Seat release fix, this is cool as heck! By scootover (Read 746 times)

[scootover]

Ok, I have to share this everyone with a trike on here, it may work on some scooters also. I just bought a 2009 150-11 trike from a 70 year old guy in my town. He had a dead battery once, and coulnt get the seat open to get to it. Well, he figured it out, and he came up with an ingenious fix for it also. Most Trikes have a locking fuel filler door. He made a small cable with a T-handle on it, and crimped it too the seat cable routed to the rear towards the seat, not the front toward the ignition.

Which is how mine opens, from the key switch. If your fuse blows, or battery goes dead, just open the fuel filler door with the key, pull the T-handle, and Viola!, the seat opens.

Smart old coot! So, do this little fix the next time your have your scoot apart.

ScootOver............Im coming thru! ;D

[mike6736]

Doesn't need battery to open lock, just the key....

Mike

[Alleyoop]

Yea, even my car I can open with just the KEY, I don't need no STINKING BATTERY
Alleyoop

[scootover]

Ok, I found the real problem. Alley had told me in a PM that I may have to adjust the cable if I reached under the dash to activate. Mine was not working with the key! Im a noob, I thought it was an electric release. The cable was not even hooked up at the key! I hooked it back up, and adjusted it. Now, it opens with the key like it is supposed too.

Im learning.......its a pain in the butt getting all that plastic off that thing I know that. IMHO, the T-handle in the fuel door, is much easier to use. Guess I will be better at this stuff soon.......I am picking up a 2010 300cc Magnum today that I found for 2000.00, so get ready for the questions, cus this one is idling as rough as a vibrating bed in a cheap motel!

My family now has the scooter bug, I cant ride mine cus my sons are always on it!

ScootOver............Im coming through!

[mike6736]

Hey....II too thought it worked off the battery...and yes you will learn as you go and all here will help ya get there

Mike