Warranty which company is best
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aczlan
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A warranty is only as the person at the dealership who writes up the claim. Thus having a good dealership from any of the brands you quoted is more important than which brand to buy.
Aaron Z
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Try to determine what company builds the best tractor so use of warranty is minimal or not at all.
Try to find a good dealer so if you do need warranty work they are there for you.
Try to find a good dealer so if you do need warranty work they are there for you.
Big Wave D
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aczlan has it 100% correct.
The paper, in and of itself, is worthless.
You can read horror stories about almost any kind of brand of tractor on this site and how the dealer isn't honoring the warranty or seemingly capable of fixing the warranty issue.
You want a well established dealer who's been in the business a long time, who is knowledgeable, and will promptly/fairly take care of you should you need service work.
There are many 2nd and 3rd tier tractor makers, but they tend to have dealers that are there one minute and gone the next. Or worse, the whole company is gone.
Low cost is a truly seductive marketing tool, but one that can truly bite/burn you later. A machine that is broke with no one and no where to buy parts or have it repaired is NO bargain.
The paper, in and of itself, is worthless.
You can read horror stories about almost any kind of brand of tractor on this site and how the dealer isn't honoring the warranty or seemingly capable of fixing the warranty issue.
You want a well established dealer who's been in the business a long time, who is knowledgeable, and will promptly/fairly take care of you should you need service work.
There are many 2nd and 3rd tier tractor makers, but they tend to have dealers that are there one minute and gone the next. Or worse, the whole company is gone.
Low cost is a truly seductive marketing tool, but one that can truly bite/burn you later. A machine that is broke with no one and no where to buy parts or have it repaired is NO bargain.
texasjohn
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Welcome to TBN:thumbsup:
A question re warranty is really a question re reliability.
Suggest you use TBN as a data mine to build your personal opinion of reliability via brand.
For a particular brand's OWNING/OPERATING forum, look at least at the first 200 posts. Count how many are about "mechanical problems" versus how many are about "whee, here's what I'm doing/want to do with my tractor".
Go to the next brand, do the same.
Do this for each brand you are interested in. A pattern may start to form on paper and in your mind about kinds of problems that develop and how they are handled by real users doing real work.
Whatever you learn from this exercise, it will take maybe 15 minutes and be a far better information sample than any single reply from any particular TBN poster.
Now, this knowledge can factor into all the other decisions you have to make regarding a purchase...$$, attachments, features, dealer proximity, dealer quality, etc.
While not a strictly scientific sample technique, this approach will give you the aggregated experience of a large number of TBN members quickly... priceless:thumbsup:
A question re warranty is really a question re reliability.
Suggest you use TBN as a data mine to build your personal opinion of reliability via brand.
For a particular brand's OWNING/OPERATING forum, look at least at the first 200 posts. Count how many are about "mechanical problems" versus how many are about "whee, here's what I'm doing/want to do with my tractor".
Go to the next brand, do the same.
Do this for each brand you are interested in. A pattern may start to form on paper and in your mind about kinds of problems that develop and how they are handled by real users doing real work.
Whatever you learn from this exercise, it will take maybe 15 minutes and be a far better information sample than any single reply from any particular TBN poster.
Now, this knowledge can factor into all the other decisions you have to make regarding a purchase...$$, attachments, features, dealer proximity, dealer quality, etc.
While not a strictly scientific sample technique, this approach will give you the aggregated experience of a large number of TBN members quickly... priceless:thumbsup:
