AxleHub
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I had an interesting experience at my dealer's location a couple weeks ago during their parts sale going on with the dealer's 100 year anniversary celebration.
I had done my 50 hr service the middle of last year and had decided that my next hydro service to be done in the future at 250 hrs, that I would switch from Agco Permatran to Kubota udt1 because kubota product is a synthetic and would offer better flow options in winter for my front axle and main hydro system.
But I noticed something funny at the dealer's so I started asking some questions. It turns out now that Permatran now is a blended synthetic and the labeling has changed since last year in both color and wording/description years. So we had a couple parts guys and some service guys out in the aisle comparing the specs on the 2 products because I had noticed this change. They were comparing a lot of specs on the new labeling of the 2 products and both are what they referred to as "category 4 " products for "product load capacity" and " flowability ". It seems the Permatran product because of the synthetic description, has changed as well now that it is a blended synthetic. It was interesting also because they are a very large dealer operation and their 5 gallon pails are now showing the new labeling and their smaller containers still have the old labeling description and coloring. (like my 5 gallon pail of last year had).
My dealer is both a complete Kubota and Massey dealer but what I started with this questioning of the labeling colors and descriptions was new to them. When I asked about the prices of each, there is currently about a 35% difference in price between the udt1 and Permatran yet now has the same performance features. . . So I bought some of the new Permatran to have handy before maybe prices get rebalanced.
I had done my 50 hr service the middle of last year and had decided that my next hydro service to be done in the future at 250 hrs, that I would switch from Agco Permatran to Kubota udt1 because kubota product is a synthetic and would offer better flow options in winter for my front axle and main hydro system.
But I noticed something funny at the dealer's so I started asking some questions. It turns out now that Permatran now is a blended synthetic and the labeling has changed since last year in both color and wording/description years. So we had a couple parts guys and some service guys out in the aisle comparing the specs on the 2 products because I had noticed this change. They were comparing a lot of specs on the new labeling of the 2 products and both are what they referred to as "category 4 " products for "product load capacity" and " flowability ". It seems the Permatran product because of the synthetic description, has changed as well now that it is a blended synthetic. It was interesting also because they are a very large dealer operation and their 5 gallon pails are now showing the new labeling and their smaller containers still have the old labeling description and coloring. (like my 5 gallon pail of last year had).
My dealer is both a complete Kubota and Massey dealer but what I started with this questioning of the labeling colors and descriptions was new to them. When I asked about the prices of each, there is currently about a 35% difference in price between the udt1 and Permatran yet now has the same performance features. . . So I bought some of the new Permatran to have handy before maybe prices get rebalanced.
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