I bought a new scooter for mostly my wife to ride and it has a small GY6 oil filter steel mesh. The manual says clean it after 300km and check every 5000km. I took it to the shop for the second oil change for 1000km and mention to him he didn’t clean the filter before.
He said, no one clean this filter and if he cleans it a paper inside it will break. Why doesn’t he have a new one for it then? Also there is something else like fuel filter to be checked or so, i couldn’t understand really and my wife can’t give me the detail.
Should i go to another shop to check? I am thinking about changing the oil by myself from now on since it is very basic.
I find the filter from a google search but no paper is mentioned.
It is new engine so i believe there should be small metal parts in that filter right now
Does anyone have similar oil filter on their engine, and do you clean it or leave it alone?
[quote=“nazmikarakoc”]So i should ask for this paper from the dealer and replace it every 5000km as suggested on manual. I don’t know why manual says clean it.
I have to take it out and look with my own eyes to understand.[/quote]
Dunno about your scooter but its common on smaller/older motorcycles to have a wire mesh filter that just stops big fragments from circulating, maybe backed up by a centrifugal filter for smaller stuff (as on eg the CG 125 engine which is the basis of the commonest motorcycle engine here). These are meant to be cleanable.
Replacable paper element filters (as on cars) are, I think, now found on bigger/high end motorcycles.
I’d expect a scooter to be more like a low end motorcycle, but I’ve got no experience of scooter maintenance.
In a few weeks i will replace the oil and i will look what the filter looks like. I believe it should be a wire mesh as i see from google search for GY6 engine oil filter.
I have cleaned oilfilters befour, but that has been large centrifugal filters witch is not normal on other than stationary and marine diesels.
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Some motorcycles have centrifugal filters (eg CG125 according to Haynes). Some cars too (eg Fiat 124 Twin Cam, IIRC), but I guess they are fairly unusual, which seems a pity given that there are bits whizzing round anyway. I guess cleaning them is more labour intensive than paper filter replacement.
One of the oil drain bolts looks exactly the same way as this one, so filter should be the same. I don’t see any paper in it. should be easy to clean it out with blowing slowly with compressor and some cleaning solvent.
C’mon. If you have a place to park, (eg in the street) then you surely have a place where you can do an oil/filter change.
Street maintenance is a bit of a pain, but, believe me its a damn sight easier here than in a Scottish inner city in winter. Don’t try working in direct sunlight though, its not worth it.
C’mon. If you have a place to park, (eg in the street) then you surely have a place where you can do an oil/filter change.
Street maintenance is a bit of a pain, but, believe me its a damn sight easier here than in a Scottish inner city in winter. Don’t try working in direct sunlight though, its not worth it.[/quote]
I have private park for the car with closed top but nothing to lift the car up. I don’t want to get under it just with the cheap jack it comes with. I go to a garage where they charge me $100 to lift it and take out the oil and filter. For scooter, i will just do it in my shop, waiting the wife to do 350 - 400 more km on the clock. Can’t wait to clean that filter
C’mon. If you have a place to park, (eg in the street) then you surely have a place where you can do an oil/filter change.
Street maintenance is a bit of a pain, but, believe me its a damn sight easier here than in a Scottish inner city in winter. Don’t try working in direct sunlight though, its not worth it.[/quote]
I have private park for the car with closed top but nothing to lift the car up. [/quote]
Luxury! I dunno, young people today, they don’t know they’re born, when I were a lad we’dd a given our eye teeth…etc, etc
After asking many dealers, i asked the main Kymco dealer in Taichung about the oil filter. They say they will clean it. Any other small shop i went to said, no one clean that and if tried to clean there will be problem.
Why cars won’t get a problem every time we change the filter but scooter will. They can’t answer this question.
If i didn’t still have the warranty, i would do it myself but i am going to take to the dealer and have them clean it.
if it is an oil filter costing just Ntd 100 i would just change it and not go thru all the hassle of cleaning it…no matter how much u clean it, it is never going to be like new!!
also it is an oil filter in a critical place so best get a new one!! i never compromise on oil and oil filters…maybe it is an overkill changing it every time but in the long run I think it is worth it…
also yr bike is new so in the first 300 kms the oil will be loaded with a lot of metal burr and it’s best that u change the oil filter…also waiting for another 350 - 400 kms before you change it is another no no in my book specially since it is a new bike…
maybe later on after the bike has run a couple of thousand kms u can consider regular oil changes and cleaning the oil filter…i change the oil filter on evey 2nd oil change…
The name is oil filter but what it is is actually a steel mesh to catch big metal pieces. Not like a car oil filter. So it just needs to be cleaned.
I just have the service done. The guy wipe the thing with a cloth and run some cleaning solution over it. I also have a magnetic oil plug to catch smaller parts and that also cleaned.
It is all free, and i don’t know how much is a new oil filter mesh but should be very cheap if ever needed to be replaced.
It is like a very very small noodle cooking thing found at the noodle shops without the handle.
ok so it is more like a gauze…well in that case just cleaning it carefully would be fine…i guess the other shops dont want to go thru the headache of removing and cleaning and putting it back…they just want to sell u a new one…saves time and also they can make a buck on something that must be costing them next to nothing!!
