Hello guys and girls, it is Lurgs here, today I am looking at my Vespa GTS 300 and the Rust
problem I have got with it.
Apparently this is not covered by Piaggio warranty which is very disappointing.
My Vespa has done 2,700km which is nothing, it is 4 years old and it is permanently garaged.
So it should be immaculate.
So if I just show you by coming to the front here.
Ok you think yes well this is not too bad.
And then if we look underneath.
It is absolutely terrible, the quality of that is so bad.
I have actually been to a garage to take my Vespa for a service and I saw an older version
of mine and it had a hole underneath on the chassis.
The mechanic guy said it is a known issue and you have to look after it.
If you are buying a second hand one then that is the first thing you should look at.
To treat this problem you need to remove the Battery.
I have another video about how to replace the battery so follow that to remove.
So let us get into the battery compartment.
It is here and has 4 screws to undo. We will take the battery out and then we will be inside the battery compartment.
So just lift the battery out.
And then there is a plastic tray, remove this as well, it just lifts out.
And look at that, I am not impressed with this.
A Vespa is a lot of money to buy so I am not impressed that it is rusting away.
So what I am going to do is a temporary fix until I can get it treated properly at a Rust Garage.
I advise you get this Rust treated properly as soon as you can, take it back to bare metal
and get it treated to prevent further rust.
The more I see it the more angry I get about it,
where is the Piaggio main depot so I can ride it over and show it to them.
I can say where is your Managing Director, I want to show you my Rust!
In England we do have winters and salty roads but I do not use mine that much.
What I am going to do is clean up the rust and then just temporarily treat it with some
rust coat, rust eater would be better.
So just get some white spirit and clean up all the areas of rust.
Ideally scratch it all down with a wire brush.
Give it a good clean and inside the battery compartment.
So here is the rust proof paint (ideally use Rust Eater), stir it well.
I found this old make up brush which is clean, so please do not tell the Wife as she will be furious.
So just get it in here, go for it.
Do the whole lot inside.
Treat all this inside.
Really poor quality this chassis is.
So this is what it is like after 30 minutes.
I have also got some metal white paint to go on once this is all dry.
Leave this for a day to dry.
Hopefully this will stem the rust until I can afford to take it to a Rust Garage for proper treatment.
So this is underneath.
This is the next day now after that has all dried out.
I am painting it with white metal paint.
This is looking so much better than it was.
This is underneath the Vespa.
And this is it after I have finished painting. This looks much better than it was.
It is not the best finish but I want to try to halt the rust until I can get it treated properly.
So this is what it used to look like, just a quick recap.
Not impressed Mister Piaggio.
We will now jump forwards to after the treatment.
And that is what it is looking like now.
So, not happy it has gone rusty but happy with this.
But I advise you get it treated properly before the rust spreads even more.
So hopefully that has helped someone out there.
Cheers Guys and Girls.
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