Re: Honda Dio, Activa and Aviator

check the battery first, if it checks out ok.. then you might need to replace the carbon brushes in the starter motor. also get the starter bendix checked.

Re: Honda Dio, Activa and Aviator

Since i bought it second hand , the previous owner replaced the battery before selling, so battery is new

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Battery is new, i may have to look at carbon brushes in the starter motor

Re: Honda Dio, Activa and Aviator

Hey all, planning to buy dio deluxe, never owned a scooter before.. I have Rc390 but it's too difficult to flick around in bangalore traffic so gave a thought of buying a dio(mileage and look concerned), so my friend reached to me and said the new gen dio have the problem with alignment, dash parts quality and engine issues which occurs early he pointed.! Are those really a actual facts.? Right now I'm bit concerned, can anyone clear me out here please, TIA

Re: Honda Dio, Activa and Aviator

nope. its a nice zippy little scoot to ride around town.
stick to regular maintenance/oil changes (every 2500km) and it should purr along.

Re: Honda Dio, Activa and Aviator

So finally I got my dio today and noticed that brake tightening nut is so close to the end, the play is good at this adjustment though , if I try to tight the nut more the brake lever play gets hard. My question is it in a right adjustment, below is the reference picture.

Re: Honda Dio, Activa and Aviator

I'm not sure of the exact setting in Dio but if you have some play in the lever and the braking is progressive instead of a sudden bite, you are good to go.

Re: Honda Dio, Activa and Aviator

congratulations.
the nut is close to the end because they are new brake shoes with their full friction material intact. perfectly normal. as they wear and you adjust the brakes the nut will move further inward (that nut is used to adjust the brake)
do u notice the pointed arrow tab/marking ^ .. as the brakes wear and u adjust the nut (goes inward) the arrow will move towards the marking on the case, and is an indication of ideal brake shoe wear limit.

Re: Honda Dio, Activa and Aviator

Thanks mate that helped a lot..

Re: Honda Dio, Activa and Aviator

Guys continuing on tyres for my Activa 125 CC. I went around a few dealers over the past few weekends and came up with the following conclusions.
1) Ceat GRIPP is a very good tyre for wet grip and dirt road conditions.
2) Ceat GRIPP comes in tyre-tube combination.
CEAT GRIPP has limited availability in my area. I had go to some distance to talk to a few dealers. And that is fine, as long as I get a tyre that meets my requirements.

One of the dealers also told me that he can fit CEAT GRIPP without the tube. However one of my neighbours told me that, it initially it will work but then after a few months tyres will start to leak air, because the side walls are not strong enough and the bottom portion of the tyre, the portion which connects with the rim, looses its grip.

So my search has reverted back to MRF Meteor M tyres. I am planning to replace both front and rear tyres with block tread pattern tyres.
https://www.mrftyresandservice.com/tyre/90100-10-tl-meteor-m

I am still looking for tubeless only tyres. And I am still looking for tyres with good grip in wet and gravel like conditions. I am not that much concerned about life, but more about safety, stability and grip. So I have 2 more questions
1) Is there any other tubeless tyre brand that I can look for which will give me good grip in wet and gravel like conditions.
2) Does anyone have any experience of using MRF Meteor tyres on Honda two wheelers? If yes can you please give me your inputs? How do fare with respect to wet road and gravel road conditions.

Re: Honda Dio, Activa and Aviator

avoid using a tube type tire as a tubeless.

I had pointed you to a similar block tread pattern tires from TVS (tubeless) pl go thru my earlier post.
the mrf meteor should also be a good choice, especially at the rear.

Re: Honda Dio, Activa and Aviator

so regarding that starter motor issue i had posted a few posts back the cdi of my aviator failed , and the battery is dead too so the mechanic says if the battery isn't charged the cdi will fail again , how true is this statement because i don't think the cdi should be related to low battery as such.

Re: Honda Dio, Activa and Aviator

i've ridden with a dead battery in my dio for two months.. hadn't affected anything, i just had to use the kick starter every-time. I don't think it will cause a cdi to fail.
how was it diagnosed as cdi failure ? did u swap it with another cdi and check ?
if the battery is dead, make sure you check it's not a bad stator coil or RR unit before replacing the battery.. any mechanic or battery shop will be able to test this.

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So the scooty died and it would not start even with the kick , but on changing the cdi it started with the kick , also the battery is new (bought it second hand and the previous owner had replaced with new battery , have asked for warranty card)

Re: Honda Dio, Activa and Aviator

In continuation with above post got the battery charged and it's dead(not charging) but the scooty is again not starting and mechanic says the second cdi may have also shot but am not sure that the cdi would short in less than 24hrs in a distance of less than 1.5 km. So what should I do now ?

Re: Honda Dio, Activa and Aviator

like i said before.. if battery isn't charging it is most likely a problem with the stator coil or rr unit. you need to have the voltages checked at the battery, especially with the scoot running and the throttle around half way.. it should read around 14.2 V .. this indicates that the battery is being charged.
a cdi should not conk out like this normally.
you might also want to get the wiring checked thoroughly for any short circuits or wrong connections due to tampering by previous owner.

take it to a authorized service center and get their opinion..(just tell them it isn't starting, and not about cdi issues etc..)