Blog: Servicing and Repairs

If you want to know how we run our workshop and what it means for you and your scooter, read on

Linc Biggins

At ScootaCo we do our best to provide our clients with the most economical transport solutions possible; by this we mean the best quality scooters, the least possible down time, fuel economy with this form of transport is a given. This does not suggest our scooters or our hourly rate for labour are the “cheapest” they are however going to return the best possible dollar per mileage ratio by virtue of quality.

ScootaCo technicians regularly attend training courses on our product and are all enthusiasts in this type of product. What this means to our clients is they have people working on your scooter who are genuinely interested in what you ride and how you ride it and what this means to them when they are servicing or repairing your machine.

When you book your machine in with us all staff are trained to ask questions. These will usually start with “how many kilometres?” or “how long since the last service?” which will then lead us into more specific questions regarding what will be required on that particular service.

A quick couple of tangents - all scooters have a recommended kilometre or time based service schedule. A big kilometre rider will require routine servicing on a regular basis due obviously to the high kilometre usage. We have one owner with a 125cc machine which is clocking 15000 kms or more every 6 months: this is “big kilometres”. The flip side of this is the city commuter/rider who lives 2-3 kms from home to work and clocks less than 2500kms per year. They will still require regular servicing due to the short stop start riding and general deterioration of fluids and rubber etc... Read the rest at Linc's Blog!

published 25/03/2010