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I worked on bicycles as a child because buying new ones or paying shops to fix them was out of the question, and if you wanted to get out and do things, you needed a bike. I don't think we are born to do things, but our personalities and our opportunities guide us to things we can do. When you don't have the money to pay other people, you just do what you have to do. If I were you, I'd ask a friend with a trailer to take it to the shop for you. If I were your neighbor I wouldn't hesitate to help you out. 

The sides we take divide us from our faith

Cross out the eyes, Thursday


But I don't wanna live that way

Reading into every word you say

You said that you could let it go

Hot air for a cool breeze. Wish you were here.


Can't you see I'm easily bothered by persistance?

One step from lashing out at you

You want in to get under my skin and call yourself a friend

I blew the image up. His top set are even on both ends, but you can see in the fifth roller that it's just plastic hanging over the brass part. That leaves us with the likelihood that either his variator face was not square to the bushing, or his bushing was too big to start with. I had the same problem with a variator that flattened my weights and shredded my belt. 

Here, my dear Watson, are my observations. 
1) The top set of rollers. Two of the rollers look different from the other four. If they are, and they were lighter than the other four, they would have caused an imbalance in the lateral forces on the variator, pushing the heavy side of the variator toward the drive pulley harder than the other side, causing:

2) The serious deformation of the variator bushing shown in the picture here:
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This lateral wobbling, happening at 7500 or more times per minute may have slammed the variator into the rollers, making them flat in spots and ruining their ability to roll, and might have destroyed the variator guide bushings.

3) At this point, that variator, sitting on the flattened portions of the rollers, was allowed to go too far down, allowing the back plate to touch the variator, cutting into it as shown here:
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Changing the rollers did no good because the damage to the bushing was done.



4) The metal on the back plate is allowed to move back and forth because the guides are worn or even gone at this point. The back plate may have even been able to slide under the guide bushings. They slam into the variator over and over until they shear off the guides, resulting in this mess of mangled metal.

Lacking further information, I think the first set of rollers might have been the root cause of this damage. While there is also the possibility that your variator I.D. was not square with the drive face, the only indication of trouble I see in these pictures is the two "odd" weights in the first set. It could be that the plastic is just molded over them at the their edges or that we are looking at the "back" of them and they are not just simple cylinders, but my weights are all simple cylinders, the same OD and ID at both ends.


EDIT: I blew the image up. His top set are even on both ends, but you can see in the fifth roller that it's just plastic hanging over the brass part. That leaves us with the likelihood that either his variator face was not square to the bushing, or his bushing was too big to start with. I had the same problem with a variator that flattened my weights and shredded my belt.
I have seen variators and bosses of different lengths and diameters before, where one variator wouldn't even fit on a boss from another set, so we have to be careful about checking the fit, as onewheeldrive noted in his last post.

Mine has an indicator light that comes on every 1000 miles or so, and has to be reset by holding down one or two buttons on the dash. Some scooters have a low oil light. I tried to look yours up but google is being VERY stubborn about keeping information on your indicator light a top secret. Can you give us the exact model of your scoot?

If you don't want to do it yourself, and I'm sure you could, I'd take it to a scooter shop. I don't know about Piggys, but if they are anything like a gy6, an auto mechanic might strip your bolts. These GY6's metals are so soft. I use one hand to tighten most scooter bolts now. I do the oil plug with both hands but I still don't torque on it too much.