Does anyone have any thought or knowledge on mahindra tractors?
jaxs
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I've had very little experience so don't let my input carry much weight in your discission but I've always had a bad vib. For the number I see around here a disproportionate number are sitting with weeds growing around them. Several years ago my neighbor bought one to use in his landscape business. He borrowed my rotary cutter (aka butch hog
) for a one time job and said my cutter didn't work well. Turned out his pto shaft turned in opposite direction to my Deeres and New Hollands.
Same guy left tractor at jobsite over a weekend and someone stole a 3 point link and cost him 3x what same part for other tractors costs to replace. If I were buying a furring built tractor I'd go for Kubota,Yanmar or Deere.
) for a one time job and said my cutter didn't work well. Turned out his pto shaft turned in opposite direction to my Deeres and New Hollands. Same guy left tractor at jobsite over a weekend and someone stole a 3 point link and cost him 3x what same part for other tractors costs to replace. If I were buying a furring built tractor I'd go for Kubota,Yanmar or Deere.Yeah I've been reading that parts are expensive and always on back order. I won't be a heavy user so it's a good price for what I'm looking for but... from what I'm hearing, tractors are like anything else, you get what you pay for. Thx.I've had very little experience so don't let my input carry much weight in your discission but I've always had a bad vib. For the number I see around here a disproportionate number are sitting with weeds growing around them. Several years ago my neighbor bought one to use in his landscape business. He borrowed my rotary cutter (aka butch hog
Tx Jim
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My neighbor has a fairly late model Mahindra tractor that's been sitting in field for several months that trans input shaft broke on it.
rockinbbar
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I had that very model. 2019 6075 cab.
It was a good tractor, and I enjoyed running it. But it had inherent problems. Expensive to fix.
Last straw was a fan bearing going out, and when it did, it sent the fan into the radiator. No big deal, right? Put a new fan, bearing and radiator on it. All that, including labor should have been maybe $1000... Wrong.
Mahindra didn't sell just the radiator, it had to come bolted up with a new turbo cooler... which was stupid. The 2 parts are separate, but just held together by a couple of bolts... But you had to buy the whole assembly at like nearly $3k... Total repair bill was $5k.
Nope. No more. Paid the bill and traded it in on a New Holland Powerstar 75. Much happier. Much better tractor. (Don't get a NH Workmaster 75 if you put lots of hours on a tractor. Probably fine for a weekend type tractor.)
Powerstar 75 (better tractor)
It was a good tractor, and I enjoyed running it. But it had inherent problems. Expensive to fix.
Last straw was a fan bearing going out, and when it did, it sent the fan into the radiator. No big deal, right? Put a new fan, bearing and radiator on it. All that, including labor should have been maybe $1000... Wrong.
Mahindra didn't sell just the radiator, it had to come bolted up with a new turbo cooler... which was stupid. The 2 parts are separate, but just held together by a couple of bolts... But you had to buy the whole assembly at like nearly $3k... Total repair bill was $5k.
Nope. No more. Paid the bill and traded it in on a New Holland Powerstar 75. Much happier. Much better tractor. (Don't get a NH Workmaster 75 if you put lots of hours on a tractor. Probably fine for a weekend type tractor.)
Powerstar 75 (better tractor)
Thats mostly what I've been hearing about mahindra. Decent tractor but parts availability and repair are terrible. Maybe that's why it seems like a good deal! Thanks.I had that very model. 2019 6075 cab.
It was a good tractor, and I enjoyed running it. But it had inherent problems. Expensive to fix.
Last straw was a fan bearing going out, and when it did, it sent the fan into the radiator. No big deal, right? Put a new fan, bearing and radiator on it. All that, including labor should have been maybe $1000... Wrong.
Mahindra didn't sell just the radiator, it had to come bolted up with a new turbo cooler... which was stupid. The 2 parts are separate, but just held together by a couple of bolts... But you had to buy the whole assembly at like nearly $3k... Total repair bill was $5k.
Nope. No more. Paid the bill and traded it in on a New Holland Powerstar 75. Much happier. Much better tractor. (Don't get a NH Workmaster 75 if you put lots of hours on a tractor. Probably fine for a weekend type tractor.)
Powerstar 75 (better tractor)
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What concerns me is where they are made and by whom. India, in general isn't high on my list of desirable countries to have a complex machine built at. Maybe that is just me and my views but I'd never consider one to purchase.
Of course having said that, I'd never consider a NH tractor either, simply because they are European and I don't care for European influenced tractor either. I do run New Holland hay tools but they are, for the most part, produced in New Holland, Pa.
Both my Kubota's are long time paid for and I don't want or need a payment book so I'll stick with what I have. Maintenance items are a lot cheaper than a monthly payment plus maintenance cost.
Of course having said that, I'd never consider a NH tractor either, simply because they are European and I don't care for European influenced tractor either. I do run New Holland hay tools but they are, for the most part, produced in New Holland, Pa.
Both my Kubota's are long time paid for and I don't want or need a payment book so I'll stick with what I have. Maintenance items are a lot cheaper than a monthly payment plus maintenance cost.
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Anyone I know that purchased one regretted it.
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I also am not a Mahindra fan, stopped to look at them a few times when buying but didn’t like them, to high priced and adding anything like extra remote hookups was really crazy expensive, my LS came from the factory fully equipped. Have a few friends that bought Mahindra and they have definitely not been well satisfied.
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I traded a Mahindra 3525 in at a loss because the seals on the bull pinion shaft began leaking into the brakes. I don't recall the hours exactly off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure not more than 700-800 hours. There are two dealers in my area. The service department guy at the dealership where I bought it was always too busy to answer the phone and never returned my calls about repairing it even after I personally spoke with the owner of the dealership about the guy not taking my calls. And I had done business with that dealership since the early 1990s. The other dealer was further away, I had never dealt with them and I wasn't comfortable with their reviews. So I traded it away at a loss for a Kubota in part because there are 5 Kubota dealers nearby and surely one of them would be willing to work on a Kubota?