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Front "mud-defenders"... If I said it correctly... got loose and the screw got lost. I screwed in my own screw.
Everything else is fine except the brake phenomenon...
Great little town runner! During the worst rush hour you can get anywhere you need.
The pros:
Goes like stink! Only 50cc and without the limiter, goes 80km/h like that. Never do I have to worry if the car behind me at the traffic lights will be nervous of my slow start.
Since it's stock, nobody expects it to be fast, but you should see what I do to the kids who "tune" their scooters (Yamaha's, NRG-s and others). Their scooters are 10 times louder than mine, consume even more fuel and I'm still ahead of them =)
The main thing is that with a passenger, the scooter is still very quick and potent! Unlike my aunt's Daelim 50cc.
Excellent looks, nice touch on the side fins for cooling the radiator and the "one eye" lens for light, although it's very dim and is barely enough for zero-light night riding.
Comfort is, as for most French products, extremely good! Has large balloon-like wheels, and an ergonomic seat. Although it's quite a packed scooter when two persons are on board, nobody is uncomfortable.
And now the cons:
Really loud, when coming home late at night I feel awkward and shut the scooter down before I get to the garage, and just walk it in.
Fuel consumption isn't really great. I guess it's this cold winter weather, consumes up to 4.5l/100km.
I thought something was wrong with the brakes... What happens? I pull the front brake lever and when coming to a stop, the whole scooter starts shaking, really hard...But the official dealer convinces me it's because of the "sporty" brake rotors, which are not round, but have "V" inserts...
The power of the brakes is not that good either, if I pull it fully the scooter stops, but not that quick. I would expect the front wheel to lock.
Oh yes, there is NO boot space. By "NO" I mean, 0, nothing, nada, zip... You have to get a 26 liter box.
Hi!
It's me again.
Just to update the scooter status @1250km.
Clutch broke down, replaced under warranty.
Fuel system needed cleaning ~40 Eur.
Me again.
I got hit by a car, nothing serious, didn't even fall of the scooter. The air-filter broke into pieces and the rear "mud-defender" got cracked. ~50 Eur repair.
The front brake is still puzzling me. Accompanied with extremely poor braking force, when pulling the lever it just keeps on dropping through; like the brake has levels. Squeaks while standing still and pulling the lever. Something is seriously not right with the front disc brake.
Now at 2500km, regular maintenance. ~40 Eur. The brake pads wore down, but they were improperly set up when the scooter was new, so they wore down unevenly and at the wrong angle!
Will pick it up in a few days and see if the vibrating-brake phenomenon disappeared, and if the braking force has been restored to a satisfying level.
Hi
I am buying this bike, and people are telling me it is fabulous. I have also been on one, and it seems that nothing goes wrong with them.
I will carry on writing in the future to say if anything has happened to this bike.
Thanks.
I'm glad that my review helped you! But... I'm more and more dissatisfied with the scooter.
Right after regular maintenance (2500km), at 2800km the vario broke down again!!! This time the vario belt broke also! First, the same symptoms as before, poor acceleration, 60km/h max top speed and then just *SNAP* the scooter is broken down...
Two times, the same thing. Replaced under warranty of course.
Now I have 4500km, and for more than 1500km, the scooter is barely able to run when idling. Sometimes it chokes when I try to start after long idling at the traffic lights. Turns off when cold/hot starting, I always have to hold the gas handle a bit tense.
Oh yeah, the pads wore down again very quickly and the vibrating brake phenomenon returned! Someone really messed up when engineering this scooter!
The more I drive it, the more I notice the loudness! It's just too loud. Once I drove it without a helmet, I wonder why I'm not deaf right now.
But, I must say that the new vario set is superb! Better acceleration than before and top speed of 75~80km/h with two persons on board is supreme!!!
Nevertheless, I still enjoy driving it since it's just so cute, very fast, comfortable, easy to use and extremely economical, only 3.5~3.6 l/100km!
Me again; getting rid of this garbage.
The scooter is pure rubbish.
At 4900km the FUEL LINE started leaking. I felt very "comfortable" driving at 35°C through town to the service shop, leaking fuel just centimeters away from the burning engine.
The poor idling wasn't solved, even though I explicitly said it has some serious problems. I got home, and the scooter died and didn't want to fire up again. I was furious! Wanted to dump the scooter into a river!
When I calmly called them and explained what happened. They came over to my place first thing in the morning. The carburetor was poorly set up. A few twitches with the screwdriver and it worked.
Now at 5100km, a whole bunch of metal and plastic got loose, and under hard acceleration, everything shakes and makes a horrible grinding noise!!!
Now it's still running poor when idling, barely fires up when cold.
Had some great moments with the scooter, but now I'm getting rid of it as I don't want to hang out at the service shop every week!!! When mentioning a NEW scooter, they said that the warranty is here to FIX ANY PROBLEMS DURING THE WARRANTY PERIOD, obviously they meant no new scooter, and they'll be fixing it a hundred times over and over for the same thing...
Very very disappointing experience from Peugeot, I can't believe they could've done such a poor product.
Thanks for reading, hope this is my last entry under Peugeot. I'm about to buy a used Kymco Bet&Win 250.
Hey I have had my Blaster since last May. I find it a great bike - it will beat any derestricted boy racer ped to thirty as it's still standard. It even keeps up with 125s on acceleration.
The bad point with the bike is the mud guard, which came loose and jammed in my wheel, throwing me off and scratching most of the panels.
Hey there, it's me again, the author of the thread.
Now at exactly 7500km, I noticed very much squeaking and rattling coming from the exhaust area. The service shop says the exhaust rusted from the inside and the suppressor panels are broken. Of course, it's not covered by warranty because the exhaust is not physically broken from the outside! OMG!
While they were checking the exhaust, another sound came from somwhere in the transmission area. They said I should leave it with them for a few days, so that's what I did.
After the regular maintenance at 7500km the scooter runs great, the previous spark plug was oil fouled and gave me poor performance.
Ah, too bad : (
Me again, so the rattling noise was the water pump, was broken, fixed under warranty.
Another thing that went wrong happened just a few days ago, the backpack holder broke off the chassis! I have a picture here http://tinyurl.com/ye4clx
The stander got twisted, picture here http://tinyurl.com/yl35ac
What am I to say? Well, I'm not really concerned or amazed that it happened, neither do I expect the faults to stop arising...
Will keep you updated.
P.S. I have to remind everyone that I've never fallen off the scooter, nor was it crashed or anything.
I have a Blaster RS12 and it is a beast.
Haha, died on me again! Yesterday, it was raining while I was driving, all of a sudden the scooter started losing power and begin to jerk like when it's cold, only I wasn't accelerating anymore. It shut down and wouldn't start until cold, and I had to use the kick-starter.
The muffler silencer (or whatever is that thing on the end of exhaust) got loose again and is making rattling noise like it did before.
I'm really fed up with this scooter, again I have to be without a necessary mean of transportation for days until it's fixed.
What's more ironic, it will probably work fine when it isn't raining.
Hello people. I brought one of the Ludix Blasters and completely agree with what you have said about it, which is that it basically keeps breaking down.
I’ve had the bike since June 2005, and I have had the petrol pipe split twice, and now the bearings are going on the back wheel, and the bike has only done 5000km. So for now I’m selling the bike and looking for something better, any ideas?
I am from Poland and we have bad roads. A friend told me I should buy a brand scooter like Yamaha, but I got a Peugeot Ludix. It worked OK for 2 months, but when I hit the first hole in the road, the screw that kept the damper in place got loose, and after a mile something begun to buzz and then the scooter stopped. Now it is 5 days since I took it back to the seller, and they said that some pipe moved out of its place and strangled the fuel line (!?), and they need to order the whole fuel system replaced.
The only problem that I've got besides this one, is that sometimes it stopped after I tried to get going at the green light.
Hi there people, I have had bike now for just over a year. I've done 24000 miles on it and the only thing that has gone wrong is the wheel bearing after about 20000 miles, but that was replaced free of charge.
My bike is derestricted with a sports exhaust, and I have been clocked in at 70mph by a friend on a 125.
It's a great little bike. I would highly recommend it. I hope I have helped if you were unsure of buying this bike.
It's me, the starter of the thread, again.
Now at 9300km, problems still coming up.
So, everything (or so I thought) was fixed on the last service. They:
- Changed the muffler silencer for a brand new one
- Fixed the stander, welded some supports on it
- Welded the broken backpack holder
- Cleaned the carburetor free of charge
- Cleaned and tidied up the scoot for me
But! The thermometer died on me just as I was on the way to the service, so I haven't written it down as I did with the problems above.
The thing is that the thermometer shows the same value whether the engine is hot or cold, the dial doesn't move.
They did not fix it, because it "works". By works I mean it gets from 0/8 to 2.5/8 of the scale, but stays there. When working properly it shows 3.5/8 when hot, and 2.5/8 when cold.
Just the other day it seems the starter button is failing. When I press it to start the scooter, everything goes silent for a second, then c-c-c and about to start, then again complete silence. I don't know...
The brake phenomenon I explained a YEAR ago returned, again, poor braking performance, "levels" of braking force, the lever drops halfway through when starts to bite, squeaks when pulling the brake lever in a standstill, extreme vibrations when coming to a stop...
The fuel consumption increased since they "fixed" the bike, it was around ~4.1l/100km, now it's at ~4.8l/100km. In other words, previously I could do 120-130km with one tank, now it's around 100km.
But still, it's really good for going around town.
Could anyone please tell me how to derestrict the rs12 blaster as it comes from new?
Mike.