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Does your state have any re title permissions? Might try a search on that. Probably just take a few moments to find out. Can you find with dies what the original numbers might have been.? Or a tag somewhere else? Sure sounds like something wrong there. Which why I mentioned re titled if there is a new number put into the frame, maybe by a DMV person.
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Just had a call from my Arizona real estate agent last evening. Sale finally approved after over 3 months delay. Packing today and leaving tomorrow for Arizona and the house inspection with closing expected on 14th October. Scoot will remain unfixed till I return and then I will probably just put it back together until after the move takes place. I think it must be a deeper tear down is required.

Thanks for your help so far. Anymore ideas will be welcomed. I will be watching the forums, just not working on the scoot for now.
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Hey that sounds like good effort krotch. It seems like something worth trying. If that gets me to seeing and fixing what is wrong with the latches that will be good. Another thought for after we get moved to AZ.

And thanks to you grocerygetter, I never thought to look into Paint. I will give that a try. I will see if I can print your photo's. They look to be helpful to me.
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Thanks for all that info. But a question or two from me now.

1. Did you have to remove the key lock in order to remove the panel?

2. If it is just a adjustment of the cable do you need to take the side panel off or can you block it with a 2X4 to hold it open while doing the adjustment?

I really won't even try to work on it till we are finally located in Arizona. Which may be when ever the banks get around to it. I must move to lower altitude for my lungs. So in April we bid on a house and two weeks later we found out we were outbid by $60K. Then a backup on another party became useless as that deal went to the prior contract. Then on June 15 we put a contract on another house and we are still waiting for the bank to give us permission to buy the house. Amazing, 3 months for the lender to say yes or no, and we still wait.

For a few years I was a licensed Realtor and I have never seen anything so messed up as that in Arizona. One big problem is the government, as they created this mess and they continue to mess with it rather than let it find bottom and start a real recovery. Of course the government blames it on the banks but the government, through Freddie and Fannie, told them to lend with no justifications.

Lots of good deals available but be patient as so many are lender owned, short sales, bankruptcies in action. Very sad for the ones losing their homes. Extending their misery by the government meddling is no help either.

You are right about the time to tear down. If I do that I will likely do other things like flush and fill the radiator again, lube change, maybe take out the gas tank and see what I might find in it. Hose checks and changes, PDI things I short cutted in March of this spring. Pretty cold and windy so I could only take a couple hours a day when the garage had warmed a bit. So a tear down will likely be a lot more than just adjust the lock cables. But if that could be done with just removing the upper body screws and blocking the panel out so I could work on it, that might be something I could try first.

I will watch for your photo's.
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Spent some time looking at the seat latches. I noticed the seat clamping hooks are molded in so nothing to adjust there. Used a flashlight and looked down into the latch areas. The side latch shows a spring stretching and some metal parts moving when I turn the key in the lock. The rear latch does not move. I can see the cable and an end container lead on the cable but it does not move at all when I turn the key in the lock. So I assume at this point that the cable is broken or maybe just disconnected from the lock itself.

Certainly a covers off operation just to see the problem and then to determine what to do. So I will leave it be until I get my move to Arizona completed. Then I will remove the trunk, the deck, the side cover, just to see what must be wrong. At least it won't be freezing down there. Up here I don't have a heated garage and the wife won't let me bring it into the living room.
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This question has been asked more than once but I have not been able to find any answers. I did use search.

Seat latch adjustments. I noticed on my scoot that the seat does latch on the side but not at the back. I looked at it but don't even see what part of the latch I need to fiddle with. I turn the key with the seat up but nothing is moving so I have no clue.

If this is another of those remove the covers situations that is OK. I can hold the information till my next tear down session. Which I suppose I will need to do to aim the headlights, redo fluids, whatever.

So back to the seat latch adjustments. If anyone has had to fix the rear latch I would like a bit of information please.
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