X-treme X360 Review

Overall Rating

Looks great. Head light, brake light, beeping blinkers, speed indicator, charge indicator, foldable. Key start, lockable trunk.

Will not go up hills. Battery charge indicator shows 3 of 4 lights when wheel won't even turn (not even touching the ground) Very brittle plastic construction. Suspect electronics. Beware your 30-day warranty.

I was very excited when I received The X-treme X360 Electric Scooter. I pulled it from the packing and unfolded it. It looked great! It had an initial charge in the battery so I rode it up and down the street and was very pleased. It didn't go up the hill very well, but I figured it just needed to be charged. On the 2nd day, we went to charge it and it went full throttle into a table and off the wall - with no key in the ignition. Luckily I had looked at the electronics earlier so I knew where the main fuse was and pulled it - that shut down the raging bull! I emailed tech support and they said it was a bad controller and sent me another within 5 days. Oops - it was the wrong controller. I needed the 2 wire controller, not the 4 wire controller. They said send it back and we will replace it. Back it went. I waited a week and emailed again and they said, oh yeah, we got the controller back, but the correct one is on back order. I got it two weeks later. Now I am 6 weeks in, but I got the controller and it worked! Now I notice the metal clip that holds the brake handle on is broken (I assumed from when it went raging bull and crashed into the table and the wall) so I emailed for a replacement clip to hold the brake handle on. They said, sorry you are out of warranty; you will have order a replacement part. Oh look, no clip for sale, just a whole brake assembly! I just used a plastic wire tie. It works for now. Better than buying a $30 assembly when a I need a 30 cent C clamp! Enough about that. I got it working - Oh did I mention I had to adjust the rear brake drum assembly because it was too tight? That is why they said it would not go up hills. Brakes where too tight. Okay, did that, Oh still won't go up hills. You want to go up a hill - get off and walk it up, but boy does it go down hill! You don't even have to use the throttle! Just let gravity drag you at the reported 20mph down hill! Whew! It's almost as fast as my bike. Maybe they only have hills that go down where they build them. Last but not least. The battery gauge shows 3 out of 4 LED's of power. Now where I come from that means 3/4. I hiked it up so the wheel was not touching the ground and the wheel does not even turn. The light works! The horn works! Maybe the first 1/4 power is for the motor and the rest is for lights and horns. It still looks great. You can fold it up, put it in your trunk, drive to nice flat parking lot, drive around in small lethargic circles to your hearts content, fold it back up and drive home. I even think this thing would be great on the salt flats! If you don't live on the salt flats, or you have hills of greater than 15 degrees, then get something else.