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High end wheelchairs are the opposite of repairable. A friend of mine has to use one because of his disability. It was the only model that met his particular ne
by Loughla 1y ago
High end wheelchairs are the opposite of repairable. A friend of mine has to use one because of his disability. It was the only model that met his particular needs for his disability, and was around 14k when he bought it.
He can't even change the battery pack without sending it back to the company. The horn shorted out, and if we had disabled it (he can't even use it), it would've voided the entire warranty. Fuck, one of the wheel spoke things cracked and we couldn't even put a new wheel on it, because they only sell the wheels as part of the lower chassis to the tune of 5k.
It's obscenely expensive to have a disability in the US, and these companies take advantage of people who just want to have basic mobility. It's really disgusting.
- sokoloff 1y ago> if we had disabled it (he can't even use it), it would've voided the entire warranty. The Magnuson-Moss Act pretty surely falsifies that claim by the manufacturer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warran...