You may want to take a closer look at the transmission used in the lower end x3 series. Same crap k46 as the big box models. So your blanket statement isn’t correct at all.
I talked to several John Deere dealers and they all said they're all the same mowers, no difference between the mowers sold at Home Depot and John Deere dealers.
Then they were either lying or omitting key information. The D105 I was working on yesterday (bought at a big box store) has a Briggs and Stratton engine and very cheap parts-including the plastic transaxle/transmission. That's not a typo either-I really do mean it has a PLASTIC tranny. If you go to a dealer, you get an S240, which looks almost identical BUT it has a proper metal hydrostatic trans and Kawasaki engine and more robust components all around.
@@williammcleod7585 so what? the D105 will have a plastic transmission whether it was bought at a store or at a John Deere dealer. I don't know why you would compare it to the S240. They're totally different models.
I just looked a licensed dealer's website, and indeed the D, E, and any other 100-Series model line isn't available there. And nothing other than those cheap models are available at a big box store. For your sake, I hope you haven't bought a John Deere from a big box store. That's exactly the kind of mistake I'm hoping to stop people from making with this video.
