Harrier Plus Wheelchair

You have my every sympathy, it’s so annoying when the chair simply packs up, especially if it’s without warning.

My Invacare Typhoon has conked out a couple of times when I’ve been out and about, but on both occasions it was down to a loose connection. Last time I managed to instruct a friendly passer-by how to reconnect it. Sometimes you do meet some really helpful people out there…

I have also had a major breakdown which was supposedly because of the chair getting wet. Fortunately, in many ways, the chair didn’t grind to a halt until a few days later, and when I was at home. But the engineer was pretty certain that it was being caught out in a downpour those few days earlier that had caused the breakdown. Which took ages to fix, and was very expensive.

I do sometimes wonder what would happen if it broke down when I was out on my own, and how on earth I’d ever get home. We could do with a sort of RAC for powered wheelchairs.

Anyway, hope yours gets fixed soon.

Unfortunately I have been told to do exactly that, cover the controls. It’s a design fault & a massive flaw to design & build an outdoors chair & not have the pilot control built as a sealed unit, which mine isn’t. I too have to look like a plonker riding round with a carrier bag over the hand & unit in rain if I’m not wearing me waterproof poncho. I don’t have your model though Charlotte & can’t advise you more. I just hope you get it sorted ASAP. Mine’s been waiting for Hewerdine to return with new batteries & castors for the front for nearly two months now. Whilst it’s still been working it has now unfortunately developed a grinding noise from the rear wheels, bearings I assume, which has grounded me altogether .

Hopefully a bit of a summer will mean you don’t have to worry about getting it wet once you’re out again

The old fella that comes out to me in the big van told me the batteries were special size & that’s why there’s been a hold up apparently. They wouldn’t come & replace the split wheels knowing they’d have to come out again with new batteries. I haven’t been stuck indoors two months, I carried on using it until the week before last when it developed the grinding but, trying to chase Hewrdine up & get any information is like

I commented on another thread out there, somewhere (Woogy spins as in space temporarily)… The man came Monday, replaced front wheels, new batteries & tightened everything up & reassured me on the noise from a rear wheel was sorted. After I went out yesterday I came home earlier than I planned cos lights were going out already on the pilot control after a very short distance & the noise from the rear wheel/wheels is still there :bang:.

I will do my best to discharge the batteries & then fully charge a few times, hoping they reach a capacity & speed I’m used to. Otherwise Hewerdine I’d rather have me old ones back !

I can confidently say I do nothing, wobbling with me stick or riding the chariot, with any of those qualities