That's not really much of case; Just a little to far to go. I went out of my way to buy my 1st new M-F; Which was 113 miles to be exact. The closest dealers in this order were John Deer, Kubota, & a N/H M-F dealer. No regrets here. & recently we had a new M-F dealer open up 28 miles from my home ( Warrenton Equipment ) I've met one of the owners, & I decided to have some work done on my model 50 with them. I'll probably post a thread on it when I pick it back up on how it went.
I wonder how long the tech will spend trying to find the port for his laptop on your MF50!
Ha! Ha! Not long at all; Since he knows it doesn't have one. The head mechanic has 40 years experience with M-F & really knows his stuff, & that's who is working on my 50.I just hope he is training a few of the new techs. how work on the good ole stuff. The only modern item on the tractor is the electronic ignition that I installed. It took 18 months for the new techs. to be certified, & that's how long it took before they could open there doors. My newer 1526 just went out of warranty last Oct. ( 5 years ) & so far has been trouble free piece of equipment, & of course I do all my own pm's.
My neighbours 1758 has endless problems with the DPF regen, it costs a few hundred every time they collect it. This fall they sent the dpf off for cleaning, hopefully he will have a trouble free year or even two!
Kubota is the only one I’m aware of.
Talking with my local dealer a few years back he told me Massey sends them to conferences to the different plants and all the new stuff, tech, yada, yada. He had a picture from the one plant ( I can't remember where) with 4 different tractors coming down the same assembly line for 4 different makers.