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Wheelchair access 4WD???
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Lum, Did they make it in automatic? If so any ideas where one is for sale, not with Ebay, Autotrader and local VW garage. It would be perfect!!!!!
Just got through to VW head office and the only 4WD auto was the "R" model!!!!!0 -
knightstyle wrote: »need a 4WD to pass other cars on the narrow roads where they live.
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Don't buy a car until you have bought the wheelchair! I live in a very rural area in Wales and have a disabled 13 year old who is immobile and has an electric chair. He travels in this in the car but if for any reason the wheelchair needs to go anywhere without him it is a nightmare. We have a Renault Kangoo with a ramp but the wheelchair is too heavy for me to push up the ramp in manual (and I can easily turn a 80kg ewe over at lambing time so am no weakling!) so you have to drive it in and then get out by the side door - driving it in is an art in itself! Also you will struggle to find a 4 WD with enough headroom for even just the wheelchair without any one driving /sitting in it and those with a lowered floor pan lose the transmission through the back axle. We have looked into this for the past two years as we live in an area that gets quite deep snow and although the council grit to the village they won't grit the mile uphill to our farm and electric wheelchairs are useless in the snow. The best suggestion that we received was to purchase a VW caravelle van with a lift as these come in 4WD but obviously they are expensive and very large and more expensive to run than a Kangoo. My Kangoo is very economical, goes on the fields at shows, copes with the lanes around here and I have had snow tyres put on it for this winter so that at least if we have snow again I can at least fetch my son from school and have some chance of getting home. If you go to a reputable garage they won't let you buy a vehicle until you have tried it with the wheelchair and parents etc.
Google mobility natiowide they have a good choice of wheelchair accessible vehiclesto look at.
Sorry to go on abit!0
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