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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 7536286" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>While cabs are far better built nowadays than they were back in the 1970's and 80's there is still one remaining black spot. There may be more but this is the only common rust issue I know of. It is the roof of MF tractors. They are made of thin mild steel and they rust like heck. This just isn't good enough and there's none of that on my much older Same and New Holland tractors which have a plastic skin. The Same is eleven years older and the NH seven. None of them are perfect but in this particular respect, and considering that is has been a well known issue for literally decades, MF really do need to pull their finger out.</p><p></p><p>What's brought this topic up is that I went up to the top of my 2004 MF tractor yesterday and found rust. When I cleaned it up I found that there was a large rotten area that had rusted right through. Now this tractor spends most, though not all inactive time in a large well-ventilated shed and three months of the year stored in that shed, not being used.</p><p>This kind of 1970's pee-poor quality is just not good enough in this day and age as I don't think they have improved the issue between 2004 and now. They could easily galvanise the sheet metal or make it out of plastic, so why don't they? Because we've let them get away with penny-pinching for far too long, that's why.</p><p></p><p>The answer could be to change the tractor, but the rest of it is great. Touch wood. I'll be inspecting the top of the new 8S carefully to see whether they have changed their ways. 'Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar', which is literally pertinent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 7536286, member: 718"] While cabs are far better built nowadays than they were back in the 1970's and 80's there is still one remaining black spot. There may be more but this is the only common rust issue I know of. It is the roof of MF tractors. They are made of thin mild steel and they rust like heck. This just isn't good enough and there's none of that on my much older Same and New Holland tractors which have a plastic skin. The Same is eleven years older and the NH seven. None of them are perfect but in this particular respect, and considering that is has been a well known issue for literally decades, MF really do need to pull their finger out. What's brought this topic up is that I went up to the top of my 2004 MF tractor yesterday and found rust. When I cleaned it up I found that there was a large rotten area that had rusted right through. Now this tractor spends most, though not all inactive time in a large well-ventilated shed and three months of the year stored in that shed, not being used. This kind of 1970's pee-poor quality is just not good enough in this day and age as I don't think they have improved the issue between 2004 and now. They could easily galvanise the sheet metal or make it out of plastic, so why don't they? Because we've let them get away with penny-pinching for far too long, that's why. The answer could be to change the tractor, but the rest of it is great. Touch wood. I'll be inspecting the top of the new 8S carefully to see whether they have changed their ways. 'Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar', which is literally pertinent. [/QUOTE]
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