Thank you. I'm pretty excited as I have been doing all the work on my 40 acres by hand for the last year and my back isn't holding up to it very good. I will defiantly share a picture of 2 or 10 lol of it when I get it.
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Can anyone tell me why I cant post pictures on here? I have tried using my cell phone (that's what I took the pictures with) and when that didn't work I waited until I got back to work and emailed them to myself and tried again using the computer and I still cant post a picture.
majorwager
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It was noted a Minimum # posts required before photo allowance? Think 10 should be adequate?
I took delivery of my tractor on Friday. As of right now I have just over 23 hoursnon it already and I’m in contact with the dealer because something isn’t right with the hydraulics. The loader will drift off pretty rapidly actually and the backhoe isn’t acting right and it also drifts off. The backhoe just acts like it has no power and the loader struggles to get the front tires just barely off the ground. The dealer wen out in his yard and tried another one and it popped the front tires off the ground with ease. So now we wait to see what they are going to do about it. So far they have been very prompt at talking with me and sending out a service truck to see what they can figure out but at this point they are trying to contact the engineers to see what they think the problem could be.
I was only at 9 post when I asked that question it put me at 10 then I was able to post my pictures so maybe 10 is the minimum.
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Well it sure looks pretty. With only 23 hours I would simply require him to replace it or undo the deal. DO NOT let him start the long process of, "I'm sure we can get this fixed up." without also including right from the start what the alternatives you will have if it isn't right by a certain date. And I'd make the date days or weeks, not months. This should be part of his pre-sale checkout.
On most tractors the hydraulics will throw you around hard enough to make using a seatbelt a real consideration. Particularly the hoe.
And to all of you, from an oldster. Before you sign a sales contract, mark it up so that it is fair. Most sales contracts start out to be completely in the dealer's favor and the only way I can figure that makes sense is they expect you to mark it up and initial (both). For example, make sure that it specifies who is responsible for transporting the tractor during and after the warranty period. Make it so that time in the shop is deducted from the warranty time. If there are major events like engine, tranny, or hydraulics that have to be fixed during warranty - those things need to have their own special warranty dating from when they are installed.
All of these things are just basic fair practice. In a perfect world these are the kinds of things that would protect you and the dealer both if it went to arbitration, so might as well get it in writing before taking possession. Please protect yourself as well as the dealer has. Please. It only makes sense, and taking the time to do this is the only way I know of to get us back to the kind of fair practice we had when the people we bought things from were neighbors and friends.
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goeduck
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Super nice looking tractor! I am sure you will get the kinks worked out! More pictures please.
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I have no idea how your loader and back hoe are plumbed as far as the hydraulics.
I do know that when I put our little 3 pt hoe on my tractor I use my rear remote with detents,
and when I latch that remote in the detent to run the hoe, my loader doesn't work, my 3 pt doesn't work
and my hydraulic top link which uses another of the rear remotes doesn't work.
To use my other hydraulics I have to center my remote for the hoe, operate my other users,then detent the hoe remote to use the hoe
and repeat as needed. If I rev the tractor up my other hydraulics will do a little but not much.
This is a feature that open center hydraulics do have.
Long story short in your application is one of your remotes active when you are having a problem?
I do know that when I put our little 3 pt hoe on my tractor I use my rear remote with detents,
and when I latch that remote in the detent to run the hoe, my loader doesn't work, my 3 pt doesn't work
and my hydraulic top link which uses another of the rear remotes doesn't work.
To use my other hydraulics I have to center my remote for the hoe, operate my other users,then detent the hoe remote to use the hoe
and repeat as needed. If I rev the tractor up my other hydraulics will do a little but not much.
This is a feature that open center hydraulics do have.
Long story short in your application is one of your remotes active when you are having a problem?
The hoe is hooked up through a set of remotes on the back but the problem is there if the hoe is hooked up or not. I have tried just turning off the remote that the hoe is hooked to and I have took the hoe completely off the tractor.
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I like the fact that the dealer got the factory engineers involved early. So by Monday the engineers will have had a week to look at the build specs, and come up with a plan. Things ought to go pretty quickly now. What I'm sure nobody likes is that the hydraulic problem wasn't picked up when they built it.
Either way, it could be a good chance for TBNers to learn more about Mahindra and how they handle things. There aren't many Mahindras around here, and it's not that we aren't curious....it's just that we don't know much about Mahindra yet.
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To be honest I don’t think I could ask for better customer service. So far they have been very prompt in getting back to me and trying to work this out. He did say that they have never had this problem and that is why they don’t know for sure what it could be. Leave it to me to be the guy that gets the first one lol.
I called about the problem (on a Friday afternoon) and just thought it was low on hydraulic fluid due to a leaking quick connector. They showed up 1st thing Monday morning to fix the leak and top off the hydraulic fluid and to double check everything else. The service guy said I would need to get all the air out of the system so to run the tractor a while using all the hydraulics and that if there was still a problem to let them know. At this point he felt like there was a problem but Said it would require a trip to the shop as they don’t have the tools needed in the service trucks to do the test needed and he would talk to his boss as soon as he got back and that I should also call his boss after running it to confirm that we still had a problem. Being that it was so late in the day I waited until the next morning to call and when I talked to him he had already talked to other shops and was waiting on the engineers to call him back as he had already put in a call the them.
Honestly guys could we as owners ask for any more than what he has been doing for me? Personally I’m very impressed with the customer service I have gotten at this point. I have gotten way worse service from other big name companies.
I called about the problem (on a Friday afternoon) and just thought it was low on hydraulic fluid due to a leaking quick connector. They showed up 1st thing Monday morning to fix the leak and top off the hydraulic fluid and to double check everything else. The service guy said I would need to get all the air out of the system so to run the tractor a while using all the hydraulics and that if there was still a problem to let them know. At this point he felt like there was a problem but Said it would require a trip to the shop as they don’t have the tools needed in the service trucks to do the test needed and he would talk to his boss as soon as he got back and that I should also call his boss after running it to confirm that we still had a problem. Being that it was so late in the day I waited until the next morning to call and when I talked to him he had already talked to other shops and was waiting on the engineers to call him back as he had already put in a call the them.
Honestly guys could we as owners ask for any more than what he has been doing for me? Personally I’m very impressed with the customer service I have gotten at this point. I have gotten way worse service from other big name companies.
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Agree with Scotty and Richard. My brother was curious about the Mahindra and had done business at our local dealership. My brother is a mechanic and went to discuss them more in depth only to find the dealership had Mahindra come get all their tractors. He sill handles LS and Gehl equipment. His dealership is pretty big, but has a two bay repair shop, said he hates warranty work, so he dropped Mahindra. Tractors may well be great, but without support it can be pretty stressful; other dealerships have increased shop size, every brand breaks from time to time.
Well the dealer called me around quitting time yesterday to tell me that they have found the problem and think they have fixed it but would know for sure this morning. When the 3rd function valve was installed (the way it was intended to be installed from the engineers) it created a bypass basically for all the hydraulic oil leaving the hydraulics weak and not functioning properly. As of last night they were pretty confident they had the problem fixed but wanted to leave it so they could make sure that it was 100% fixed. They said they would call me back today and let me know.
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Good! And good luck, too. Hope it's resolved for you. :thumbsup:
goeduck
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A good dealer is worth a Lot when things like this come up. Great that it is working out for you so you can get back to tractoring.
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I agree. My last 5 tractors have come from the same dealer. I don’t even shop price. I know list & I know what I pay. When I have an issue. They have always been resolved with one call
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