Motability Car compatible with powered wheelchair

anguk

Have you had a look at a Fiat Qubo? My husband is getting his in a few weeks time and it has loads of space in the back, especially if you put some of the seats down, and it's quite high so you could have a hoist fitted and I'm pretty sure a powered chair would fit in it. My husband's is a diesel automatic and best of all it's nil advance payment.

http://www.fiat.co.uk/fiat-qubo

skeggysteve

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I currently have a Electric Mobility Turnabout 312 which is an ideal chair for me. However the problem I have is that it will not hoist into my current motability car whole. It needs the seat lifting off prior to hoisting the base unit into the car. The lifting off of the seat (and putting it back on) is getting too difficult for me to do alone. This is because the chair with seat folded is too high for my current Focus Estate (the folded chair height is 84cms).
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The Turnabout is a good chair and if it's ideal for you then don't change the chair I'll bet you use the chair more than you use the car.

I've seen a hoist (sorry can't remember the maker) where the hoist attached to the chair via a clamp that fits to the seat post.
With the seat back folded it was able to lift the chair into back of a
car - I think it was a Citroen Picasso.

Until a couple of years ago I fixed mobility equipment for a living and am not surprised you find it difficult to remove and replace the seat - they a very heavy and finding the seat post hole is a right pain!