Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

Hey guys..
This may or may not be news too anyone....but Briggs will now be supplying Toro with 2-cycle engines for thier snowblowers.
Whether these engines are just copies of the R-teks...I dont know.
Does Briggs have its own 2-cycles that they will use?..I dont know.
Does anybody care?...I dont know.  (Just dont turn me over too the OPE police!)
Please excuse the quality of the letter.....You guys make of it what you will.
Letter.

Sorry to hear of this situation lint.........................

As usual, win/win usually only makes for a good sound bite. Unfortunately, it seems in this day and age, for anyone to come up with a win, someone has to lose.
I think in this modern era, the win/win situations have been played out, due to heavy competition.  My guess is that with Briggs becoming even more of an 800lb gorilla, they too will change the landscape of OPE service, the way Wally world did to retail.

I feel for you dude...........hang in there.

Lint, I imagine most of them that have a Briggs on a Toro will go ahead and take it back to the Toro dealer anyway. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

I'm assuming that Briggs is now responsible for the warranty work on their motors for Toro, and thus lint will be paid the 39.00 rate, not the 55.00 rate?

I thought Briggs was assuming the warranty role for only the snow engine powered Toro products, or is it for all Briggs powered Toro?

I'm so confused....................