My experience

My experience with this new M4-071 has been nothing but good. My dealer tells me my factory Kubota 3rd function valve kit will be in this week.
Sure, lacking the 2nd and 3rd rear remotes is a drawback. My dealer did say he would get them for me at cost, so that's good.
I changed the factory oil, as recommended by manual, at 50 hours with Mobile 1 full synthetic for diesels.
My second oil change will be at 150 hours.
I change the filter every time I change the oil.
I loaded my back tires myself with a gallon of antifreeze and 75% full with water. It took 1 hour and 58 minutes total for both tires.
I keep my tractor inside a climate controlled shop so my thinking was that if I ever sell it, the next person may keep it outside. In early 2018 we had temperatures of 14 and 17 degrees for several days so the antifreeze made sense on that level too.
A small issue is that I can't believe the rear window washer hose is supposed to be kinked or coming from under the headliner and pinched at that point, or that the washer nozzle doesn't spray the fluid on the rear window. I wouldn't add the rear window wiper or washer but it was already installed. I don't believe it was installed correctly. I haven't decided a course of action on this situation yet. 
This is nitpicking, but it's there, apparently the dealers mechanics scratched the interior plastic in 3 places, could've been lookie loos... and one air register was broken, dealer sending new...
I'm not perfect, I get out of the cab in the field when necessary and things get dirty, but I clean the tractor when I'm done. ie: I blow it off with a cordless Stihl blower outside and vacuum floor mat after inside when needed. 


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