How close are you to a “Local” dealer?

[stumblinhorse]

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]

I have three TYM dealers all within 45 mins

 

[grsthegreat]

About 25 miles

 

[Rusty]

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

My closest Kubota dealer is 12 miles away.

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

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

 

[hosspuller]

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

 

[sea2summit]

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

 

[71bronco]

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]

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.

 

[IndyJay]

Better to find an honest dealer with skilled mechanics than a close one who is not so great.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Deere and Kubota dealer within 20 minutes of my farm , 2 more of each within an hour from the farm, and I still drove over 2& 1/2 hours to a Kubota dealer in South Georgia to buy a new skid steer last year and saved over 7k.

 

[lilranch2001]

Case ih 7 miles
Deere 11 miles
Bota. 16 miles
Bobcat 17 miles

Probably 30-40 more within a 60 mile radius

 

[BravoXray]

Kubota dealer, 10 miles east of me on US20.
Deere dealer, 18 miles west of me on US20.

 

[Wagtail]

<snert> It all depends on your own location. It's all relative to you.

My Dealership is a two hour, one way, trip... but that also applies to at least two other major 'colours'. All of the others are even further.

Most of the dealerships have mobile maintenance utes.

 

[Torvy]

My closest dealer is a Kubota about 7 miles away. JD about another 12 north of them. NH & Mahindra dealer another few miles north of them.

My dealer is 80 miles away, but there are 2 other TYM dealers 40-50 miles away. We also have local diesel mechanics that work on many brands.

I think between the Mississippi and the Coastal ranges, distances mean different things than back east. 20 miles out here is nothing. It is almost all the way across RI.

 

[lilranch2001]

Kubota dealer, 10 miles east of me on US20.
Deere dealer, 18 miles west of me on US20.

I just looked to see how long US 20 is….

I grew up near it in Northern indiana.

3366 miles long!

 

[Williy]

JD dealer about 5 miles north of town but my dealer is approx
125 miles from me.

willy

 

[Torvy]

I just looked to see how long US 20 is….

I grew up near it in Northern indiana.

3366 miles long!

I grew up near US12. It goes from at least NY to Seattle, IIRC.

 

[Torvy]

I grew up near US12. It goes from at least NY to Seattle, IIRC.

Oops, apparently it only goes east to Detroit.

 

[lilranch2001]

US 20 may be the longest us highway….

Oregon pacific coast to Massachusetts Atlantic coast, and runs just south of the Great Lakes