New John Deere riding mowers

[3fan4life]

I was looking at some new JD riding mowers at Lowes the other day and noticed that the engines have a new system for changing the oil:

https://youtu.be/zIrePocxcdQ

They're billing it as a 30 second easy oil change.

They are producing one new model without this system.


Personally, I don't think that I like this new system.

My problems with it are:

1) It never changes ALL of the oil.

2) I can't choose the brand of oil that I want to use.

3) It costs $40


It's a neat idea and I'm sure that the R&D was done before it was released to the public.

It will be interesting to see what the general public's reaction is.

I do know that if there wasn't at least one without the new system, my next new mower most likely wouldn't be John Deere Green.

[Serk]

Some prior discussion on this:

http://www.valkyrieforum.com/bbs/index.php/topic,98539.0.html

[threevalks]

Reb ran that by us at the Hillbilly ride in Pikeville last year. One reason, make oil change dummy proof, main reason $$$$.

[bentwrench]

One of the filter makers tried to get this going for cars back in the 80s.It was a dry sump storage unit w/ several qts. and a filter. 2 quick connects carry in to the parts house walk out plug it in and go. Of coarse it never caught on but I thought it might work well on boats with hard to reach sumps and filters.

[oldsmokey]

Makes it quick and easy for the on site service.
Not that I would promote it, but its out there.

[Gavin_Sons]

I only change my mower oil once a year. I might put 40 hours on it a year. Takes me 30 minutes to mow my lawn. I like the idea but it only takes me 5 minutes to change mine now for 10 bucks. But I'm not the market they are after.

[Hook#3287]

 

But I'm not the market they are after.

I think that's the jist of it all.

The people their after with that tec, are the ones checking their facebook page, while mowing the lawn.