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Post by cokeycoker on Jun 3, 2015 18:15:12 GMT -5
When it didn't start with the kickstart, I would rev it while my boyfriend tried to kick start it and it would turn over and start and then immediately die, it wouldn't idle at all. Now it's fine and runs but it's just a hassle to have to kickstart it every time to turn it on. We bought a Schumacher SEM-1562A-CA 1.5 Amp Speed Charge Battery Maintainer off Amazon (literally copied and pasted the name of it) so hopefully that will help. I'll update if it works. And yeah we figured the dealer was full of it and that's part of the reason we didn't want to take it back, the mechanic tried to claim it was OUR FAULT and that we 'drove it too much' because it had 160 miles on it. He was actually a jerk about it.
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Post by cokeycoker on Jun 3, 2015 9:31:01 GMT -5
The dealer told us the battery should recharge on it's own anyways. We looked in the engine and did find where they made the original repair so we know they at least did something to fix half of the problem.
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Post by cokeycoker on Jun 2, 2015 23:15:03 GMT -5
We had this problem about 2 weeks or so ago, the electric start AND the kick start weren't working. We took it to the dealer and got it repaired, the electric start worked for one day and then stopped working again. We can kick start it fine but not electric, it just makes a grinding sound. We bought another spark plug but when we called the dealer and asked they said they already replaced it when it was there and that it was most likely the battery, that it was a bad battery and wasn't recharging. We checked the battery with a tester we had and it says the battery has voltage. We live pretty far from the dealer and literally just got it back, and they were kinda jerks to us last time we took it so we really don't want to take it back. The problem they fixed while it was there was a hole in the left intake valve, but obviously there was another problem that they did not fix. Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? We really don't want to have to buy another battery unless we absolutely have to, we've only been able to kick start it for about a week now. It runs fine when we do kickstart it.
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