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Choosing the Right Scooter – The Ultimate Guide (Part 1)
17 October 2024 - by Matt Stanfield
Choosing the Right Scooter

We stock a wide variety of mobility scooters here at Lifestyle & Mobility. They are a big investment, and, what’s more, they will play an extremely important role in your life. Mobility scooters are all about liberating users, giving them a new lease on freedom.

Finding an Affordable Scooter

Let’s start out with the most obvious point – how to find a mobility scooter which suits your budget. You may be eligible to lease a scooter via the Motability scheme, but, if not, don’t worry, there are plenty of options. For example, we can offer part-exchange and payment plans in our stores. Or, if travelling to one of our stores is too difficult, there are the Approved Used mobility scooters on the Lifestyle & Mobility website. Check back regularly with this page, if you are wanting to go with a second-hand mobility product. After all, this selection is being continuously updated.

Think you’re out of options? Think again! We work with multiple finance providers to make buying the scooter of your dreams easier than you might imagine. Klarna, Clearpay, and Snap! Finance all make it simple to secure finance for a mobility scooter purchase.

Last but not least, Lifestyle & Mobility will always endeavour to match any direct competitor like-for-like on scooter prices. And that like-for-like offer is complemented by our commitment to making our website’s prices the lowest around.

Scooter Storage

19kg Lightweight Folding CarbonLite Mobility Scooter by JBHStoring your scooter might not be the most glamourous consideration when choosing the right scooter. Yet it is massively important. The last thing you want is to get your brand new scooter and realise that there’s no room in your property to store it. Whilst you can buy from a comprehensive collection of scooter wet weather protection, you may prefer the option of a mobility scooter which can be stored fully indoors. Or, at the very least, you may want a scooter with a battery that can be charged off-board, indoors and out of the rain. Many of the smaller and/or folding mobility scooters, such as the LuXe Mobility CarbonLite shown opposite, have this functionality, so are well worth a look if you want more choice of charging locations.

Scooter size is also important for scooter storage. The amount of space which your mobility scooter physically occupies is significant in other ways. Public transport, for one. Public transport service providers, such as bus companies, often have quite strict rules about the maximum dimensions of scooters allowed onboard.

What Will I Use my Scooter for?

Obviously your intended use for your new mobility scooter is at the heart of the decision-making process. It may be that you want a scooter to take in the boot of the car for use further afield. In this case, a smaller scooter would be a strong choice. If you are wanting a little more comfort and performance, but don’t have the storage space for one of the large scooters, then a mid-sized option could work.

Medium-sized mobility scooters are sometimes overlooked. But, they have increased performance capacity relative to smaller scooter models. Combined with the ergonomic advantages of their smaller size, they are worth considering as an “all-rounder”

On the right of this paragraph, you can see the LuXe Mobility X700 DeluXe Mobility Scooter, due onto the market as a new mid-sized scooter in the very near future. This scooter is as good an example as any of what you can expect from a mid-sized mobility scooter. Technically, it falls most neatly into the “pavement scooter” category.

What is a pavement scooter then? They often have what is known as a take-down function. This means that they can be taken apart to an extent, making storage more straightforward than might be expected. You may notice that when choosing the right scooter, storage and manoeuvrability come up time and again. This is partly because mobility scooters are valuable, and you’ll ideally want to be able to store your scooter inside. Secondly, being able to transport a mobility scooter in a car boot is a desirable function.

But you may have other priorities for your scooter. And that is what Part 2 of this guide will be looking at.

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