when I bought my L2501, the dealer had 3 on the yard, i drove a gear drive model with a loader around there yard that had a good bit of sun fade and rust stains, decided I wanted one, dealer said ok we will order a new tractor in the crate, loader, and hoe..... ready for pickup in 3-4 weeks. he called me 2 weeks later and said its ready for pickup. left out after work on a Friday night a drove 8 hours back to Florida to pick up my new baby, Saturday morning go to get tractor and drop off check and low and behold they slapped the new hoe on the sun damaged unit with 12 hours on it..... I lost my manure big time!!!!! what made it worse was there was a brand new machine in the crate sitting in there shop that was dropped off that morning!! long story short I left Sunday morning headed north with a shiny new girl with .3 hours on the clock.