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I'm looking for a clean Kymco People GTi 200. It has to be that exact make and model.
If you have one for sale, or know of one for sale, please send me a message.

I wasn't thinking about hand guards being stock on the People S 150i. In the pics on the Kymco web site they are clear so easy for some of us older eyes to see.
But since that scooter should have the hand guards as stock it is your dealers responsibility to provide them with the scooter.

From the Kymco USA website- *Note: MSRP does not reflect destination or other dealer vehicle preparation charges. KYMCO USA makes every effort to present the most current specifications and model features. Equipment, colors, availability and specifications may change without notice or obligation. Some models are shown with optional equipment.

If you look at photos of used 2022 models for sale, they don't seem to have the handguards. It may be optional, or they may have put them in some crates, but not others. Who knows. Clear handguards aren't that common.

You can buy a Kymco factory quality starter motor made for the Like 200 from one of the top Italian scooter parts companies (RMS 246390140) for $40, bolt it in and call it a day,  or you can buy the cheapest Chinese factory second POS starter motor you can find on Amazon that doesn't quite fit, take it apart and put it in the old starter case, and save $20.
Tough decision.

Instead of finding someone on the internet who agrees with someone else on the internet, and may or may not be right, why don't you look in the Owner's Manual for the Downtown 300? Kymco probably knows what sort of coolant is best for your scooter. It's probably Pink.

I don't see the point of buying the cheapest part you can find, then taking it apart so  you can make it work. You can buy a high quality starter motor for about $40 and be done with it.

What else did you replace when you put in the new belt? Usually problems like this are from the installation. A new belt won't do what you describe.

Wouldn't surprise me if they aren't all made in China....
Stig

They aren't. And the OEM belts are made by Bando. The cheap belts people keep buying and snapping that say Bando aren't Bando belts.

When I installed Dr. Pulley sliders on my Like I went 1gm lighter than the stock rollers and got better acceleration and top speed. The sliders ride higher in the variator ramps due to their shape so the belt rides higher as well.

No, they don't. And getting the belt as high as you can in the variator is not how you get the best speed or performance out of a scooter. That's your typical Youtube scooter guru tuning tip, like telling someone to use a sharpie on their variator and see how high the belt is going. Because it sounds good if you don't know anything about what's supposed to happen in a variator. What you want to do is find a roller weight, and not a slider, that allows the bike to stay in the powerband, not just under it like typical Honda/Kymco roller weight setups, and not blasting through it to the rev limiter, which happens when you use rollers that are too light, and carry the belt all the way out as the bike accelerates. Dr. Pulley sliders do well in markets where people know absolutely nothing about tuning transmissions, but aren't well regarded in Europe or by people who know about tuning scooter transmissions. The concept has been around a lot longer than Dr Pulley, and if it was better than rollers, and did what people claim, every OEM would have adopted them by now. Piaggio did, for about six months in their 850 scooter. It was a disaster. One thing their ability to last a long time does is wear variators out prematurely.  If the idea is to make a roller that doesn't wear out, why not make them out of steel? Because if the roller/slider isn't wearing, what do you think is?
If you want to learn how this stuff really works, get a good performance variator, a few sets of weights, and a couple of different contra springs and figure out how they work together, and what the best combination is for your particular riding situation. And if you take advise from someone who tells you to use two different weights in the variator, or remove half the weights, you are taking advice from someone who learned everything they know about scooter tuning on youtube or internet forums and not by putting the work in.