Shiftsuper,
That wasn't all that rascal pulled on me either while out serving my country. However, it is all water under the bridge as the factory stepped up to take care of the problems.
The dealership sold out to a new guy that wouldn't touch the mower since he didn't sell it. The manufacturer gave me a choice to use any dealer I wanted to do the warranty make up the original dealer promised and never delivered. By the time the factory saw it, it was all the way up to 31.7 hours, six of which the dealer turned on the key for six hours. Thus, it actually only had 25 hours on it in 3 years. Always deployed, never home. Now after mowing today, it has 40.3 hours in 4 1/2 years.
I chose a dealer about ten times the sales volume the original dealer has. Turns out, worst decision I could have made. They kept it 6 weeks to adjust the valves, adjust the pulling to the left and the outrageously loud hydros. I told the dealer do NOT do any work whatsoever on the machine if there was any charge to me. It was never inside while at their facility while it endured 6 weeks of raining. I got it back with rust areas around every bolt head, scratches and scuffs in many many places. When it went down there, I took a walk around video, not one scratch on the machine, not one tiny bit of rust developing because it had never seen rain or moisture in the 3 1/4 years at that time. Decal was messed up also, punctured a hole in the top of my seat, etc.
So, that's when I decided it is time to begin doing some of the upgrades and modifications intended for the lil RSD. Mowed today and can tell you the seat suspension kit and flex forks are the berries!
Never let a dealer that has female technicians with Bi-Polar Disorder get anywhere near your machine. I've seen ticked off men not do as much damage in 3 years as this lady did in the couple of days she had her hands on it. When I got the machine back from their adjusting the steering, it would run in a circle in 30 feet plus the sticks were off. She was adjusting the brake adjusting springs on the sticks which are not a cause of the steering veering to one side. She was also supposed to adjust the hydros to get the full 7.5 mph. It came back doing 3 tenths less than it did when it went there.
I got it home, jacked it up, adjusted the steering in less than 30 minutes on both sided and regained the .3 and added a tenth. One of these days I'll do a steering adjustment video and see about getting the 7.5 out of it and possibly more. I believe I can get 8 out of it even on the 2800s. We'll see.
I didn't go anything to that dealer either. Didn't see any reason to slap the factory in the face for what their idiot yocals are doing. Factory stood tall. I have it driving fantastically other than I've never taken time to put both sticks where they belong. Again, that will be in the video for those wanting to know "how to".
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