MF 5711 built in obsolescence?

[organicguy]

Having trouble with poor air con on a 1 year old tractor.
Checking and cleaning rads etc to discover that the 3 drains for condensation are blocked. 2 run down inside the cab pillars which need a hole to allow the water to pass between two welded pieces of box. Hole blocked, near impossible to clean out. Box full of rusty water.
If I could get hold of the designer I,d shove him up the 2" box to clean it out!!
WTF

 

[Moors Lad]

Is it out of warranty?

 

[kill]

Having trouble with poor air con on a 1 year old tractor.
Checking and cleaning rads etc to discover that the 3 drains for condensation are blocked. 2 run down inside the cab pillars which need a hole to allow the water to pass between two welded pieces of box. Hole blocked, near impossible to clean out. Box full of rusty water.
If I could get hold of the designer I,d shove him up the 2" box to clean it out!!
WTF

Use to have that constantly on a Massey 5455 as drip offs followed the B pillars and came down pretty much the centre of the wheels and constantly wrapping bales and going over and over and over the same ground would block them solid as the dust would be micro fine and constantly thrown up by the tyres and due to a lot of clay in the soil here it was just like glue and the drip off water would start coming through the heater vents. Normally just a quick squeeze at the nipple and water would rush out. Other times a clean up top or a small bore pipe pushed upwards to clean the pipe.
Having water coming through the vents isn’t very nice. I think the pipe was never hardly large enough or the nipple is to tight.

 

[organicguy]

Contacted dealer, had a fair rant and said I wanted Agco out. We'll see what happens.

 

[box]

Good man, give em hell.

 

[Henarar]

Our 4355 has two bars that come down the back of the cab and double as grab handles, the pipes drain through them not had any trouble
Seems silly letting it inside the pillar

 

[Chuckie]

Contacted dealer, had a fair rant and said I wanted Agco out. We'll see what happens.

When I did that they sent an arrogant twit that said it wasn't the tractor at fault. So shortly after I traded it for a jd......

 

[organicguy]

Our 4355 has two bars that come down the back of the cab and double as grab handles, the pipes drain through them not had any trouble
Seems silly letting it inside the pillar

This has 3 drain tubes, 1 in each B pillar, 1 down grab rail.
WTF

 

[SRRC]

They all use similar drain systems. Experienced servicing mechanics will blow them through occasionally.

 

[flyonthewall]

Afraid I don’t think the French arm of AGCO will give you much help, I’d be more worried about the clutch damper around 5k hrs and if you’re open centre hydraulics the pumps around the same time. I’m wondering if you could modify the tubing to prevent the crud buildup and send pics over to Beauvais but they’d probably just give a Gallic shrug and keep throwing them together!