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General Discussion / Re: Opinion of This Forum
« on: April 03, 2013, 08:13:00 AM »
It's nice to know that other's realize and agree. I have had an interesting stay on this Forum as long as I have had my Kymco's. I'm the type of person never satisfied with thing's and move on but I never felt this way about this Forum. Since I have moved on to another scooter brand, I would really enjoy having these adminstrator's carry that type of Forum also. I'm sure it would be well used and many people other than myself that would wish it were so. Once again....Thank's Kymco Forum.

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General Discussion / Opinion of This Forum
« on: April 02, 2013, 10:12:07 PM »
My "opinion of This Forum" is that it is truly a great user friendly Forum and many interesting and helpful people are logged on to it. I no longer own
a Kymco of which I had 3 and enjoyed all them and this Forum. I have attended another Forum but it doesn't compare to this one in any way. So, the logger's on here, feel good about the people that operate this on...it is hard to find anything better or even as good! I wish this Forum many year's of service and Thank's.

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Xciting 500 / This is A Great Forum
« on: April 02, 2013, 11:45:47 AM »
Hope people appreciate this Forum being it is one of a kind. It's lay-out is great and user friendly with many knowledgable interesting people on it. In looking at other Forum's this one has to be classified as A1. Until one goes out searching for other's, they will find all above very true. So I commend the owner's of this Forum and I am only visiting here at this point....

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Xciting 500 / Re: 500 RI won't start
« on: March 21, 2013, 10:51:20 PM »
I was on 2 other Kymco Forum's prior to this one OldScoot and there was never a problem or ridicule on them. For some reason on this Forum and individual was a bit too free to express his thought's the wrong way. I enjoy the Forum's and greatly appreciate the ability to post and confer with intelligent individual's about our common subject's. I am further enjoying the new Forum I am on and still look forward to running into people as yourself on this one still. Again, I thank you for your word's.

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Xciting 500 / Re: 500 RI won't start
« on: March 21, 2013, 10:40:53 PM »
OldScoot, thank you but I wasn't refering to you... I can understand thing's but when someone call's someone a fool twice on a public Forum it's a bit much and it can even be a cause for someone defaming someone as in photograph's. So thank you, I appreciate what you posted.

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Xciting 500 / Re: 500 RI won't start
« on: March 20, 2013, 06:31:49 PM »
Mrjlube, thank you for that post. I did feel bad when one said not to come back here and had done nothing to that individual. Anyway, I don't mind at all coming back in to talk about my progress with the new wheels. The problem I have is such as I always had with automobil's and that is when I go in for repair's or service, I like to walk around and look at the stock! If something strike's me and I can manage the switch..there I go. So, of course this is the same with my new hobby, "scooter's". I honestly think this is my top buy and I like the new thin's that are included on it. I am 6' 1" at 250 lbs and I need either a X500 or the now SWing. I purchased the unit, went out the door as they had it waiting and darn if it didn't start raining as soon as I got out. Riding home anyway, I had a total of 5 miles on it and didn't get the feel of it of course. I will say, the brakes ABS, I never had and they are really great. I don't want to make comparison's really but one thing I have to mention is that the control especially going around corner's and such is much easier for me. The power is un-real! I have to be careful not to do wheelies! Anyway Mrjlube, much remain's to be seen, I did get a very good deal on the exchange of scooter's being I purchased my previous one's from them and Honda has a great drive on right now..money wise.

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Xciting 500 / Re: 500 RI won't start
« on: March 20, 2013, 10:58:33 AM »
The X500 was my 3rd Kymco and I've had no problem's with any of them until the X500. Put put thing's straight on this Forum, I never
"bailed" out on Kymco as it was put. I simply went for what I think is a step up for me and not due to the "no start bit". Someone else
put word's down to their own understanding of thing's which were un-correct. Never-the-less it was nice being with most of you in this
Forum and wish you the best with your unit's.

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Xciting 500 / Re: 500 RI won't start
« on: March 11, 2013, 11:10:47 PM »
Well, I guess you told me off but keep in mind I never said the Kymco was junk...you did. I had good service as long as I had it. The faulty starter is not the
only reason I passed it on but no sense explaining. I would never call anyone a fool for what they do but than again there are some people that do that. It takes much more of a person to understand things without guessing and commenting wrong but..... All I can say is I've been polite all throguh this and regarded people (all) as friends but I have to go to (-all). Take Care.

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Xciting 500 / Re: 500 RI won't start
« on: March 11, 2013, 09:29:53 PM »
I want to update the 500 Forum as to my problem with the X500. First of all, I had the battery out and had it checked as I mentioned. Next, I went to my dealership and they lent me a New Battery to try. That didn't work either. Service came and picked up the unit and it went to the work bench right away and it was found to have a bad starter. Meanwhile !, I went to sales and checked on a Silver Wing and one thing led to another and I traded in for a new
Silver Wing 600 ABS. I don't know if it is proper to tell about my test ride and ride after purchase on here so maybe someone could let me know if it is and I will be happy to tell about what I found. I was leary about doing this but all thought's in my mind and wifes' said to make the change. I want to thank everyone on this Forum that had input to my problem and I guess it wouldn't be wise to come back talking about the new one. One thing I did find out which I was not aware of is Kymco make's all the unit's for Honda other than the Silver Wing. I was told the Silver Wing is their main output only.

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Xciting 500 / Re: 500 RI won't start
« on: March 11, 2013, 10:23:01 AM »
Being I had the battery checked out and shown good on load, could that still mean the battery doesn't have enough power or AH to kick the unit over? Even when the unit always started, it seemed to me it was a slow crank not having strong power. Would this possibly be the nature of the starter ability
on these scooter's? I guess as a layman this is far as I can go with this and will have to call for a pickup and service. What is this "battery jumper" you're
talking about? Is it a portable jumper unit?

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Xciting 500 / Re: 500 RI won't start
« on: March 10, 2013, 09:20:18 PM »
Thanks sissy mary. When you say "starter/selonoid hanging up", are you saying this as not a broken area but a reset type work? If by chance it is a broken area, would you have any idea as to what could cause this in a fairly low mileage unit? I am noting here that there are not many X500 reader's/writer's on here as were before. Anyway, sissy mary, again, thank you for your input.

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Xciting 500 / Re: 500 RI won't start
« on: March 10, 2013, 07:52:03 PM »
I did as suggested on here....battery out, I checked the voltage (which doesn't mean anything), 13.85 volt's. Checked out a place to get the battery checked, taken there, battery checked out good, like new. So, went into my paper work, I purchased this unit, May 14, 2012. I haven't read the warranty value but am hoping all this is covered. Depending on the problem with it, I am going to look for a different brand scooter as I perviously mentioned. This unit I am finding is not like an earth shattering name as I am slowly finding. Reading and hearing report's of people attempting to get repair's, parts etc. maybe this is a sign I should do something not. I mean I babied this unit, servicing and caring for all of it and a simple thing like this. Yes, can happen on anything but again...as I wrote here previously..maybe it's a sign for me to go elsewhere. This unit looks good on the outside for sure but now I can't help thinking the inside's are a bit cheap.

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Xciting 500 / Re: 500 RI won't start
« on: March 10, 2013, 02:22:40 PM »
Trickle charged since yesterday afternoon until a few minutes ago, placed an electric heater at the back end underneath and blocked off all sides for 2 hours, went to start and nothing. All I heard was a click, no turn over nothing. Light's all worked so look's like I am going to have a pickup/tow and repair bill...damn...damn... If this will be the nature of the beast, I may look at selling. I should have purchased a Honda or other known brand.

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Xciting 500 / Re: 500 RI won't start
« on: March 10, 2013, 10:51:35 AM »
Is it possible or recommended that a starter fluid can be used to start these unit's. If it can be used.... is there a convenient place to spray the starter fluid?

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Xciting 500 / Re: 500 RI won't start
« on: March 10, 2013, 10:22:42 AM »
sissy mary and urbestfriend........ thank you for the input. The temperature is to go to 60 today and I have let the trickle charger on since yesterday, no start and will let know what happen's. I have been really looking forward to a warm day to go out for awhile. After the input, I have another question about the battery's and charger in these Scoot's. Being new to all this when I purchased, it always gave me the feeling that the battery wasn't very strong. Is this what you spoke about in your reply. Are there higher amp battery's that can be installed or is it just the way it will be? And now a dumb question but I just don't know.....can one jump these unit's or is the amps too high in auto's to do so? If so, with these unit's having such a small battery, it shouldn't be neccessary to have the jumping unit running?? Now this bit has me thinking about...hopefully this doesn't happen out on the road far from home. Carry an extra battery huh !!

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