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Well I bought a mower...and a problem.

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Casey in Ky

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Here's what I bought, Husqvarna yth24v48. It's got the 24 hp
Briggs intek vtwin, 48 inch deck that's got the 10 year rust
warranty, and has the Tuff Torq K57 trans, just a tad under
$1900 out the door. I put 1.9 hours on it using it the first time. I
really like the mower and was really impressed. When I
finished mowing, I parked it under the carport and took a
break. I went back a little later to clean it off and when I started
it, it ran for about 15 seconds, then it died. No power
anywhere, lights, hour meter, no nothing. It has a 20 amp
supply fuse and it's blown. So question is ,do I just take it back
and get my money back without even looking at it?? Electrical
gremlins scare me...
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Take it back to where you got it. Hopefully they will warranty it. Somebody is going to warranty it, question is who. Usually not the big box store one buys them from. They usually give a toll free number to call.

As far as electrical gremlins go, can't be too many on a lawn or garden tractor. They don't have much electrical.

Good Luck.

Mark
 
I have a customer that has a contract with Husqvarna to dispose of damaged, warranty returns, and any other kind of damaged equipment. If you'd see the pile of machines that he gets it would make you think twice about buying anything from them. That said given the amount of machines they move it's probably a infinitesimally small percentage of the total amount of machines they sell. Still, looking at piles and piles of brand new tires, engines, mower decks, chain saws, and anything else they make lying there, and knowing what the stuff costs when you go to buy it.....and that it all has to be destroyed for him to be legal and keep his contract, is enough to make the average person sick.

That said, if I work on equipment, and am good with electrical issues, but if it were my mower I would take it back. The thing is if you try messing with it yourself and find something expensive wrong, then all they have to do is say you voided the warranty by doing the work yourself and, Ta-da, your out $1900, plus the cost of the repair.

Good luck.
 


Call the store you got it from. If its a 'Box Store', they have some company that does their warranty work. Give them the chance to fix it right.
 
Well you where asking about GOOD mowers and went out an bought a CHEAP mower. I really have a hard time feeling sorry for you at the moment. LOL

Take the darn thing back to the box store you bought it from and have them warranty it. Husqvarna makes a good chainsaw and maybe string trimmers but not lawn tractors.

Check on that deck warranty. It will crack in twenty places before it will rust through. I get to weld several of them up each year. So if it is rust through only it is not much of a warranty.

That 24 HP 24 HP Briggs Intek v-twin is kind of miss leading as that is a 500 hour motor. Meaning it is designed to last 500 hours before any major repairs are needed. The Kawasaki motors you where asking about are rated at 1000 hours before any major repairs.

I have full size PREMIUM JD Garden tractors I can sell you for $1900. They would be 4-5 five years old but with under 500 hours on them.

I mow with a JD 325 17 HP Kawasaki with a 48 deck. I bought it new 18 years ago(1996 $3500). It has 629 hours on it now. Two sets of mower belts and oil changes is all it has cost me. It has mowed over two acres every week for that time.

I have two like it that I would sell in the $1750-1950 range.

You where asking us about $1000 mowers not $2000 mowers.

I am not trying to be a butt here. It just makes me mad to see guys get hooked by "new" paint and fancy promoting. I bet that with the warranty you also got a low rate payment plan too????

This Husqvarna will be dead and gone in 5-6 years mowing an acre lawn. It is not built well enough to hold up with that kind of usage.
 
Just go to a local dealer buy a used green tractor and mow for years and forget about it. Used my 1990 318 yesterday not an issue. One can be bought for about the same as a box store tractor. Just my thought and experience. Not everyone likes green
 
Get rid of it! I mow the farm with two Marty J zero turn mowers - one is a 1980 (60 inch) and the other is a 1983 (40 inch). Love them and never do anything but blow them clean and change the oil. I've spent more time maintaining the five year old cub cadet that wifey had to have. You know the one - with the 400 hour Kohler engine. The sooner it blows the better.
 
I work at a store that sells those mowers and part of my job is to put them together and I've found after doing so many that I've found them to have littleproblems I have seen them with something broken and on the dealer side the company really works to replace them
 
I would replace the,fuse once. If it blows again you can still take it in for warranty. If it does not then you have a mower again.
 
Looks like you may have got a little carried away with the water hose. Let it dry, replace the fuse and be more carefull next time.
 
If you bought a new one...what does the owners manual say about a warranty? A blown fuse shouldn't be something to get uptight about. Water in the wrong places can create short circuits and blow fuses.

If you're gonna throw up your hands when the first problem with equipment comes along, maybe you should hire somebody to mow and let them take that risk.
 
(quoted from post at 19:48:06 08/18/14) Well you where asking about GOOD mowers and went out an bought a CHEAP mower. I really have a hard time feeling sorry for you at the moment. LOL

Take the darn thing back to the box store you bought it from and have them warranty it. Husqvarna makes a good chainsaw and maybe string trimmers but not lawn tractors.

Check on that deck warranty. It will crack in twenty places before it will rust through. I get to weld several of them up each year. So if it is rust through only it is not much of a warranty.

That 24 HP 24 HP Briggs Intek v-twin is kind of miss leading as that is a 500 hour motor. Meaning it is designed to last 500 hours before any major repairs are needed. The Kawasaki motors you where asking about are rated at 1000 hours before any major repairs.

I have full size PREMIUM JD Garden tractors I can sell you for $1900. They would be 4-5 five years old but with under 500 hours on them.

I mow with a JD 325 17 HP Kawasaki with a 48 deck. I bought it new 18 years ago(1996 $3500). It has 629 hours on it now. Two sets of mower belts and oil changes is all it has cost me. It has mowed over two acres every week for that time.

I have two like it that I would sell in the $1750-1950 range.

You where asking us about $1000 mowers not $2000 mowers.

I am not trying to be a butt here. It just makes me mad to see guys get hooked by "new" paint and fancy promoting. I bet that with the warranty you also got a low rate payment plan too????

This Husqvarna will be dead and gone in 5-6 years mowing an acre lawn. It is not built well enough to hold up with that kind of usage.
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got to agree on the JD's.
I have a 1972 JD 112 electric lift, bought it in 96 for $50.
Been mowing my 1 acre lawn with it ever since.
I don't think i spend $400 in parts on it in the 18 years i own and use it.
 
Hi our kohler motor 316 is still doing the same to, 14 years after we brought it from the last farm owner. He drove it like a race car, and crashed a few times L.O.L.
14 years from now this guys new mower will be a 10th generation recycled toaster, I"m thinking! and the 316 and 8 Deere will still be a working grass cutting classic.
Regards Robert
 
Exchange it now if they let you. Then check your new one. The main wiring harness will likely be rubbing against the steering rod under the dash. You can pull the wiring away and use a zip tie to hold it from contacting any metal. All the best.
 
Husqvarna will take care of you. They've probably spent as much fixing my brothers pile of junk as a new one cost. 2 engines, 3 decks, several pulleys, and countless nuts and bolts breaking, and its only 3 years old. Well 2, spent pretty much all last summer in the shop. I think he said he put about a half hour on the meter.
 
I bought a used husky, 4 hrs on it, 14 years ago at lowes. The first person who bought it had electrical gremblens. It was a shorted starter solenoid. They returned it. I picked it up at lowes for $1200.

I only have about 350 hrs on my briggs 23 hp. I use my mower to do the tirm work around buildings, fence, trees. Then I get the 72 in woods behind my Jubilee to finish mowing. Electrical issues are no biggie for me. So, I wasn't afraid to buy it. It's a good mower. You probably a safety switch or loose battery connection.

My engine used a little oil in the beginning. My gut told me engine governor was set to fast. I slowed mower down a tick. Uses very little oil. I change mine about every 50 hours.

I love the hydrostatic. Have a bagger. I mulch leafs first, let grass dry, then use bagger if needed.

This tractor has all the features I look for in a mower. Solid front axle, electric mower clutch, hydrostatic, air intake for engine is far from the dust. I cut at 3 inches, to reduce the dust mower stirs up.

For the money, it a good mower, easy to work on. Really I've done little to mine. Sharpen blades, change oil. I don't think I've had to change belts. Once a stick flipped up and took the mower belt off. It was easy to put back on with the lever on mower deck to loosen idler pulley.
George
 
Pretty typical of the junk being sold these days for $1900 you can buy a John Deere 318,Simplicity Sunstar or other top quality mower used in 1st class condition that'll last for years.
 
A couple of things I should've added. The fuse blew before I ever sprayed the first drop of water, that's what really bothered me about it. I've got a 30 day return policy as it came from Lowes. They don't have any more of this model in. It's not that I can't fix it, I found the fuse in just a couple of minutes. MY luck I'd change the fuse, and it would last just past the 30 days, then something else would rear its head. I know all of the box store mowers are cheap, but from what I had read, these were suppose to be about the best of them and most people seem satisfied with them.

I'm not one to fall in love with new paint so to speak, they just were no deals on anything else. I beat the bushes for several weeks and the only thing that was remotely interesting was the JD LX188 with the 42inch deck for a $1000 even, but my schedule and the guy that was selling it schedule never would match. Of two local Deere dealers, one has no used mowers in right now(at least nothing under $2500) and the other is outrageous. He's got a JD LX172 for $1300, JD LX 176 for $1800, and a JD 265 for $2700. Not syaing those aren't good mowers, but there's no way I'm paying $2700 for 25 year old mower. I did pay cash for the Husqvarna, but it really was over my budget, I just was tired of the craigslist BS and my grass was getting real ugly.

Guess I'm taking this thing back this evening and I'll go back to looking for something used.
 
You can? Where is this mythical used lawn mower WalMart?

Used ones are either used-up, clapped-out, overpriced JUNK, or the same price as a new premium mower.
 
I have a couple really good Simplicity Sunstars I bought for under $1000 have used one of them with almost no problem for 5 years to mow with.Bought a John Deere
322(same as 318 except it has the 3 cylinder Yanmar engine) for $1000 ran and worked fine used for about a year until a fellow down the road offered me $2000 for it and he's been using it for 2 years.To get the same quality machine as these now you going to pay $8000+.Oh yea have a Cub Cadet 1782 with a 3 cylinder Kubota engine and Haban deck I bought at a surplus sale for $1100 runs and operates just fine all I had to do was to buy a new battery
 
I would call the dealer and see what they recommend, like someone said it"s probably just a wire rubbing on something. We have a Husquvarna that is the best mower that I have ever seen, 15 years,0 breakdowns! Everyone that I know with John Deere"s has a lot more trouble than that.
 
Well sorry to hear that. Like other post said. let it dry, install new fuse. I think they are decent quality. However, I mow with a 1972 & a 1975 CASE. Love them, just keeps on running & running.
 
Casey,
I read your post again. You sprayed water, most likely shorted out the fuse. Do you think water had anything to do with it?

Why spray water on it? Water is against my #1 rule. Yes, grass will get on deck. I use leaf blower to clean it off.

Park stinky mower in shed away from house. Never use water.

I pressure washed my old tractors to paint them. Water got in engine, tranny, hydraulics, even rear end. I was careful, not careful enough, to keep it out.

Hope you learned a lesson, no water on mower. The used mower I picked up at Lowes with less than 5 hrs, may have had the same issue caused by the first owner washing it. The starter solenoid was shorted out blowing fuses. Water and elecrical don't mix, period.

Take it back and have lowes fix it. If you are worried, buy an extended warantee from Lowes.

I glad I did when I purchased a whrilpool washer from lowes and tranny bearing went out in less than 2 years. Got a full refund on washer.

IMHO, you have a good mower. I just used mine, 333 hours. Runs great.

Think about this for a moment. Most mowers are made from off the shelf parts, even John Deers. You have a choice of 3 engines, a few different trannys, 2 diffrent front axles, electric or manual mower clutch. The parts are very similar is not the same. I have an old John Deere GT275. Good mower, has tiller. My daddy alwasy said JD's were painted green because green is the color of money. I think JD's are pricey and not really that much better. I love my JD. They are good, but not worth more for a used one than you can buy a new husky for.
george
 
I have a LGT2554 Husqvarna (twin Kohler, 54" deck, hydro, 500 hrs.) that I got at a local consignment auction late last year, with a sun shade, a snow blade w/chains and a 50# weight, new blades and a full tank of gas... for $800. Had the dough and was sorta looking for another mower as the 2002 Huskee was getting long in the tooth (but it's still running pretty good). Pays to be ready when a deal comes up. I've had a good experience with it so far, can get things done much quicker than the old Huskee.

You should have a good machine there, I'd get the issues sorted out. A cheap but functional back-up machine might be a good idea too. I have an early 70s Cub Cadet 86 I'm fixing up to be my back-up, for when the Huskee gets to the point it's not worth fixing anymore. Cost me nothing to acquire and will need about $200 in parts to fix, and will probably out last me!
 
(quoted from post at 22:48:06 08/18/14) Well you where asking about GOOD mowers and went out an bought a CHEAP mower. I really have a hard time feeling sorry for you at the moment. LOL

Take the darn thing back to the box store you bought it from and have them warranty it. Husqvarna makes a good chainsaw and maybe string trimmers but not lawn tractors.

Check on that deck warranty. It will crack in twenty places before it will rust through. I get to weld several of them up each year. So if it is rust through only it is not much of a warranty.

That 24 HP 24 HP Briggs Intek v-twin is kind of miss leading as that is a 500 hour motor. Meaning it is designed to last 500 hours before any major repairs are needed. The Kawasaki motors you where asking about are rated at 1000 hours before any major repairs.

I have full size PREMIUM JD Garden tractors I can sell you for $1900. They would be 4-5 five years old but with under 500 hours on them.

I mow with a JD 325 17 HP Kawasaki with a 48 deck. I bought it new 18 years ago(1996 $3500). It has 629 hours on it now. Two sets of mower belts and oil changes is all it has cost me. It has mowed over two acres every week for that time.

I have two like it that I would sell in the $1750-1950 range.

You where asking us about $1000 mowers not $2000 mowers.

I am not trying to be a butt here. It just makes me mad to see guys get hooked by "new" paint and fancy promoting. I bet that with the warranty you also got a low rate payment plan too????

This Husqvarna will be dead and gone in 5-6 years mowing an acre lawn. It is not built well enough to hold up with that kind of usage.
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I bought an $850 MTD yardman about 8 years ago. Use it regularly. Just sharpened the blades and changed the oil. NO belts or ANY other problem. I am lots of money ahead at this point.
 
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