Mission Impossible: Finding Chinese Scooter Parts For Our Scooters

Chinese scooters have become popular nowadays because they are less expensive than other established scooter brands such as Vespa, Yamaha and Honda. The only drawback in owning mopeds is the unavailability of Chinese scooter parts. In most cases, the components are located elsewhere and moving from one place to another just to have your scooter fixed can be more costly.

However, sourcing Chinese scooter parts is not as difficult as it may seem if you know where to look. The truth of the matter is that you do not have to go through the difficulty of searching for parts as long as you practice proper maintenance on your Scooter. This means changing oil regularly, allowing your scooter to warm up before riding, conditioning your engine, to name just a few. It will also help a lot if you have knowledge of basic troubleshooting.

For the more advanced problems, there are generic scooter repair books which explain how to repair most Chinese, Korean and Taiwan Scooters. You can also get great ‘free’ advice from parts warehouses like www.scooterstock.com. They have a chat for customer to chat with mechanics about fixing your own scooter. If it is the first time you are working on your scooter, it will seem intimidating, but after one or two basic repairs, you will see how quickly and easily these scooters are to fix.

Also check out some of the other articles on the site about how to fix your own scooter, common problems and their solutions, how to winterize your scooter, what parts are the most common breakdowns and how to fix them. It won’t take but a few DIY (do it yourself) scooter repairs, and you’ll feel like a champion scooter mechanic.

Mark Kemp is the Parts Manager for Scooter Parts in Orem, Utah. They specialize in Chinese Scooter Parts and High Performance Upgrades for most Chinese Brands. They have a Bounty- Hunter program; meaning they specialize in finding the hard-to-find parts, especially body parts for out-of-business Scooter Companies.