St Pete Scooter

My experience with St Pete Scooter was excellent. Ron, the owner, was very helpful in helping my son pick out a scooter to ride to and from college. We could not be happier with the service from Ron and his team. We looked at lots of places in town and chose St Pete Scooter because Ron showed us the pluses and minuses of the various scooters and which would fit my son best. Thanks Ron — and also say thanks to your service guys who explained that we would be in good hands with them after the sale was over!

I had a horrible experience here my second time around. I waited a month to post this because i was so frustrated with what happened and I wanted to be as subjective as possible.
I personally love keeping it local because every dollar put in your community comes back to help the area 3 times.
I also believe that if I do not have enough time I will not diy, even though I could have done all of this work (i have done motor swaps on cars and have worked on this scooter before when I had the spare time)
I originally brought this scooter in for three minor problems, a new carburetor, a brake light switch (this part goes bad frequently on chinese scooters), and a front master brake cylinder.
The good about st pete scooter, other than the owner/​manager, the crew here, including the mech on duty are very helpful and friendly.
The Bad —
The owner who is in charge of the price quoting tried to rip me off, and this is how.
Other than telling me that I have an extremely low end scooter, he changed my price quote about 5 times in a 4 day span. I dropped off my scooter on a thursday to have a simple brake light switched, and to have my carburetor replaced (which i purchased on my own)
My broken light bulb went from being a broken magneto to my whole wiring harness is burned out to its my broken light bulb when i picked it up.
I have recently inspected the wiring system with a multimeter and a physical inspection shows the wiring to be in good shape.
Now the first time I brought this scooter in around 40 – 60 miles before I broke the lookout glass on my brake master cylinder they had replaced my whole front end braking system including rim and tire. They wanted to replace the whole thing again for 400 dollars and kept insisting that it is impossible to get a brake master cylinder part on its own when I know that is not true
the part is 30 dollars on ebay and St Petes local parts supplier which I called just to verify had the part in stock but they do not sell to the public,
I told the owner not to do anything to the scooter other than the work they had already done which was the carb replacement after hearing all this about my «electrical system» and my «low end scooter» (the original quote was for a little bit over half a mechanic hour 75 bucks) all of a sudden my price quote jumped another 50 dollars for a fuel draining.
Being familiar with the auto industry, it normally costs a car or light suv 35 — 50 dollars to have a gas tank emptied out.
I do not recommend doing business with this place as it has left a bad taste in my mouth. I genuinely feel bad for the nice and generous staff who have to deal with a manager who is purposely destroying his business’ name like this for the sake of greed

This place is terrible. Do not go here! They are rude and talk to you like you are stupid. They are extremely overpriced and take forever. If I could select zero stars I would!

Fixed my Vespa fuel leak and did an oil change. Fast and helpful!