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Cub Cadet RZT 50 KW - 17Y12ACP010

1 source-linked failure report. Most reported: Fire / ignition. Typical failure around 5.9 yr.

Reliability signal — · Insufficient data · data confidence Very Low

1 confirmed failure reports

Reliability summary

What is likely to go wrong, when it happens, and how expensive it can be — from source-linked failure reports. Counts are reports in our database, not a population failure rate.

Reliability signal

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1 confirmed failure report · Insufficient data · Data confidence: Very Low

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Most common issue
Fire / ignition
Typical first failure
5.9 yr
Median of confirmed reports with timing
Median repair cost
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What breaks?

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  • Fire / ignition1 · 100%

When does it break?

Failure timing

Months after purchase, using reports that included timing.

What does it cost?

Reported repair costs

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Median months to failure

71

Failure reports

1

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What breaks?

What breaks? · reports

Fire / ignition

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71 months

Government / agencyIndexed Oct 16, 2026Source-linkedVerify source — SaferProducts.gov incident

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20180607-9C0BD-1766917. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Cub Cadet RZT 50 KW - 17Y12ACP010 (Cub Cadet Zero-turn Mower RZT 50 KW). Incident: It�s a beautiful Sunday Morning at our new home my wife says she�s going to cut grass we�ve had this mower a 50 inch deck ZeroTurn Mower cub cadet RZT 50 EW I just want to say before I go into detail that the beautiful Sunday morning on 20 May 2018 could have been one of the worst days of my life I could have lost my wife, because of this very unusual problem with thismower all I can do is thank God she is still alive, and for the two men that came over to go fishing that jerked her off the seat to get her out of harms way before the tractor at any moment could have exploded. And since this is consumer reports I would like to let you know that before I spoke with anyone about this I thought I would speak to the company in town here that I bought the mower form but they were very snotty towards me, they were very unfriendly to me I spoke with a [REDACTED] something or another I�m not sure of his name I think he is one of the owners of my place of purchase �Clermont County Equipment�They are in Milford that�s their main store and they have a Nother store in Amelia Ohio outside of Cincinnati Ohio it was not a good talk he acted like I was a total idiot just trying to get something for nothing! I was brought up a lot better than that I�m 67 years old a Veteran of the Vietnam war a Father and Husband Of 35 years we have raised 2 beautiful Daughters that are both respected and successful I love my God my Lord Jesus Christ my family and my Country and can say I have never cheated anyone!! I�m not the smartest guy in the world but I�ve been around motors cars and Race Cars stock ca

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Months until failure

71 months

Repair cost

Not stated

Repaired

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Manufacturer warranty

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Extended warranty

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Support helpful

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Would recommend

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AI extraction confidence

88%

Verification status

Unverified

Evidence quality

★★★★☆ (4/5)

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