Tractor failure

jackbrit3

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I sold a tractor last week for $85o cash no paperwork. I had
recently made some repairs, even had the old gears hanging on
rear of garden tractor. I told the guy that it was not ever
used by me bought it broken and repaired it. One week later
transaxle failed with broken case. What would you do for
purchaser?
 
(quoted from post at 14:52:25 02/27/22) I sold a tractor last week for $85o cash no paperwork. I had
recently made some repairs, even had the old gears hanging on
rear of garden tractor. I told the guy that it was not ever
used by me bought it broken and repaired it. One week later
transaxle failed with broken case. What would you do for
purchaser?

Since you admitted to "repairing" it and didn't make up a bill of sale stating "sold as-is, where-is" and had the customer sign it I would offer the buyer the choice of me "repairing" it again or his money back.

On the other hand, is there any chance the repeat failure was due to abuse by the purchaser?

This post was edited by wore out on 02/27/2022 at 02:36 pm.
 
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:12
 
Depends on the repair and if it was associated with the failure. What kind of tractor? Broken case sorta sounds like a Case with failed ring gear bolts.
 
I would want to know more about what the buyer was using it when it broke down. You won't believe what some people will do with lawn and garden equipment!
 
Peerless 930-057a
I made what I thought was an honest repair of spider gears. There at no shims or adjustments. When complete I towed a 1000 pound lawn roller for an hour. Then my next thought was how did buyer break this case with so little traction even with chains in snow. Could a tooth failed on spider gear breaking case? Failure was around spider assembly.
 
This transaxle/lawn mower was not made for heavy ground engaging equipment.
HOW?...
With chains on the little tires and maybe some weight on the back, then repeatedly back it down off a hill onto blacktop and slip it into forward gear, drop the clutch, and ram it
into a snowbank, sooner or later, BAM!.
That's how a customer of mine did it.
 
I buy, sell and rebuild Troy Bilt tillers. Rebuilds are one price, used as-is are another. I have made mistakes and I own them, buyers screw things up and they own them, not me. I don't warranty anything that is sold used as-is period.

You told the guy you fixed the trans and it doesn't last a week, my opinion you owe him. Lesson learned, fix things completely and correctly or sell used as is. Go with what allows you sleep easy is the best advise I can give.
 
A lot of missing info here. Was this a 1 off or do you do this for a living? What type of tractor and how old? What caused the it to fail the first time? Was this a junk pick special? $850 for a used transaxle tractor with trans problems seems high. You have to decide what your reputation is worth.
 
My good name is worth more then 850.00, this is a good learning experience
 
You may never know what he was doing when it broke. It could have been some abuse, who knows.
 
The line about abusing equipment reminded me of a story. A friend sold standby generators for a living. He was in Arkansas visiting a turkey farm and noticed one of his generators hooked up to a small Farmall pto. He told the owner, that tractor wasn't big enough for the generator. Guy said, it had plenty of power. When the farmer showed him by starting the tractor and engaging the pto to the generator. The tractor flipped on its side.
 

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