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Scooters - 50cc => People 50 => Topic started by: kcjoe on April 16, 2011, 06:08:09 PM
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2009 People 50 died at light and can't restart. Have replaced plug, filled with gas checked coil and auto bystarter for electrical ohms. What's next?
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did you check spark plug...does it have spark ?
Is the piston moving...up and down when you moving slowly kickstarter?
Is carb receiving fuel ?
What more symptoms are there, does starter working... if you kick kickstarter...what happens...
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To follow up with this story. After replacing coil, fuel pump/filter, gasoline, sparkplug and wire and cleaning carburetor, it still didn't start. It turned over and I couldn't keep my finger over the sparkplug hole when cranking, so assumed it had enough compression. The local scooter shop (only one who works on Kymcos) found it had a broken/burnt piston ring. I was a little dismayed since I had never run it out of oil and it has 6500 km on it. They finally told me it was covered under warranty, but that I had to pay for carburetor cleaning . I went ahead and paid it, but I know the carburetor was clean. Fatal heat damage after only 6500km is what really got me. They told me not to run it with throttle wide open. Is this normal? I always run with it wide open when I can. I weigh 175lbs. Am I being unreasonable?
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This does not sound normal to me. I have over 10,000 miles on my 09 People s200. I run her wide open all day. no problems. As the warranty was still good, this scooter must not be de-restricted. It is usually the de-restricted and / or tuned scooters that cook pistons. Good luck in the future and you might consider getting a larger People (I love the s200 as she feels light weight but has enough power to feel safe in traffic.)
-rob