150cc on eBay

tommyred · Post by **tommyred** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 4:30 am

$500, looks like whole engine and rear end. 10k miles.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-buddy-1 ... 56&vxp=mtr

CapnK · Post by **CapnK** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 4:26 pm

$500 + $152.38 shipping, w/10K unknown-how-it-was-treated miles on it...

Somehow that just doesn't seem like a very good deal... not when there are bunches of these:

New 150cc GY6 w/CVT - $286 w/Free Shipping

CapnK · Post by **CapnK** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 4:42 pm

PS: "I am not affiliated" and other usual disclaimers apply...

PeteH · Post by **PeteH** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 4:52 pm

Yeah, Capn, but a Buddy 150 ain't _exactly_ a GY6, just based on the same design. Plenty of generic GY6 parts (like starters) don't fit on the Buddy. Whole engines also probably don't fit right without a bunch of chassis mods.

But why buy trouble putting a 'generic' (likely PRC Chinascoot) motor in a Buddy, anyway?

JHScoot · Post by **JHScoot** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 4:58 pm

pricey but idk much about engines. still, over $600 when all said and done. if paying tax in my state around $650, shipped.

is that a good deal? doesn't sound like. i am thinking $350 tops, $250 for the engine itself with 10,000 miles on it! wrecked, too. but what do i know!!

wheelbender6 · Post by **wheelbender6** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:02 am

If it is really a Genuine engine, the metallurgy is superior to a mainland China GY6 mill. The Genuine engine is less likely to suffer oil leaks, stripped threads and other structural failures.

CapnK · Post by **CapnK** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:45 am

Granted, it is a PGO/Genuine GY6 design which, when new, is likely _vastly_ superior to most new PRC GY6 designs.

But - at 10K miles & who-knows-how-it-was-treated later, for nominally 20% the total cost of a brand new PGO/Genuine scoot which will have a 2 (or even 3) year warranty? Maybe not so much.

If you could get a compression test, an oil analysis, hear it run, and so on and it all checked out hunky-dory - then it could possibly be worth that to someone who really needed it.

Personally though, I would take a pass at spending any kind of real money on an unseen, untested, and unheard small engine with 10K miles on it, one that I have no idea of it's maintenance history, even if my only other choice was to gamble on a PRC version of lower quality but brand new nonetheless, in order to get my scoot running.

Even better though, I'd wait and put the $600 towards saving the rest needed for a new PGO/Genuine engine. At $600, I would wager you are at least halfway there, and probably more. What's a new one cost? I doubt it is more than 30% the total retail price of a whole scooter.

Heck - if you were a gambling type of person, buy the PRC engine and use it, while putting the leftover $300 in your "gonna get a real Genuine engine" account. By the time the PRC engine craps out, you should have the rest saved and ready for a real powerplant.

Of course, this is all idle conjecture and personal opinion and YMMV by 0-100%.

lovemysan · Post by **lovemysan** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 2:02 pm

You could rebuild the motor completely for $600-900. Depending on how much you wanted to spend on labor.