Dargo - I may be biased as a dealer but I find the quality of a Kioti much higher than any other brand out there. I think if you were to look in the other forums you would see people with the same kind of post about all other colors of tractors. Is this really an issue of "quality" or of someone being new to a product and not know exactly how it works?
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Believe me, if a company can get by with less expense in quality control and not have complaints, they will. )</font>
This is ture, I think some tractor mfgs out there have let quality slip, and they solely sell by name recognition alone. No names mentioned....I won’t get in to that….
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I don't know if I'd agree with that statement. Saying completely satisfied seems to imply that you are one of the people who will overlook certain defects as being normal. That's great for you, but I don't think you will find that the "overwhelming majority" of people are that way. )</font>
I don't really know what defects you are picking out here but I sure don't see any.... I do see issues that everyone has with any new tractor, or new anything for that matter regardless or brand.
I remember an instance on a new Grand Am car, I needed to change a headlamp. Got the bulb and went to change it. Now I have changed bulbs and worked on many cars in the past, so it should be no big deal, right? WRONG, it took me over an hour to change that bulb, the whole time I was seeing this as a big design flaw by GM. Boy I sure was unhappy, UNTILL sometime told me exactly how to do it. It was my ignorance on the issues that made me think it was a defect, and not the cars fault. There was really nothing wrong with it, but I just didn’t know how it was setup and how it was suppose to be changed. Now that I know I am completely satisfied with it. I think on many issues here on TBN you will see the same thing, people just don’t understand how it is “suppose to work” and since it doesn’t work the “way they think’ they jump to the conclusion that it is a design flaw, just as I did.
One bad thing about TBN, is that issues come up and sometimes a follow up is never posted, so everyone is just left hanging and just thinking that it is a bad design or something along those lines. This is why I always urge a follow up post to let people know how things turned out.