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And any idea about the LED I asked for?

Are you talking about the round ring of LED lights around the main lights? If so, I too would love to know how to replace one since one has been out for a while.

I believe stock was 14g? Also you recommend just regular rollers as opposed to sliders?

Sounds like an issue I had a while back. Turned out my spark plug cable was coming loose and that’s all it was.

I’m curious. We are about to move and we have been debating whether to sell my downtown 300i 2011 and buy something else when we get where we are going or take it with us.

It currently has over 36,000 miles on it. I’ve done good maintenance etc but don’t know how much longer I should expect it to run? How many miles have you guys gotten out of your downtown 300i before it gave out on you?

  you will have to take the front off, so you can see the ignition switch, you will see the cable on the right hand side one screw holding it,  pull on that to release the seat

I can reach my hand under there and pull on the cable without taking off the front end. I mentioned that in my post. It use to work when I had it stuck before but now nothing I am trying is working.

When one of my seat catches was 'sticking', I found that it didn't need adjusting, it just needed some lubrication and it worked perfectly after that.

So if you can get a plastic straw and a can of WD40 and perhaps get it in the area of the sticking seat catch, a quick squirt might save you a bit of work.

I have tried that. I think there should be something else I can do or take apart so I can directly access another way to unlock it. I imagine I might have to do a lot of work to get it done but it is something I need done.

I have 30,600 miles on my downtown right now and just recently had to replace my variator as my old one was worn. Before replacing it I did go through a few belts in what seemed to be not many miles. Now it runs like new again and I love it.

So a while back when a belt broke I decided to order some new Dr. Pulley sliders since the old ones I had were getting worn and thought that might have been why I was having belt issues. I ordered the same size/weight that was already on the Scooter when I bought it as it seemed to work just fine.

Fast forward a bit, it turned out my whole variator was worn out so I had to order a new one. Unfortunately I have a 2011 Kymco and they don't make the LEA7 Variator anymore as the next year they had a new model of Variator LGE5? So thinking I was getting the same variator I get it in the mail and try to get everything together, however since the Variator was different my face ramp for the variator that was on the old version didn't fit. So a few more weeks go by and I get the new face ramp for the variator.

Finally get everything together and the scooter sounds better than ever and I was so excited to finally have my scooter running again. However, now it takes off like a bullet bike. WOT has the RPM's pushing 8000. With how high the RPM's around town are I have yet to see how it does highway speeds of 75mph +. I am sure it is because I am using the Sliders (14g I believe) that I ordered based off the old variator but now need to get a different weight with the new variator. Even with a passenger (I weight about 280 and a passenger at 160) it takes off super quick. I would like some ideas on what weight I should replace the sliders with. I like WOT to be 6500 or so, not pushing 8000. For the updated variator should I still use Sliders or are normal rollers going to work just fine? Thanks for any and all help.