Mahindra Owners Care Site

[kneedeep]

I keep considering Mahindra's as an option for a new tractor. However, there's a nagging little voice in the back of my head that keeps giving me pause. first is their website, I've never seen a website with such a lack of information about the "details and selling points" about their product. Other than a spec sheet, they don't show squat about details of their product. The second is I find almost an equal number of forums/threads that are fore and against the brand. I kicked the wheels on a few at some local dealers and I even get a mixed vibe about buying one. I've seen better fit and finish and worse fit and finish, but nothing to really move me in one direction or the other.

Owned a Mahindra for 14 years and bought a second Mahindra last year. Owned JD, Massey, IH, Long, Ford and Kubota as used units and traded the IH in on a new Mahindra. Ran it hard and steady without any problems other than what I did myself. It is a working machine without a lot of bells and whistles, did what I needed and more. I'm not saying better or worse than any other brand but is a reliable, well built, dependable work horse that if maintained and not abused should provide years of good service. Really haven't needed any parts except for filters and couple of rubber boots for the loader valve that cracked over time but any dealer will send parts UPS.

 

[gsganzer]

Owned a Mahindra for 14 years and bought a second Mahindra last year. Owned JD, Massey, IH, Long, Ford and Kubota as used units and traded the IH in on a new Mahindra. Ran it hard and steady without any problems other than what I did myself. It is a working machine without a lot of bells and whistles, did what I needed and more. I'm not saying better or worse than any other brand but is a reliable, well built, dependable work horse that if maintained and not abused should provide years of good service. Really haven't needed any parts except for filters and couple of rubber boots for the loader valve that cracked over time but any dealer will send parts UPS.

kneedeep, that's good to hear. A lot of the reviews have been from recent purchasers, Not from folks that have owned them for a while. It's good to hear from someone with 14 years experience. I agree they look like a stout work machine without a lot of bells and whistles. That's a good thing in my opinion.

 

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kneedeep, that's good to hear. A lot of the reviews have been from recent purchasers, Not from folks that have owned them for a while. It's good to hear from someone with 14 years experience. I agree they look like a stout work machine without a lot of bells and whistles. That's a good thing in my opinion.

I know as consumers we are looking for all the information possible on what we buy before we give up our hard earned money. The truth of the matter is that how much success or not any other person has had with anything is possibly specious information. Here is my thinking framework: Who is most likely to afford their opinions on a product? For all the naysayers, how many are countered by people who like their product but would never report as such in any type communication and vice versa? How does one explain that good and bad are being said about the same product? What are the tolerance levels of the consumers who purchased meaning do some get incensed at the failure of a switch or do some think little of a wheel falling off?
I think one is best served with their own insights. Observed build quality, where it's made, ergonomic needs of the purchaser and utility aspects of the machine and finally just"gut" feelings about what one is looking at weigh in much more heavily than what whoever states about the machine they have.
What a company was does not necessarily mean that it still is. Demand, growth, overhead increases, management changes and economics all lend to changing seas. Some for the better ...some for not.
My advice is buy what fits your criteria whether for the product or the dealer. Subsequently, cross your fingers and hope yours remains relatively trouble free.

 

[kneedeep]

I read a lot of reviews on TBN and feel that some people expect WAY more from a SCUT than they are designed to deliver. When I bought new in '03, Dealer refused to put Ag tires on any SCUT with a loader. He reasoned that people use them like Bobcats and track loaders causing broken axles, stress cracks, bent and broken cylinders,etc and expect warranty repairs.
Maybe he was right, anyway- I see lots of complaints that may be related to mistreatment and downright abuse of these small machines.
In my case, the 3510 had been perfect for keeping road maintained and planting a few deer plots but did not have the HP to do what I needed when the farm was purchased. I bought a Mahindra BH for the 3510 and purchased a good used 5500 4WD for the bigger ground contact implements the 3510 struggled with in the Delta Gumbo.
Now I have a ditch digging , brush grubbing beast for those task and when it is time to get the dirt pan, disk, no-till planter or subsoiler- the 5500 is ready and able.
Sometimes one tractor will not met every need, as in my case.
How about yours, is the tractor the issue or what it is asked to do??