Kymco People 150 Motor Scooter Review

by Ellen Zaslaw
(New Smyrna Beach, FL)

My Kymco People 150cc scooter is a beautiful scooter and way enough fun to ride.

However, I already have a problem at 3,000 miles.

It was just in for its first maintenance, other than that very first 500 mile check after I bought it and rode it for a few weeks.

I'm riding along at about 45 mph and the thing just cuts out and comes to a coast. It is very difficult to get it started, but I could for about a week of this happening. I figured I'd gotten some bad gas.

I have since ruled that out because I've got another full tank in there now from a different gas station and I use a very good additive to cut the ethanol problem.

Now, a week after the problem started, which was a few days after the tune up, the scooter will not start at all. In all, the thing died on me about 20 times.

This last time, I had to walk my Kymco for miles to get it home and now I have to have it towed 25 miles to my dealer where it will, most likely, be hung up for another week.

I find this unacceptable for a brand new scooter that is very well maintained, plus I am the only one who rides it.

The jury will be out as to whether I should have bought a Vespa or something equivalent. When they fix this, IF they fix it, and it does not become a recurring nightmare, everyone will be able to sleep peacefully. Otherwise this dealership will wish to God that they'd never met me, because I will make their life and business a living hell. I don't do well with incompetence and BS. This should not be happening to a scooter with 3,000 miles.