How many hours are ok on a NEW tractor

[skivt]

What about 10 hours. I am about to take delivery on one with 10 and it seems like a lot. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( 10 and it seems like a lot )</font>

Maybe a little more than usual, but wouldn't concern me in the least.

 

[creeper]

I wouldn't be concerned about it.Same warranty still aplies and really 10 hrs is easy to put on in a hurry. JMO

 

[bandit67]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( What about 10 hours. I am about to take delivery on one with 10 and it seems like a lot. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif )</font>

When the factory installed the hydraulic fittings on my machine's FEL joystic control, they pinched an O-ring, and it didn't let go until the 8 hour mark. Had my machine had 10 hours on it before I got it, it wouldn't have dumped all that hydraulic fluid on my property and caused me to stop working for the weekend until the dealer could pick it up and fix it - they would have found it before it left the lot.

So, 10 hours should have any of the little bugs worked out for you. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[woolyblue]

I called my dealer today and asked him if everything was ready to go on my new tractor, since I am picking it up this Friday. He chuckled and said everything was good to go and that he put 100 hours on it over the weekend. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gifWhen I asked him how he managed to get so much seat time in, he replied: Well you did ask me to dyno it! /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif He also told me that he needed to test the bush hog as well. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Henro]

In MY mind it is not the 5, 10, or 15 hours that would be( and were) a concern, but rather HOW those hours were accumulated.

When I see a tractor at the dealers that is new but has 10 hours on the meter, I wonder how many times that tractor was started up cold and run for a short time, and shut back off without ever having even warmed up. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

If the tractor was run for an hour or two at a time, that would be one thing. If it is started up for a few minutes at a time, how many cold starts would 10 TACH hours equate too?

Too many to make me feel warm and fuzzy! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

So I wanted and was delivered both tractors with about an hour on the hour meters (can't remember, but certainly less than 2 hours). Felt a little warmer and fuzzier as the result.

Don't know if it's just me...but knowing I wanted to keep the tractors for the rest of my life...I just feel better knowing that MY tractors don't have a lot of hours of multiple cold starts under their hoods... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[AndyMA]

So I assume Henro & Bird that all the advice on this board about asking your dealer to let you actually use a tractor in real use conditions assumes that each dealer buys one of each model for people to only demo /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Not realistic. I think that many on this board are overly concerned about non important matters(not specifically refering to anyone) . I've owned many tractors and never had an engine failure. My dealers advice- break em in like you'll use em. What about those of us whose dealers let us take home a few models for a week to test in real use situations. Should those machines be sold as used??? On the machines sitting on dealers lots that are larger than small CUT's it's not unusual to see 30 to 100 hours on them.

Just curious as always- you just can't have it both ways.

Aandy

 

[Henro]

<font color="blue"> What about those of us whose dealers let us take home a few models for a week to test in real use situations. Should those machines be sold as used??? </font>

I don't know Andy...

But I do know that with new cars, around here they are sold as demo units, with full warranty, but not as "factory new," and usually at an attractive discount.

Nobody forces any of us to buy anything (not counting the wife, that is... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif ) so I guess in the end we will each just have to make our own decision as to whether 5, 10, 25, 50 or 100+ hours on a NEW tractor is a concern or not. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[DJLX]

I suppose like most here I am not too concerned with the small amount of hours on a new machine but am concerned that I recieve the truth concerning those hours. If the dealer tells me they are from a 4 hour dyno then that is what I should expect. If the dealer says that they are from a dyno but it's really from being a demo for a year then that might be a decision maker. I guess it is just the whole honesty thing.

 

[Scrounger]

Demo hours can be like rental car miles, they are not the same as actual owner miles. You ask how I know this. Can you say 80 mph parking brake slides in a rented Ford Escort. Of what fun on TDY.