CK 25 will not start

Gittyup · Jan 21, 2011

Gravel,

Not having the original dealer backing you up I'm sure didn't help your case with Kioti. Kinda sucks. How many hours? Mine failed at right around 300 hours.

gravel13 · Jan 21, 2011

Yeah, I wish the original dealer still was a Kioti dealer, I had also bought a bunch of Stihl products from them and still do. I believe I had 238, I can't remember now. I'll have to look at the meter when I get home from work as I'll be pushing snow once again.

Just checked one of my earlier post, it was 238 hrs.

jake98 · Jan 22, 2011

Kioti ought to be doing a no ? asked warantee on their injector pumps, there's so many of them that have failed. It's gonna cost them more in reputation than it would to just replace them.

gravel13 · Jan 23, 2011

jake98 said:
It's gonna cost them more in reputation than it would to just replace them.

I agree 100%. I know of 2 people that have bought Kioti tractors based on my recommendations. I know that every brand of tractor has issues. I didn't go calling them and yelling when my loader cracks were found and I let the guy at Kioti know that, I just thought that if they have covered the labor part ($200+) they could have kept me happy. I know that I'm not in the market for a new tractor any time soon, but I will remember this when the time does come around.

JoelD · Jan 23, 2011

Others reading will likely think twice as I've heard of the pump problems

Maritime Matt · Jan 26, 2011

JoelD said:
Others reading will likely think twice as I've heard of the pump problems

This is interesting as I'm looking to buy my first tractor and just got some pricing from my dealer.
Matt.

jake98 · Jan 26, 2011

Maritime Matt said:
This is interesting as I'm looking to buy my first tractor and just got some pricing from my dealer.
Matt.

Well, I don't think there's much doubt that Kioti is among the best tractors out there, but they've had a few issues that they should have handled better, to build customer loyalty.

Gittyup · Jan 26, 2011

Maritime Matt said:
This is interesting as I'm looking to buy my first tractor and just got some pricing from my dealer.
Matt.

As I understand it, the new tractors use gears in the injector pump that are less prone to breaking. The old design used a brittle gear material. I think this has been resolve.... I hope so, anyway. I've had mine changed and was told the new pump had better materials. For what it's worth Kioti did take care of me. Probably has a lot to do with dealer too.

gravel13 · Sep 16, 2018

Well time to resurrect a very old thread. About 8 years and 340 hrs and I think my IP has gone again. Tractor stalled out while using it and know won't restart. It turns over and cranks but that is it. I'm almost hoping that it is a relay or something but I've got a bad feeling it's the same thing as before. My dealer isn't open til Wednesday so I'm going to give them a call. I don't see how this could happen a second time unless when the dealer had it rebuilt the first time maybe they only replaced the gears that were broken at which point I would have changed all 3.

ETA: total hours on meter 578