Buying Advice Which jd should i consider buying?

   / Which jd should i consider buying? #11  
Well, I don't own one. BUT, I have very recent experience on three 5101en's that are brand new. I work for a company that manufactures orchard harvesting equipment. We also chop up the cabs on these JD tractors to make smaller fruit orchard cabs out of them. All three of these brand new tractors exhibit the same issues. Fit and finish is junk. The paint on the interior plastic trim very easily pulls off with masking tape. The subsurface of which lacks any sign of pre-painting prep. They also had numerous cross threaded or stripped out interior trim attachment screws. And not only the threads were striped out, but even the phillip's driver portions of the screws were stripped out. The majority of the glass attachment panels' hardware was loose.

And now for one of these three tractors. Just yesterday we were re-charging the A/C system and the engine idler pulley bolt sheared off. We heard a sudden change in engine RPM's and investigated finding the front accessory belt not doing anything because of the broken idler pulley bolt. Can you imagine a farmer out in his fields with a new tractor and having this happen? If they did not realize something was wrong right away this could end up in an over heated engine.

I have no experience with other brands of cabbed tractors. So I have no idea if other manufacturers have such a lousy cab assembly process of not. But given the cost of these beasts, I would be pissed if I bought a tractor that was thrown together in such a manner. Since all three of these tractors had a lot of the same issues, I have to assume the problem is endemic to JD. It definitely tells me I don't want to buy a JD tractor. I have no idea how the rest of their lines work out. B.
As far as the cabs go, I personally haven't found one flaw in mine. It is possible the cabs were disassembled by the dealer for dealer add on's. My dealer had my cab completely apart for add on's. I looked at a lot of cabs and deere had the best fit and finish that I saw. What year was these 101's. I now the older cabs weren't near as nice as the new ones. All the new ones have the same cab as the economy m series.
 
   / Which jd should i consider buying? #12  
Bruce you are so right...we have people trading in those tractors left and right it seems....issues...the cab as you described...falls appart...the tractor itself starts having issues after about a year of use...loader issues...etc
 
   / Which jd should i consider buying? #13  
Bruce you are so right...we have people trading in those tractors left and right it seems....issues...the cab as you described...falls appart...the tractor itself starts having issues after about a year of use...loader issues...etc

That's good stuff. Talked to 14 people who have owned them before I bought mine. Only a couple guys had problems, some had over 3000 hours on them. Very minor stuff. Seems like a lot of guys on here have them, don't see to many people bitching about them.
 
   / Which jd should i consider buying? #14  
Bruce you are so right...we have people trading in those tractors left and right it seems....issues...the cab as you described...falls appart...the tractor itself starts having issues after about a year of use...loader issues...etc


This is a guy who sells New Holland tractors. When I hear a dealer talk down his competitors as jdbnh does I assume he is a poor person to do business with. That should not be blamed on New Holland just the poor sales person.
 
   / Which jd should i consider buying? #15  
They are new Tier 4 tractors, but I don't know if they are 2013's or 2014's. And as far as I can tell, the cabs came on the tractors from the factory. I don't know if the dealer had done any work on them before we got them for the cab conversions. They don't have FEL's. As far as the idler pulley bolt breaking, I guess it is possible to get a bad bolt once in awhile. But the lack of pride in assembling the cabs really had me aghast. I would have thought JD would have done a better job of this. Bruce
 

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