Guides
How to identify a Chinese machine and buy the right part for it
Six guides covering the whole workflow: finding the label, reading the codes on it, and verifying a part before money changes hands. All free, none of it behind an account.
Identify what you own
Start here. Everything else on the site depends on knowing which record is yours.
- Where is the emission sticker on a Chinese scooter, ATV or go-kart?The regulator's own guidance was written for cars and tells you to look under a hood. Where the label actually is, by body style.
- How to decode an engine family number, character by characterModel year, importer, road or off-road, and engine size — all encoded in one string. Verified against the full certificate set.
- Chinese scooter and ATV VIN prefixes, decodedWhat the first three characters mean, which factory each belongs to, and how to read the model year from position 10.
Buy the right part
The registry narrows the search. These pages stop you turning a shortlist into a wrong order.
- Same factory does not mean same partWhy part numbers cannot be cross-referenced on these machines, and the measurements that actually decide fitment.
- Free printable measuring gaugesTrue-size sheets for belts, rollers, carburettor spigots and bolt patterns. Print at 100% and lay the part on the paper.
- Your brand is gone. Here is who built your scooter.What to do when the importer has vanished — and why the factory that built the engine usually has not.