Piaggio Zip Review

Bought a piaggio zip 50 cc, at first loved the bike, it looked cool and was zippy and quick around traffic. But then it developed a squeal or squeek occasionally when it started, took it back for a check up at the dealers and got accused of running it without oil!!!! like I would ignore the oil light, any more than I would ignore the petrol light. Many arguments later, I took the bike back for test run, for the first 2 weeks it was fine and then just started dieing while driving. you would be "heading down the highway" (ok then, not really, its only a scooter, but that sounded better than street) and then suddenly looking for a curb to roll into. After a few minutes it would start and go as normal and then do the same and the same again till in the end it was block to block. Back it went and was told the same old story it had been run without oil. So I am now scooterless and pennyless. Awaiting progress from corospondance.

My question to anyone out there who is not a moron and would not run their scooter without oil. Have any of you had problems like that.... either squeeling noise. Or any malfunction that could have been caused by a lack of oil to engine (caused by some internal fault of mechanics or air lock etc not blindness, cause last time I looked you needed sight to ride a scooter) and also sudden death of power while driving but still having a normally preforming scooter in between pain in the "banned word" faults...dissapointments all round and I was so looking forward to an italian summer's scooter riding, had even bought a summer dress which wont look so cool on the bus...!!????