My scooter has shit a brick (pics included)

**Warren** · 28th September 2005, 23:37

On the start of my journey from Kaiapoi to Christchurch the engine died and all the oil pored out. I pushed it home thinking the worse, and that appears to be true. Today I took a closer look with a high powered light and found a massive hole in the crankcase (?). I know this will be expensive as it is out of it's 1 year warranty (to 18-03-05) and the last owner was very late with the first 1000km service (2857km). Will sportzone suzuki be sympathetic to this? and how much would something like this cost?

My mother has a scooter exactly the same with only 500kms on it which I am now borrowing and I also managed to drop on the ground today and get a few small scratchs. I hope there are not serious problems with this type of scooter.

**Paul in NZ** · 29th September 2005, 08:36

Warren old chook...

I think you are about to become our subject matter expert on this... Good luck...

**WRT** · 29th September 2005, 09:12

Its worth at least talking to them, I mean, you would hope that spewing oil all over your tyre while in motion is not the norm for this sort of vehicle . . .

**Sniper** · 4th October 2005, 13:33

Pop in and see the guys mate. The only thing to do is ask. Good luck.

**Postie** · 4th October 2005, 14:12

do you know how it happened, it looks like the tyre could have picked something up and broken the crank case, if that has happened, the likelyhood of any warranty covering that is slim.

**Motohaus** · 4th October 2005, 14:15

if you approach the bike shop with an open mind and are resonable you would be amased at how helpful and forth coming they can be i now with me it is all in the attitude of the person none of us like to be accused or threatened with this that and the other i am sure that you will have success in just enquire if they can get anything out if suzuki new zealand as this is not got for or and should not happen to a late model scooter can't hurt to ask

**k14** · 4th October 2005, 14:16

How could the owner go that far over for the first service, very bad maintenance indeed. I would be surprised that was made by something flicking up off the road (I could have though). I'm thinking con rod.

**Sniper** · 4th October 2005, 14:36

Originally Posted by k14

How could the owner go that far over for the first service, very bad maintenance indeed. I would be surprised that was made by something flicking up off the road (I could have though). I'm thinking con rod.

Thats what I thought when I saw it, but wouldn't it cause a bit more damage than just a crack?

**texmo** · 4th October 2005, 15:00

The crank could have easily done that menaing you need new crank piston casings pretty much a new motor, That happened to my pk50 which put out around 2hp....

**Warren** · 2nd November 2005, 20:55

It was the conrod that smashed a hole in the crankcase. The scooter got carted down to sportzone suzuki and they took the engine out and sent it to wellington (Suzuki New Zealand) who got to make the decision on weather it would be replaced, and that decision was not my way. The broken conrod was due to hydraulic failure, I never checked the oil level myself (I really should have) but I never got around to it and only normally check at the normal service intervals.

The mechanic at SportZone Suzuki has found a second hand engine from a wrecker in Auckland for $750 (1900kms) and will be putting that in the bike. I guess I will have to bite the bullet here.

It was a bit frightning riding the other scooter (my mum's one that I am borrowing) as I kept expecting the same thing to happen to it, but alas it has been working perfectly.