RTV900 xt purchase question

[glennm]

Hello
I am about to purchase a new RTV900. The local dealer has given me a fair price for it but there will be none available until the end of March. If I want Camo that won't be available until May.
He has an orange 900 on the lot that Kubota sent to to the Royal Winter Fair In November. It has 90 hours on it and it looks new. It would be sold as new, has had all the fluids changed and a full service. I can save $2000 on that one, what do you guys think?:confused2:
Thanks in advance

 

[Gary Fowler]

I would think it all depends on if you really desire the 2011 "new" items or $2000. I hear the new ones have some better seats and back rest and a couple of other things that may make them better operationally and for comfort. I guess it also depends if you are willing to wait a couple months. I just bought a 2006 with 65 hours on it for $8750 and thought it was a good deal. How much is the difference in the two and what options has it go on it. Those can really add to the price quickly, canopy top, glass windshield, winch, bumpers, grill guard , spray in bed liner etc all add up quick. You may get some of those items thrown in for free or at dealer cost if you take the used one.

 

[glennm]

It has a bed liner and brush guard. I don't really want to wait, I could be using it right now. I would want to add a winch and maybe a canopy, not much else right now.

 

[redharley]

sounds like you made up your mind.See if the dealer will no charge those items into your deal now.Make sure he knows if you buy new there are other dealers out there that would love your bussiness. Enjoy whichever way you go

 

[glennm]

I will look for a few extras. The box liner and brush guard are in the deal. My son purchased a 3500 lb winch at princess auto in anticipation of the "new toy" I think I will need a mount for that as well.

 

[Tkblacktail]

I'd say call their bluff on the delivery date for the cammo version. :thumbsup:

Wait for what you want. In times like these, it is a buyer's market for everything except for guns and ammunition.

There arn't any such thing as "car-facts" for RTVs; no way to be sure if a rich-man's kid didn't tear it up and have "daddy" return it. I had to wait most of my adult life to get what toys I have, nothing wrong with orange but if you want cammo, get cammo.

I was a nice guy when I bought my RTV 500 and I got walked on.

The only thing that would change my opinion now would be if I had a friend that was the sales person.

As I mentioned in previous posts, know "cold" how to read the VIN and decipher the DOM.

You can make your own brush guard with some angle iron and a wire-feeder. Simple task, PM if you want free close-up specs and pics of the one I made.

 

[Gary Fowler]

You can make just about anything if you have the time, patience, ability and material. Many of us dont have one or more of those things and if is easier, faster and many times cheaper to buy it already installed than to go around scavenging up the materials to built it and then spending our valuable off work time to fab, paint and install. Besides if you built a brush guard out of angle iron it wouldnt have the cool RTV logo in front or the smooth bends of the light protector bars.

 

[DIXIEDOG]

it wouldnt have the cool RTV logo in front or the smooth bends of the light protector bars.

Why not? :laughing: If I make my own it will most likely be out of round tubing and everything will be smooth.....I have access to a full machine shop so a cool RTV logo would be very doable.

 

[glennm]

The one I am considering has the brush guard and liner. Only thing I will need is a mount for the winch and maybe a top. Do most of you have a top? Also, do I need the Kubota mount for the winch?

 

[Gary Fowler]

I was posting in reply to Traskblacktail who said he would make one out of angle iron which would surely protect the grill if designed properly but wouldnt look like the Kubota standard. No doubt some folks have access to all kinds of tool, benders, free metal and such. For me, I have a welding machine, grinder, drill, vise, anvil and cutting torch which is the extent of my metal fabrication tools and even with those there isnt much I can build since I have not material to build it with and not much time either at the present. I am gone for 8 weeks at a time and then back for 3 weeks which is consumed with doctor visits, work than has piled up for the last 8 weeks and of course visiting with wife and family so not much time to run around looking for stuff to build. Alas, my retirement date will be here in less than a year and if I havent bought everything already, I may actually built something. Right now I have contracted out to build a 7 foot bush hog made of of solid 1/4" plate that I hope will stand up to hitting these Arkansas winter grown rocks that come up every winter and eat up my bush hog frame. It will weigh in at about 1300 pounds so I am paying about $1.15 per pound which is less than I would have to pay for the material, rods and electricity to build it not to mention my $90 per hour labor cost (remember that thread)