I can vouch for SunL. Crap equipment, crappy company to deal with. Pure incompetence. Stay away from those people. Fortunately many pieces that fit a SunL scoot can be purchased under another label. My son has had one for 1 ½ years now. The replacement list is like the Eveready bunny. It keeps Growing and going and going and going. But we have become good at diagnostics and repair. Most times we get it going in a day or two. We just replaced the lower head bearing on the steerer tube. NOBODY had one. Matched it with a Timken and should last forever now. Complete exhaust from a Baccia (Sp?). All this and still rides almost every day. Oh yeah, the original light system was crap. Replaced the harness and light sockets with updated version and can actually find light bulbs now. It was impossible before with the original harness.
I am not so sure you get that much better quality on any scooter from China. There are plenty of forums and discussion groups on the internet. Most folks realize they are going to get greasy and put up with the work to keep them going. As far as gas savings, they are great. My son gets 80 mpg. He went from about 80 bucks a week in a Dodge V8 truck to $5 a week on the scooter. It doesn’t take too long to pay for itself and the inevitable replacement parts.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:39 PM
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ChineseScooters] Re: Chinese or Taiwanese scooter recommendations.
As far as infamously bad, I would put SunL and Tank on my list. I
previously owned a Diamo Tracer (2005). It performed well for the
first year, and then all the replacement parts started being
changed. Top on the list of crap was the plastics. The body
(painted parts) held up okay, but the black plastic covers started
to become brittle and break very easily. My dealer couldn\'t get
them,
I sold it in June of this year, just in time for the starter to go
out on the new owner 1 week later.
I have a 1985 Honda Aero 80 which still starts up and runs well. It
needs new brakes, and my Honda dealer actually has the parts for $6
per wheel. Pretty good.
I think if you did a poll, most people had good luck from new
through a couple of years. It\'s after the parts start to dry out
and crack that we became bitter with Chinese scooters.
Before you lay down hard earned cash for one of these things,
consider why you want it. Is it to save gas? Even at $1500, it
takes a lot of miles to make up the difference in gas savings. I
never broke even, but my loss was covered by those gas savings.
Also - try and get your hands on a factory service manual. If they
don\'t have one, it\'s considered a throw-away and you should move on,
IMHO.
TJD
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