I have an older shoprider mobility scooter which I bought 2nd hand and goes great. It's red with printed wood grain decoration and a tan plastic wicker look basket. The thumb control (throttle) return spring has broken. I took it to a ''shoprider'' exclusive repair place that also sold shoprider scooters. They gave me a quote of $180 for fixing it as the company has changed the design and my scooter is ''very, very old'' no replacement parts available because they changed the design and the whole rheostat throttle control would have to be replaced. Then I get a call and there is at least $200 more in repairs to do. These are things that didn't effect me taking my dog for exercise for over one hour, a 10 kms distance, or going out to feed the chickens every day. S C A M! There may be other probs. but other than the throttle everything else is performing perfectly for me. Bottom line they just wanted to sell me a new scooter. I'm digging in. I'll do it myself. I'm not a willing member of the ''throw away'' society that sales people encourage. How do I disassemble the control panel? Thanks for your help
The two spot painted screws on the side of the throttle are indeed allen key grub screws. These need to be loosened but not taken all the way out as they are very small and easy to lose! I would advise removing as much of the paint as you can prior to loosening these grub screws. Also, be VERY careful not to round off the heads in these screws as its very easily done. When these have been loosened, you can slide the throttle lever downward and off the throttle pot shaft. The flat headed 'screw' you can see is not actually a screw but the bottom of the throttle pot shaft. This will only turn about 45 degrees in each direction and is not meant to be unscrewed. It is for adjusting the throttle back to neautral when the lever is re-fitted. You should be able to take the throttle assembly out from the top inside the plastic housing. Sometimes the three wires that connect the throttle pot are soldered into the wiring loom and sometimes its a plug that connects them. If its a plug, just dis-connect it to remove the throttle pot. If its soldered, I would leave it conected. When the throttle pot is removed, there should be a nut on a threaded part of the throttle pot. Remove it and slide the spring off. Fit a new spring and do the reverse of what I've told you to refit the throttle pot. When fitted, it needs to be set into neautral. You do this by turning the flat 'screw' on the bottom of the throttle pot shaft. It needs to point front to back and is VERY sensative. It should be done with a multimeter and may be best left to your local dealer but it can be done without a meter with a bit of patiance. Make sure the rear wheels are off the ground and just turn the screw very slightly in one direction untill the wheels move. Then turn the screw in the opposite direction untill the wheels stop or start turning in the opposite direction. The key is to find the middle of this setting where the brake has clicked on and the wheels are not rotating in either direction. When you've done this, lock the grub screws on either side of the throttle and you're done! PLEASE make sure you cannot push the scooter manually when the key is switched on as this would mean you're not quite in neutral and the brake is not working, meaning you will not stop very quickly or even not at all! Hope that helps...
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Hevens above did not know this page was here found by pure accident!! PLEASE can any one help re my mobility scooter its a Red sovereign 4 wheeled with a 3 point tiller adjustment problem is this It was working fine up to six months ago then recently i tryed to use it but the scooter wont move in that i mean its fully charged up when forward or reverse are pressed i can here it click into gear the revse warning buzzer works fine so to the front lights and horn i distmantled the batteries over the winter but stored it in my conservatory which is quite cold in the winter after rechargeing and refitting it wont move but i have checked all plugs etc and conections they are fine BUT today i felt the control panel unit and it seemed to be getting hot on one side are these easy to replace and roughly how much do they cost as i am assumeing that this is the problem many thanks Dawnie
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Figured out how to access control panel. Using a flat head screwdriver the 2 plastic assemblies that make up the throttle control housing can be gently spread and slid apart from each other. Now I need to figure out how to remove the throttle control block and slide it off to get to the suspected broken spring. There looks like a flat head screw on the side of the control block facing the ground. I'm disabled so didn't get a good look under it. There are also 2 small orifice looking spots on 2 opposing sides of the control. I'm suspecting these are for allen keys. I haven't tried them yet because all 3, the 2 allen key screws and the regular flat head screw are spot painted over with yellow paint. I don't want to jump into the allen key adjustments quickly and the flat head screw wont turn. Anyone out there with repair experience or a repair manual that can offer advice for my removing the throttle control block to gain access to the spring that causes the thumb control to return to a neutral position? Thank you
I need the spring the rest of the throttle mechanism works well, there has to be somebody that makes springs, thanks again
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