2550 Pics of my ongoing warranty issues ...

[nbtvee6]

Gone are the days that ANY lawn/garden tractor hood was made of metal and sat on cast iron.

 

[bouvier]

I wonder what it would cost to have an auto body shop make a metal hood?

Bouvier

 

[2manyrocks]

The hood on these new units looks complicated enough in shape that I'm not sure if an auto body place could make a replacement or what it would cost.

I stopped at a Cub dealer for some parts the other day and asked about the new 2550 they had. Someone had broken the hood on the dealer's display unit which the dealer had replaced. The dealer was still waiting on replacement decals, but said they hadn't heard of any issues with the hood.

The frame and rear end are not much, either, compared to the International Cub Cadets made in the 60's-70's.

 

[JSharp]

The dealer must not move many units if he hadn't seen any hood problems.

If you want to see lightweight metal and driveline, go look at a John Deere with a price equal to a Cub...

 

[D-Rail]

I work at a dealership and know personally that there is a cub cadet service bullettin out on these hoods. Cub has already fixed the problem in the newer models and each dealer was sent two different notifications of this along with the service bulletin, at two seperate times to ensure the dealer would recieve it. So Cub has been doing there best to help people out, sounds like you may have a problem with the dealership. I dont have the bulletin number handy but they should have all this on file or have them get it from the dealer site. They should understand.