New Holland TV145

[rhoff]

Does anyone own one of these things?
We bought a new one in'08 and we have had
nothing but trouble ever since. Every o ring in the
hydraulics took turns blowing, loader locks up
intermittently for no reason,starter just packed it in
a couple of weeks ago, and the icing on the
cake,we get an oil leak in the back of the engine
and find out the crank shaft is broken after 1200
hours of yard work. are these tractors junk or did
we just get a dud?

[countryguy]

They are known to be a little "high maintenance" but I think you got stuck with a total dud. Never heard of one that bad yet.

[mbratrud]

We had a TV 140 avaeraged over $3000 a year in Repairs mostly to do with Hydraulics, and Wiring.

[sumdumguy]

My son has our 1975 Versatile 150, cost $10,000
in 1985, has 10,000 hrs running PTO at a seed
plant. Still used to blow snow and clean out yard.
Cost of repair over the years, about 32 cents a
year. Still warm her up, jump in and blow your
head off.

[ALLFARMER]

Way to much electronics put into equipment these
days. When I bought my D6D crawler the first
thing the construction company mechanics said
was at least it could be fixed. The new equipment
it's get on the phone and call out Finning. The
local sawmill bought a new Timberjack log loader
the thing sat for the first third of the winter until all
the electrical bugs were worked out. The 3 older
log loaders did the vast majority of the work.
Going to be allot more service trucks running
around!

[rhoff]

The ironic part is when we got it we were going to
trade off the well used 1982 '256 but we've kept it
and used it as much as the new one. The old one
is reliable and really low cost of ownership.

[ado089]

I think our 8970 is the only thing
keeping the price of oil over $90.
Terrible hydraulics, way too many steel
lines and sensors, but no major
mechanical issues.