Driving any vehicle requires a bit more care and attention when driving around in the rain, as they start behaving differently and often lose grip so have a look at the points below and remembering them the next time it raining and you out on your mobility scooter.
Avoiding Puddles
Try and avoid puddles as much as possible, because you can’t see how deep they are and you might ground your scooter out or even get a puncher which could then slow you down and get you even more wet. Also be considerate to others and try not to splash people because you know how annoying it is when it happens to you and you don’t want to give people that use a mobility scooter a bad reputation.
Keep The Electrics Dry
As we all know electrics and water don’t mix to well, if water does get onto the electrics the scooter may stop working or even start acting erratically. To prevent this from happening you could get a tiller cover which helps in preventing water from getting to the electrics located with the head of the scooter. If you have an electric wheelchair or powerchair you can also get a joystick cover which will do the same job.
Click to see the tiller cover
Drive Safety
It is important that you take extra care when you are travelling when the floor is wet and if you are driving in puddles then please drive slower as you don’t want the mobility scooter to aquaplane and then lose total control. Also remember that your stopping distance will be increased much the same as it would with a car.
Safe at Home
If you are at home and your planning to go out and it does start raining, you might want to rethink about going journey, is it important that you need to go out now or can it wait for an hour or so to see if the rain stops.
What To Do If You Do Get Caught Out
It will happen at some point, but no matter how much you plan your journey you will get caught out. So the important thing to try and do is to dry the scooter out and double check that all the functions are working correctly and if they not, give your local 1st Step Mobility shop a call and we will come out and sort the issue out for you.
