Customer Reviews

Power Wheels 12-Volt Rechargeable Battery

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4 star:		(12)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(20)

 

 

The battery will work fine for 2-3 seasons provided you keep it charged.
My kids have enjoyed these for years, A new battery will last most of the day, and I do have hills. By the third season the charge won't hold very long.

The quickest way to ruin lead-acid batteries is to discharge them deeply and leave them stand "dead" for an extended period of time. When they discharge, there is a chemical change in the positive plates of the battery. They change from lead oxide when charged to lead sulfate when discharged. If they remain in the lead sulfate state for a few days, some part of the plate does not return to lead oxide when the battery is recharged. If the battery remains discharged longer, a greater amount of the positive plate will remain lead sulfate. The parts of the plates that become "sulfated" no longer store energy. Batteries that are deeply discharged, and then charged partially on a regular basis can fail in less than one year.

THIS WAS A BUST. I purchased this to replace the original battery that came with my daughter's Barbie Jeep. The original battery lasted about 3 years and worked very well before running out of juice. I read several reviews that concerned me saying that the replacement battery went dead very very quickly. Well, that's exactly what happened to me . . . I read and followed the instructions closely, in terms of how long to charge initially, and then subsequent charging as well. We got about 3 charges out of it, and that's it. I ended up throwing away the Jeep, and I'm taking this battery and the original battery to the dump, where they have a station to recycle old batteries. Amazon cannot take this product back . . since it is a hazardous material (acid), but, kudos to them, they credited me the purchase right away. I don't know what to tell you on this one . . . it could be the batteries they have are old shelf batteries; it could be something wrong with our Jeep itself. . . BUT . . . if it can happen to me (and others that I read about), then it can happen to you. We're going to purchase an upgraded vehicle from here and not fool around with replacement batteries anymore. GOod luck.

I have bought four of these batteries. I feel like a fool after reading so many bad reviews. Please look for an alternative. Out of the four batteries I have not gotten 20 hours of use. It is sad that a company as Fisher Price would sell such a mediocre product. The ride on is nice, please look for an alternative on replacing the batteries.

This battery was great for about two charge cycles...I charged it 18 hours the first time like the instructions said to do. Jeep ran great for about the expected two hours or so...Charged it again that night for 14 hours...ran great again...The third day, I charged it for 14 hours again and hooked it up to the jeep and NOTHING ...I followed all of the instructions to a T. What a piece of JUNK. Power Wheels should be ashamed of themselves for selling such an awful product and doing nothing about it.

After reading some of the other reviews here I felt like this buy was risky.
As it turns out, these are lead-acid batteries, which means it's the same ancient technology you have in your car: it's been around for ever and it works fine. it's not the best in terms of energetic value but these are reliable. The other reviewers who had units initially working fine but that subsequently were not holding charge must have burnt the batteries by letting them plugged in a whole week or something like that.
BEWARE: only charge them for fourteen (14) to eighteen (18) hours max. Going further will reduce the chemical ability for the battery to retain energy, maybe to the point that it becomes non operational. I can see a whole week charge doing that.
So all in all, I am extremely happy with this unit, it is a legit Fisher Price Power Wheels unit, not some kind of cheap knock off, it does the job just fine as long as you use them appropriately.

This is a great price for this replacement battery. We left our jeep in a freezing cold shed all winter because we didn't read the directions. The battery needs to be stored in a warm place when not in use...oops!

We bought this to replace the one that came with the ride on toy. The original one was dropped and sustained a small dent in the side of the battery and it never seemed to hold a powerful charge again. This one works fine. Would suggest being careful with the battery since they are not terribly durable!

We charged it once and it worked great. Charged it again and it didn't work after that. This is a horrible product.

It only took me 1 month of non-aggressive usage (it was used maybe 10 times max) for this battery to become worthless and completely lose the charge in 2 minutes

Product worked one time (just fine) and then never worked again. Called/wrote to get an exchange and company stated that there were no exchanges or refunds on batteries. Very very lame. Still working on getting money back or exchange of product. Buy at your own risk!