Hi.We all know of the Old X9 500 SL with factory Thermostat, not warming up and over fueling killing the oil cog and contaminating the oil, i have had this recent, but was on ball, kept checking oil and any slight whiff of petrol i did oil change, must of done about 20 oil changes to make sure oil cog did not sit in petrol all night till my next ride out while waiting to get a thermostat from fowlers ( needed to save up will bills coming out )
So rather than wait to save for the pricey replacement from fowlers, a fellow X9 rider recommend the Kymco Downtown 300 that he has done to his X9.
And it worked, now it warms up to half way in few mins and stays there all day, done 500 miles on it now and works perfect, cost me £30 off eBay. The X9 MPG is now averaging about 65MPG and runs lovely, not drinking petrol, rather sipping it and i am not a slow rider, i am flying about sometimes 90mph to catch up while out with the big boys keeping up with a mate on a BMW GS1250 and others on over 1000cc bikes and still doing very well on petrol, before this it was very bad on fuel.
NEW VS OLD:
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