Buying Advice Advice on Bobcat CT225 2010

TJP89 · Oct 27, 2015

tcartwri said:
Corrosion around the battery terminals and battery tray.

All the filters should have been changed on the hydro ( 2 )

This unit might have the previous generation of loader on it, which had some issues with cracking in the cross member between the loader arms.

Other than that...

I think the loader on the Bobcats is not Kioti, maybe Woods, so it would not have the cracking issue that the KL120 and 130 did.

tman1020 · Oct 27, 2015

The loader on the early bobcat tractors was made by rhino. They changed from rhino to their own bobcat made loader sometime around 2010/2011. The older style loader has the curved loader arms where as the newer loader has the angled loader arms I do not know why they changed. I forgot to mention before that I did have problems with my stock bobcat brand battery. It would leak if I used the tractor on a very steep incline. This was evident from new so I replaced it with a gel type battery. I also heard of two other things on some of the early tractors. Some had a fuel injection or fuel solenoid problem can't remember exactly And heard of a couple of problems with a Hydro cooler. It's pretty much the same tractor as a Kioti CK 27 so you could research those as well I think that's where I heard of the later of the two problems I mentioned. All machines are going to have their specific issues but I think overall The bobcat tractors are top notch.

TJP89 · Oct 27, 2015

tman1020 said:
The loader on the early bobcat tractors was made by rhino. They changed from rhino to their own bobcat made loader sometime around 2010/2011. The older style loader has the curved loader arms where as the newer loader has the angled loader arms I do not know why they changed. I forgot to mention before that I did have problems with my stock bobcat brand battery. It would leak if I used the tractor on a very steep incline. This was evident from new so I replaced it with a gel type battery. I also heard of two other things on some of the early tractors. Some had a fuel injection or fuel solenoid problem can't remember exactly And heard of a couple of problems with a Hydro cooler. It's pretty much the same tractor as a Kioti CK 27 so you could research those as well I think that's where I heard of the later of the two problems I mentioned. All machines are going to have their specific issues but I think overall The bobcat tractors are top notch.

The only major issue I know of with the Kioti CKs is the loader problem, which is almost ancient history now, and the IP issue through 2008, neither are an issue here I believe. Of course, the usual stuff with any used tractor still applies.