I know nobody wants to say they bought a POS. I'm looking at Kioti DK5010 and would like to know what you like or dislike about the tractor. Is it exceptionally strong or weak in any areas?
I know this is an old thread, but thought I would share my experiences. In Jan of 2019 I bought a RX6620cab w/elect shuttle. I put 400hrs on it the first year. Never did I have a single problem with the tractor that was not fault of my own. The tractor never broke or failed in any way. Now I tore up plenty.........the wife said I should sell it and buy a dozer, because I was really rough on it. When I'm working, I use what I got to get the job done, so I bent a few things along the way. One thing with a tractor of this size, you have to be mindful of how you use it, because it will break or bend your equipment. I had a 72" grapple, and bent it pushing with it. I know, told you I'm rough on em. Had a 72" box blade, that was really a CAT 1 but was pretty robustly made compared to some, and I bent three of the cleats on it by snagging concrete trying to pull it up from a driveway. The tractor is so strong, it can bend the implement before you can get on the clutch if you are not careful. Put two fans on it, because of brush hogging in thick 10' tall stuff where you can't see well, and backed up, jabbing sticks up under the hood sides and into the fan. My fault also! The long and short of it is, I ended up putting over 700hrs on this tractor, and sold it because I thought I was finished with the hard heavy stuff, and could get by with my smaller MF230S, and I could get rid of that extra payment. Anyway, back to the tractor purchase. I researched for over a year before I bought the Kioti, and looked at and drove nearly everything currently on the market. In my opinion......there is nothing that I shopped that had the Fit & Finish of the Kioti. I have family that works for John Deere, and even with his discount applied, I could not be swayed to buy the Deere. They are just not put together as well, ergonomics for the driver on the Kioti is so far ahead of the rest it's not even comparable. Standard features surpasses all other brands I looked at, and it ran like a singer sewing machine. Someone on here mentioned block heaters.....I didn't have one, although had planned on buying one at some point. The day I sold the tractor, it was 18 degrees. The new owner and I was talking on the phone while he was driving from near Nashville down to my house near Memphis. He asked, since it has not been started in over a month, and with it as cold as it was that day, do I think it would start? I said sure....probably.....but really had no idea, since we had not had that cold of weather in a while, and it had been setting. I don't even think it had any anti gel in the fuel. Anyway, I thought I had better go check it out and make sure before the man with the cash showed up. Anyway.......it started right up, and no differently than it would on a 90 degree day. The tractor sold that day, and I have regretted selling it nearly from that day on. Now, I realize that after you have a loader tractor, you cannot be without a loader tractor. I cannot even say enough good things about my Kioti tractor, and not one single negative from my 700hrs of ownership. I bought mine in Murfreesboro TN at Larry Stovesand Equipment, and could not have been happier with the buying process, and the fantastic after the sale support, and parts department when ordering replacement parts for the pieces I ordered when I tore something up. Sometimes, they shipped me the parts or drop shipped from the factory with two day service, before I even paid for them. They would just call me and say they were on the way, and give me total and I just paid over the phone. So you can see, I am a totally satisfied Kioti customer. As of today, I now plan to buy another Kioti tractor, and I don't even plan on looking or considering another brand.
