Mobility scooter not as fast as they claim?

now that reminds me! I ran a granny over in a mobility scooter once. She came out of nowhere and tried to cross a roundabout as I was going round it and she toppled over like an unbalanced bowling pin. I have not trusted them since, both grannies and mobility scooters :mad:
 
An unusual thread delivers. Not only on the mobility scooters which quite honestly should be taken off half the old buggers that have them, but the revelation that mrk is a menace to grannies!

mrk said:
now that reminds me! I ran a granny over in a mobility scooter once. She came out of nowhere and tried to cross a roundabout as I was going round it and she toppled over like an unbalanced bowling pin. I have not trusted them since, both grannies and mobility scooters :mad:
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She later claimed I was speeding (remember I was going round a very small roundabout!) and tried to file an injury claim. Needless to say it was dropped fairly quickly. No retirement fund for you granny.
 
Ferritus said:
This is something that has bugged me.

I have a Mobilty scooter. its only a 4MPH one and so I wanted to buy myself one of the faster 8MPH ones.

There are 6MPH options and I could go with one of those, but since I am paying out, I would rather double my speed of course.

Now, using a GPS / Speedo on my Android phone, I took mine up and down the road, to get an idea on how fast it truly was, and sure enough, I am seeing 4MPH and it did smach 5 a few times, and I giggled to myself.

At the end of the run that was about 50 yards up and then down the road, I had an Average of 4MPH and a top speed of 5MPH and so yeah, I liked the app.

Now, I used this very same app in teh shop the other day to compare 2 buggies that I had seen. They were a Rascal 388 and a Rascal 850, and according to the shop, they are both 9MPH machines and according to a coupel of sites that I saw, the 388 could be 4 or 8 ( the LX is 8 but I am unsure as to what exact model the one I was looking at is ) and the 850 is a full 8MPH however, when I had a quick play the other week, they felt abotu the same... Hence me getting the app on the phone before I made any payments.

Now, I went back to teh the shop the other day... Teusday to be exact, and I took both of these buggies out for a good run all teh way up the road, and all teh way back down. The distance was somethign like about 150 yards ( pure guess but its not important ) and I followed as closely as I could along the same line with the second buggy - after all its me I am doing this for and I wanted an honest test didnt I?

Going up teh road, they both did 4 and flicked on 5 and coming back down the road, they were both on 5 and flicked to 6 - admittedly, the 850 did give a Max speed of 7 but I myself did not see 7MPH show up - I am of course looking at the road more than the phone of course, Im not stupid.

I told the shop worked that they both were topping out as 6 MPH buggies and not 8, but even though I showed her the results, she was not too concerned.

Here is what I was thinking though... Do they get slower with age? They must do surely?

So, would I get the full 8MPH back on them, if I was to buy new batteries?

The thing is, the batteries are £130 ewach and they both take 2 of the things, so they are not cheap are they?

Ijn the end, I opted for a different model altogether - I have no clue as to what that one is, its not Rascal or Invacare or even Scoot like my 4MPH one, however, it shot to 7MPH with quite a jolt and stuck there fairly well, so it felt strong and speedy, it kiust looks a bit like a stock car racer more than anything.

So, does anyone know anything about Disability scooters or am I piddling into the wind on my own here?
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