1st purchase 150cc Scooter

[meadman]

Hello Everyone and thanks Ginger Phil for your generosity!

I have just purchased a new Geely (I think this is the manufacturer) 150cc retro scooter (I tried to upload a jpeg hope it works if not here's the link if you wish to view it:

www.gsmotorworks.com/PRODUCTDETAIL/c28_f747/Retro_Scooters/0.html

My question(s) is: "What is the best way to start out riding a vehicle like this in order to insure as many miles as possible?"

I've heard I should change out all the fluids with premium oils and fluids (what about additives 'pro-long' or 'lucas oil additive'). How about nuts and bolts replace with stainless steele? Brake fluid?
How about a high performance spark plug say a Bosch or similar brand?

Thank you All for whatever suggestions you may have

meadman

[~ Gaz ~]

ofr the first few hundrad miles u need to go slower n nt try and attempt its full speed, work it in as they say, it should tell you in ur book with the scoot wen ya get it by the way u cnt use a CBT for a 150 remember u need a full license then cheers hope this helps, From Gaz.

[meadman]

Thanks Gaz-
What do you think about synthetic motor oil? The customer service guy told me absolutely not!

[cb50j]

not reccomende for the 1st couple of services

........... C

[Ginger Phil]

Really? I thought fully synth oil was the best you can use???

[cb50j]

it does too good a job.....

new engines need to (I think the term would be) bed in
synthetic oil really does to good a job of lubricating new internal parts

......... C

[zafer]

the model is the same as mine only the name is different , for me you made a good choice, if it is new you should have it serviced at the service station as they log it, because a point that maybe important is that if you do not have it serviced at an official station and you do your own it may effect the gurantee? one difference I noticed is that mine has a 2 year gurantee and that is the only thing that is stopping me stripping it down to see how it works ;D ;D

[meadman]

Does anyone use synthetic motor oil or do you know of anyone that uses synthetic oil?

[Davros]

Hey - I'm running sythetic 10/40 in my Yamaha scooter as it is full run-in with 3k on the clock.

And I will eventually put sythetic in my Baotian BT50-9 but not yet as it only has 100kms on the clock, so is only 1/3 run in !

As has been said above, you should use standard oil during the running-in persiod as synthetic is literally too lubricating and will slow down the running-in and bedding in of moving parts..... however once run-in the rules change and you want the most effective lubrication you can get .... I would personally leave the synthetic until around 500kms / 3 month running, on the clock.