Honda HRX needs tachometer adjustment from factory?

[pugaltitude]

What do you recommend then for around $600 ? Toro super recycler?

I would certainly look at Toro way before Honda.

We do different models and prices over here but 22" briggs 190 cc engine and rota stop is brilliant for the price.

I would also sell other product but not available over there.

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

What do you recommend then for around $600 ? Toro super recycler?

I still think you should get the Honda over the Toro. In my area more people have HRX's in our neighborhood than any other mower, and tons of lawn care businesses use the HRX as their push mower.

 

[GregGA]

I would certainly look at Toro way before Honda.

We do different models and prices over here but 22" briggs 190 cc engine and rota stop is brilliant for the price.

I would also sell other product but not available over there.

Oh my. Pug. In one post you state the most unreliable engines you service are "china junk or Honda". Then you recommend a Briggs made in China. What gives? Can the Chinese actually make a decent low technology engine?
You bet they can. Can the USA Honda plant build a decent engine? You bet they can.

I'll wager 95% of noncommercial OPE problems are owner ignorance or abuse. Be it Briggs or Honda.

Ok, I have the Honda Dealer directory for the UK pulled up. Please tell us your shop name so I can verify you are an approved Honda Service Station. It would make your statements more credible if you at least know how to service the product.

Cheers

 

[pmillen]

As soon as they compete with me as a dealer for service then I will compete with them for price.

PS HRX worst mower ever made :laughing:

(1) As I see it the big box stores don't keep it secret, they don't offer post-sale service. They'll either happily refund my purchase price (something that shops never do) or they'll advise me to take my warranty claims to the manufacturer. The manufacturer will tell me where to find local dealers (you) for service or warranty work. So you may not make the initial sale but you get the service revenue. So why don't you meet their price and get both?

(2) I have been using an HRX for about seven mows. Why is it the worst mower ever made? What should I be alerted to? What data do you have? What mower brands and models are you comparing it to when you say "HRX worst mower ever made." Ever made includes a lot of mowers.

 

[exotion]

(1) As I see it the big box stores don't keep it secret, they don't offer post-sale service. They'll either happily refund my purchase price (something that shops never do) or they'll advise me to take my warranty claims to the manufacturer. The manufacturer will tell me where to find local dealers (you) for service or warranty work. So you may not make the initial sale but you get the service revenue. So why don't you meet their price and get both?

(2) I have been using an HRX for about seven mows. Why is it the worst mower ever made? What should I be alerted to? What data do you have? What mower brands and models are you comparing it to when you say "HRX worst mower ever made." Ever made includes a lot of mowers.

Lol what about those 3hp briggs push mower mulcher only my sister has one of those this in my opinion is the worst mower ever made or maybe its most basic either way it sucks to use

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

(1) As I see it the big box stores don't keep it secret, they don't offer post-sale service. They'll either happily refund my purchase price (something that shops never do) or they'll advise me to take my warranty claims to the manufacturer. The manufacturer will tell me where to find local dealers (you) for service or warranty work. So you may not make the initial sale but you get the service revenue. So why don't you meet their price and get both?

(2) I have been using an HRX for about seven mows. Why is it the worst mower ever made? What should I be alerted to? What data do you have? What mower brands and models are you comparing it to when you say "HRX worst mower ever made." Ever made includes a lot of mowers.

IMO there is nothing you need to be alerted to. It is a great mower, just ask 99% of the people who bought it!

 

[pugaltitude]

Oh my. Pug. In one post you state the most unreliable engines you service are "china junk or Honda". Then you recommend a Briggs made in China. What gives? Can the Chinese actually make a decent low technology engine?
You bet they can. Can the USA Honda plant build a decent engine? You bet they can.

I'll wager 95% of noncommercial OPE problems are owner ignorance or abuse. Be it Briggs or Honda.

Ok, I have the Honda Dealer directory for the UK pulled up. Please tell us your shop name so I can verify you are an approved Honda Service Station. It would make your statements more credible if you at least know how to service the product.

Cheers

If i remember right the 650 series engine is produced in poplar bluff, missouri and not china. Briggs are trying to get out of china due to the way they treat people.

If its a genuine American/Japanese Honda then yes it is quality but as the HRX uses the GCV range which is a European design I just find them unreliable.

The chinese can produce plastics to a good standard but for them to produce an engine by themselves
it is usually poor quality.

But if a main engine manufacturer controls production in china then the quality is always high.

Wont see my business name on any dealer list but go on all Honda update seminars due to being a sub dealer for a distributer.

Also had the biggest european honda dealer where we are not long ago which closed down after being taken over by a big box store which then went bust.
So i see my fair share of Honda and when it comes to replacement, customers are advised on other better quality product

Only my opinion!

 

[pugaltitude]

(1) As I see it the big box stores don't keep it secret, they don't offer post-sale service. They'll either happily refund my purchase price (something that shops never do) or they'll advise me to take my warranty claims to the manufacturer. The manufacturer will tell me where to find local dealers (you) for service or warranty work. So you may not make the initial sale but you get the service revenue. So why don't you meet their price and get both?

(2) I have been using an HRX for about seven mows. Why is it the worst mower ever made? What should I be alerted to? What data do you have? What mower brands and models are you comparing it to when you say "HRX worst mower ever made." Ever made inthen i docludes a lot of mowers.

As a dealer and by law I dont have to let anybody in my front door if i dont want but as its business i do.

How much money do you think dealers make when selling product?
Considering we have to speak to the customer, maybe go out and look at their garden, give brochures, order the machine, PDI, sometimes deliver and show how to use the machine.
So the 20-30% that a dealer might get has gone on time and sometimes our pocket ie fuel.

So if a customer from a BBS comes in with a warranty or one of my own customer comes, I wonder which one would get priority???

Again I can only go by my own personel opinion and experience.
Gearboxes are poorly designed, wear out to quick. Autochoke is a problem. Why have it work on the inlet temp when it can fluctuate more the exhaust.
Wheels wear out, clutches get heavy and cables snap. Engines only designed for 250-300 hrs.
Like I say only my opinion

 

[pugaltitude]

Lol what about those 3hp briggs push mower mulcher only my sister has one of those this in my opinion is the worst mower ever made or maybe its most basic either way it sucks to use

Now is it the mower that is the problem or wrong engine on wrong application?

Briggs went through a bad period in the 80s where OEMs dictated what engine to use and not briggs due to price.

If its the little sprint engine then not bad engine considering it was 1st produced in 1955 and approx 160 million been made and just finally this year been put out of production.

 

[pugaltitude]

IMO there is nothing you need to be alerted to. It is a great mower, just ask 99% of the people who bought it!

Again its all down to personel preference.

I have a gillette razor which i thinks brilliant but should i try a wilkinson sword??
As long as the person that buys the product is happy it shouldnt matter what anybody else thinks!!!