Eventually the time comes when your mobility scooter is needing a repair and your choices are either to do the repair yourself or to have a professional do the repairs for you.

With either option you will have to pay for any parts as a mimimum but as this is about having to pay for mobility scooter repairs then to have it done by a professional there will usually be costs involved for the actual repair work too.

If the person who is going to do the repairs for you is able to determine the exact problem straight away and is sure that it wont involve any other parts then you should be able to get a good idea of how much it will cost you.

But with the possibility that it might not be that specific part which is the problem or that a few areas of the mobility scooter need seeing to then the costs might increase somewhat.

Sometimes the cost of the repair compared to the age and worth of the mobility scooter might not make economic sense and it might not be worth forking out for repairs on a mobility scooter that is quite a few years old and likely to have more problems in the near future.

But for a mobility scooter that is still worth getting repaired it usually is worth the costs involved, although predicting the total costs without first knowing which area of the scooter is at fault is difficult.

When you have a fault with your mobility scooter and need to get is checked out by a professional you should get a quote from them first to give you at least an idea of how much you can expect to pay.

Dont simply agree to work being done without knowing what is actually at fault and what they will either be taking a look at for you or actually replacing.

You need to find out the absolute minimum that it will cost you and then you should be asking questions to get an idea of how much is could cost beyond that minimum so that you dont agree to work that still might not fully solve the problem but still costs you.

Once you are clear on what will be worked on and how much you are paying for parts and fitting then you can determine if its actually worth spending that amount or if it might be cheaper in the long run to purchase a new mobility scooter.

Naturally you want to know how far you can travel on your mobility scooter so that you dont have to worry about having enough power left in the batteries to get you back from your journey.

A number of things can determine how far you can travel, one of the more obvious being whether you have a full charge in the batteries, although this itself cannot guarantee a certain amount of use because of problems that can occur from time to time like the battery not holding a full charge or showing an incorrect level of charge left in the batteries.

If there are any recent problems that you may have experienced with your mobility scooter then this can make a difference too as to whether you will get the expected distance from your mobility scooter.

If you haven’t had any recent problems with your scooter and maybe only usually use it for short journey’s then you can get a rough idea of the maximum distance you could travel on it by seeing how much power one of your shorter journey’s takes from the battery.

Overall it wouldn’t be wise to travel too far on a mobility scooter, for example if a journey is far enough to need a car and also if a journey would involve a lot of busy roads then this is worth taking into consideration and not only the matter of how far your mobility scooter might take you.

A mobility scooter can get you around but if you ever have a doubt about how much power might be left to get you back home or to wherever you wish to return to then dont take any chances.

Even if someone has the same make and model as your own and they tell you that you can take it so far, theres always the chance that your battery might have a fault or that another part is not functioning as expected or that a component could malfunction while you are out on your mobility scooter.

These are problems that you hope not to have to face while using your scooter, at least not too often, but they can and do happen.

Take these various possibilities into consideration when attempting to estimate how far you can travel on your mobility scooter.

Question

I bought new batteries for my scooter and charged them up for 12 hours, only to find out when i went just a short journey the green on my battery shown how much was left had dropped two bars and i had to go back home in case they would not get me back, i have used scooters for ten years so i am not a
novice.

If anyone can advise on this matter, please do.