There is a small fuse box next to the battery on the main red battery cable. There is a fuse inside that white plastic housing. It also has an extra replacement fuse in most of these scooters.

When our scooters don’t start or start to stall on us, we check the fuse first in our repair shop; so I suggest everyone try that step as well. I have had a few cases that the fuse looks fine, but we replaced it anyways with the extra fuse, and the scooter started right up. First of all, realize that might be one solution; but here is another unknown problem and solution we might not know that is happening at the same time:

We’ve replaced the fuse and the scooter starts up, so we think we solved the problem, when actually we didn’t. What we didn’t know is that the fuse that was already in there, was working just fine. The new fuse worked because we worked with the fuse holder replacing the fuse, not realizing the problem was the fuse holder. By simply playing with it, it made contact again and the scooter started. Sometimes these plastic cases melt and can cause a short. Even if it doesn’t look melted, it doesn’t mean it’s making a good connection.

The fuse box connectors in these scooters are very cheap quality. I recommend replacing the holder unit, the clips with a more heavy duty connector clip, and of course, the fuse.

Author : Mark Kemp is the Parts Manager of http://www.scooterstock.com and the Service manager at our local repair shop. He is our resident expert on Chinese Gas Motor Scooter Parts. He can be reached at mark@scooterstock.com.