[AT] New Holland TS110 running again & a rant...

[Cecil R Bearden]

My TS110 NH is now running again.  I got it fired up Friday evening.  
Took 2 hours to get the hood on Sat morning.  The hood was a real 
bear...  It sounds different, for sure, but no noises, and doesn't seem 
to be missing, but since it has one new injector tip, I am sure there 
would be a little different sound when accelerated.

Wengers of Myerstown refunded me the entire cost of the head including 
the freight since I had to have so much work done on the head.  I would 
do business with Wengers again since they took responsibility for the 
problem...

So. I am still finding things that the NH stealership screwed up when 
they put it back together.   The hood bracket is missing, The adapter to 
connect the wiper to the wiper arm is missing, the wiper arm is 
installed wrong, the windshield wiper makes a crazy twist because the 
parallelogram linkage is crossed.The special windshield wiper is 
missing.  The adapter and the wiper is $40 to replace. .....     They 
broke the windshield when they replaced the hood.  I was told that the 
windshield was replaced at no charge, but I don't believe it.  The bolts 
around the bell housing were still loose, the wiring harness was 
installed wrong, the fuel lines are chafing because they did not 
reinstall  the clamp brackets.  The hood bracket to keep the hood from 
raising to high is missing.  The bracket to hold one side of the air 
cleaner is missing.

$3200 for the work the stealership did including $800 to R&R the valve 
cover to discover that I had a valve dropped.

Is it just me or is this SOP when dealing with the dealership?  I was 
going to take it to a private shop, but the guy seemed sort of flaky 
when I tried to find where his shop was........

I have decided that with the trouble I have had with this tractor :
1.  I will never again have a dealer work on my tractor.
2. I will not own another New Holland tractor.  If I buy a newer tractor 
it will be a Belarus.
3. I will not buy a used tractor from a dealer.  The hour meter cannot 
be trusted.

I was told on the tractor by net forum that I was a whiner... I should 
just suck it up and fix my tractor.   I now have nearly $50,000.00 
invested in this machine.   For the amount of money that these machines 
cost, ther e should be some assurances that the hour meter is correct.  
There should be more than just a bill of sale to prove ownership.   The 
only problem with titling and registering tractors is the government 
will want 10lbs of flesh for their part.

   Just to illustrate, I have several trucks here that the tags have 
lapsed.  A few years back the good old State of OK needed more money 
from its residents.  The tag penalty was raised from 0.25/day to a 
maximum of the price of the tag, to $1/day to a max of $100.  To bring a 
truck back up to date was about $75.  Now it is $300..   If you lost the 
title, now you have to go to court.....  I have a 1 ton dodge that was a 
former state corrections vehicle.   They mailed the title to me on Dec 
22, and on Dec 24 we had a blizzard.  The mailbox blew open and there 
was a manila envelope with 2 titles in it.  I found one stuck in the 
fence with a big sheep bite mark out of it. I never found the dodge 
title.   I had to get a lost title from the state.  When they finished 
with me it was $600 for a $300 truck.  I noticed last month that I 
missed the tag a year ago, so now it is another $100 plus the $35 for 
the tag...     Just cannot win....

I feel better for venting......

Cecil in OKla



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