I'm new to CC - hour meter tampering

[markvtg]

Hello

I am looking to purchase a 2009 - GT2550. It has very low hours on it....less than 75 hrs. Can I rely on the meter or can it be easily disabled?

Tractor spent 2 years outside, hood cracked due to sun damage. Also any items to pay particularly close attention to for wear or problems? Or a good gauge for true hours on machine?


Thanks

[Sam Mac]

Originally Posted by markvtg

Hello

Can I rely on the meter or can it be easily disabled?

Thanks

Honest answer NO. It could have been unpluged or replaced. Just my 2 cents.

I don't even look at the hour meter when I'm buying a machine unless we are talking about a big machine.

[CADplans]

The last machine I bought, after it was home, i thought,

"HMMMM, look, it has 4,000 hours, doesn't run like it has that many hours on it!!"

Many hourmeters fail before 4,000 hours!!

[Cubcrazy]

Originally Posted by markvtg

Hello

I am looking to purchase a 2009 - GT2550. It has very low hours on it....less than 75 hrs. Can I rely on the meter or can it be easily disabled?

Tractor spent 2 years outside, hood cracked due to sun damage. Also any items to pay particularly close attention to for wear or problems? Or a good gauge for true hours on machine?


Thanks

I wouldn't rely on the hour meter.

[rweaver]

the neat thing about hr meters if the key is left on so is the hr meter I have found diesels are the worst for having wrong hrs 4000 wow never saw one that bad most hr meters on Cyclops tractors quit before 500 hrs

[dakemp]

My 100 doesn't have an hour meter, so i can speak to them RE: our tractors.

BUT...

The bigger 4 wheelers we own have hour meters, and while accurate, they don't tell you what the machine was doing for those hours. Idling... full throttle... stuck in the mud?

Hour meters don't tell a whole lot in my opinion.

[Shaner]

Originally Posted by rweaver

the neat thing about hr meters if the key is left on so is the hr meter I have found diesels are the worst for having wrong hrs 4000 wow never saw one that bad most hr meters on Cyclops tractors quit before 500 hrs

my 1440's hour meter quit at 470

i wouldn't trust them. i know allot of people like to take the odometer in older vehicles and turn them back quite a ways to make it look like it has less miles on it than what it really does. just give the machine a good once over, check to see if there is oil residue on the inside of the side panels, check to see what the rear end looks like. clean or covered in grease, dirt and lawn clippings. check to see if the deck has been patched, repaired and what not. check the spindles on the deck for wobble. they should have NO wobble at all. just give it a good look.

the 782 i had last summer the hour meter was up around 2500 and it still worked!

[FrankF3]

Originally Posted by markvtg

Hello

I am looking to purchase a 2009 - GT2550. It has very low hours on it....less than 75 hrs. Can I rely on the meter or can it be easily disabled?

Tractor spent 2 years outside, hood cracked due to sun damage. Also any items to pay particularly close attention to for wear or problems? Or a good gauge for true hours on machine?


Thanks

Maybe it was driven by a little old lady on Sundays.........

[CUBDRIVER75]

Hour meters have little to do with condition,just as miles on car.I've had cars with over 200K in near mint shape,and cars with 50K that were whooped beyond belief!

[cubby102]

what i would do is check for the wear areas to get a better idea of how things have been used. pivot points such as front axle pivot, deck undercarage hook points and so on, you can tell more about a machine by looking at all the mating points of moving parts then the hour meter. also just turn the key on and see if its working or not