Cub Cadet LTX1045 - I3WX91AT056

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20180611-88DB4-2147387416. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Cub Cadet LTX1045 - I3WX91AT056. Source model text: 13RX91AT056. Incident: Briefly drove lawnmower from barn and parked it on the grass. Returned 10 minutes later to find the front of the mower engulfed in flames

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20131124-20DA7-2147449636. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Cub Cadet LTX1045 - I3WX91AT056. Source model text: 13WX91AT056. Incident: I was on my cub cadet LTX1045 tractor mowing my lawn. About 10 minutes into the mow, I stopped to empty out my bagger. Upon returning to the tractor, I saw a fire under the hood of the tractor through the louvers. I opened up the hood and found the front portion of the engine on fire. I quickly ran to the house to get the garden hose. The size of the fire had increased in the minute it took to get the the hose over to the tractor. The fire was burning very close to plastic gas tank. I sprayed the hose on the fire for about 2- 3 minutes before I was able to extinguish the flames. All of the plastic component on the engine were in full flame and melting. The hood portion started to melt. all the electrical wires melted and bare metal was exposed. I was lucky that I had stopped to empty the bagger in a location where I could reach with a garden hose. If I was any further away, the whole tractor would have been burned to the ground and gas tank may have exploded. The tractor was less then 6 month old an only had 24 hours on the engine.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20160923-91FB9-2147413787. Matched catalog product: Cub Cadet LTX1045 - I3WX91AT056. Source model text: LTX1045. Incident: On 9/22/16 I was mowing my lawn on my Cub Cadet LTX1045. I parked it about 10 feet from my house and came inside. I got a phone call from my neighbor who told me to come outside because my tractor was on fire. When I got outside, the fire was about eight feet high and was fed by the gasoline. I melted the siding on my house to a height of about fifteen feet. The LTX1045 is a 2011 model and I see other mowers of MTD manufacture have had a gas leak problem.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20141128-95DBD-2147438463. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Cub Cadet LTX1045 - I3WX91AT056 (Cub Cadet LTX1045 46" 20hp Hydro riding lawn tractor. White and yellow color.). Incident: On Saturday 11/22/14, my 16 year old grandson was cutting our lawn and mulching up the last few leaves in the yard for the final time this season with our 2 year old Cub Cadet LTX1045 riding lawn tractor. He has used this lawn tractor for the past two years every week, so he is very familiar with how this mower operates. When he was done cutting the grass, he parked the lawn tractor by the rear door to the house, shut it off, and went inside. Within less than a minute he was in the kitchen and happened to look out the window and observed light smoke coming from the front of the lawn tractor. He immediately went outside, pulled out the hydrostatic bypass rod to put the lawn tractor in freewheel mode, and then pushed the mower approximately 50 feet away from the house while yelling to my wife (who was outside in the yard at the time) that the mower was on fire. He also opened the hood to see what was burning. He observed a very small fire from somewhere underneath the front of the engine with light smoke coming from it. The outside water was turned off for the winter, so my wife went inside and filled a pan of water, gave it to my grandson, and he threw it on the engine. It seemed to help a little, so they got more water and threw it on the engine. They then realized that the smoke was increasing and the small fire was not going out. My grandson ran across the street to where I was visiting and told me that the lawnmower was on fire. I went with him immediately, and as we approached my house I told my grandson where the fire extinguishers were in the house and said to go in t