> Sorry just read your reply. It's not really possible to take a accurate reading of the radiator coolant level. I'm kind of at a loss as to how to fix this issue going forward. I think kioti and the dealership is too. Regardless of make of tractor how can i guarantee I don't have this situation to leading to catastrophic failure again?
Never having looked at Kioti, I have no idea how the tractor is laid out. But the inability to directly check the radiator coolant level is a fairly common problem on newer automobiles, and I suspect your tractor has a similar problem. On older vehicles where there's a pressure cap on the radiator, you can remove that cap when the engine is cold and verify the coolant level. But newer vehicles often don't have a cap on the radiator you can remove so your only indication of coolant level is what's in the recovery tank. If the cooling system isn't holding pressure and coolant isn't being sucked back out of the recovery tank, there's no way to tell the coolant level is dangerously low.
If, in fact, there's no way to confirm the radiator coolant level, Kioti SHOULD have added a low coolant switch to tell the operator if the coolant is too low to properly cool the engine. Apparently they did not. I would discuss this matter with the dealer; maybe there's a sensor but it was defective. And if you end up going to court, your lawyer could argue the absence of a working coolant level sensor is a manufacturing defect which should be covered under warranty, along with the resulting damage.
To prevent this from happening in the future, I suppose you could add a coolant level sensor. I suspect this would be a non-trivial task. But there are plenty of cars that have them, so I think one of those could be adapted to work on your tractor.
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