Buying Advice Skid steer with gas engine

[BillySunday]

What manufacture makes a track skid steer with a gas engine? I need a new one. The DEF problems on the Kubota are causing too many problems with down time and money.

 

[lostcreekranch]

If you think dealing with Tier 4 issues are challenging you’ll really like dealing with ethanol contaminated gasoline.

Can you please detail problems you’re having? Kubota Model? Hours?

 

[BillySunday]

If you think dealing with Tier 4 issues are challenging you値l really like dealing with ethanol contaminated gasoline.

Can you please detail problems youæ±*e having? Kubota Model? Hours?

Thank you for your response. I bought my Kubota M5-111 new. It now has 480 hours on it. Perfect tractor until a DEF warning light came on with a 120 min countdown clock showing how many minutes I had until my engine starts running at half speed. I changed the DEF with a DEF manufacturing date 3 months old but the warning light continued. I called Kubota Service. They said I had to bring it in that this is a common problem they are having with tractors and skid-steers. The part is in a closed system requiring the whole system to be replaced which is on back-order because they are replacing so many of them. I asked if they had fixed the problem with the new part or are they replacing this part that caused so many problems with another problem part. Mike with Kubota Service said, "I don't know." Several thousand dollar repair that is covered under warranty. My tractor will not be under warranty forever and I have a defective part that is possibly being replaced with an equivalent defective part. Thank you for taking an interest in my problem. I'm not buying another diesel truck, tractor, or skid steer. I am shutting down my business and selling all my diesel equipment because I can't afford new problems. I already had enough problems with weather, equipment, fertilizer cost, seed cost, cattle problems, etc... Now I have a device on my new $90,000 tractor that shuts it down with a 2 hour or less warning that requires thousands of dollars to fix. Thank you again.

 

[dodge man]

I’m not trying to sound harsh but I’m going to say it. You are giving up on all things Diesel because of one problem? Closing your business because of it? I get the problem is frustrating but deal with it. If you hate the diesel emissions problems shop used stuff that doesn’t have it. Diesels rule the heavy equipment and tractor market, it’s going to be tough to find gas engines in that market.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I think there’s more to this story that OP isn’t sharing? Seems a pretty severe response to a problem being covered by warranty?

 

[CincyFlyer]

I think there’s more to this story that OP isn’t sharing? Seems a pretty severe response to a problem being covered by warranty?

It would seem so. Would he give up women because he found a bad one? I doubt it. I didn't give up cell phones just because Samsung Note 7 phones frequently became incendiary devices!

 

[s219]

In another topic he mentioned the tractor has been in the shop for a month. That would piss me off too.

 

[lostcreekranch]

The other thread indicates that he “Ended Up Buying a JD 5115M” 3 hours ago??? 12 hours ago he was looking for a gasoline skid steer. Pretty busy Christmas Day?

 

[BillySunday]

I don't know who's thread you are talking about but I did not buy a JD 5115M nor did I say I did. I said my tractor has 480 hours on it with a several thousand $ problem. My $90,000 tractor will not be under warranty forever. If this problem disables my tractor at 480 hours and warranty replaces it with an equivalent unimproved part, I can't afford this! I have enough problems- weather, fertilizer cost, seed cost, cattle issues, labor costs, just to name a few. In closing, No way do I blame Kubota. I blame the politicians not the equipment manufactures. I had a Kubota engineer in Fort Worth, Texas want to follow me home to observe me using my Kubota tractor so he could look for ways to improve their products. That is how much Kubota cares about their customers.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I don't know who's thread you are talking about but I did not buy a JD 5115M nor did I say I did. I said my tractor has 480 hours on it with a several thousand $ problem. My $90,000 tractor will not be under warranty forever. If this problem disables my tractor at 480 hours and warranty replaces it with an equivalent unimproved part, I can't afford this! I have enough problems- weather, fertilizer cost, seed cost, cattle issues, labor costs, just to name a few. In closing, No way do I blame Kubota. I blame the politicians not the equipment manufactures. I had a Kubota engineer in Fort Worth, Texas want to follow me home to observe me using my Kubota tractor so he could look for ways to improve their products. That is how much Kubota cares about their customers.

Sorry, thought you posted that? Mea culpa.

You blame politicians for a problem part on your Tractor?? Which politicians do you blame? Do we need more government sticking their nose into private business.