Kids ride on cars

mpj88

mpj88

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Hi all,

Thinking of buying our 4 year old a ride on this Christmas. Any experiences of if its worth paying more? Or good brands to go for?

See cheapy ones at say the range for £100 and then others at around £300.

I guess you might pay for better battery capacity/charge times but anything else to look out for?
 
I bought my son a cheap Mickey Mouse battery trike from B&M for about £30 when he was about 3 and he absolutely loved it! He rode the damn thing from getting up to going to bed and it only got passed on to charity when he was too heavy to ride it at about 8 :D
 
Diagro said:
I bought one for £30. Second hand, (BMW i8 version)
My sons used it 4 times in 8 months.

Its "too slow daddy".

So' i have some 12 -> 24V boxes to go in before the motors. That will speed it up a little. haha
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Haha, I did this! Bought a cheap 2nd hand Mini with a single 6v motor driving 1 wheel. By the following weekend it was 12v and 2WD.

It eventually ended up 2WD and 24v (although I was tempted to try and find the bits to make it 4WD). It didn't last long before the stock wiring went up in smoke but while it worked it was FAST! I had to run to keep up with it.

I don't think wanting to have a go in it myself did it any favours though, that wiring was NOT happy. I have a bunch of relays here ready to re-wire it, which I need to do before my son gets too big for it.
 
mpj88 said:
Hi all,

Thinking of buying our 4 year old a ride on this Christmas. Any experiences of if its worth paying more? Or good brands to go for?

See cheapy ones at say the range for £100 and then others at around £300.

I guess you might pay for better battery capacity/charge times but anything else to look out for?
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Thekwango said:
it's a 4 year old - don't waste your money. they'll be bored in 5 minutes and will have moved on to playing with the boxes and wrapping paper.
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Minstadave said:
They all end up tossed in the shed/garage after a few days and are never used again. Buy second hand if you really must and save them from landfill.
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I have to echo the above posts. We bought one for our lad. All singing and dancing with it's own bluetooth "radio" and parental remote control. Beyond Xmas day it was used twice in the following year, ended up on Marketplace just before Xmas the following year.
 
Thekwango said:
it's a 4 year old - don't waste your money. they'll be bored in 5 minutes and will have moved on to playing with the boxes and wrapping paper.
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I did worry about this!

Diagro said:
I bought one for £30. Second hand, (BMW i8 version)
My sons used it 4 times in 8 months.

Its "too slow daddy".

So' i have some 12 -> 24V boxes to go in before the motors. That will speed it up a little. haha
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This is partly my thoughts, if i get a rubbish one that's too slow. So don't want to spend so much that if its a waste, but don't want to spend to little that its too slow!
 
I think it's situational as to where you live.we got one for my daughter in covid times, we had the money set to one side for a birthday party for her but when that couldn't happen we just got one as an extra gift as there wan't allot happening through the summer. It's had loads of use, and now my 4 year old son is always driving it around. I think its situational as to where you live. We live in a quiet cul-de-sac and on a day when the weather is nice all of the kids are out in the street playing. I wouldn't have got it if we didn't have the open area around the house to play with it.
 
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