Damn straight
To be honest, I watched half way at 2x speed then hit a few points for the rest to make sure there was no change.
I bought a 1025 R and a 3046R new 2 years ago. 150hrs & 600hrs. Never been back to the dealer, just perform scheduled maintenance. The 1025R is used for mowing (60D MMM) tilling (RT 3049) and hauling firewood,wood chips & debris. The 3046R is used for a lot, MX5 rotary, Rhino grapple, backhoe, loader work Woodland Mills stump grinder, WoodMax 8 chipper, log splitter. Have cleared 3 acres of dense woods/brush and thinned 2 acres of mature 70' oak. No issues either tractor. Only thing I would change would be to have bought a gas wood splitter. 2 or 3 hours of splitting with no load causes the 3046R to go to regen. You can still work the tractor but seems to usually happen when I'm ready to call it a day.
No good deed goes unpunished. Good luck with the overhaul.
How could it already be out of warranty if it's a 2019 model?
I bought a Deere 3038 11 years ago. Zero problems with it.
At the time he told me Kubota was far better to deal with than Deere. He said when something goes wrong with a Kubota part a factory rep is on the phone discussing what to do to make it better.
That's interesting because I have heard the opposite about Kubota as well. I was just having a conversation with a gentleman last week online that used to work at a Kubota dealer in a top service role and he said they would always try to find ways to weasel out of paying warranty claims. My intention for sharing this is not to contradict you or challenge what you're saying only to share that I have gotten conflicting reports from various people over the last two years about Kubota's track record for standing behind their products.
And you could both be correct for the totally wrong reasons. One the customer could of abused the equipment outside of the normal limits, and would not actually be warranty, but people have this mental block that everything that they break is covered under warranty. And two there may of been cases where the dealer tried to warranty a part that a customer needs replaced but the dealer has been burned by the manufacturer on getting paid. Nothing like telling the customer that we will cover this under warranty and then the manufacturer said that is not warranty and the dealer has to eat a several hundred dollar repair.
That was one of the things he said they would say. He said they would blame the customer for the breakdown or failure even though it had nothing to do with them. He cited one example of a blown engine at 5 hours and Kubota blaming the customer for it. However, I have heard this same story about other manufacturers. What I think may be happening is Kubota doesn't want to foot the bill so if they blame it on the customer then it becomes an insurance claim.
They can say that all they want, but until the customer gets on the receiving end of a repair authorization from Kubota, and Kubota supplies the replacement engine at no charge, and the dealer replaces said engine, and then ships the engine back to Kubota at dealer expense. Kubota determines that the failure was not a issue due to manufacturing defect, even though the customer may of may not of caused the failure. The dealer gets hit with a chargeback on the labor paid on the warranty claim, Now also has to pay for the engine that was originally shipped to the dealer at no charge, and the dealer is also out their cost to ship the engine back to Kubota for inspection.
Well said and I agree.
Since you asked.....
Bingo!
