***fast Track*** Fisher Price - Power Wh

Paid $238, free ship-to-store, came in on time about a week later. Big and pretty heavy - had to borrow my daughter's SUV to get it home. Took right at two hours to put it together, including applying stickers. Directions OK, no problems encountered, in my living room. Charged it for 18 hours as recommended. Had it about a month now, and I couldn't be happier with it. Best ride-on toy we've had yet, by far. Have 4 grandkids - one 5 yr old, two 3 yr olds, and one 2 yr old. It runs well on all kinds of terrain, MUCH better than I expected. Two kids can easily ride at a time, so that lessens the 'sharing' aruguments. And it will hold all 4 kids and still move out petty good. Only allow the 5 yr old to hit top gear though (5 mph) - the 3 yr olds aren't quite there yet. It handles pavement well - even spins the back tires when they take off. Handles the yard well, due to the power and kind of skinny tires. Never have run the battery totally down, even with an hour or more of straight driving - but I always charge it after each use as recommended. Overall, I honestly don't think there's anything out there that's as good for anywhere near the same price. In fact, as soon as I can figure out where to store another one, I'll get the green or pink one so they can all ride together - garage already has two classic cars in it, so not much space left for big toys for kids!

The Dune Racer seems well built as far as plastic toys are concerned. The kids love it. It does seem a little slow even on the "high" speed setting, but it is fast enough for my 3 year old. My only disappointment has been the battery life. I did not expect it to last all day, but it barely made for 1 hour of use. I may have gotten a bad battery. Who knows. Overall its a good buy. I gave it 4 stars because of the battery life.

We have a Power Wheels Jeep for my daughter and we purchased the Dune Racer for my son because we have a limited amount of paved road to ride on. The way the tires are now made along with the motor drive assembly, the Dune Racer works just fine in wet soggy grass with no problems. the Jeep tires are too slick to provide traction in wet grass. Thinking about selling the Jeep off and buying a pink one for my daughter. If you have limited paved road. The Dune Racer actually does work in more of an off road or rock road setting.

Just before Christmas, we were offered the opportunity to test the Power Wheels Dune Racer and then keep it! I have seven children, and I knew all of them would be excited to jump on and speed around the yard, so it was an offer I could not refuse. On Christmas morning when my daughter unveiled the Dune Racer as the last gift, the "oohs and ahs" were priceless! I explained to my kids that the the four younger ones would need to share having fun with it, but that unfortunately the older three were too big for it. As soon as I got done talking, all four younger kids tried to pile in at the same time! We stopped them of course, and as soon as they had the chance, they enjoyed taking turns two-by-two racing around our driveway for one fun afternoon! Thank goodness there was no snow! The fun continued the next day after I adjusted the speed to make it go faster. My daughter hooted and hollered as she put the petal to the metal with a huge smile on her face... maybe she'll be a race car driver someday! Thank you so much for the opportunity! One thing I recommend is redesigning some of the bolt connections to make some of the components more secure. For instance, the screws to secure the sidebars are screwed into a plastic hole, and one of them stripped out after the first day. If it were redesigned to somehow be secured with a screw and a bolt on both sides of the connection, that would be much better. The same is true for the connections for the seat itself. These changes would result in my rating the product higher than I did. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]

I bought this dune racer for my son for Christmas . Well its still Nov, but I thought that I'd go ahead and open it up and put it together. That way if I was missing any parts that we could replace before Xmas time. When I seen that it had a 3\4 in axle instead of 1/2 in that come with the smaller power wheels. I ordered two 16t 32p pinion gears two gt550 hip racing motor's and bought a 12 12ah battery and two 2v 6ah batteries. And a 40 amp breaker. After installing the motors and running the batteries in series and parallel to get 14v 12 ah battery pack this thing flys I have a 9 year old and a 5 year old riding together. With both boys riding in the grass I clocked the dune racer at 9 mph on the road with both boy riding it ran longer and at 12.8 mph it will climb any thing in its way which is crazy Cruz following them with me in my go kart I have to stop get out and pull my go-kart over the logs and rocks they just rolled right over. But it very strong but if you upgrade motors and or volts make shore your child nows to take off in low then shift on the fly that way the cheap plastic gears in the gearboxes don't shred. The turning isn't very tight but I got 6 acres in my back yard so we don't need to turn sharp. Its very strong and well built for fisher price. I wish I bought 2 of them your looking for a of road two sweater power wheels this is right for you trust me I've looked at a lot before I got the dune racer the only way to get anything with better quality is to spend $600