Hello,

I'm a C5 Tetraplegic wheelchair user, and I would like to comment on my LEVO C3 powerchair:

GOOD POINTS:

When fully operational and not just in repair, it's great for standing and shifting positions. Also great for negotiating uneven terrain and curbs, i.e. the murderous London pavements. A great chair - when it works...

BAD POINTS:

In the 9 months I've had it, there have been numerous issues regarding the gearbox.  When it was first delivered, it made the most unwholesome squeaky noise when in motion - like rubber grinding on rubber.  Apparently, the dealer Gerald Simmonds did not notice this.

My Levo C3 has already had three major defects - two of them potentially dangerous: Once it just stopped dead due to engine failure, another time it shot up into standing position by itself; had the knee-lock not been in place, I would have ended up on the floor. 

This chair is interesting. It is really a front drive wheelchair. It sits on its two main drive wheels and the two rear casters. With two "extra" driven wheels at the front. These do not normally ever touch the ground.

They are there and powered only to serve as aids to climbing a curb and as "anti tip" wheels so you don't tip over forwards when slowing down while descending a slope!

That alone is a little odd. But they cannot be touching the floor since then they would tear up carpets etc when you turned. They are drive wheels - not casters, they don't turn left/right. A very strange solution.

And since this is really a front wheel drive chair masquerading as a mid drive it has all the front drive tendencies that I personally hate. It wants to spin round and go backwards naturally the faster you go. Like having casters on the rear end of your car...

Good job they don't offer an 8mph variant!  You would get that fishtail thing going on.  And it has two casters swinging around behind you to hit everything indoors.

It offers all kinds of seat movements and standing though if that's your priority.  That would be THE reason to buy this chair. 

Personally I prefer a more powerful rear drive all day full range Powerchair over a compromised design for the sake of some seating tricks! But what suits me doesn't suit everyone else obviously.

Should be good indoors with its tight measurements, (as good as my own powerchair) as long as you don't expect as good an outdoor performance as a true group 24 battery powered, 100 amp + control system, powerchair.

Not sure about the ride either on its typically small x section tyres. Our streets are not smooth shopping centres