Post by rakk on Jun 13, 2014 19:29:37 GMT -5
Hey all, this seems a good place for advice, maybe someone knows what's up with this thing.
Got a Taotao Motors Sports 150 back in the fall, and only recently been taking it out to drive now that the weather permits - It only has 91 miles on it, but the turn signals have stopped working. Still got horn, still got headlights (high and lows,) still have brake lights, but the turn signals are a no-go on the dash and the lights. We checked a few things to start off with - Fuses and battery seem alright (if it were either, I'd think more than just the turn signals would not work?), and the spot where we believe the spark plug is is okay as well. We decided to get into the front of it and check on wiring there; the front shielding with the headlights (I'm not mechanically inclined, as these clever titles for parts suggests!) came off easy, but trying to get the front cover off the steering part has proven extremely difficult. After removing all the screws and trying to separate the front from the dash, it's proven extremely resistant - Taking as much a look as we can inside after separating it from the steering column, it looks like it's actually screwed together on the interior at at least two points that we can see (we think it's three since it's one in the center and one on the right-hand side, it makes sense it'd have one on the right too), and there's no way that we can think of to get the screws out, least of all BACK in after getting them out, without potentially breaking something.
Looking over the web, it doesn't seem like there's ANYTHING on this particular scooter, at least that we can find, and the fairly flimsy manual is no real help. Is there some specialized screwdriver needed to get inside this thing, or is the resistance we feel trying to take the front half of the steering block off of the back just normal and it only FEELS like it's screwed in, or what? It just seems that it's a LOT of difficulty for getting in there - I can't imagine what it'd be like just to change one of the turn signal lights, to say nothing of just checking and making sure everything in there is okay. Any help would be appreciated!
For reference sake, here's the vehicle in question.
ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Km%2BR5CHWL.jpg
Got a Taotao Motors Sports 150 back in the fall, and only recently been taking it out to drive now that the weather permits - It only has 91 miles on it, but the turn signals have stopped working. Still got horn, still got headlights (high and lows,) still have brake lights, but the turn signals are a no-go on the dash and the lights. We checked a few things to start off with - Fuses and battery seem alright (if it were either, I'd think more than just the turn signals would not work?), and the spot where we believe the spark plug is is okay as well. We decided to get into the front of it and check on wiring there; the front shielding with the headlights (I'm not mechanically inclined, as these clever titles for parts suggests!) came off easy, but trying to get the front cover off the steering part has proven extremely difficult. After removing all the screws and trying to separate the front from the dash, it's proven extremely resistant - Taking as much a look as we can inside after separating it from the steering column, it looks like it's actually screwed together on the interior at at least two points that we can see (we think it's three since it's one in the center and one on the right-hand side, it makes sense it'd have one on the right too), and there's no way that we can think of to get the screws out, least of all BACK in after getting them out, without potentially breaking something.
Looking over the web, it doesn't seem like there's ANYTHING on this particular scooter, at least that we can find, and the fairly flimsy manual is no real help. Is there some specialized screwdriver needed to get inside this thing, or is the resistance we feel trying to take the front half of the steering block off of the back just normal and it only FEELS like it's screwed in, or what? It just seems that it's a LOT of difficulty for getting in there - I can't imagine what it'd be like just to change one of the turn signal lights, to say nothing of just checking and making sure everything in there is okay. Any help would be appreciated!
For reference sake, here's the vehicle in question.
ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Km%2BR5CHWL.jpg
..BAD TO THE BONE..
It's a little recess, so it's hard to tell if one's in there or not without being right at it, but, yeah, they're out; we scoured the whole thing for any out-facing screws we could remove, got them all out.
