Reliability of the Quickie S-series: my personal experience

Btw, as an aside, the "on the street" word is that the gearbox/motor combo is weak and breaks easily. I don't know for sure , we'll see. If you have any experience with these motor/gearboxes failing, I'd like to hear about it. Anyway, the winter is over and time for me to come out of hibernation. So I guess I'll find out soon enough for myself. (written July, 02)

And find out I did! The drivetrain failed numerous times. In fact three complete sets of motors/hubs/wheels were retrofited within the first few months. Each one failing sooner than the preceding. Finally I had to coercise (can one say lawyer on the internet?) Quickie into replacing the whole chair with their S-626 redesign, the S-646.

The early production S-646 they sent failed in a couple weeks. The left drive wheel hub broke off. Not allowing Quickie to continue with the fiasco of swapping out components like on the S-626, I made them send me a brand new, hot off the design shelf S-646-SE. It failed in three days.

Now you may have visions of me leaping off tall buildings in order to break so many drivetrains. I have muscular dystrophy. Leaping off even little buildings is difficult these days! That last Quickie, the S-646-SE, never was driven out of my house.

So Quickie gave a total refund. Again, the dirty word "lawyer" had to be utilized. Quickie is not a user-friendly company. In the nine months I let this Quickie farce go on I logged only 63 hours on ALL the S-626's and S-646's combined. I was very lucky the old P-200 lasted these extra months. (written Oct, 05)