I Need Chinese Scooter Parts, Help! Five Options to Get the Parts You Need Quickly

With the onslaught of imported Chinese Scooters over the past few years, many of us are finding we need repair parts. For some, we can find a local Scooter shop, but for others, it seems near impossible. Even if we find a local scooter repair shop, some specialize in European Brands and don't work on Chinese Scooters (aka Mopeds), and if they do, they may not carry the parts we need for our brand.

Here is one of the easiest secrets to learn more about our scooters. Chinese Brand Scooters come to America under many names, and even worse, many of us buy a Scooter, and 2 minutes later, can't even tell our neighbor the make or model we just bought.

Here is the best way to figure out who is the manufacturer, and that is to find the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number), aka the serial number of the Scooter. For most Scooters, it is on the middle shaft of the front of the bike. There is a 1 inch by 5 inch plastic cover. Use a screw driver and pop the plastic off to reveal the VIN. Now look at the first 2 letters. Those letters tell you the name of the manufacturer, followed by other numbers which will tell the model number and the engine size. That is all we need. If you are unable to find your serial numbers, you can lay down on the ground and look up into the scooter from underneath.

Scooters also have the VIN somewhere else on the body frame. This is harder to find, but it is another option. If you go to your local Scooter Shop or search online for parts, tell them your VIN number so they can make sure they are getting you the correct scooter parts; then there will be no mistake as to the correct parts to order.

A third option is to pull out your registration. That will have the VIN number as well. It should also state the Manufacturer and Model. I don't like mentioning this option up front, as I have seen Registrations from many States, and the DMV makes huge mistakes. I find misspellings of makers and models on over half of the registrations I see. In my State, they have a maker spelled 3 different ways. Hence the VIN is the best way to get the correct parts.

Option number four is to take photos’ of the parts we need. Then we can email them to the supplier to double check we are getting the right parts. Anytime people call us to order parts and seem unsure of their make and model, I always have them send me a picture, and then I can ship them the right parts.

If they do not have a camera, a fifth way is I have them copy and email me a picture of their registration. Now I am clear with the VIN what scooter or moped they have. If you will follow these steps, it helps those of us in the parts business identify the correct parts and saves everyone time, effort and money.

Mark Kemp is the Parts Manager for ScooterStock 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

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The Ninja Secret for Chinese Scooters - "High Performance Upgrade in a Bag"

Your Scooter runs like crap, has no power and is very sluggish – you know it and I know it, so let’s fix it!
The main stay of our scooter business is repairs and high-performance-upgrades (HPU). Everyone wants a scooter with some zip, pizzazz, and some get-up-and-go. All of us hate how slow our scooters go and wish there was a solution. The good news is… there is.

If you own a Chinese scooter, I for one, am a fan. They make a great engine and a great transmission. The bummer part is many of the other components are low quality and cause most of the problems. So at our shop, we simply replace the cheap parts with American parts, and poof, we have a top grade, fast scooter (fast enough to get speeding tickets – just don’t ask). I own the fastest street-legal scooter in my town, and here is the step-by-step how you can have the fastest scooter in your town. Here are the parts we replace when people bring their scooter into our shop and ask for a High Performance Upgrade:

• Air Intake System – We completely remove the entire air intake system and we simply replace it with a UNI Racing air filter. We aren’t trying to turn our scooters into racing bikes, we are just giving them the air they want to run at their best.
• Spark Plug – We replace that cheap Chinese 49 cent Spark Plug with a high performance NKG Spark Plug. O yeah; now we are talking some power. You’ll get more power off the line.
• CDI – The CDI in our Scooters is the brain, it also has the Governor in it. We replace the CDI (yes I realize yours is working fine) with a No-limit CDI. This will get you 3-10 MPH faster.
• Engine Oil – We get rid of that oil that came with the Scooter from China. It’s not good quality oil. We change that out immediately with a top grade American Oil.
• Transmission Oil – These scooters use ‘gear oil’, not transmission oil – but it’s the same story. We replace this oil so now our machine is full of American made quality products.
• Fuel Lines – These are one of the key ingredients. The Fuel Lines that come on these scooters are low quality. They collapse very easily when any stress is put on them. We replace all the fuel lines with 3/16th ID (interior diameter) American Made hose. Even the Hulk can’t collapse these hoses.
• Air Lines – We use the same hose type to replace all the air lines to/from the carb and engine. These can also collapse and ruin your top-end speed.If your scooter chokes out near top speed, this is why.

That’s it. Find those parts and replace them and you’ll have the fastest scooter in town. If you need help finding the parts for your scooter, call us and we have a "High Performance Upgrade Kit" for only $97 for all the parts. Turn your scooter into a monster. You’ll have more power, higher MPG, higher MPH and it will run smoother and cleaner. You’ll be able to beat cars off the line at stop lights, no one will be honking at you anymore, and you will once again, fall in love with your scooter and remember all the reasons you bought it.

Mark Kemp is the Parts Manager for ScooterStock 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,

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Fuse Problems & Solutions for Chinese / Korean / Taiwan Gas Motor Scooters

Many of us have scooter that have starting or stalling-out problems. For some of us, it’s the whole fuse setup that is causing our problems, and here are the top 3 solutions.

There is a small fuse box next to the battery on the main red battery cable. There is a fuse inside that white plastic housing. It also has an extra replacement fuse in most of these scooters. This is one of the least expensive gas scooter parts.

When our scooters don’t start or start to stall on us, we check the fuse first in our repair shop; so I suggest everyone try that step as well. I have had a few cases that the fuse looks fine, but we replaced it anyways with the extra fuse, and the scooter started right up. First of all, realize that might be one solution; but here is another unknown problem and solution we might not know that is happening at the same time:

We’ve replaced the fuse and the scooter starts up, so we think we solved the problem, when actually we didn’t. What we didn’t know is that the fuse that was already in there, was working just fine. The new fuse worked because we worked with the fuse holder replacing the fuse, not realizing the problem was the fuse holder. By simply playing with it, it made contact again and the scooter started. Sometimes these plastic cases melt and can cause a short.

The fuse box connectors in these scooters are very cheap. I recommend replacing the holder unit with a more heavy duty unit if you suspect anything, including the connectors. This is a very faulty gas scooter part and is easily replaced with a higher quality unit we can count on to work and not short out.

Mark Kemp is the Chinese Scooter Parts Manager at Scooter Stock L.L.C. and the Service manager at our local repair shop at EnduranceScooters.com L.L.C., located in Orem Utah. He is our resident expert on Chinese Gas Motor Scooter Parts.

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Struggling Getting Your Chinese Scooter Parts From Manufacturers?

When it comes to parts and accessories for scooters, people will always trust established names in the industry such as Vespa, Yamaha and Honda. If you have a tight budget, Chinese scooters can be an excellent alternative. However, one of the major issues that will confront you is accessibility to spare parts as well as services. Fortunately, this issue has been resolved recently with the immense improvement in Chinese scooter parts.

Some Chinese scooter suppliers have shown inconsistencies with the selection of their parts. Within the same model, the accessibility of Chinese scooter parts can still vary. Even if you provide the model and year, you may still end up getting a different product. To remedy this, it would be helpful to provide digital pictures of the part you are requesting online.

The problem with some Chinese scooter parts is that they do not carry the products they are selling. Their website is, however, designed to facilitate the search for parts for your Chinese scooter. You can even get in touch with the company if the part you are looking for is not among those in the pictures available in the website. As Chinese scooters share similar parts, determining the parts for your scooter will be much easier.

Most of the Chinese, Korean and Taiwan scooter manufacturers don’t sell parts to the public, they only sell to resellers who buy in huge bulk purchases, like www.scooterstock.com. For most of us, simply buying from a reseller is the fastest way to get the parts we need. An extra advantage of using a reseller like scooterstock, is they offer a free online chat to discuss what parts(s) you need, making sure you’ve ordered the correct parts.

Mark Kemp is the Parts Manager for http://www.scooterstock.com 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.

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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.

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Do you have Brand New Scooter Problems? - What They Don't Tell Us When We Buy a New Scooter!

It lost its zip, it's making funny noises, it doesn't have much power, it doesn't start easy, it just doesn't seem to be the same anymore. We all scratch our head and wonder, "What happened to my great little scooter and why is it falling apart already?"

It's because when we bought the scooter, no one told us the truths about these scooters, and what we need to do to still feel like we made a good purchase and enjoy this wonderful machine.

Here is what no one tells us:

• These scooters did not come with the best oil from the factory.
• The Spark Plug they put in at the factory costs .49 cents and is low quality.
• The air intake system is too much for a one spark plug engine.
• The brakes need to be adjusted within sixty days as we break-in our new scooter.
• Replace these Chinese Scooter Parts and we’ll be good as gold.

Here is what the scooter shops should have recommended to you:

• Replace the engine oil within 300-500 miles (then every 2000 miles is fine).
• Replace the Spark Plug before you drive it home in the first place with an NGK High Performance Spark Plug.
• Take off the whole air-intake system and replace it with a UNI racing Air Filter.
• Adjust the brakes at thirty and sixty days.

These are very easy steps for anyone to do, and once completed, they solve 90% of the basic concerns/problems new scooters might have.

If you are intimidated in the least bit by completing these tasks, hire your local repair shop to do them. If you haven't purchased a scooter yet, require the Company that is selling you the scooter to provide these services as part of the purchase. All of these tasks should take less than one hour and the costs should be less than $50 to $100. Then you'll have a scooter that will last 2000 miles before needing any other service, you won't have buyer's remorse, and you'll enjoy your purchase and the open road with a smile on your face, all the while getting almost 100 miles per gallon.

Happy Riding,

Mark Kemp is the Parts Manager of www.scooterstock.com and the Service manager at our local repair shop at www.endurancescooters.com, located in Orem Utah. He is our resident expert on Chinese Gas Motor Scooter Parts.

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Lessons learned when my son talked me into buying him a chinese scooter parts

This last Christmas, my 16 year old son begged me for a motor scooter. I believe he began pleading more than two months in advance. He had just gotten his license, so I asked him why in the world he wanted a scooter. He was quick to explain that it was not the same kind of scooter I had when I was a kid. The more he told me of the scooter, the more I began to cave in despite all my efforts.
“It is much safer than a motorcycle!” This was my son’s first attempt. That did ease my fears a bit. He must have sensed it on my face too, so he pressed on. “I’ll always wear a helmet and follow all the rules. Promise.” That’s when I gave him my best parental “Yeah right” look.
He tried a different angle. “I’ll stop asking for gas money because it gets 80 to 100 miles to the gallon!” He said this with an enthusiasm I have never heard from him before. Though I resisted it, my spirits lifted at that thought. That kid spends more gas money than me and my wife combined. Then that brought up the issue of money.
“How much is it?” I asked.
“Less than a car.” He countered with a grin. He got me there. We took a trip to Endurance Scooters in Orem and found the make and model that we could both agree on and my son picked out his favorite color. The salesman gave him a quick lesson and a short lecture just before setting him loose in the parking lot to test drive it. Even though my son assured me he was an excellent driver, I couldn’t help but hold my breath as I watched. I at least wanted it to stay nice until Christmas morning.

This is a nice story, but what did I learn?
The big surprise was how much more time my wife and I had for other things, instead of running errands for our 16 year old boy, like driving him to soccer practice, the school, or church, he did that himself.

We saved over $100 in gas money every month.

The scooter is fun to ride, even I found reasons for taking the scooter out, instead of taking the car.

Maintaining a scooter is simple, change the oil every 1500 miles (less than a quart) and run premium gas. I also, did a couple of extras on the scooter like replacing the spark plug with an NGK spark plug and replacing the air filter with a racing UNI filter.

Last week a friend of mine asked about how my “Scooter Saga” worked out and if I would do it again, “You bet!” I replied, “In fact I did, now I own the newest scooter on the block.”


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