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Hi all.
May anyone suggest the recpommended tools and consumables required for the periodic service of the PCX 150 2012?

Thanks

First tool I'd buy is a nice black 1" thick 6' long exercise matt to keep your bones off of the concrete.
Best tool I ever bought! ( actually dozed off during a brake bleed. Roll of paper towels for pillow)
Fish

Fish, I thought about buying one of those shop Mat assemblies that look like a puzzle (you assemble it by putting the puzzle squares together), but I wondered how I could use it with the PCX. If I put it together to cover my work area I don't think I could put the PCX on it on the bike center Stand. So, how do you use yours?

Mel46 wrote:Fish, I thought about buying one of those shop Mat assemblies that look like a puzzle (you assemble it by putting the puzzle squares together), but I wondered how I could use it with the PCX. If I put it together to cover my work area I don't think I could put the PCX on it on the bike center Stand. So, how do you use yours?

If I'm working on the right side of the scooter - I put a couple sheets of newsprint under the offending area, then I roll out the 3 foot wide - 6 foot long mat on the right side of the scooter.
Lay out my tools, get a roll of paper towels, put on my blue rubber gloves, put my head on the paper towel roll and pretend I'm working on the scooter.

It's not a puzzle mat, it's a roll of soft cushion to exercise on, but DO get the thick stuff, and in black so the knuckle blood doesn't show.


The mat is for ME, not the scooter. Me. My knees. My shoulders. If ever I pass out from the excitement of scooterin' mechanics - I try to hit the mat.

I don't even get down to check the air in the tires without first throwing that mat down.
And, when you buy it in Dick's Sporting Goods - the girls at the cash register, and in line behind you in their leotards - think you are a regular exercising fool. She actually said, "Good luck with your sit-ups!"

Like, you know, just sayin', you know .....like that's ever going to happen!

Well. maybe if a lit Marlboro roll under me!

Fish

Invariably if I start on one side of the bike i will end up on the other side for some unknown reason. My wife tells me to get a mat for both sides of the bike, but you can bet that if I do that I will end up working on the front.

In any case, I will eventually buy a mat of some sort because my knees and old bones feel the basement floor and don't like it.

In answer to the original question, consider a full metric socket set and a JIS screw driver. Oh, and a set of automotive trim removal tools. (They are quite cheap but come in quite handy for removing the panels.)

Welcome to our forum(s) Zaphod!
Below are links to other threads on the subject of "Tools." Enjoy gathering yours!

http://www.hondapcx.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1134
http://www.hondapcx.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=902

fish wrote:First tool I'd buy is a nice black 1" thick 6' long exercise matt to keep your bones off of the concrete.
Best tool I ever bought! ( actually dozed off during a brake bleed. Roll of paper towels for pillow)
Fish

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This pool float "mat" would serve that purpose. Highly visible and comes with a built-in headrest
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Texas-Rec-Spla ... Sw1fJa-1-v