I am sorry you bought an used tractor, that the previous owner abused till the tranny broke before trading up to a bigger machine. The dealer surely should have known not to sell that tractor, and you surely should have researched it further, buying a tractor that was in for a transmission case breakage repairs with low hours, should have been a big red flag. One would guess the dealer really lowered the price on it, so it blinded you into buying it without checking the rest of the machine, figuring hey that's a deal, now not so much, hence looking here for advice how to recoup your losses?
And your plan is to go with another lesser name brand product, expecting better results? will you be buying used also?
They claimed the transmission issue was a 'casting defect' and that's why the whole unit was replaced.
I believed them, foolishly.
It was not marked down dirt cheap, I paid $16k -was asking 16.5 or 16.9 originally, cant remember.
Obviously I should have been more prepared and did more research. I asked about parts availability and all that stuff, have family who bought from there with no complaints etc. No stranger to equipment but am fairly new to tractors like this, so iam sure I missed stuff.
Had been looking into tractors for almost a year by then, was honestly sick of it, running out of time and thought I genuinely found a good one.
Liked the Mahindra because of them seemingly being simpler "old school" and heavy. Did check out others, but as iam sure you know even during normal times units in that size are hard to come by, atleast around here.
My plans now are to probably sell it if I ever get it back (now the parts are just listed as backorder, nobody knows where they, etc)
I would be tempted keep it if I could get parts or someone to work on it, but both are impossible it seems.
As far as buying used again, I would, but only if a 'name brand' like orange, or the other red guys maybe.
