Motofino

the dealer didn't do the oil change, they refused to do it at the 250 mile mark that motofino demands in the warranty, they wanted me to ride longer and they charge $47 for an oil change WITHOUT valve adjustment.

the scooter had several oil leaks with very low mileage, the kickstand broke off of the frame due to poor welds, plastic had broken tabs at the points where it connects together and it is supposed to be high impact ABS plastic.

i received a used engine because several attempts to get motofino to send a new engine failed and i had to take what i could get.

i did rebuild the engine and it did run but that didn't resolve the problem with the cheap plastics and the frame starting to rust where the weld broke off.

i will mention my friend's motofino that the engine has to be cleaned often to get the oil off of it from several leaks and the fact that not one local dealer near me will sell motofinos including the one i got mine from.

i now have a Taotao GT5-50 that is very solid and has already given me over 1000 miles of trouble free riding,no oil leaks, no broken plastics, no broken welds and a great ride.

it handles the bumps very well without anything cracking or breaking and our roads all have bumps and a lot of them you can't avoid.

i should mention it is a lot cheaper AND the company allows the consumer to do their own maintenance without voiding the warranty.

if you have some time read the motofino warranty on their site, it is better than watching a good comedy.

HI , I wanted to comment on the quality of Motofino scooters..I Bought a used motofino 50CC scooter from my neighbor , She had only put 180 Miles on it when she sod it to me..It was in Great shape.It Ran fine for me for about 18 Months .I did the oil changes .the first at 250 Miles.and kept up on Preventative maintentance , Then at about 2 years of owning my scootything seemed to brake at once! First the kick start just completely broke off when i tryed to start it..the whole lever and spring coil just broke off leaving a huge whole in the cover.

second the mirrors just started coming loose all the time until finally I could no longer tighten them because the socket they screw into stripped do to cheap metal.

now the carberator is always having to be ajusted .and will not stay running on its own no matter how much i turn up the idle screw.Now it stopped starting for me all together , I took it to a scooter mechanic and he told me the head was just about shot , and he had to loosen the valves for it to run..If anything i could see having to tighten the valves every so many miles.not loosen then ! he said the Gy6 engine is made from cheap metal and all scooters with this gy6 engine are known for only lasting about 2 years if your lucky..This made sense to me since I live on an island were they rent scooters to tourists and after each season sell them all to buy a new stock..The mechanic said these Rental places do this because they knowthe scooters will not last 2 seasons and tourists are ruff on them..So they stopped buying Motofino..They were loosing money because the motofino QT50 plastic is cheap and brakes very very easy ..and the engines are also made from a very cheap chinese metal and will never last long...So my advice is buy a vespa or any other brand of scooter..just avoid chinese junk.....

Motofino is the ONLY company building scooters in china that import the metals used in the engines, they are the only engines that every single one is the same specs and every one is tested before it is sent out.

the QT50 is the lowest quality model you can buy, the style is also the same as the taotao ATM50.

if you want one that will hold up you could get the MF50QT-2, those things are built like tanks.

I can't find "an approved" anybody who works on my motofino. I have less than 500 miles and it needs work.

No information online, no scooter shops will touch the thing, can't find parts. it IS garbage.