$289 oil change?

In my case, the tech guy came out to work on it. $100 is to start the service truck and move it. You pay the hourly rate for the travel time as well.

Unfortunately, I'm an hour from 3 good Silver dealers. So, it's a 2 hour service call just for transport. Then, he had to remove the hyd block & take it back for the replacement. So I had to pay for 4 hours of 'service' which was driving. About 3.5 hours of head scratching, and about an hour of actual labor.

Now, service trucks cost a lot to stock & put on the road, and the fella coulda been working on something in the shop instead of driving to me; so I'm not complaining, I understand, glad they could help me as this was over my head (over the service tech's as well, but some issues are just head scratchers...). Just, wow, you gotta be sitting down sometimes.

My BiL had a little 15 hp compact tractor (Lawnmowers are bigger than that...) picked up by the dealer, driven across town, serviced, and hauled back to the place. Perhaps 6 mile trip total, 3 miles each way. The bill for hauling a tractor is $200 it turns out, so he was billed $400 for that. Plus the work & labor & parts besides. Wow. That seemed excessive, for the size 'tractor', that shoulda been 1/2 that. Think the dealer (a relative of mine actually) did a little excessive there. BiL has a pickup & several trailers the tractor coulda been pushed on, woulda cost him $20 in gas, but then my BiL doesn't think through money the best....

--->Paul

I got the same generic filter from the auto parts house. I got 3 filters for less than the Kubota dealer. Just get the part number of the dealer.

That or take in an old filter. I got a fram filter for my Kobota.

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Just food for thought: The wheeled skid steers are great to work with, but if you need to move big logs, you may want to looked at tracked models. Instead of tires, you have to worry about tracks and sprockets, but it probably works out about the same.

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I agree fordy. I have a 2000 Ford Ranger with an auto and 3.0L engine with 85K on the clock I just had to buy from my son (long story) and its a real dog. I worry about the Ford automatics and dont even want to think about a power flush. I was wondering though since you said you use a synthetic trans oil, any problems? I know Ford is adament about only using Mercon and nothing else.

Back to the OP, I have a Kubota tractor I bought new this year and do all my own service on it, my old AC WC, ATV, 3 trucks, garden tractors etc. and it really saves money but the price of POL is getting out of hand. The Kubota dealer we bought from was great and their mechanic spent an hour showing me how to do everything myself which surprised the heck out of me but his response was that if we make you happy you will but something else from us in the future.....havent heard that in such a long time.

But, if you have them service the tractor like for what you were talking about their prices are about the same.

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