Best Choice Products Kids 12V Ride On Truck, Battery Powered Toy Car w/Spring Suspension, Remote Control, 3 Speeds, LED Lights, Bluetooth - Red

We recently had a problem with our purchase and contacted Best Choice Products customer service. They were incredibly helpful and solved the issue immediately. I highly recommend.

I bought two of these ride-on Jeeps for my grandsonsn, and it has been a huge hit! The camouflage design looks even better in person, and the build quality is solid. The spring suspension gives it a smooth ride, even on grass and gravel.One of my favorite features is the remote control—it’s perfect for younger kids who aren’t quite ready to drive on their own yet. The three-speed options are great, and the Bluetooth feature is a fun bonus for playing music while cruising around. The battery life is decent, lasting through plenty of playtime before needing a recharge.Overall, this is a fantastic product that feels well-made and safe.If you're looking for a fun and sturdy ride-on truck, this one is definitely a great choice!

Great product for our 4 year old! We take the battery out every single time and keep it inside and charge fully before storing. We’ve never had battery problems. So I think just taking the battery out every time and storing inside is the best way!

Impressive how it works great! Birthday is today and I’ll post pictures.

This ride on is simply the greatest in entertainment for our 3 year old grandson. He absolutely loves just going for a ride. 4 stars from me so far.Delivery - Arrived in two boxes. Boxes were in very good condition. I really like how they package everything using a minimal amount of styrofoam! Many parts come wrapped in plastic bags to protect everything, at least they are recyclable. A few squares of styrofoam protect the heaviest part, the main body, from drops in shipping. The rest of the packing is cardboard. Kudos to Best Choice for designing the packing to be readily recyclable!I saw a review where parts were rusty right out of the box, I did not experience anything like that. Everything was in perfect condition from the box.Assembly - Not complicated at all, instruction booklet is probably one of the easiest I have to read. What parts you need are clearly labeled, there are only 3 different screws included, and the instructions tell you to use the screws required by the number of them included in the box!Assembly tips -Lay the body upside down on a towel or blanket, you dont want to scratch it up the first day.Don't use a power screwdriver. NO. One of the things I took a star off for is the screws you have to use just drive into plastic. I wish there was some type of reinforcement in the areas you use the screws, its just plastic. Thick plastic, but plastic. Blasting those screws with a any kind of power driver will strip them out, guaranteed. Use a good old fashioned manual screwdriver and dont go ham on the screws. Snug them down and leave it alone.When assembling the steering rack, DO NOT cut off the plastic the front suspension springs are shrink wrapped in. Install them as is, otherwise you will notice you can't get the two bolts on that secure the assembly together without having to compress the spring.You are given 2 plastic 13mm hand sockets, if you have a real 13mm socket or wrench, the better. The 13mm nuts are locknuts, that is they have a plastic disc in the nut that helps prevent the nut from backing off during use. Don't use loctite on the nuts, just replace the nut with a new lock nut if it backs off/fails.You have an opportunity to "upgrade" your assembly by having some high quality silicone grease, also known as "dielectric grease". I use 3M, as seen in the picture. You can order it on Amazon, or go to your local parts store and get little foil packs of it. It is a plastic safe lubricant that also protects the electrical connectors from water and corrosion.Do not use petroleum or "oil" based grease or sprays, you will cause damage to the plastics. Silicone only.I used silicone grease on the rear axle, everywhere it passed through metal. The axle in general is not rotating as the plastic wheels rotate on the axle, but if you have to disassemble the axle in the future, it'll come apart much easier.Use silicone grease on the axle where the plastic wheels sit. The plastic wheel hub rotates on the axle and some silicone grease will go a long way in preventing premature wear to the plastic wheel hubs. The wheels are held on with the 13mm locknuts, easy to remove every so often to apply a new layer of silicone grease.While I had the unit upside down, in the picture, you will see white electrical connectors. I opened those connectors, gave them a smear of silicone grease, and snapped them back together. They are in an area I figured water, dirt, grass clippings, etc etc would be kicked up and the silicone grease will help protect the connection from oxidation and corrosion, preventing issues down the road.When assembling the front steering rack, be sure to use silicone grease everywhere you have metal to metal contact, and again, where the front wheels rotate on the metal shaft. Don't go ham on the steering rack spring locknuts!! Just snug them down. Over tightening them will most likely cause excessive wear and tear on the steering motor for remote control operation due to excessive tension in the assembly.The front bumper can be tricky to install, if you are trying to line up every screw hole first. Dont try to line up every screw hole first. Pick one side, far left or right. Press and mash the bumper to get the first 2 screw holes aligned, and manually drive them home. Then all you have to do is work every screw hole, one at a time across the bumper, pressing and mashing the bumper as you go, until you you have them all in place.Once you flip the unit over, everything else pretty much snaps into place with only a couple screw for the rear light bar (both sides the screw goes in left to right, not center to center) and a couple screws to hold the seat down.Under the hood (battery compartment) -There are a number of wires under the hood, quite a few actually. Has to be expected considering how many features this ride has, with all the bells and whistles. Wire management is rather disappointing. In general the wiring harness has points where shrink wrap and tie downs are used, but there's just a few wires kinda floating around, ready to get ripped out if you are not paying attention removing the battery, or grabbing the remote if that's where you keep it. As part of my final assembly, I added a few loose "zip ties" to better secure the rogue wires in question.I find the battery hold down not very convenient, considering we have to remove the battery to charge it. We are storing the car, with a cover, on our deck but its not practical to have a cord running to it to charge. I plan on replacing the phillips head screws with wing nuts to ease the battery removal. The battery has a quick disconnect terminal that you plug the charger into when recharging the battery.The whole power system is well built, with terminals protected by hot melt glue or shrink wrap, and fuse links to protect from excessive current draw or a short circuit. There is actually plenty of room to add another 12V battery if you desire, just to quickly switch, or to wire in parallel if you know how to do so, for longer run time.Operation -The remote requires 2 AAA batteries. You have to pair the remote to the vehicle. You need to long press the "Frequency key" button of the remote until lights blink on the remote, THEN turn on the car power button. The remote lights stop blinking and it should be paired. We had some issues with the remote consistently remaining paired to the car, and you have to remove the batteries from the remote, then start over. The problem with that is the remote battery cover has a small screw to keep it closed, and without the screw it wants to flip open even though there is a plastic detent tab on the cover.Hitting the power button on the car is great. Everything lights up, you get an engine start sound and it "revs" a few times. The dash comes alive with various lights like a real instrument cluster, and you have working lights around the outside of the vehicle.The steering wheel is solid, and has working horn buttons. I'll admit it does take a wee bit of effort to turn the steering wheel, as you need to overcome the resistance of the steering motor for remote control plus the general resistance of the linkage of the steering rack. It's not anything a toddler can't muster, just requires effort. The steering wheel gear passes through the remote control steering motor, if/in the event the steering control motor fails the car is still 100 percent usable by manual steering. The shifter allows the vehicle to go forward or back.Once the remote is paired, you have complete control of the vehicle. The remote is paired to the car via bluetooth, and the range is actually impressive. We probably had the car some 50 to 60 feet away with no issues with control. With the remote you have stepping left/right control. Stepping means you have to tap the left right buttons to point where you want to go, the car will not go to center automatically. The remote also regulates the speed, you have 3 steps you can set, and adjust on the fly.For safety, the remote input automatically overrides the manual input from your child, with one exception, and that is steering. If your child is strong enough, they can fight the resistance of the steering motor and point the vehicle where they want... Not good. The remote has a "P" button. Park? Power? Not sure really, but what the P button does is kill power to the drive motors. The vehicle will immediately stop and won't budge while you are holding that button, no matter what your child is doing. In running the grandson around today, not once did we feel unsure about the control of the vehicle.The radio is something else! Not sure if we have a loose wire, but the radio wouldn't pull in any local stations. Ill have to look into that, but we paired a cell phone to the vehicle bluetooth radio and had Disney hits playing from Spotify through the vehicle speaker while the grandson was being driven around! The cellphone was tossed under the hood and he was golden.The spring suspension is legit, you can see it working over harsh bumps and dips.Battery and charging -Battery life was about 35-40 minutes of constant remote control driving for this first time out. The majority of that time was on grass, with many long asphalt driveway runs. Overall I can't complain, it ran very well over grass and on the asphalt it got up to the 3mph or so it is rated for. As I stated already, we remove the battery for charging.The charger seems to be "smart" in that the charger has a LED on it, its red when the battery is charging, and turns green when its supposed to be full.The battery is a 12v sealed lead acid "6FM7" 7AH battery. Readily available on Amazon if you need a new one. Per the instructions, the first time, I left the battery on the charger for 12 hours, even though the light on the charger went green after about an hour or so. I assume it will trickle charge.After running the battery down, I put the battery on the charger expecting it to take some 8 hours to charge, yet charger went green some 2 hours after putting it on. We haven't tested it yet to see the runtime, but Ill update how quick the turnover can be.Other thoughts -If you pop on over to Youtube and search for this ride on, you will get a lot of videos about 24v conversions, motor upgrades, and whatnot. Interesting to see what options you have in the future, and parts are pretty cheap on Amazon.Storage -We bought the kids ride on cover, and its great. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08GKC5N2T Fits perfectly.The "Didnt know that" tip -When you need to move the car, dead battery, or just in general, there is actually a pull out handle at the rear. Just under the rear bumper, in the center, reach in there and grab the handle. Pull it straight out, and you can now lift the rear of the vehicle and free-wheel it where you need to... You are welcome.

My grandson lives this car. It's all he talks about

So I have many things I’m not happy about and I wasn’t even gunna complain about it because it really is the only power wheels that works for us here. We don’t have an asphalt driveway, it’s rock, and we live on a farm so it’s mostly grass so this ride really does good on grass and what not...here’s what I’m upset about though. I’ll start from the beginning. When we ordered this it was a guaranteed delivery by Wednesday. (We either ordered it on that Saturday or Sunday before) Well Wednesday comes and long story short it didn’t come. I went to check my order status and seen there was no tracking info... so I called amazon who then contacted BCP, who then contacted me and pretty much gave me the worst response... On top of the god awful reply I got, THEY HADENT EVEN SHIPPED IT OUT YET!! so then it was suppose to be here Friday, which then turned into it showing up on Saturday.... I was upset and still BCP gave me, what seemed like, another automated GOD awful reply through email.... I kind of was just like whatever at that point. We were just happy it was finally here and my son was super excited... anyways, it gets here and the back light is broken and hanging off by a wire, and there’s screws all over the place... again, I let it slide since my son was just way to excited and I wasn’t gunna go through the process of sending it back OR EVEN sending them an email bc I would have just got another cruddy reply.... so we let it charge for the full time and it runs great. Then I go to use the remote to turn my son around andddd it barely works at all... what I mean is, when I go to turn him around HE IS ABLE TO turn away and keep on going in the direction he’s going. Like I said earlier we live on a farm so it’s not hard for him to start to go far, which is why I was most excited about the remote, and it ended up just being another thing to add to the list of disappointments with this car. So after about a week of him using it and us charging it over night, the battery now only last for about an hour AT MAX ! I’ll never EVER order a BCP again. We spent all that money for what? Them to not ship it on time? The car to come with a broken headlight? Get a cruddy remote and battery? Yeah, never again. I would have felt way better about this if their customer service was at least up to par but it’s not. so, you guys make your own decision on whether you want to buy it or not. But for me, this is the last time they’ll get a dime from us.UPDATE 01/16/20I meant to update this a while ago but I had forgotten. Anyways, acouple of months after we got this, maybe 2-3 months, the battery went bad. the battery was only letting it run for about 10 minutes, so we had to buy a replacement one. Again, I still feel as I did when I posted this. It’s junk.

First off it arrived early and packaged very well the build quality is really good it has some cool features like the Bluetooth radio which isn’t the best as far as sound but it is functional it’s a good size with room to grow would recommend