Cub Cadet Lawn Tractor Cub Cadet Hydrostatic Lawn Tractor LTX 1045

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20220628-3E5BF-2147355337. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Cub Cadet Lawn Tractor Cub Cadet Hydrostatic Lawn Tractor LTX 1045. Source model text: LT1045. Incident: 2008 Cub Cadet LT1045 Lawn tractor burst into flames today and burned to a mere shell. ANYTHING that could have burned was consumed. This WAS a well cared for and maintained piece of equipment. No injuries occurred. The tractor was parked at the time. I has mowed for only about 30 minutes and then parked the tractor to go make a phone call. Returning about 60 minutes later.....poof.....I can send photos if needed.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20150713-24A90-2147430327. Matched catalog product: Cub Cadet Lawn Tractor Cub Cadet Hydrostatic Lawn Tractor LTX 1045. Source model text: LTX-1045(13AX91AT056). Incident: 2009 Cub Cadet LTX-1045 lawn tractor, 20 HP Kohler engine (SV600) caught fire and mower was destroyed. Fire broke out after I put mower in shed after mowing. Smelled burning plastic, rushed to shed and pulled mower out, extinguished fire. No personal injury, no structural damage to shed (which is attached to garage which is attached to house). Smoke damage to shed.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20181001-456BB-2147385252. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Cub Cadet Lawn Tractor Cub Cadet Hydrostatic Lawn Tractor LTX 1045. Source model text: Cub LTX 1050 50" 22 V Hydro. Incident: I just got finished with my weekly mowing my acre of property. Turned mower off and lifted hood to cool off as I always do before putting it back in the garage. I left it sitting in the driveway and decided to finish edging with the weed eater and blow off clippings with the blower. When I was all done with that I decided to take the riding mower again across my back yard with the deck in the highest position to "sweep" the clippings left from mowing earlier, down to back of my property to make the yard look nicer, instead of leaving rows of cut grass. This is typically what I do since I like the lawn to look 'clean' when I am finished. I got about 3/4 of the way done 'sweeping' the clippings and started to smell something burning. Thought is was a neighbor burning stuff. Then I noticed smoke out the the right side of the engine and then sudden a lot of smoke. Suddenly the mower quit running and stopped. The smoke increased rapidly. I get scared and jumped off. I walked away from it a few yards and when I turned around there were flames under the engine. By the time ran to get the hose pulled out and to where the mower was it was totally engulfed into an inferno.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20141123-5F2D1-2147438584. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Cub Cadet Lawn Tractor Cub Cadet Hydrostatic Lawn Tractor LTX 1045. Source model text: 13WX91AT056 LTX1045. Incident: I had been mowing the yard for approximately 1 1/2 hours when I stopped to blow off the driveway. After blowing off the drive I returned approximately 15 minutes later to find the mower on fire. Flames had already thru the hood and were reaching 6 feet in height. I grabbed a fire extinguisher and put the fire out. The front and top of the motor was where the fire started. All the plastic on the top of the motor and the hood and the wiring were melted.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20150507-3EE2D-2147433144. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Cub Cadet Lawn Tractor Cub Cadet Hydrostatic Lawn Tractor LTX 1045. Source model text: Cub Cadet SLTX 1054. Incident: I bought a Cub Cadet SLTX 1054 lawn tractor from Home Depot in May of 2010, all was well until last year, after my son stopped cutting grass because it was getting dark he parked the tractor in our barn and the next morning when he went out to finish cutting there was a pool of oil and gas under the tractor. We called a repair shop and they picked up the tractor and had to replace the carburetor because something had broken inside allowing fuel to leak into the engine crankcase. Now one year later we are having the same issue, fuel leaking into a hot engine crankcase seems like a serious safety issue to me on a product that is not very old?

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20230722-264D8-2147346279. Severity: Injury, No First Aid or Medical Attention Received. Matched catalog product: Cub Cadet Lawn Tractor Cub Cadet Hydrostatic Lawn Tractor LTX 1045. Source model text: 2019 Cub Cadet XT3 Garden Tractor ( GSX ). Incident: I was mowing my lawn and the machine just shut down, no noise or anything like shutting off a light switch .I paused for a moment and turned the key to restart and the garden tractor exploded into flames. Called the fire department.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20150718-0C742-2147430170. Severity: Injury, No First Aid or Medical Attention Received. Product: Cub Cadet Lawn Tractor Cub Cadet Hydrostatic Lawn Tractor LTX 1045. Incident: Before staring my tractor I opened up the air cleaner and checked under the hood for any nests or any other foreign material. My Cub Cadet Lawn Tractor model LTX 1045 was purchased new in 2009' I was running the tractor when I smelled and saw black and white oily smoke coming from the left front in the area of the carburetor. Next I saw burst of flame. I stopped the tractor and lifted the hood. Fire burst around the plastic air cleaner assembly on the carburetor. Everything was starting to melt so I moved a safe distance away in case of an explosion as the gas began feeding the flames through a melted hose. Soon the entire tractor was engulfed in flames and burned to the ground. I live in a rural area and did not have a cell phone with me so no help arrived.