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13 Care and maintenance
(!) When necessary, lubricate moving parts/joints with bicycle oil or similar.
* The user may experience several of these problems if the wheelchair is incorrectly adjusted or is being incorrectly used.
Problem* Solution
- Inflate the tyres
- Adjust the front fork attachment’s angular setting
- Check that the front fork attachments are mounted at the same
height
- Rear wheel mountings are incorrectly fitted
- The user is distributing weight unevenly
- Inflate the tyres
- Rear wheel mountings are incorrectly fitted
- Clean the castor axles from hair and dirt
- Too much weight over the castors. Adjust the centre of balance
- Inflate the tyres
- Check that the front forks are not too tight
- Adjust the front fork attachment’s angular setting
- Clean the castor axles from dirt
- Too much weight over the castors. Adjust the centre of balance
- Inflate the tyres
- Adjust the distance between brake and tyre
- Adjust the length of the axle shaft
- Clean and lubricate quick release with cycle oil or similar
- Adjust the length of the axle shaft
- The front forks are not tight enough
- Check that the front fork attachments are mounted at the same
height
- Adjust the front fork attachment’s angular setting
- Too much weight over the castors. Adjust the centre of balance
- The upholstery is too tight
- Clean and lubricate the cross-brace under the seat
- Inflate the tyres
- Check that screws, nuts and bolts are properly tightened
The wheelchair pulls to the side
The wheelchair feels “heavy” to
propel
The wheelchair feels “heavy” to turn
Brakes not effective
Rear wheels “loose”
Rear wheels hard to remove/replace
The castors “wobble”
The wheelchair is hard to fold/unfold
The wheelchair feels “awkward”
Fault-finding chart
