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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fishfiles" data-source="post: 19100" data-attributes="member: 782"><p>Very expensive to keep running , I have figured you can put $10 per hour on the hour meter away to just pay for track replacement , the best thing if you have to have a T series is to buy new , get the extended warranty , keep it three years and dump it before it's out of warranty , and never , never buy a used T series machine unless you have a lot of money to spend or are extremly lucky , --------today I changed 2 bottom rollers @ 522.00 , 1 rear idler 620.00 and 1 sprocket( old style / short dish ) 670.00 on a T 200 , right @ $ 2,400 with tax just for the parts , never buy the after market stuff as far as hard metal goes as they don't last , the tracks will get you by but not as many hours as OEM -------- yesterday I found that my local dealer bought a set of front and rear idler and bottom roller for a t series from a after market guy here in the area and had sent them to Bobat to be disected , the factory said the metal parts were sent to a metologist and they found the material used to build them was far below the Bobcat / Berco standard , this is something I have already figured out the hard way</p></blockquote><p></p>