Meanwhile, back at the origial post, it is a high probability that the dealer used recommended parts and oils and service procedures. They also looked over the machinery for other issues. Like where you caught a hose on that tree stump you ran into when not paying attention. Or where you bent the drawbar while using your backblade to push that 6,000 lb rock. Or maybe where you twisted the pto shaft when the finish mower ran over your kid's bike. What about when you added those 'better' headlights and cris-crossed the battery terminals in the process?
A vast majority of self-servicers scrimp on oil, filters and wrenching. They mean well but think that TSC oil is the same as Mobil-1. Sure they can get cheap oil and parts. Sure they can remember righty-tighty and lefty-loosey, but there's a lot more to it than that. There is a big difference in oil contents that I have personnally measured as a Big-3 Powertrain engineer. Filters? You mean the ones that are practically empty or the ones that are full of sawdust and recycled paper? Detergent oil or high wax content?. Power steering fluid or hydraulic oil? Whaddaya mean there's a difference?
Just look through a cross section of this Forum of those who have stripped out their oil drain plugs, cross threaded or broken off head bolts, and can't find the 2nd fuel filter (the REAL one). Then they want to get the thing fixed on warranty because they used cheap 5wgt oil instead of straight 30 wgt. Or it was a "design" problem.
Taking into account all the incompetancies out there in Tractorville, I vote for the dealer. I want him around when its time to fix MY screwups.
$350 for a service deal sounds like a good one considering the cost of materials. BTW: As Johnny Carson used to say, Did you get a kiss with that?
A vast majority of self-servicers scrimp on oil, filters and wrenching. They mean well but think that TSC oil is the same as Mobil-1. Sure they can get cheap oil and parts. Sure they can remember righty-tighty and lefty-loosey, but there's a lot more to it than that. There is a big difference in oil contents that I have personnally measured as a Big-3 Powertrain engineer. Filters? You mean the ones that are practically empty or the ones that are full of sawdust and recycled paper? Detergent oil or high wax content?. Power steering fluid or hydraulic oil? Whaddaya mean there's a difference?
Just look through a cross section of this Forum of those who have stripped out their oil drain plugs, cross threaded or broken off head bolts, and can't find the 2nd fuel filter (the REAL one). Then they want to get the thing fixed on warranty because they used cheap 5wgt oil instead of straight 30 wgt. Or it was a "design" problem.
Taking into account all the incompetancies out there in Tractorville, I vote for the dealer. I want him around when its time to fix MY screwups.
$350 for a service deal sounds like a good one considering the cost of materials. BTW: As Johnny Carson used to say, Did you get a kiss with that?
I think most of those who do it themselves have taken the time and made the effort to do it right.
