5030
Epic Contributor
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2003
- Messages
- 26,998
- Location
- SE Michigan in the middle of nowhere
- Tractor
- Kubota M9000 HDCC3 M9000 HDC
I just have to put in my 2 cents on this one.
It's a tractor, not a car. If you really knew what your car went through before it arrived at the dealers lot, you'd be happy with a few dings or paint chips. New cars off the assembly line are started and drove into the holding lot basically from cranking the starter, as soon as it catches flooring the pedal with one foot on the brake and barrelling across the yard. Same thing happens when they are loaded on rail cars for shipment.
The guys who shuttle the cars aren't employees of the automaker, but rather subcontractors who get paid by the number of vehicles moved in a certain timeframe so they beat on 'em like you'd never believe. I see it with my own eyes every day.
Your little tractor (and I can say little because mine are all big ones) comes off the assembly line, filled with fluids, a little diesel or gas and started and given a final inspection (note the sticker affixed to each tractor), transmission and other parts checked for proper operation, shut down and then crated or in the case of my tractors containerized for shipment. The tractor arrives stateside (in the case of my units) or is shipped from final assembly to the dealer in a frame or on a tractor trailer where the dealer unloads them and puts the wheels on or in my case does another inspection.
I've had a number of Kubota's, 7 to be exact and every one of them has had a number of nicks or paint chips and all it takes is one time using the loader and the paint is done anyway. My least inexpensive tractor was 45K. Probably substantially more than most posters here pay for tractor and all the implements and I've never been concerned with a few blemishes, but then, I use my tractors for farm work. They aren't toys. They don't get put in the garage and waxed. That's for the motorcycles and the cars. They get pressure washed and serviced regularly.
Kubota builds tractors, not cars. It's a t-r-a-c-t-o-r
Remember, it's a tractor, for working, not a toy for profiling.
It's a tractor, not a car. If you really knew what your car went through before it arrived at the dealers lot, you'd be happy with a few dings or paint chips. New cars off the assembly line are started and drove into the holding lot basically from cranking the starter, as soon as it catches flooring the pedal with one foot on the brake and barrelling across the yard. Same thing happens when they are loaded on rail cars for shipment.
The guys who shuttle the cars aren't employees of the automaker, but rather subcontractors who get paid by the number of vehicles moved in a certain timeframe so they beat on 'em like you'd never believe. I see it with my own eyes every day.
Your little tractor (and I can say little because mine are all big ones) comes off the assembly line, filled with fluids, a little diesel or gas and started and given a final inspection (note the sticker affixed to each tractor), transmission and other parts checked for proper operation, shut down and then crated or in the case of my tractors containerized for shipment. The tractor arrives stateside (in the case of my units) or is shipped from final assembly to the dealer in a frame or on a tractor trailer where the dealer unloads them and puts the wheels on or in my case does another inspection.
I've had a number of Kubota's, 7 to be exact and every one of them has had a number of nicks or paint chips and all it takes is one time using the loader and the paint is done anyway. My least inexpensive tractor was 45K. Probably substantially more than most posters here pay for tractor and all the implements and I've never been concerned with a few blemishes, but then, I use my tractors for farm work. They aren't toys. They don't get put in the garage and waxed. That's for the motorcycles and the cars. They get pressure washed and serviced regularly.
Kubota builds tractors, not cars. It's a t-r-a-c-t-o-r
Remember, it's a tractor, for working, not a toy for profiling.
