Vic Smith wrote in
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Since the cost of repairing these engines seems pretty high

Repairing Rolls Royce and Maybach engines is cheaper than repairing
ANYTHING Honda makes....

The non-descript V-belt that drives my Honda Reflex 250cc scooter is
$81.25. Ask any Honda dealer. To clean out its one barrel carb on this
one cylinder engine, replace the spark plug (only $2.50 for the plug, I
was amazed.) and replace the drive belt came to $632.11 at Velocity
Powersports, the Honda dealer in Summerville, SC. This negated most all
the money saved by the scooter getting 75 mpg for the last year. I might
as well have driven a Mercedes....

I asked them about just replacing this simple, one bbl carb instead of
3.5 hours of labor to "clean it". A new 1 bbl carb is over $480 for this
1 cylinder Honda engine.

I'm taking it back to the dealer in the morning. It's now about 10 mph
shy of its normal top speed and takes a lot more throttle to get above
50, and the engine runs quite a bit hotter, indicating to me we have a
mixture or timing problem, now. I told the dealer's service mgr I was
PREPAID to get this bike fixed, properly. We'll see.....I'm not a happy
camper this past weekend.

For $632.11, I'll sue to get it fixed if it comes to that. Honda service
at any dealer in SC is a total ripoff.