The statement about the 1600 serie's having the hour meter's that could have possibly been CHANGED is a good one. There was a lot of these model's imported over here to Australia that only had the low hours tag put on them, around the 500 to 600 hour's, and they had the wear on the feeder house of what looked more in the line of 1500 hour's.Although some had the wear covered up with a bit of good welding and some ordinary paint job!!. The importer said that these machine's had all come from where the Custom Cutter's have abrasive soil's in their crop's. I guess the purchaser of these machine's would have to make his or her own judgement of which was the truth. This was not only CIH machines, the other makes all had low hour's as well, guess some of you fellow's over there,do turn your machine's around with low hour's but surley not all of you do.And also our taxe's over here are around the