Nope, no troll, no college kid, all problems legit. BTW, what college kid sits around and stirs the pot about a tractor?
So when I purchase something and it doesn't work it's my fault?
Rush Limbaugh would say that's classic liberalism... if something doesn't work to your favor, blame/attack the victim.
You can blame me for the tractor's shortcomings, but that doesn't change anything. You can also desparage my engineering, or that I didn't post all weekend, thank goodness I escaped this disaster. Like I wanted to post that or feel ripped off because I have nothing better to do than bash the tractor I own to hurt the resale value.
I was at road atlanta this weekend. I built the engine, suspension, and touched every other part of the car I run there. No technical ability huh? Want to talk valve train geometry about wipe pattern on the tip of the valves from the rocker arms, push rod length, and shimming the springs so they don't develop float? How about fly cutting the pistons for proper P to V clearance, milling the heads to get a better quench out of an ~11.5 to 1 compression ratio with a 12.8deg overlap cam to take advantage of a scavanging merge collector on the headers? I built my car, it runs when I turn the key, and it's a 17 yr old car that thraashes with $100k+ GT3's, Nissan GTR, and the list goes on... But I like to work on my car because it's a race car and that's what you do when you go 160 mph into a turn and need the brakes to work, you prep your own brakes like you pack your own parachute.
I don't expect to have to run around fixing a stock tractor with 41 hours. I spent weeks calling and writing mahindra and the dealer, so don't assume I was completely negligent. I spent 3 days getting it to run after I called the dealer and they told me to call back after the weekend and see how his schedule looks. My time is free and my observations invalid because I'm not a tractor junkie with thousands of posts?
Response to the oil filter issue: the dealer said they never had anyone ask for one of those before... Huh, no one asked for a 4035 oil filter... I'm pretty sure mahindra has that engine in a few different tractors, yet, no one had asked for one of those before... so no, the customer I passed on the way in didn't leave with the last one. lol, nice try though. I am a very down to earth person, what I don't appreciate is going to a dealer and them thinking I'm a stupid know nothing consumer. Further, I don't appreciate being bashed for expecting a $35k tractor to work. I didn't buy it to sort out manufacturer or dealer issues on who assembled what, and would have been very happy plowing snow rather than figuring out why it kept blowing fuses.
Electrically it's either the gauge cluster or the headlight switch, I guess. The tractor stopped blowing the starter circuit 40A fuse when I unplugged these two items. It had the starter replaced before I ever got it, but draw your own conclusion.
For those that asked (and thank you), the local dealer and mahindra have ironed something out to take care of the issues. I had to make sure that I wasn't getting into a situation where the tractor gets taken in and half the work is covered under warrenty and the other half costs me 3x what everything else should have. I asked a lot of questions before I agreed to let someone "fix" something. My biggest problem is that I expect something to be correct, perform as advertised, and not accepting shoddily performed work. This is why I do most everything myself, so I only have myself to blame and don't have to spend the time chasing someone down to do it correctly, the way it should have been done the first time.
Post #4! for those counting
