Read this if you own a piaggio X10

[Fanlandcheese]

I have one of the first x10s registered in the country.

It has been absolutely flawless BUT

there is a serious design issue

The fuse carrier is located at the back of the bike under the little flap. It is easy to get to if you pop the seat and then unscrew the 2 screws.

The flaw is that the underside of the fuse carrier is open to ALL the dirt and rain and everything else that can get through the gap.

My X10 has been off the road for 8 weeks whilst a complete new wiring harness has been sent from Italy.

ALL the contact have corroded

If you have noticed poor starting, cutting out, inconsistent fuelling, random lighting or anything else it means your wiring loom is starting to corrode!

Take it to your dealer and ask them to lithium grease the contacts and make a flap or housing to protect the fuse board.

Since mine was diagnosed my dealer has fixed 3 other x10s wi the SAME problem

Good luck and great riding

[frankiej1949]

How long have you had the 350?

[michaelphillips]

its funny, you look at production lines in a factory environment, and its all nice and clean, white grease on contacts on loom could be adhered before fitting to frame of loom, and better design of routing etc... i thought piaggio would have changed this by now seen as my scoot is 2004 my nexus has some fuses under the seat where the underside are to elements due to the ride height adjustment going thr from the back tranny up to shock, and there is a large hole there, where the back wheel flicks up wet to underbelly of seat, i greased up the underside of fuses, actually all contact block areas of scoot have been greased up, i suppose if i bought a new scoot i would do the same. but should not have to...

i have been thinking of making a fitting there and as it would have to go either side of the ride height , yet not impede it, i thought of using a house letter box (inside version draught type with brush type hairs) cut it in half along the horizontal then fixing to inner underside with hot glue gun... this would work a treat, but not got round to it yet

[Fanlandcheese]

I've had the scooter since end of August last year. So the snow ice and salt has certainly played their part.

It's still better than the ridiculous 8 clutches I had in my burgman 400. That got so bad they changed the design.