M4500 year manufactured

[JerryMT]

I just purchased a M4500 tractor with 2280 hrs on the clock. I know they were built between 1977 and 1985. My serial number is M4500 - 10018 but I can't find a correlation between the serial number and the year of manufacture.

Can any of you folks point me to this info?
Thanks in adance

 

[007kubotaguy]

Hello

I believe the first year the M4500 was built was 1978. The first serial number is 10000. so yours would be one of the first one built.This is a great tractor. That is low hours for a tractor that old.
Good Luck Lance

 

[D2Cat]

Jerry, welcome. Often on the older tractors where was no date available.

You may be able to go to your local dealer and have them look up your model on their computer. They can find what year a nearby serial number sold, and you can interpolate the numbers to get as close as possible. I don't think there is any other information available.

 

[coachgeo]

Jerry, welcome. Often on the older tractors where was no date available.

You may be able to go to your local dealer and have them look up your model on their computer. They can find what year a nearby serial number sold, and you can interpolate the numbers to get as close as possible. I don't think there is any other information available.

There is a division you can contact at Kubota Headquarters that can get you that information.

There is a discussion here on this... not sure what to search by to find it though. Check to see if I put a link to it in one of the Stickies at the top of each forum. There is some overlap of sticky info.... but only a little bit so each Forum of this board does end up with mostly different info in each one.

 

[rbargeron]

Back in the 70s & 80s when Kubota was trying to grow sales in the US, they warehoused a surplus of new tractors here of each model. The "year" of each tractor was assigned later, based on the date it was first sold to a retail customer. You can get the initial sale date for your S/N from a dealer.

For the earlier machines, two same-model tractors with close sale dates could actually have quite different serial numbers.

 

[Kubota Newbie]

I have M4500-10046
Thought I had the original delivery information to the City of Columbus, that had the dates on it, but I can't seem to find it.
Good little tractor. Brakes are barely passable, but other than that no real complaints. Heavier drivetrain and chassis than you'll get on a new Kubota of that same HP. The S2600 6 cyl. likes its fuel for a relatively small motor but it starts and runs pretty nice. I'm fortunate that when mine was ordered they specified the M5500 rubber, so I have 16.9-28 rears.

 

[Kubota Newbie]

Mine is supposedly a 1982 by their records.

 

[JerryMT]

I have M4500-10046
Thought I had the original delivery information to the City of Columbus, that had the dates on it, but I can't seem to find it.
Good little tractor. Brakes are barely passable, but other than that no real complaints. Heavier drivetrain and chassis than you'll get on a new Kubota of that same HP. The S2600 6 cyl. likes its fuel for a relatively small motor but it starts and runs pretty nice. I'm fortunate that when mine was ordered they specified the M5500 rubber, so I have 16.9-28 rears.

I really wasn't looking for a Kubota but this one was really clean with a believable 2280 hrs and it's a real stout tractor for a Kubota. The controls are a bit strange compared to American tractors, but heck I can learn. I take it you got the date from the City of Columbus.

 

[MadMax31]

Kubota Corporate can tell you when it was first sold by serial numbers.

Model year matters less than physical condition and actual hours.

I owned an L175, that the Kubota dealer told me was mid eighties. After sourcing parts and a few repairs I had Kubota Corporate trace serial number for me. It was sold April of 1977.
I did quite a bit of work to it before I really wanted a loader and sold it. I had to repair cable end to fix tach, tach is what powered the hour meter on that machine. I sold it with 427 hours, 15 of which were actually recorded by me.

It pops up on Craigslist every now and again, with the current seller claiming he/she did all the work to it, and what low hours it has.... I just roll my eyes.

 

[Kubota Newbie]

Yeah, the 1982 date comes from the City's paperwork. It had all of 900 hours on it when I bought it just over 6 years ago. It hadn't been moved for 5 years and we put a battery in it, started it, and drove it on the trailer. I don't find the controls too strange compared to Massey, David Brown & the like, but I grew up on old Farmall's and I still find myself wanting to go left and up for reverse.

 

[JerryMT]

I contacted Kubota and they told me our M4500 was sold in 1978 but they could not tell me when it was manufactured.

Thanks to all the folks who gave me advise on this.