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[Moe Fretz]

John, I 87 east of Raleigh to Rolesville R. then north, Kioti Rd. first on
right side.
Spent a week there for service training, working for a new dealer that had
just set up
in southern Ontario Canada. Likely in spring 2007.

$-------&
Moe Fretz

L'Orignal
Ontario, Canada


On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 8:50 AM John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> No idea--and neither did Kubota--that's when I lost respect for them.
>
> Where were you at in NC, I think Kioti is east of Raleigh?
>
> John Hall
>
>
>
> On 2/10/2019 6:06 AM, Moe Fretz wrote:
>
> I learned, while spending some times at the Kioti facility in NC.
>
> That the earliest of the Kubota compact tractors had Daedong (Kioti)
> engines in them.
> This was before Kubota has fully developed their own engine. That may have
> been
> the head gasket challenge?
>
>
> $-------&
> Moe Fretz
>
> L'Orignal
> Ontario, Canada
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 10:56 PM James Peck <jamesgpeck at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The Hondas from the early 70s were not quality cars. I remember a friend
>> with head gasket problems.
>>
>> [John Hall] I may own one of those orange things one day, but it won't be
>> a very old one. We got suckered into working on one a few years back that
>> was 25-30 years old. Local dealer support sucked. Had to get parts from the
>> northeast. Called every phone number I could find until I got in touch with
>> an older factory service tech.---nobody new what head gasket to sell us. We
>> kept getting the run around about possible "gray market" tractors. The
>> parts guys were groaning just as soon as we gave them the model number. If
>> its old, I'll take IH or Deere any day over orange.
>>
>> [ James Peck] I can remember driving by a Kubota dealership for the first
>> time in 1970 on the way to take a military physical.  The tractors sitting
>> on that lot in 1970 would now be 49 years old.
>>
>>
>> https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-21/deere-bests-kubota-as-u-s-tractor-sales-revive
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