Hey all. We bought our Gator 11 months ago as a way to help us get around and inspect a 700 acre property over in Louisiana.
We don't get over there a whole lot so as of last weekend it had a grand total of 6.5 hours on it. It gets stored inside and is driven on basic fire lanes for the most part and leads a pretty pampered existence.
This trip, the first issue was the winch. Click the button and no workee. Worked fine the last time but now, nada. I checked the fuses and all seemed good. The tranny had been sticking but this last visit, was completely unusable. Had to turn off the motor for it to shift. After the third or fourth restart, the battery was laboring and figured we better not push our luck. Decided we should just get it up to the dealer and let them sort it all but was thinking "at least we're under warranty". When we get to the dealer we are informed that since it is a "commercial title" vehicle, we only got a 6 month warranty instead of 12.
We also got the replacement oil filter in the mail but when we asked the dealer about it, they said our VIN wasn't one that needed it. It's getting an oil change and filter while its there anyway but makes me wonder how informed the service department is since they didn't seem to know too much about what seems like common issues with the 850's
Hopefully this story has a warm and fuzzy ending but we'll keep you posted.
We don't get over there a whole lot so as of last weekend it had a grand total of 6.5 hours on it. It gets stored inside and is driven on basic fire lanes for the most part and leads a pretty pampered existence.
This trip, the first issue was the winch. Click the button and no workee. Worked fine the last time but now, nada. I checked the fuses and all seemed good. The tranny had been sticking but this last visit, was completely unusable. Had to turn off the motor for it to shift. After the third or fourth restart, the battery was laboring and figured we better not push our luck. Decided we should just get it up to the dealer and let them sort it all but was thinking "at least we're under warranty". When we get to the dealer we are informed that since it is a "commercial title" vehicle, we only got a 6 month warranty instead of 12.
We also got the replacement oil filter in the mail but when we asked the dealer about it, they said our VIN wasn't one that needed it. It's getting an oil change and filter while its there anyway but makes me wonder how informed the service department is since they didn't seem to know too much about what seems like common issues with the 850's
Hopefully this story has a warm and fuzzy ending but we'll keep you posted.