Which fold up mobility scooter

BrianCharless

I suggested you buy this CityCruzer Foldable Mobility Scooter.

BrianCharless

Yes,I recommand you to purchase E Wheels EW-M39. 4-Wheel Scooter.

GreenTed

You could get an OT to assess privately as it depends on their individual needs/conditions.  I spent months umm-ing & ah-ing, wishing I could go out, trying out as many as I could and drawing up a big comparison table then eventually went with a reconditioned TGA Minimo plus. I can just about lever it into the boot (it folds) & getting it out is a doddle.  If levering it becomes too much I'll get hoist.  It's a great scooter, very lightweight battery - I needed adjustable tiller & armrests (up & down) and pneumatic tyres (have dodgy neck, had awful experience test-driving one which just had suspension) - I hope this illustrates how people have individual needs.  I'm sorry to say, be slightly wary of what salespeople say.

Dragonfly_wing

Coming, relatively late to this thread, i did a lot of research last year looking for a folding lightweight mobility scooter. From my shortlist of 6 or so I eventually compromised on the TGA Minimo Plus model - lithium battery but 29kg which I can just about manage and folding at the touch of a button. All great you might think, but actually the deciding point for me was the range - quoted as up to 12 miles on their website. I have never achieved more than 3 miles on one charge!! Do not get this model and don't believe the marketing. I am fortunate in that the retailer I used have been very supportive, did their own testing to confirm the poor range and ordered new parts in an attempt to improve this but while some improvement, have not got the product to give anything like the described range. Sadly the scooter is not fit for the purpose I wanted, to give me more idependence. The manufacturer, TGA, has refused to accept liability for offering a product which is not as described. They are quite right in that my pirchase contract is with the retailer but it is the product that is faulty and there seems to be no recourse . My advice, such as it is, is to be very careful! BTW, the retailer no longer stocks or will provide TGA products, such has been the negative experience.

teddysmum

Many care  equipment sellers only stock certain makes, so staff push those as best, even if they are rubbish, so somewhere that deals mainly with wheelchairs or scooters and not other items is more likely to be helpful. Some dealers don't even know the difference between a scooter and a wheelchair.
Advice that I received was that electric wheelchairs are suitable for indoors , even if very lightweight and outdoors if heavier, as a small person using a very light chair can be blown about, and with special construction like larger wheels if needed to be used other than in flat areas such as shopping centres. Some scooters are dangerous. as they are too flimsy, but larger ones go faster and further, but are not suitable for indoors, due to power and size.

The weight of a folding electric wheelchair can be overcome by using very strong but light aluminium ramps to load into a car boot.

MouldyOldDough

Whatever you do - don't fall for or buy a LUGGIE scooter (advertised on TV) - They are hugely overpriced and unsafe (the front wheels are too close together  - you may as well call it a 3 wheeler) they are unstable !

Grumpy_chap

Ivrytwr3 said:

Inlaws are in their 80's and are looking for a mobility scooter they can put in the car. 

Ivrytwr3 said:

As for getting hands on, yeah they won't. Just want me to sort it - as usual! 

Well, the in-laws really need to get "hands-on" in sorting this as they need to be able to use the mobility scooter plus load / unload to the car on their own.
If they don't have the motivation to make some effort in acquiring the mobility scooter, do they really have the motivation to actually use it once they have it?  You may need to assist them in getting to suitable retailers where the devices can be trialled, but they should be doing the leg-work here no you.

teddysmum

It is important to check that there is a good backup of spare parts, as some cheap mobility machines are imported with no further contact with the manufacturer, so no spares can be obtained.