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Clark...

jthread wrote:
"Clark..." wrote in message
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Eggs Zachtly wrote:
eBob.com said:

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Nitty Grity: Within the first two years of light use the mower
failed me twice. The first time it just quit while I was mowing
and would not start again. The second time I was mowing and heard
a difference in the noise it makes and discovered that the blade
was no longer rotating. The first service was covered by the
warranty. The second was not. Although it was still under
warranty the problem was a broken belt and that is considered wear
and tear. I hadn't used the mower more than about a dozen times,
so that tells you something about the quality of the parts they
use.

You only cut your grass twelve times, in two years?


I've only owned one other riding mower. And it was a Snapper. I
owned it for at least 15 years and never had such serious problems.
I wish now I had kept the old one. Or bought a different brand.
There are NO improvements in the new mower. They have added some
safety features but they are so poorly designed that I would not
call them improvements. One of the safety features shuts the
engine off if you lift your weight from the seat. It starts to
stall if you even shift your weight on the seat.

All new riders have that feature.

It seems to me
that they could have at least let the engine continue to run if the
blade was disengaged and you had put the mower in park. Oh, but
wait! That would have meant having a park gear which it does not.
So if you stop on ground that is not perfectly level you have to
leave it in gear - which means waiting for the engine to completely
stop before getting off it - because you have to keep your foot on
the clutch/brake. The other new safety feature prevents you from
shifting into reverse if the blade is engaged. I can see that
(although I don't like it). But the blade does not disengage
automatically. So you disengage the blade, shift into reverse,
back up, shift back into 1st and then re-engage the blade. Probably
wouldn't be a big deal if it had a tighter turning
radius. But given the turning radius you have to do a lot of
backing up in my standard suburban lot.

Perhaps you should have bought a zero-turn mower. Or, better yet,
maybe you should have inquired about the turning radius of this
mower, before you purchased it.

[...]


I can't understand how they failed to make simple, low cost
improvements which anyone who used the mower would know were
desirable. One example, the seat is black vinyl - just like my old
Snapper. And just like the old Snapper, if that black seat has
been in the summer sun for a few minutes you don't want to sit on
it if you are wearing shorts. Do they not know that black things
get hot in the sun? Or do they not know that people mow grass
when the sun is shinning? Sheesh!

Did you not think about the black seat, when you purchased the
mower? [...]


Well ... I am not sure that exhausts all of the reasons I wish I
had not purchased this mower but you get the idea.

It sounds to me as though you didn't research your options, before
purchasing the mower. You didn't research or inquire about the
turning radius. You saw it had a black seat. Did you not think it
would get hot?


This is not a newsgroup which I follow. I am contributing this
report in the hope that it will prevent someone from making the
same mistake I made. I may follow this group for a few days to
respond to questions/comments but no promises.

Oh. We'll feel quite fortunate, then, if you grace us with your
replies. I expect a drive-by, though. You wanted someplace to whine
because you didn't think a major purchase through, thoroughly.

The real bottom line: You made a bad purchase, due to your lack of
research. Get over it.


Your so fricken compassionate Eggs, really it's people like you that
make me all warm and fuzzy inside.
There really is hope for the world!!
God Bless you. ;-)

Clark...

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Jim

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