MTD sucks!

[john hall]

Originally Posted by Sam Mac

I think my 1864 may just be the last Cub I will buy. Green and Orange are looking better. Yes I'm PO'd

Take a deep breath there Sam. Thank you for going the extra mile to help someone out. Having said that, Green is pretty good about parts but Kubota leaves a lot to be desired. We replaced a leaking head gasket on a older tractor--before they were called compacts. I had never seen anything like it, it was a 2 or 3 piece affair. It took forever to get the right parts, Kubota's parts books couldn't tell us whether to use a 1 or 2 pc gasket, none of the dealers here in NC had a clue--I think we had trouble ordering what was originally in it and no notes if anything was superceded--I don't remember all the details, this was 10 years ago. I finally talked to the regional service guys with Kubota and got their best guess. I ordered the parts from Messicks---at least their parts department cared. The knuckleheads at C&D up your way were useless to put it politely--and they gave up Case-IH to go all Kubota.

Everyone makes a lemon now and again, it would be nice if they would just own up to it.

[bocephus1991]

I agree it's BS! Unfortunately that's the way society has gone. Throw away crap! From cars to riding mowers, tv's, telephones the list goes on and on. Here awhile back, I went in where work at Lowes one night, and the storage area out back had 500 lawn tractors in it! From John Deere's to Troy-Bilt's, Husqvarna, and some zero turns. All junk in my opinion!

[johncub7172]

Boy, now that's selling people in hell a fireplace! Makes on sense not to have replacement parts for that young of a quality tractor. Good grief!

I'm with ya on this one Sam

[Mike McKown]

I have been buying CC parts since about 1973 when CC was manf. by Harvester. My dealer had every part for every tractor that had been manf. to that point at a reasonable price.

When Harvester sold out to CCC, things changed as expected. Some parts became NLA but for the most part, still available but prices started escalating. Rapidly.

Still later, when CCC was consumed by MTD in the mid '90's, parts prices started climbing like crazy, many more became NLA.

At this point, in my opinion, the last of the good CC's were designed/built. Everything from that point on was throwaway junk.

I told my dealer and his people, "thanks for your service over the years but don't expect me to be buying any new CC models from you ever again."

MTD's handling of CC was a classic case of taking a well respected brand name and milking it for what they could get and then cheapening the product and quality to make even more until the whole shebang goes belly up.

[Sam Mac]

Originally Posted by Mike McKown

I have been buying CC parts since about 1973 when CC was manf. by Harvester. My dealer had every part for every tractor that had been manf. to that point at a reasonable price.

When Harvester sold out to CCC, things changed as expected. Some parts became NLA but for the most part, still available but prices started escalating. Rapidly.

Still later, when CCC was consumed by MTD in the mid '90's, parts prices started climbing like crazy, many more became NLA.

At this point, in my opinion, the last of the good CC's were designed/built. Everything from that point on was throwaway junk.

I told my dealer and his people, "thanks for your service over the years but don't expect me to be buying any new CC models from you ever again."

MTD's handling of CC was a classic case of taking a well respected brand name and milking it for what they could get and then cheapening the product and quality to make even more until the whole shebang goes belly up.

Yep for this Kid the last of the good stuff was the Cyclops series. I have never liked the SCUT machines.

[CNeubauer]

My wife keeps trying to get me to trade my 2182 off for a new cub cadet so I don't have to work on it, I can't seem to convince her that my 2182 is a much higher quality machine than the new stuff even though it's 21 years old and requires tinkering from time to time.

[johns cubs]

Originally Posted by bocephus1991

I agree it's BS! Unfortunately that's the way society has gone. Throw away crap! From cars to riding mowers, tv's, telephones the list goes on and on. Here awhile back, I went in where work at Lowes one night, and the storage area out back had 500 lawn tractors in it! From John Deere's to Troy-Bilt's, Husqvarna, and some zero turns. All junk in my opinion!

All manufactured by MTD!!!

[PaulS]

Welcome to strongville. Yea right.

[Mike McKown]

Let me say this. I believe in capitalism but I also believe in playing fair when it comes to selling a product to the public and especially fair when it comes to selling reasonably priced replacement parts to keep the product running.

MTD fails miserably on the latter but so do all the automobile manufacturers in this country. Many other manufacturers included.