GuyL
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$400.00 add for me too.
Price Check Do R4's add to the price?
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wushaw
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R4s were more for me also.
johnk
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MadReferee
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The Kubota price book MSRP difference is $554, your dealer gave you a rather nice discount.bradyky said:
Staghead
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How do R4's handle ice/snow?
DVR
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MadReferee said:
bradyky is a dealer
tractor man
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not very good on ice I add chains to mine becase of the hills
The Gardener
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When I recently walked the Kubota lot with a sales guy, he commented on several Kubota tractors on the lot having, what he thought, were the wrong tires. He was just commenting from personal experience. It wasn't a comment so much on the tire as it was on the pairing.
What I got from that was a simple reality. They have a lot of different tires sitting on the lot that are easily interchanged. They had a Grand L 3130 with turf tires, another Grand L 3130 w/ AGS, and another Grand L 3130 with R4's [all parked in the lot].
I believe that the L3130, L3430, and the L3830 all share the same front tire size. The L3130 and the L3430 share the same rear tire size.
The L3830, L4330, and the L4630 all share the same rear tire size. The L4330and the L4630 share the same tire size on both the front and the rear.
If I have read this brochure correctly and these shared tire sizes do exist, I would simply ask that they swap R4's from another tractor on the lot. I wouldn't pay for the swap. That's in-house inventory. I'm not asking them to special order or buy something just for me. They can keep swaping tires around the lot until there are no more tire swaps that can be made, or it all works out where every buyer gets the exact tire design that they want.
I have done the exact same thing with new car purchases. I saw that there were several tire options on the lot. I wanted a specific tire. I had them swap out tires from another car parked on the lot. It was no biggie for them, but it was for me.
We're talking about a $545 tire swap on the actual dealer lot between display models that are available; it's not a special order. That's about 3% of an $18,000 sale item.
If the dealer is willing to argue a 3% tire swap, that dealer is not one that I care to deal with when the *real* issues involving warranty and non warranty repairs start surfacing down the road.
Just my opinion ...
The Gardener
What I got from that was a simple reality. They have a lot of different tires sitting on the lot that are easily interchanged. They had a Grand L 3130 with turf tires, another Grand L 3130 w/ AGS, and another Grand L 3130 with R4's [all parked in the lot].
I believe that the L3130, L3430, and the L3830 all share the same front tire size. The L3130 and the L3430 share the same rear tire size.
The L3830, L4330, and the L4630 all share the same rear tire size. The L4330and the L4630 share the same tire size on both the front and the rear.
If I have read this brochure correctly and these shared tire sizes do exist, I would simply ask that they swap R4's from another tractor on the lot. I wouldn't pay for the swap. That's in-house inventory. I'm not asking them to special order or buy something just for me. They can keep swaping tires around the lot until there are no more tire swaps that can be made, or it all works out where every buyer gets the exact tire design that they want.
I have done the exact same thing with new car purchases. I saw that there were several tire options on the lot. I wanted a specific tire. I had them swap out tires from another car parked on the lot. It was no biggie for them, but it was for me.
We're talking about a $545 tire swap on the actual dealer lot between display models that are available; it's not a special order. That's about 3% of an $18,000 sale item.
If the dealer is willing to argue a 3% tire swap, that dealer is not one that I care to deal with when the *real* issues involving warranty and non warranty repairs start surfacing down the road.
Just my opinion ...
The Gardener
N80
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I'm not sure I see your logic in this matter. If the dealer paid more for the R4's, the fact that he can pull them off another tractor doesn't make them cost him any less. There might be many ways that a dealer can help you out in regard to the total price of your tractor but I don't see it as madatory for him to do it with tires.
Now, if all the different tires cost him the same thing, it would be another matter. But he could just as easily pull the fancy seat off of a high end tractor and put it on a lower end model but I certainly wouldn't expect him to, much less to do it for free.
Now, if all the different tires cost him the same thing, it would be another matter. But he could just as easily pull the fancy seat off of a high end tractor and put it on a lower end model but I certainly wouldn't expect him to, much less to do it for free.