How close are you to a “Local” dealer?

stumblinhorse · Aug 18, 2023

I see recommendations to always buy from a “Local” dealer. How close are you to your local dealer? I am rural. The closet dealers to me is a Green dealer and an Orange dealer, they are 98 miles away. My tractor is a CNH and the closest dealer is 161 miles away.

How local is “local”?

CloverKnollFarms · Aug 18, 2023

I have three TYM dealers all within 45 mins

grsthegreat · Aug 18, 2023

About 25 miles

Rusty · Aug 18, 2023

stumblinhorse said:
How close are you to your local dealer? How local is “local”?

My closest Kubota dealer is 12 miles away.

Sprinkler Fitter · Aug 18, 2023

My John Deere dealer is about 5 miles north of my house.

hosspuller · Aug 18, 2023

Three Deere dealerships within 1/2 hour. Seven Deere dealerships within an hour

sea2summit · Aug 18, 2023

Closest bota dealer is about 70 miles…I consider my local dealer to be about 2.5 hrs away in the other direction.

71bronco · Aug 18, 2023

I have 2 Kubota dealers within a half hour. But I bought mine from Barlows in Kentucky. They delivered it and were thousands cheaper. I sometimes buy filters and hydraulic fluid locally but never needed any service in 12 years.

Jeff

wolc123 · Aug 18, 2023

I’ve got a Deere dealer 3 miles away and a Kubota dealer 4 miles away. I bought a Bush-hog at the Kubota dealer last year and I’ve been going to the Deere dealer every 100 tractor hours for the last (19) years for oil filters. That’s all I’ve needed from the dealer thru my first 1200 hours anyhow.

Having a closest dealer is a nice bonus. At the time I purchased the tractor, I got costs for comparable models from Deere, Kubota, and (NH). The NH was the cheapest by a couple hundred, but the closest dealer dealer was over 20 miles away and their offering had significantly lower hydraulic flow and lift capacity. The costs of the Deere and Kubota were almost identical. If there was just one country song about “Kubota orange” I might have given them a little more consideration.

There was a Mahindra dealer 4.1 miles away, but they closed up a few years ago. I looked at their catalog, but never got a quote on a tractor from them. I’m glad I didn’t, now that they closed up.