$4,000 Electric Scooter UNDERWATER! Learn How To Waterproof Your E-bike or Scooter + Tips and More!

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@crom29a 5 ай бұрын

My house got flooded. My RS was submerged in 250mm of fast moving dirty river water for approximately 2 hours. It survived and rides just the same. Good job Inmotion! Good job GoW on this video. 🤘👍

@GingerOnWheels 5 ай бұрын

That's crazy! Sorry to hear about your house, but at least the scooter survived!

@nunyabusiness9013 2 ай бұрын

Something you might wanna try if you haven't yet for riding in the rain is applying a generous layer of RainX to either your glasses, goggles, or helmet visor.

@DT-Nicky 5 ай бұрын

1, I have seen my first cyber truck IRL and most of these tip I knew about when I road through heavy rain years ago. All I have to say is once you have hydroplaned before you take safety to a whole knew level. Great video My guy, videos like this gives rider like us informed knowledge on what to ride during the wet season. NYC roads are more special though so I'll be looking for the ultimate scooter for NYC.

@Marcus_ER 5 ай бұрын

800 miles on my rs through the rain and cold. Headlight needed replacement, brake rotors started to rust, Brake pads needed replacement. I get death wobbles past 30 mph sometimes. My rear tire where I had to plug a flat feels like it's bouncing and the metal brake pads I bought make a constant squeaking sound. As my second scooter, I'm still happy with it. I just hope it lasts the rest of the year. I'm thinking about putting electric tape over the connectors, but I don't know if that would help.

@brandonbajc2084 5 ай бұрын

Hands down your the best scooter tuber out there!! Im still going to wash my RS with pre moistened alcohol lens wipes though lol

@corywebb5537 5 ай бұрын

I have over 40000 miles on my Nan robot D4 plus 2.0 and I live in the South.I've been stuck in plenty of monsoon rain and mud and it still works great

@oRCaScooter 4 ай бұрын

I own an inmotion RS and it states right in the user manual not to ride it in the water and rain. You're only supposed to wash it with a wet towel.

@Lantea13 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for doing actual testing in the rain, love to see it. In most other scooter videos you never see the reviewers use the scooter under all conditions.

@kranu222 5 ай бұрын

Xiaomi pro 2 ridden a year and a half in any weather from heavy rain to 4 inch snow, not too deep puddles maybe 2-3 inch max at speeds of 15-25 miles/hour with street tires haven't had any problems with grip in the rain and occasionally a bit of offroad ends up in my commute it's fine when you don't turn fast just ride straight with the front motor when offroad. I have only sealed the deck casing with rubber silicone and i have a silicone cover on the dashboard. The waterproofness of the scooter has even surprised me since at first i thought it was gonna break even in a little rain turns out that atleast the newer xiaomi pro 2 is quite water resistant. I wouldn't dare to ride it like you did since the chargin port is at a low height and the cover is a bit too small to cover the whole port. Overall even fantastic performance even in the harshest weather conditions very much surprised me and well the it didn't do too good in 4 inch snow i could ride like 10-13 miles/hour and it was slipping a lot, but that was not the reason i mentioned i mentioned it for the waterproofness aspect.

@ScootertheEarthSurfer65 5 ай бұрын

Another thing to consider is the wheel motors. Submerging the wheel motors to any degree can allow water ingress into the motor area which will short out or just generally ruin the motor. If you know what your doing it can be possible to clean them out and even possibly completely rejuvenate a saturated wheel motor altogether, but then there's also the power connection to the controller/controllers and even battery that could also get shorted to consider. It's a good thing if you can do your own water proofing of your wheel motors! You can open up the wheel motors and apply a waterproof seal of some sort that will arrest any water ingress into the inner workings of the motor. Ensure you use a material that will withstand the heat levels that the motors generate and conduct to where they are connected/bolted together. Properly waterproofed wheel motors will protect the inner electrical workings of the motor (magnets, coils, stator, etc..) and from water and make it close to impossible for water to ingress into the inner workings of the wheel motors and protect them. I would use a handmade waterproof material to use as a gasket along with some heat resistant gasket sealant like what you would use on your car when you replace a manifold, head or valve cover gasket. Ensure that you do not over torque the screws used to affix the two pieces that make up the motor and the wheel so as to not damage the seal you have just created when you reassemble the wheel motor parts back together. Remember there is tight but there's also such thing as too tight. You can test your seal by dropping them down in some relatively deep water for 24hrs and then drying them off and reopen them to see if your sealing is working. If you find no water ingress past your newly applied seal that should give you like a 99% assurance that your efforts worked. Actually operating the E-Scooter will heat up the wheel motors which will heat the sealing materials up. The heat will cause the seal materials to swell and actually create a more sure seal from water ingress. If you go to this much effort then you should look for any other potential places in which water may be able to get to the internal electrical parts or wiring. Ensure you properly protect those from water ingress as well. Just applying a bit of silicone in many cases will NOT sufficiently protect water from getting into your E-Scooter where it can cause a short or just generally damage it. Regardless of your E-Scooter's IP rating I would not trust it because all the E-Scooter manufacturers say that their warranty does NOT cover water damage not to mention the hassle by itself. Ensure that effective water proofing has been engineered into every part of your E-Scooter that have anything electrical (wiriring, battery, controller/s, wheel motors, etc...). Everywhere you find any vulnerable water proofing, install your own, and do it right, again in most cases merely applying some silicone will NOT be sufficient to protect from water ingress and subsequent damage! Then there is the bearings in the the stem assembly. These bearings are responsible for creating the smooth operation of the stem rotation within the base load bearing assembly that you stand on. As far as that goes, if you are fortunate your E-Scooter manufacturer used sealed bearings but even if it did it will still require added grease. I would use a very heavy (thick) packing style grease at these locations in order to maintain the water free integrity of these moving parts as not only will it serve to maintain the smooth movement of these metal on metal stress points but heavy grease will resist greatly any water into the inner workings of these areas. Now, these areas do not really heat up a great deal so any heavy grease applied will maintain its integrity for quite a while but will still need to be serviced (cleaned out and relubed) ever so often. It depends on how often and where you ride your E-Scooter. If you ride it a lot, ride it a lot in wet rainy conditions, go thru water puddles a lot, or more so use it off-roading a lot especially in very dirt and dust, gravel ridden areas you need to check it every 6 to 12mos. If your E-Scooter doesn't have sealed bearings then you will need to work the heavy grease well into the inner-casing for the individual ball bearings. A technique for properly applying grease to open-bearings is by placing a good size clump of grease in the palm of your hand and pressing the bearing into the glob of grease in the palm of your hand as to force the grease into the inside of the bearing casing. Do one side thoroughly and then flip the bearing and repeat. Do this until the bearing is thoroughly saturated thru-in and thru-out with the thick heavy bearing grease, then apply grease to the races with your fingers that house the bearing. Then carefully tighten the assembly back to the proper torque spec so as to NOT over compress the bearing in its bearing socket spacing. A good way to know the torque spec is when you begin to disassemble the bearing chamber to expose the bearing chamber and you are unscrewing the assembly that enclosed the bearing chamber use a torque wrench and carefully watch the torque wrench so that you can see what inch pounds you are at when the connecting bolt breaks free. That should be the same torque tightness that you should set your torque wrench when you have have finished cleaning off the old grease and regreasing the bearing and go to tighten it back up. You will have to be careful as you try to loosen the bolt or assembly to the bearing chamber because you will only get one shot at it. I am sure it will be now on to impossible to get the torque spec from the manufacturer, so this is going to be the easiest if not best way to discover the torque spec on your own, and all bearings have a torque spec at this point because every bearing compartment is engineered to be tightened to the optimal tightness that holds the bearings without any play, and holds in the grease without compressing the bearing to the point in which it adds friction and overrestricts the rotation of the bearing. Overtightening can also squish out some of the internal grease that you just applied. If you are unable to ascertain the original torque spec by this method just assess how much play and the rotation of the stem was prior to taking it apart. Then as close as possible tighten it down the assembly to a point that best recreates the way it was before you took it a part. You may need to tighten it a bit more after doing a little bit of riding (operating the E-Scooter and actuating the bearing assembly under a load) but whatever you do don't overtighten. Overtightening can cause the bearings to need premature reservicing or even ruin the bearings altogether!

@FlyingAA 5 ай бұрын

Reinforces the reason I bought the RS lite. At least if I accidentally get caught in a heavy Florida storm the scooter should be fine. Thx Ginger.

@escootIreland 5 ай бұрын

As an eScooter technician, no matter how well eScooter is protected, every single one has a weak point - motors. Over some time, if eScooter is not well mantianed, water can get inside through bearings, especially if one ball bearong falls out. And it's not my imagination. I've seen it many times. It wil start rusting, but as long as you're riding it regularly, rust will grind against each other, but if you stop riding it just for a few weeks rust will build up and block your motor. Most common seen on Kugoo eScooters. Ireland is probably one of the best countries to test eScooter in rain and Iceland in extreme weather. Also therr is much better way of waterproofing eScooter but not with silicone. Small tip - It's used in the automotive industry. Anyways, great video. I dont doubt Inmotion quality because a long time ago, they had more advanced controllers than most of the industry, and I knew RS will be a beast.

@GingerOnWheels 5 ай бұрын

Liquid electrical tape on the motor hub seals and marine grease packed into the bearings. Definitely very important! Electric unicycles are getting motors with sealed bearings. I would love to see those on scooters and bikes!

@escootIreland 5 ай бұрын

@@GingerOnWheels yeah, Im looking at what industry is bringing and improving. Ive some ideas myself too but funds are a bit tight.

@SometimesYouHaveToAcknowledge 5 ай бұрын

The hollypurn escooter is a 7000 scooter that is totally water proof. It's a high end scooter that does not have many reviews. Please review

@SEN100N Ай бұрын

Hello, sorry but you say ''there is a much better way of waterproofing escooter but not with silicone'' so how to better make watreproof please ? thanks

@escootIreland Ай бұрын

@@SEN100N Ill give you a hint: Car engines. In order to operate they have to be sealled really well to hold compression, handle high temberatures but not with silicone. Its techology thats out there for extremely long time and cant be easier, cheaper or any better. Rubber seals and gaskets. Sadly nobody thought of that. Silicone is just cheapest and easiest thing to use but I can bet anyone any money that if you go with eScooter trough deeper puddle water will get inside. And Im actually planning to get eScooter "waterproofed" in few shops and prove it at some stage soon. SIlicone can increase water resistance but it will never make eScooter waterproof.

@MrTheManWeeD 5 ай бұрын

great video dude keep it up! you have a new subcscriber here!i fell in love wit hthe road runner pro and the midnight they are so nice

@JP-qq2kn 5 ай бұрын

Water tests aren't complete for at least a few months after the exposure to water.. so we'll see how it does over time.

@GingerOnWheels 5 ай бұрын

Will definitely be doing a teardown in a couple weeks to check out how the insides look!

@exactlyhowareyou513 5 ай бұрын

Ginger will you ever get/review the Mantis King GT? I'm surprised you haven't already, the 2024 version is damn near perfection! Keep making awesome videos ❤

@giantstorm3717 5 ай бұрын

whats the difference to older model?

@exactlyhowareyou513 5 ай бұрын

@@giantstorm3717 2024 version has stronger stem, new NFC display, better rear fender and you can choose between on road or off road tires.

@giantstorm3717 5 ай бұрын

@@exactlyhowareyou513 small difference, the king gt needs 40a controllers, 10x 3,5 tyres, and bigger battery, but still i love the mantis

@sohogen8482 5 ай бұрын

@giantstorm3717 own a mantis king gt myself! awesome scooter! im not sure i agree on needing a bigger controller or battery but i do agree with the bigger tires. tho adding these things would make the mantis heavier and it being 73lbs is one of the advantages of it

@exactlyhowareyou513 5 ай бұрын

@@sohogen8482 awesome! Getting one myself, pros and cons of scooter?

@THEAVERAGEGUY1983 5 ай бұрын

Nice video man. Thats definitely an Incredible way to test the IPX rating. 😎👊

@Vmaxfodder 5 ай бұрын

Easy ,but I don't do it with my super hyperscooter . It is water resistant for ease of maintenance. The parts that are important are completely waterproof.

@LEXPIX 5 ай бұрын

Nice real world rain test. I would caution riding daily in the rain since water will eventually make its way into your components, or will at least have to re-apply and seal your waterproofing actions.

@scoottheharbor 5 ай бұрын

Great video. Can you open up one of the motors down the road? Just to see if there's a large amount of rusting that takes place.

@GingerOnWheels 5 ай бұрын

Oh absolutely. That's the ginger on Wheels way. I'm going to wait a couple of weeks then do another speed test to see if it's slowed down, even if it does or doesn't I'm going to open up the battery compartment and the controllers and the motor to see if there's any corrosion or debris left from the water. With the scooter water can get into the deck but it seeps out through all the weep holes on the bottom.

@federaldelii 5 ай бұрын

Which off-road tire you advise? For example Ulip tires?

@cufferjohnson2641 5 ай бұрын

I love you, Guinea, pigs.Thank you, no offense.🎉❤

@oklahomascootin 5 ай бұрын

That was insane lol i use clear liquid nails to plug the holes and seal were the controler is

@GingerOnWheels 5 ай бұрын

Good tip!

@PhuongLe-o5s 5 ай бұрын

Hello I purchased this scooter about 4 months ago but now having issues with motor heating up to fast any recommendations?

@GingerOnWheels 5 ай бұрын

Run it in dual motor. Make sure the silver quick connector to the controller is tight. If it's still running hot then pop open the deck (You can see how to do that in my teardown video) and make sure the five connections to the controller are tight. There should be a positive and a negative connection as well as three phase wires green, yellow, and blue.

@PhuongLe-o5s 5 ай бұрын

@@GingerOnWheels yes I believe I am on both motor the front show 159 temperature and back show 149 about only 5 mile of riding

@DT-Nicky 5 ай бұрын

Oh and also the have visor wipers for helmets.

@Kuimera 5 ай бұрын

Ginger, I posted this question on your other topic about tires, but I miss my mark on the question, I know that water can short-circuit the electric parts if it gets in the battery compartment, but what I want to know is, will it? can I ride it if it starts to rain? I miss my mark cause I said water but I meant rain. Ofc I'm not going to submerge it in water, I just want to know if it safe to drive it if it starts to rain because they say on the manual not to drive it in the rain, so I don't know if it because of the safety of the driver or it will short the bike.. Here is the original question: "Ginger I have a question, I'm new to the e-scooter scene, I bought a d99 and I'm quite happy with it, it's a bit too heavy but very powerful. I do have a question about water, on the manual they say not to ride the scooter on water, but they don't say why... So it got me a bit worried, is it because of the driver safety for not to fall or is it because the scooter is not waterproof? I don't want to burn out my scooter.. The IP Rating is ipx5"

@Kuimera 5 ай бұрын

Ok fully watching the video, there is no way to know for sure, because like you said, they can just buy the IP rating.. So I guess I will do it manually :) thanks anyway..

@GingerOnWheels 5 ай бұрын

It depends on the IP water resistance rating of your scooter. I talked about the different ratings and what they mean, you can refer to the chart I posted in the first few mins of the video to see how waterproof your scooter is, exactly.

@GingerOnWheels 5 ай бұрын

You can generally get a pretty good idea just by looking at it. Are there holes in the deck that cables run through? The wholes have any waterproof grommets or sealant? Is there a gasket in between the top of the deck and the frame? Did the buttons and switches look pretty covered in rubber or are they cheap plastic with lots of ingress points? All things you should keep your eyes out for.

@mpg869 5 ай бұрын

This vid gave me anxiety. Lmao

@Andrew-wd6dx 5 ай бұрын

How do you get ahold of INMOTION I have INMOTION S1F

@ckodezpohio5944 Ай бұрын

do u think i could do this to my kukurin g4?

@ROADRUNNER_876 5 ай бұрын

Great content 👌🏽

@Vmaxfodder 5 ай бұрын

Wait till a few months / years pass ,and the connectors get the crud death? Time will pass ,and you'll be all like " how'd that happen??)

@ryangross5446 5 ай бұрын

nah inmotion makes their stuff quite well. thick rubber seals usually protect every connector by keeping them directly attached to the board, and the battery connectors are also usually inside the controller housing which is also gasketed.

@Vmaxfodder 5 ай бұрын

All that protection 🤣😅😂🤣😅 an the frames are highly disposable? Why bother ?? Like putting the best on a POS 💩💩💩💩 frame that is not weldable. Dumpster fodder in a few years at max . There is a series delusions with these cheap ol chinise scooter you all have ! They are all designed to keep you buying. Prove me wrong ! ??

@ljmn6419 5 ай бұрын

i love the now intro music(:

@stankozniewski9385 5 ай бұрын

Awesome video

@Guardhousetv 5 ай бұрын

I ate shit doing this with my pegasus. I went into a deep puddle and lost control

@MoralHazard-g1e 5 ай бұрын

Have you tried a scooter with traction control in dual motor in the rain?

@GingerOnWheels 5 ай бұрын

I think I would need a Segway GT2 for that and I've never ridden one of those in the rain. 😢

@donscott6431 5 ай бұрын

Railroad tracks are like ice, when wet. Asphalt oil mixed with water and polished RR tracks…uh-uh. If you DO have to cross tracks….cross perpendicularly, NOT on an angle

@GingerOnWheels 5 ай бұрын

Very good tip!

@DottieWorld 5 ай бұрын

you should cross the atlantic ocean with it. 😁

@rayqueef433 5 ай бұрын

Should I get the kukirin g3 pro or the g2 master

@GingerOnWheels 5 ай бұрын

I don't know. It depends on what you want in your scooter and how much you're willing to spend. I personally prefer the G2 because it's a bit smaller and just really nimble and zippy for someone my size.

@rayqueef433 5 ай бұрын

@@GingerOnWheels I’m wanting something fast and comfy to ride that can handle hills good

@rayqueef433 5 ай бұрын

What scooter do I get the kikirin g2 master or the Leo out sx10

@rayqueef433 5 ай бұрын

I’m gonna use to get around because I can’t drive a car because of my eye sight

@GingerOnWheels 5 ай бұрын

I like the Kukirin G2 master

@truthiscensored 5 ай бұрын

Inmotion V14 EUC does well in the rain too. A few KZbinrs rode it in the rain and through some puddles about ankle deep and it was fine

@bobrob3881 5 ай бұрын

do you ship to Canada

@GingerOnWheels 5 ай бұрын

At this time, no. But thanks for your interest.

@bobrob3881 5 ай бұрын

no problem thanks

@mpg869 5 ай бұрын

Lmao. What a shitty parking lot. Those businesses should sue the landowner

@rippingj6017 5 ай бұрын

Would never ride in the rain

@Vmaxfodder 5 ай бұрын

Submarine?? Park it there ,and find out ? Hope the wheel seals are done correctly? Very suspicious

@GingerOnWheels 5 ай бұрын

Suspicious of what? What do you mean 'park it there'? Did you watch the first 10 seconds? Did you watch the actual test in the middle?

@Vmaxfodder 5 ай бұрын

@GingerOnWheels I'm banned from Y.T. but it's somewhat glichy. Did you stop? Did I miss something? Will try again. I didn't follow the narcissistic sanctimonious narrative they had. But I seen enough wheel seals the chinise destroy when manufacturing. Rebuilt a few from burning them out with 30kw . Mostly in the wiring. But the way they install seals was the Proof of the philosophy they have lately. Let it all rot .

@paulstrollo3187 Ай бұрын

sorry brother but you failed to account for speed. hitting that puddle was the same as submerging that thing to about 50 feet deep as far as pressure goes. that is way beyond what it is rated for and your motors are almost certainly full of water now. might want to crack them open and take a look. IF so dry out and spray down with some di electric varnish and you should be good to good. tech tip. pack axle from inside and out with geese to prevent water from wicking along the cables. as far as true waterproof it is doable but not cheap! all connectors have to replaced with REAL water proof connectors for starters...