Ha ha LMAO. Good luck with that tail light warranty, chinese importer's service ends when the cheque has cleared.
Sounds to me like you've had conversations with the dealership and Kubota. Vehicle has been in for service. Unfortunately not getting results you would want.
At this point it does sound like a pandemic built lemon that Kubota doesn't want to put parts in. Surprised Kubota isn't working with my dealer to make it right. It has been in the shop over 6 weeks now so looks like it qualifies for the NY farm equipment lemon law. I have so much in it that I really just want it fixed. Dealer actually said the same thing about trading it if Kubota doesn't have a solution but the only Kubota options he has that they haven't had trouble with are diesel. I have to tell you that I have found Chinese support to be very fast and aggressive lately. They don't let things like this drag on as they are fighting for market position knowing problems spread like wildfire on social media. The metallurgy is equal to USA made products now when you get in upper price ranges like this.
I was told mine doesn't have a camshaft sensor. The new one the dealer just got has one the mechanic told me.
My Kubota salesman told me to avoid buying one, he said numerous models are plague with problems. So I bought something different, based on his recommendations.
I'm sorry I am talking about the cam position sensor they told me was just added that mine doesn't have. Has to have some type of crankshaft trigger.
Dealing with warranty issues can be challenging anywhere, especially these days. I've had issues getting warranty service Yamaha, GM, Honda, Toyota,...
I should have been suspicious when all the videos I could find about it were made or controlled by Kubota and also free vehicles they gave out for videos. Another week and still nothing. Going to be 2 months in the shop soon and no resolution.
it has a crankshaft sensor. Flywheel has teeth on it, with one missing. When crank sensor sees the missing tooth, it knows that it's at TDC. Since it's a 180 degree crankshaft, every half rotation of the crankshaft is counted by the ECU (ECU knows how many teeth on the flywheel, so if it's 60-1, which means 60 teeth but missing one, for a total of 59, at 30 teeth it's at BDC, then 30 more teeth it's at TDC again, etc). No cam sensor is needed. Kubota calls it a "revolution sensor" in their Jinglish language. In calling it that, most techs would recognize it as a RPM signal only, but in fact it's a crank position sensor.
So a quick update to my Kubota cutting out at random times at 20 to 30. The sun kinda change position and now I can read the display when the engine cuts out. I see the gear selector read out on the display magically go from drive to revers so the engine freaks out and cuts spark and as soon as it happens it goes back to drive and I continue as normal. So it's not going to be a hard fix I just need to know if and where the microswitch is that is giving range info to the digital display and computer. ANY GUESSES?
Just got it back today (10 weeks). Kubota finally had the oil samples evaluated and is concerned about the amount of fuel in the crankcase oil. Not concerned about all the water that is normal with them though. They replaced the injectors and want me to run it another 10 hours than get another sample. They think it may be from me not running it hard enough and long enough but maybe the new injectors will help. If it's still a problem in 10 hours Kubota will have to decide what's next as the warranty claim just states it must be run harder. That isn't something they said up front when you buy one. All the contamination seemed to happen in a couple hours over last winter so we will see. It took them 9 weeks to finally have the oil analyzed and 10 weeks for this answer so I am sorry I went with the Kubota now and definitely won't recommend one for around a farmstead. My friend bought a Ranger for the exact same use a month before I got the sidekick and no contamination or problems at all yet so now I eat crow for telling him he should have bought a Sidekick.
Fuel and/or water into crankcase oil is not caused by injectors.... I call BS on their response.
This is a Kubota, not cheap Mule and sold as a worksite model that won't see a lot of wide open throttle. I have never had a problem like this with a piece of machinery and definitely thought Kubota would state something like not for homestead use in the sales literature if that is the case with the Subaru engine. Like I said a friend bought a Polaris 1000 with the exact same use and no problems so it's definitely not a problem for all manufacturers. I definitely made a mistake buying the sidekick and hopefully others will have this knowledge about the Sidekick before making the same mistake as I did.
