Benefits of Test Driving a Mower, Utility Vehicle, and Compact Tractor

Shopping for residential vehicles, like lawnmowers, UTVs, or compact tractors, can be challenging. It might be difficult to determine how much horsepower you need, what features are necessities, and what operating style is best for your needs. Our team at Castongia Tractor can help you navigate your buying journey to find the mower, utility vehicle, or compact tractor you need to get the job done. It’s never been easier to get in the seat!

Test Driving a Mower

Maybe you’ve just purchased a house with a beautiful backyard or you’re finally tired of push-mowing your grass and you’re thinking about upgrading to a lawn mower with more comfortability and features. You head to Google to look at the latest options and quickly realize there are a lot more styles and sizes to choose from than you expected! You spend hours looking at different models and memorizing the differences between mower styles only to be left wondering how those mowers would work and feel in your landscape. 

Scenarios like these happen all spring and summer and buyers eventually decide on a mower because they’re tired of staring at their screens. Yet after they make a decision, they get their mower and realize it’s not that easy to operate! A test drive could avoid this discovery altogether. 

When you test drive a mower, you want to pay attention to the ease of operation, the comfort, the noise, and overall performance. Having the opportunity to get in the seat of different lawnmowers will help you imagine what it’ll be like to use that mower in your backyard!

Take the opportunity to explore different mower styles, like riding mowers and zero-turn mowers, to experience the differing controls and configurations.

Test Driving a UTV

The John Deere® Gator is popular, but many people have never driven one! There are unexpected features of these awesome utility vehicles that new drivers may be unfamiliar with if they haven’t had the opportunity to test drive a Gator first. 

Newer models have safety features that can alter your driving experience, like a speed limiter if your belt buckle isn’t clipped in. The transmission is also a little different than one might expect! It’s not entirely comparable to driving a car, but if you’ve never operated one, that’s exactly what you’d expect. 

It’s beneficial to test drive a Gator before you buy to determine what features are essential for your experience. Do you prefer an enclosed cab or the wind in your hair? How much towing capacity makes sense and do you need a hydraulic lift bed? These questions might be easier to answer once you’ve been behind the wheel. 

Test Driving a Compact Tractor 

Now, when we talk about test-driving a compact tractor, it’s a little different. If you’ve never operated a tractor of any size, jumping into the seat of a compact tractor might feel a little intimidating. However, when you utilize a local dealer like Castongia Tractor, you’ll have the advantage of working with a trusted team member for a walkthrough. 

You can learn how to mow, use a loader, a backhoe, and other attachments along with the basic operations of the tractor. Testing it out will let you determine if a tool like that would be practical for your property and if you’d use certain attachments more than others. It would also indicate whether or not you’d need to upgrade from a lawnmower to a compact tractor!

There are many benefits of test-driving different residential vehicles before you commit to the purchase. You can learn about different features, operating styles, and safety. You can always ask our team to test drive a unit and we'd be happy to schedule a demo and walk you through the operating features of the machine. Visit us at any of our five Northwest Indiana locations: Crown Point, DeMotte, Fowler, Rensselaer, or Valparaiso.