Strong Electric Wheelchair Hitch Carrier Mobility Ramp

I’m not a verified purchaser because my sister made the purchase back in October 2022 for our dad who has right side paralysis from a stroke. He’s been using this shower wheelchair now daily and he prefers this as his commode – we got rid of the Medicare-covered one which he hated. The seat’s a little small and uncomfortable, but this was the only shower wheelchair that would fit in his ShowerBay shower unit and also has arms that can be lifted out of the way. It’s worked great – though it does seem a little rickety, it’s actually quite sturdy. Two things about it:
1) If you’re wheeling a person and happen to try to lift up on the back of the chair, the whole back piece comes up in your hands! When wheeling it over a threshold, it’s only natural to try to lift up on the chair back, but that’s a no-no. You just need to have enough speed to get over threshold moldings and take ramps slowly (we have a small ramp down to the shower room).
2) Just this week a freak thing happened (see photos). One of the leg pins that secures the wheel shaft to the chair leg popped off. We don’t know how it happened as the pins are quite well-secured by a round clip that mostly surrounds the pole of the chair leg. But somehow or other, one of them popped off without the aide knowing it and so the wheel shaft retracted up into the hollow chair leg (see photo) and the wheel (though locked) was up off the ground when the aide was transferring my dad to the chair. As the chair fell over when the aide lowered my dad onto it, thankfully the aide was able to quickly recover and hold my dad up again until another person in the house could come to help.
The chair was fixed quickly and we don’t understand how that clip could have come off, but it did. So now we have put electrical tape around ALL of those chair leg clips to ensure none of them will pop off. Still, it’s been over a year of using this chair and this is the first time something like this has happened, so we’re overall very happy with this shower-commode wheelchair.
BTW, the way we use the bucket on the commode: the design allows us to squeeze the bucket and pop it off the rails to remove it when my dad has finished his business and it allows us then to clean him and fully bathe him (sponge bath) while he is still sitting in the shower wheelchair, or to then wheel him into the shower for more thorough washing without having to lift him up to remove the bucket. I don’t think that’s what the manufacturers had had in mind, but it works for us as we are often a one-person operation, so there’s not a second person available to help remove the bucket if my dad were lifted up off the chair for a moment to do so. The one plastic railing (for the bucket) broke at one point – seems like an aide who didn’t know what they were doing must have forced it in some strange way – but we were able to do a makeshift repair to it and it’s held up okay.

Love how easy it is to switch from one function to another. Comfortable and reliable.