The Battery

Scooters run 12volt batteries. Most are full sealed units that are located either under your feet, somewhere within the seat bucket, behind the left or right side panels, in the glove compartment or in the front nose of the scooter. There are only a few wet cell batteries in circulation today.

At the end of this section click for a list some makes and models with their specific battery type and locations.

Generally batteries on scooter are pretty failsafe. They’ll let you down after a dealer mistakenly doesn’t charge the battery for its initial minimum 4-6hrs. We get quite a bit of this.

The other type of failures occur either when the scooter has seldom being used for a period of weeks or months say for when you may have gone overseas on that island getaway or when you’re doing short city trips of less than 3-4kms, not giving the battery enough time to recharge.

The solution to this is either start the scooter using the kick starter if there is one, quickly jump staring as you would do from car to car or fitting a battery tender device.

Battery tenders are a slow release trickle charger that maintains your batteries charge while its not been used. The can be left on for more than a week or a month.

WARNING FLAG unlike normal high AMP chargers that will cook the battery dry of fluid.
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Some Battery types and locations.