It was 5 years 3 months old I believe.
Yeah, I'm not the really vindictive type, just want others to know of my experiences. My personal perspective is that if I have to jump through hoops to pressure a company into doing something, it's not a company I want anything to do with.
Just going to repair, sell and move on......
I wonder who the other brand dealers You mention are?
We have heard all the B.S. from all the dealers before and we have been dealing with tractors for a long time. This is the one truth I will tell you, Unless the dealer is going to eat the cost themselves you will have to jump threw hoops or play a waiting game while a good dealer fights it out with the manufactureing company to get an approval to fix it. You will also learn that in many cases the cost will end up split between You, The Dealer and the Company but it is most uncommon for the Company to eat the hole cost.
We have been threw it many times in our family with dealers who promised the world but could only cover the square block they are located on.
Last time around here it was JD with some electronic thing buried inside the machine with no other way to reach it except to split the tractor. (Some great design?) that had all the electronics going crazy.
Yep that dealer had promised the world also but in the end the cost was split 3 ways and they even had to fly out a specialist to figure out the problem because the local dealerships (all local out to a 2 hour drive) could not figure out the problem.
Don稚 get me wrong as I am not trying to side with any company who won稚 quickly and honestly evaluate a problem of this nature but unless you get lucky and have no real problems with all the others I honestly feel you will be disappointed with every single brand if you could have the same exact problem with one from each manufacture right now and experience just how similar the service, or lack of would be.