a 50cc scooter

Micky · 2015-12-07T08:32:35+00:00

A neighbor kid found a scooter, a mini-bike, in the woods. He called the police to report it, but and a patrol car came out soon after, but the cop said that since it didn't have a VIN, they weren't really interested, implied he could have it, and left without it. I offered to help him fix it up. Does anyone here have experience with a 50cc or so scooter? 1) Is the VIN under a panel somewhere? The bike is street-legal but without a VIN it will be harder to get plates. 2) Will it start without a battery? 3) How hard is it to remove the gas cap without a drill. (It's a locking gas cap, can you believe it?) 4) Where is the Engine Stop switch. 5) Do I want a lead acid battery or sealed lead acid? The latter is a gel, that doesn't have the output, right? 6) In what way does it have neutral gear? The owner's manual** or something refers to neutral gear, but there is no gear shift. Perhaps there is something internal that puts it in neutral when the engine is at idle. Get this: it has an automatic transmission. So, the instructions say to keep one's hand on the brake when starting it. Is that only because something not standard might make the engine race, which would put it in gear? **(The reapir manual is very good, but it's sort of a composite of past, present and future models. For example, the manual also refers in the schematic to an Emergency Stop Switch but in the sketch of where the parts are, there's no reference to such a switch, and all the switches are accounted for.)

Dec 07, 2015 29 Replies

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clare 10 years ago

The headlight switches USUALLY have on, off, and auto settings, except for some of the GM crap that doesn't give you a choice.

What is coming on when you start the car is the DRL. Auto headlights turn on full lights when it gets dark.

The second photocell on some cars auto-dims your high beams.

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Micky 10 years ago

I didn't reall do this, but I have fantasies of being Richard Diamond.

That would be better. This one only has on and auto.

But not in this 2000 Toyota Solara. For one thing, it faces up, not forward. I used to know what it was for, but I forget. And the owners manual is buried somewhere in my house.

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clare 10 years ago

Second one on the solara may be solar heat sensor for AC?

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Micky 10 years ago

Maybe. I should clean my house and let you know. Assuming it's in the manual. When I first got the car, I thought I read the manual, but I still had to ask several people, including a Toyota mechanic I know. But I don't think he knew either.

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Ed Pawlowski 10 years ago

Wish more cars had auto headlights. Too many idiots don't know when to turn them on and can barely be seen. They don't realize the lights are not just to see, but to be seen.

States may vary, but many require lights: When the wipers are on Half hour after sunrise Half hour before sunset.

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clare 10 years ago

Virtually all states have those requirements, as well as virtually all of Canada (and the rest of the "civilized world"

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Micky 10 years ago

Maryland didn't require the light on when the wipers were on, and I thought it was important.

Kept meaning to write my state reps.

Never did.

They introduced and passed it anyhow.

Then I found when there was enough light afaict and light rain, I often forgot.

That's the one good thing abou tthe Toyota, which I bought soon after.

Maryland din't have

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Harry K 10 years ago

On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 10:31:05 AM UTC-8, snipped-for-privacy@snyder.on.ca wro te:

I agree but I once had the ?pleasure? of riding with a taxi driver who thou gh it saved gas. From Ankara to Samsun Turkey in in the middle of the nigh t over poor roads with no lights except for when opposing traffic came by. Was on a change of station and airline "fly and die with THY" dumped us off in Ankara.

Harry K

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