TechI fixed a tractor using John Deere’s self-repair service. Farmers aren’t sold on it.

A disconnected water-in-fuel sensor triggered an alert on a John Deere 5130ML tractor. At the company’s Santa Clara office, a laptop-connected service pulled up serial-number-matched manual instructions and images, allowing a non-mechanic to repair it.

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