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After the effort of kicking that door in, he probably didn't have the energy to walk away let alone run, he needed the mobility scooter to make his escape. :)
 
The mind boggles. At least he's conforming with Covid mask-wearing regs when inside retail premises :D
 
Fuji Dave said:
I never knew they cost so much.
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I saw one in a shop window in town that was identical to the one a neighbour has and it was just under £1000.

The retailer said it was a one-off custom-made model so that's probably why it's so expensive.
 
Wheelchairs cost more than most people spend on cars and have to be replaced every few years. :(

My current one cost £11,200.00, the two previous ones a little over £6,000.00 each and before that a mobility scooter that cost a little over £5,000.00.

For the average car to be modified to take a wheelchair the cost is around £35,000.00 on top of the price of the car. To modify a bathroom for wheelchair use costs between £5 - 10,000.00.

The above prices are all excluding VAT so people think us 'raspberries' do OK - lucky for us huh? :banghead:
 
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Marc said:
My one was a pretty basic model and that was about £3k new so £10k for a top of the range one with bespoke paint job is probably about right. I bought mine for £320 2nd hand.
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Sky said:
Wheelchairs cost more than most people spend on cars and have to be replaced every few years. :(

My current one cost £11,200.00, the two previous ones a little over £6,000.00 each and before that a mobility scooter that cost a little over £5,000.00.

For the average car to be modified to take a wheelchair the cost is around £35,000.00 on top of the price of the car. To modify a bathroom for wheelchair use costs between £5 - 10,000.00.

The above prices are all excluding VAT so people think us 'raspberries' do OK - lucky for us huh? :banghead:
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My god they are costly.
A friend from many years ago spent a lot on his too and even had his car adapted and he was one of the safest drivers I have known.
 
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Sky said:
Wheelchairs cost more than most people spend on cars and have to be replaced every few years. :(

My current one cost £11,200.00, the two previous ones a little over £6,000.00 each and before that a mobility scooter that cost a little over £5,000.00.

For the average car to be modified to take a wheelchair the cost is around £35,000.00 on top of the price of the car. To modify a bathroom for wheelchair use costs between £5 - 10,000.00.

The above prices are all excluding VAT so people think us 'raspberries' do OK - lucky for us huh? :banghead:
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Yes, it does cost a lot of money to be disabled. My chair is a manual one made up of a rigid titanium frame and even that cost £3k. Having our bathroom done in a couple of weeks and that's costing £8k. Fortunately, both were VAT exempt.
 
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Marc said:
Yes, it does cost a lot of money to be disabled. My chair is a manual one made up of a rigid titanium frame and even that cost £3k. Having our bathroom done in a couple of weeks and that's costing £8k. Fortunately, both were VAT exempt.
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I’m in the same boat 5k for a wheelchair that’s basically a reconfigured push bike. They’ve got us but the nads, everything is over priced for what it is, £400 For my cushion(-(But when needs must, what can you do. Just spent 2.5k on a second hand Tga mobility scooter which are nearly 6k new.
 
Fuji Dave said:
My god they are costly.
A friend from many years ago spent a lot on his too and even had his car adapted and he was one of the safest drivers I have known.
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I use hand controls on mine. While sitting waiting for the wife I started looking through the digital menu. Turns out I’m a careful driver with an average speed of 15 mph :)
 
Leroy4bz said:
I use hand controls on mine. While sitting waiting for the wife I started looking through the digital menu. Turns out I’m a careful driver with an average speed of 15 mph :)
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My mates was all hand control as he sadly lost his legs as a child, but he was a fantastic safe driver.
 
Leroy4bz said:
I’m in the same boat 5k for a wheelchair that’s basically a reconfigured push bike. They’ve got us but the nads, everything is over priced for what it is, £400 For my cushion(-(But when needs must, what can you do. Just spent 2.5k on a second hand Tga mobility scooter which are nearly 6k new.
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Ouch. Although I bought my wheelchair privately, wheelchair services supply my cushion so at least I don't have to pay for that but yes, they're bloody expensive!

Leroy4bz said:
I use hand controls on mine. While sitting waiting for the wife I started looking through the digital menu. Turns out I’m a careful driver with an average speed of 15 mph :)
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Yes, I use hand controls as well. Fortunately I made the switch just as I changed my motabilty car a couple of years vago so it didn't cost me anything although I'm looking at having electronic ones when I change next year and that will cost!

Fuji Dave said:
Got to say I really am shocked at some of the prices, sadly they hit the disabled folk in the pocket but it is a must for if you want to carry on in life.
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Unfortunately, if you associate any product with disability, the price seems to go up considerably. Mrs F has a horse and the word 'equestrian' appears to have a similar effect.
 
Disability kit SHOULD be more reliable than "normal" stuff - if my throttle linkage breaks, it's a PITA but I can walk away until it's sorted (and use another car - any car) but someone who had adaptations can't (usually) just step across into another vehicle.

Mrs Nod's old XK8 seemed to have an extra loading on its spares too. I reckon her current MX-5 cost about the same to buy and run as the Jag was costing to keep on the road over the years she's had it!
 
Marc said:
Unfortunately, if you associate any product with disability, the price seems to go up considerably. Mrs F has a horse and the word 'equestrian' appears to have a similar effect.
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The same goes for marine and aviation. Although in both these cases it's often better quality, in most cases it's not - just plain old profiteering. :mad:
 
After FiL died I was unable to even give his hospital bed or adapted chair away. I can understand the chair as it was adapted for him, but the bed?
 
Sky said:
Wheelchairs cost more than most people spend on cars and have to be replaced every few years. :(

My current one cost £11,200.00, the two previous ones a little over £6,000.00 each and before that a mobility scooter that cost a little over £5,000.00.

For the average car to be modified to take a wheelchair the cost is around £35,000.00 on top of the price of the car. To modify a bathroom for wheelchair use costs between £5 - 10,000.00.

The above prices are all excluding VAT so people think us 'raspberries' do OK - lucky for us huh? :banghead:
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Having read your post,Trevor, I realised that I was probably referring to a mobilty scooter when mentioning my neighbour. £1000. The sort that mobility scooter hire centres in cities have so not an electric wheelchair. Also, her husband lifts it into the back of their car. There's a chap who regularly drives along our road on a scooter ..even in the rain..and I had to laugh one day when he had a young man standing on the rear.Probably his grandson. I'd have thought that wasn't permitted.

An edit. I've just mentioned it to my wife and yes, the neighbour has a scooter and she also told me that one day she saw the chap I mentioned drive by with...probably his wife..in tow in her wheelchair. :rolleyes:
 
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The small-wheeled pavement scooters that you see are only any good on perfect, level surfaces; good pavements, shops, malls etc. to carry lightweight people. Give them the slightest incline to climb and they come to a grinding halt and they are downright dangerous near kerbs.

The bigger wheeled heavy-duty looking ones are better for hills and getting up and down kerbs, use on roads and for heavier people. These are the ones regularly used by the clinically obese because they can't stop feeding their face.

Any extra weight (like a child) added to the back of either makes them liable to tip over backwards, so is very dangerous. You're right of course, it isn't permitted for this reason.

With wheelchairs, these vary from the £100.00 pieces of junk you see in Chemists' windows for pushing granny along - small wheels and foldable for the car, all the way up to electric machines that can maintain life-support and the prices they cost are simply staggering. :eek:
 
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