CK35 HST shattered piston at 400 hours

   / CK35 HST shattered piston at 400 hours #271  
I suppose you'll have some way to verify that you are actually are getting a "new" motor? IDK, I am happy you're getting your machine back, but I suppose I am a suspicious sort of guy. Keep us posted and have a good trip to NY. BTW, I used to get just $25 per diem and never complained. Always booked hotels with free breakfast, did a cheap sandwich lunch and bought snacks to eat in the room for dinner.
 
   / CK35 HST shattered piston at 400 hours
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Well, my job site is providing breakfast and lunch for most of the eight days I'm spending there. But it's very easy to go over per diem on dinner and a drink or two in Manhattan.

The CK35 is home now... what a relief. Too bad I won't get any time on it until after the 12th. At the dealership, the service manager drove it up on the trailer for me and it purred like a kitten. It's the best sound I've heard in quite awhile. Kioti didn't send a short block, but a complete engine, top to bottom, from the valve cover plus injectors down to the oil pan. Is it brand new, or a refurb? I don't know. But it looks and sounds a lot better than what I had. Look how clean it is in the photo... that won't last long after I get it unloaded. The bill shows $550 for ten hours of labor, $95 for parts (a new air filter for $84 and a new key switch, which had been acting up on me and I guess it acted up on them, for $60 plus a couple of hose clamps), and $163 for freight. My total was $816 and change.

I asked about the price of the engine, he said $4,9xx so call it $5,000 -- don't know if replacement motor prices have been discussed on this forum before but there's a new reference for you. With my end of it added in, that's just under $6k which is quite a bit less than the $8k suggested by the other Kioti mechanic as described in my first post. Still, I would have had a difficult time justifying that kind of expense right now if I had to shoulder this whole thing by myself. So, once again, thanks to the Kioti head office and those of you here who urged me to contact them. This tractor has been brought back from the brink without breaking my bank.

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   / CK35 HST shattered piston at 400 hours #273  
You can do as you choose. And I certainly will not engage in any sort of discussion with those who seem to think this board is a place for mindless arguing. You have the agreement well documented and my own course of action (which I have EVERY right to express) would be to insist upon them honoring what was agreed to by ALL parties. New tractors, autos, homes, etc. come with both a manufacturer's warranty and an implied warranty against latent defects- which both Kioti and the dealership admitted was the case.

He did as he chose; and there is no new tractor, home/mobile home, auto or anything else in this situation that comes with a warranty for fitness or defects, etc., latent or otherwise. No one, Kioti corporate or otherwise agreed to any fault; Kioti corp decided to make their existing customer whole by offering a new engine, less labor, as the email stated. Nothing more, or less. The OP accepted what the dealer delivered, regardless of any conversations that might have occurred with them at any time during the process. Game over. No admittance of guilt; OP received what they gave, nothing more is owed, forthcoming, or yet to be determined.
Time to find something else to express your opinion about, until you get it right, hopefully some day- one can hope.
 
   / CK35 HST shattered piston at 400 hours #274  
One thing I'm sure I have "right" after reading through a small sampling of your 5,431 posts, is you have about as much tact as some of the guys I deal with on a daily basis on 3-North. But they're all in various stages of prostate and pancreatic cancer, so I give them a pass and do the best job I can.
 
   / CK35 HST shattered piston at 400 hours #275  
Good for you. I deal in reality and facts, not paranoia; ("I suppose you'll have some way to verify that you are actually are getting a "new" motor? IDK, I am happy you're getting your machine back, but I suppose I am a suspicious sort of guy."), what you think about how the law works, and other ramblings you've kept at for the duration of this thread. Try actually learning from what a thread exemplifies about how things actually work, and what reality tells one: the deal can change at any time depending on who holds the cards. In this thread Kioti held all the goodwill cards and dealt the OP an incredible hand. He knows it, which is why he's not whining about the end result out of pocket expense. Is it fair? Maybe not entirely, but it is the outcome, like it or not. If that's tactless, facing the truth may be too much for some to deal with. That doesn't make it any less true. I don't have time for wishful thinking about what ought to be, life's too short.
 
   / CK35 HST shattered piston at 400 hours #276  
CA may not always have the most tact, or is always politically correct but from my reading his posts, in a good percentage of them, he seems to be pretty spot on.

Do I agree with him in all cases, no, but I doubt I would even agree with Jennifer Aniston 100 percent of the time if she was always in front of me in her birthday suit
:):D:laughing::licking::cool::p;)
 
   / CK35 HST shattered piston at 400 hours #277  
I'll give you that I'm definitely not as hot as J.A or J. Lo for that matter, nor as big a butt as KK, but thanks for the kind words anyway....

CM:thumbsup:
 
   / CK35 HST shattered piston at 400 hours #278  
Sorry I wasn't commenting on your hotness :cool2:
 
   / CK35 HST shattered piston at 400 hours #279  
That's good news :laughing: Chicks dig me though:D
 
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   / CK35 HST shattered piston at 400 hours #280  
Chris, Remember to break it in as a new engine.
 

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