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Posted: Aug/02/2008 5:38 PM PST
 My mom bought a new JD probably less than 2 months ago. Since my husband wasn't working today and her mower was supposed to be greased he did that and took off the deck to see if it needed cleaned. That's more for her benefit because my dad used to do it frequently with his tractors. This tractor has a hook up for the garden hose to clean off the bottom. She doesn't use it every time because a woman from the JD sales place, not where she bought it though, said not to get it wet when the mower was hot. Now we know that you don't get the top part wet if it's hot because it can crack the block. But anyways, some of the paint is coming off the bottom of the tractor already and there's rust on it, too! If anyone has a JD tractor do keep tabs on it. The rate this thing is rusting it would be useless in a few years. We're going to have to clean it throughly at the end of the season and repaint it. If it was my tractor I'd be having a fit! Her old one was 27 years old. And guess where some of the parts for this were made? You guessed it! China. |
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Posted: Aug/02/2008 8:03 PM PST
If the tractor was not bought at a John Deere dealership, but at Lowes, Home Depot, Wal-Mart, etc., those at the lesser dealers are "special made" probably in China, and definitely not of the same quality as one bought at an actual John Deere dealership. This was brought to Pete's attention when he bought his as to price wise. The John Deere dealership told him this. The parts for the ones bought at Lowe's, etc. are made of plastic. Those at John Deere's are steel. |
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Posted: Aug/04/2008 7:50 AM PST
We have a 7 yr old John Deere Sabre (bottom of the line at that time Deere riding mower) that we bought at the Deere store down the road. I absolutely love it!!! We treat it hard, and don't take the best care of it, but it doesn't seem to care a bit! No rust, no chips (except on the deck where we run it into things LOL!). The only problem we had was the battery- not really a problem at all considereing the battery was 7 years old when we replaced it!! I need to replace the blades, they have too many nicks to be sharpened again, and probably change the oil and air filter this fall. But that's it! Oh, I will give it a good bath before putting it away for the winter too. |
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Posted: Aug/08/2008 3:52 PM PST
We checked to make sure it was a cast iron front end on it before she ever decided on it. I learned that when we went to the JD dealership a few years ago. We bought a Cub Cadet though. I did get a reply from the company to have someone from the dealership come out and look at it and see if it's a warranty problem. Now if I can get mom to agree to that. Otherwise it's out of my hands. Our Lowe's and Home Depot both refer to the local dealership for anything other than a sale so I'm not sure why they'd have 2 different types. They're inspected by the dealership once they go to the stores anyways. The only reason she could get that one was because it had been inspected a couple days prior. That's interesting though. |
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Posted: Aug/30/2008 5:40 PM PST
Carolyncat was right about the quality. If it's an L-series, then it's the one of the lower quality models that's sold at Home Depot, Lowes, etc. The other models (not L) sold at real John Deere stores are very solid and are the ones you'd want to buy if you want it to last. These cheaper models were introduced to try to keep up with Sears and other cheaper models on the market. |
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