Buying Another Scooter  By  burnrubber (Read 2,258 times)

No offence taken. You were contemplating buying a tao tao powermax 150. I have two of them and figured I would give some input from my experience. My mistake, the second poster put the place where I bought mine. The problems I posted above were only Some of the little "issues" I have had. I have had a stator burn up and leave me sitting. I have had wires on the cdi come loose and prevent spark and leave me sitting (super pain to find cause when I tested both connectors with multi meter it read fine, it was the actual connector that was poop) both of them had the muffler brackets break while riding and required fixing. My first one came with a defective valve cover. I would ride for 5 min and be leaking oil everywhere. I tried many times with new gaskets, gasket makers RTV etc. I gave up and bought a new valve cover on ebay just to try and that was the cure. I now have 10 extra gaskets I bought from aliexpress as I had to buy bulk. Lol. The dang thing is like an airplane and requires MX every time you park it! If you don’t enjoy turning wrenches I wouldn’t recommend one especially if its one of your major forms of transportation. Buy a Taiwanese or Japanese scoot if you want reliability. I have a 75 Cb500 and a 2005 vstar 1100 I take if I don’t want the chance of breaking down to be part of the adventure, And that’s something I honestly enjoy! When Im riding one of these tings I feel like how a turn of the century motorcyclist must have felt, it’s a gas to ride when its running but its almost as much fun getting them to go as it is to ride.