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2007 Piaggio MP3 250 Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Mar 4, 2008
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
2
Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
0
Reports on file since Jan 14, 2008

What this page shows

Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 2007 Piaggio MP3 250. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

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Steering
Filed Mar 4, 2008
Crash reported

2007 PIAGGIO MP3 250 SCOOTER WITH A FAULTY STEERING MECHANISM. CONSUMER STATES THAT WHEELS DID NOT TURN EVEN THOUGHT THE HANDLE BARS DID. HE ALSO STATES THAT PINCH BOLT WAS NOT INSPECTED BEFORE IT LEFT THE FACTORY AND WAS EXTREMELY LOOSE. *KB THE CONSUMER WAS INFORMED BY THE REPAIR SHOP, THAT THE SCOOTER WAS CONSIDERED TOTALED, BECAUSE THE FRAME WAS BENT AS A RESULT OF THE ACCIDENT.

NHTSA ID
10220576
Incident
Dec 6, 2007
Steering
Filed Jan 14, 2008
Crash reported

STEERING HANDLEBAR CLAMP BOLT LOOSENED CAUSING LOSS OF STEERING CONTROL. I EXITED MY DRIVEWAY ON THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 6TH, 2007, TURNED THE HANDLEBAR OF THE SCOOTER TO THE RIGHT AND ACCELERATED FROM A STANDSTILL. THE SCOOTER HEADED STRAIGHT ACROSS THE STREET AND HIT THE REAR OF A NEIGHBORS VEHICLE. THE SCOOTER SUFFERED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE AND THE DEALERSHIP SAID IT WAS NOT COST EFFECTIVE TO REPAIR. THE SCOOTER IS ONLY 3 MONTHS OLD AND HAS 511 MILES ON THE ODOMETER. UPON EXAMINATION AFTER THE INCIDENT, I DISCOVERED THE LOOSENED BOLT. THERE IS NO OTHER BACKUP RETAINING SYSTEM TO PREVENT HANDLEBAR LOOSING CLAMPING FORCE ON THE STEERING TUBE. THE DESIGN NEEDS TO BE ALTERED TO MAKE THE HANDLEBAR SECURE ON THE STEERING TUBE EVEN IF THE CLAMP BOLT LOOSENED. THE NEIGHBORS VEHICLE SUFFERED MINIMAL DAMAGE, A SMALL DENT AND LOOSENED FENDER TRIM. THE SCOOTER IS A PIAGGIO MP3 250I.E. AND NOT A BV 250 AS INDICATED IN VEHICLE DETAILS SECTION. THE MP3 IS NOT IN THE LIST. *TR

NHTSA ID
10214697
Incident
Dec 6, 2007
Mileage
511 mi

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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