MOPED ARMY

If I take my Mitsubishi to a Ford dealer for work, and they refer me to the Mitsubishi dealer down the street, I'm not gonna take it back to the Ford dealer to make sure the Mitsubishi dealership did good work. The dude must have more money than sense

A Neighbor took his Ford pick up truck for a transmission problem to a local small mom and pop transmission/auto repair shop since it was out of warranty with high mileage he had to pay to fix it out of pocket,

The shop owner said it needed a full rebuild and he got a very reasonable price estimate for rebuild but Old dirty building, Gravel parking area, cars all over the place, young guys working with just jeans and t-shirts working on cars So he didn’t trust the shop with the job so he went to the brand new Ford dealer a half mile down the road and had them do the tranny rebuild for a lot more money,

About three days later he saw his same Ford pick up truck at the mom and transmission shop in the gravel parking area, went back to the dealer and asked the manager why it was there and was told yeah we sub out some major repair work, he was stuck because he signed the work authorization and in the fine print stated they can sub out work, to appease them they guaranteed it a little bit longer that’s all they did,

Many years ago, a kid stopped by my house asking for my help in getting his Tomos Bullet running. I spent about two hours fixing his bike for him, only to find out that the next day he listed it for sale on CL. Never again would I help people out that I didn’t know.

I'm down to devote time to helping folks. totally. it's fun. I love working on shit, and I love hanging out with people = it's why im in this hobby. Fixing other peoples shit is like all the same wins, but they eat the costs!

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Na it does suck when people arent appreciative or want more. give a mouse a cookie, little fucker should say thanks at least before asking for milk

And he’ll probably just sell it now

Yeah, I sure hope not. He did say that his son was looking forward to riding it.

I hope he can pay Richard without any delay due to the Corona Virus.

Finally added fuel and went for a good 10 mile test ride. I only added a quart of gas and when I went up a low grade but long hill, the bike eventually stalled. This is my first time riding a bike with the tank in the frame, and I think that the design of this bike, with a U shaped tank, the petcock at the front, a small amount of fuel, and the long hill all contributed to the bike stalling.

I'll have to tell the owner to keep the tank fairly full, as the town he lives in has some big hills.

Send the sorry excuse of a human a bill for all the miles he didn't pay for .

It continues.

I borrowed my brother's truck and delivered the bike at my expense.

I get a text message a couple weeks later that the speedometer isn't working. They only put a handful of miles on it and it doesn't work any more.

Well, I COULD go on a nice 30 mile moped ride and diagnose the issue, but I certainly don't want to go out of my way in my car just to diagnose the gear, cable, or speedoneter, especially since nobody even touched the system except to disconnect the cable at the gear for the purpose of changing the tire and servicing the wheel bearings. Also, the owner ought to be able to determine the issue himself.

His latest text message, to me, is wondering when it will get fixed as his son would like to take his driving test on the bike and I guess that the Speedo needs to be functioning for the test. He would also like it to be fixed for free.

God, I hope this is the final post on this.

On several occasions, this guy mentions that Richard got a "great payday" on this job.

The total he was charged was $439, which came in under my worst case guesstimate by $11. And all along he would say to me that I would get a $25 finder's fee.

So I hauled the wheels and motor to Toledo for free as I was going there for personal moped business. Richard met me there on a Sunday, and the Toledo event was pretty much over, so he made a special trip. We spent around 2 hours mounting 2 tires and greasing wheel bearings.

Richard cleaned the exterior of the motor before the rebuild. During the rebuild, he discovered that the rings on the 600 mile motor were toast, that the starter clutch leaf spring was worn, that the pedal cranks were mismatched, that the front sprocket was to be replaced with an 11t, and as a precaution, swapped in a brand new capacitor. This raised the estimate by around $80. All parts came to around $314 and with his labor charge, the total came to $439, which included $70 in New tires and tubes.

So for those of you who can rebuild your own stock V1, $314 bucks to make a turnkey bike isn't too bad, and without kitting, nothing out of the ordinary was done to the motor, not even porting.

I test ride the bike 13 miles and he's bitching about that. I know it's 13 miles because the speedometer / odometer was WORKING just fine. The Speedo stops working a few miles after delivery and he feels Richard should fix that for free.

Imagine that, a 40 year old Speedo gear, cable, or unit failing? It was never touched other than to remove the front wheel for tire replacement and grease, and Richard is supposed to fix whatever has failed at his expense.

So how did Richard's "big payday" pan out?

1. 90 mile round trip drive to Toledo - $15

2. 360 mile r/t drive to my place - $60

3. Turnpike tolls - $20

4. New chain and master link from me - $15

5. 90 miles for me pick up and delivery - $15

6. 1 gallon ethanol free pre-mix with Red Line Oil - $5

7. My alleged $25 finders fee.

If my math is correct, that totals $155, and if his "big payday" was $125, he is $30 in the hole!

Not many of us make a profit on mopeds, but I don't know of anyone who wants to lose money just to be considered a good guy, especially to an adult fixing up a gifted moped for his son.

So after a couple stern but polite text messages to this guy which included a screen shot of the 3 parts needed from Treats that totaled $63 before shipping, he's gonna take care of the Speedo issue himself.

I won't be this nice again.

Hell, no!

I got a text last week from the dad. The boy has decided to sell the Cincord after having it turnkey for about a year. He want3d to know hat I thought the asking price ought to be.

So the bike had new tires, tubes, rim strips, pet cock, bearings were serviced, and engine had a complete rebuild, and new chain. The bike itself was pretty low mileage. The only performance part added was an 11t front sprocket so the bike could reach 30 mph. I have no idea whether he took care of his speedometer issue.

I felt that the Ohio market ought to fetch somewhere in the $600 - $800 range.

Thoughts?

yea 6-8 sounds fair. if it were me i'd ask half that. Anyone want my XKE? I love it. it has an electric front wheel even hehe, and a trac motor lol.. 350.

theres another dude up here in NE ohio, in like chagrin area ridin on a niiiiiice XKE. killer build