere, Kubota, and (NH). The NH was the cheapest by a couple hundred, but the closest dealer dealer was over 20 miles away and their offering had significantly lower hydraulic flow and lift capacity. The costs of the Deere and Kubota were almost identical. If there was just one country song about “Kubota orange” I might have given them a little more consideration.
There was a Mahindra dealer 4.1 miles away, but they closed up a few years ago. I looked at their catalog, but never got a quote on a tractor from them. I’m glad I didn’t, now that they closed up.
