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Scooter with CVT transmission has intermittent jerkiness at low speed

Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Asked on January 4, 2021

I have a 2016 Sym Symphony ST 125cc automatic scooter which I bought second-hand from eBay a few months back. Having never previously owned a scooter I decided to get it serviced by a Sym approved garage before using it. Since then it’s mostly been OK except that on some days I have trouble with it being very jerky at low speeds when using light throttle input and this can make it very difficult to control. I’m guessing that either the clutch or the belt is sometimes slipping but I’m not sure.

I took it back to the the garage and they looked at it again and could find nothing wrong. But on that particular day it was acting fine so I couldn’t demonstrate the issue to them. They did say they would give the transmission a quick clean though

Maybe it was a coincidence but the next week it seemed to be better than ever with no jerkiness at all. I thought that maybe the problem was cured but today after not having used it for a few days due to rain it was just as bad as before.

As a side note, I have also found that sometimes the bike is hard to start and needs several attempts yet other times it starts instantly. I always start in on the centre stand and have not noticed the back wheel spinning at idle revs or anything like that though.

Is there anything I can easily check to determine the cause of the problem?

2 Answers

Just an update but the problem was eventually resolved. I took it to a garage and they cleaned parts of the transmission which reduced the slipping. Then once the scooter had been ridden for a while the issue disappeared completely - I guess the clutch surfaces just needed to wear down a bit more to remove whatever contaminants were present.

The starting issues were unrelated and were due to a vacuum leak

Correct answer by James on January 4, 2021

This should have some of the information you could need. Sym service manual

Page 14 has transmission fluid checking

Answered by kyle_engineer on January 4, 2021

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