Last 2 days the mechanic at the store worked about 3 hours (2 hours on day 1 and 1 hour on day 2) to try to increase the speed of my new scooter. I was there for it because I had to test it after every attempt.
Boy.. Peugeot did some work to prevent it from happening, because we could only get 2km/hour extra .. from 3km it just went to instant engine braking to the fully legal speeds.
So, the mechanic settled with increasing the RPM by cutting the wire.. which appearently was a tempature sensor because… See More
the scooter was an pain in the rear end, wouldnt even throttle properly. That color wire always was the RPM sensor wire.
So he went from an alternate (there are 24 tiny wires in that harness) and yea the RPM's increased, basicly improved the responseness of the scooter when accelerating so I was somewhat happy with that at least.
Same evening, scooter cooled down and yea.. I spend a good 10 minutes trying to start the scooter, after it started it wouldnt reach the proper stationary RPM and when giving a little throttle it would just say bang and die. Restarting went better after that and it took a few minutes before I would drive away.
2:30am the other morning I had to go to work and and yea spent another 5-10 minutes getting it started and after letting it idle for a few minutes (great for the neighbors who were asleep.. a nice humming scooter.... bobobobobobobbob ) I finally was able to go to the depot.. thank god the courier was late so I still was on time.
So yea 9am I went to the store again, and he restored the wires with such little room to work with. Back to factory settings, clearing the engine error codes and I can finally drive again normally. The mechanic is not giving up but for now he spend 3 hours on it for basicly nothing (40 Euro's per 30 minutes normally) but I didnt have to pay a dime, he booked it as service. I've been a customer for decades there so I'm not unknown so the owner was cool with it.
Reminds me of a story my father told me.
One of his relatives many years ago in Canada somewhere, was a very regular customer of a truck dealership.
He once found a large snake found wrapped around one of the pedals, so he shot it with a shotgun, ofc doing a lot of damage to the bottom of the vehicle in the process.
The dealership simply replaced the truck, because of a long-term business relationship and friendship.
Loyalty is under appreciated too much.
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