An attractive price tag wooed our featured contracting business to try a Deutz Fahr 7250 TTV Warrior. After three years and over 3,450 hours how has it fared?
When it was first launched in 2011, Deutz Fahr’s 7250 took the company into a completely new market segment – the 250hp and stepless transmission bracket. Clearly designed to take on the likes of the Case IH Puma CVX and Fendt 828 Vario headon, the new Deutz model had a lot going for it aside from its Italian-esque hot-hatch styling. With a 6.1-litre Deutz engine, stepless ZF gearbox and a distinctive yet comfortable cab interior it gave the competition something to think about. In fact the combination of the lively power-plant and ZF’s S-matic transmission proved to be one of the most economical available as proved by our tractor tests – the 7250 TTV was rated as one of the most fuel efficient tractors in its power bracket in our 2015 DLG Powermix test.
Since its introduction it has undergone a number of revamps principally driven by emissions regs but also to fix various gremlins along the way. Predominantly these were electrical issues causing the tractor to throw
up various erroneous error codes and that’s mostly been solved with software upgrades. However, there have been other more major issues relating to brakes and air-conditioning – most of which have been resolved if not by SDF then by dealer workrounds.
To get a true perspective of how the 7250 performs we went to visit a ‘Warrior’-spec machine that is just entering its fourth season of service with a silage-focused contracting operation. The specific tractor in question is a 2015 machine that was preregistered as dealer stock and bought by our test crew in March 2017. Since then it has clocked some 3,450 hours, predominantly running a set of Krone triple-mowers, tugging a 16t Stewart trailer and pulling a Massey 2160 baler.
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