Major issue with Vibe steering/front wheel
A word to the wise on anyone thinking of buying a Vibe. We bought ours last July ... I knew there had been some issues with the front wheel/steering, and asked the saleswoman at the store before we bought it if she knew of any problems, and whether or not P&T had fixed the model. Her response was "no complaints" and as far as she knew the model had no problems.
Fast track to earlier this month. We'd only used the Vibe on the odd occasion (DS1 will often walk, and if I'm out with DS2 only, I use a different pram). Anyway ... we were on holiday in Adelaide and went to the zoo for the day, and the pram was completely useless almost from the minute we got there :angry:!
The steering was shambolic - the wheel contintually went to the right, both on lock and in free-wheel mode, and when we tried to correct it, it yawed to the left. Thankfully DH was there and he pushed/steered it as it required muscle power to continually lift the front wheel up to reposition the direction of the pram. Not happy, Jan! It literally went from being ok one day, to being almost unuseable the next - not that we had a choice, we had to keep using it because our other (single child) pram was at home, in another state. Thank god for a baby bjorn and a toddler who likes to walk!
The minute we got back to Bris we took it to the store and they're fixing it (loaned us a Dash for the time being - which I haven't used yet). The woman from the store told my DH that they'd had others return their Vibe to fix the wheel and steering.
Anyway, my friendly warning ... make sure you suss out the steering issue and/or the store's repair policy. I just thank my lucky stars I didn't have this problem when I was somewhere on my own with both boys as it would have been a nightmare trying to push an almost unpushable pram.
Hopefully once ours is fixed we'll again have a user friendly pram for a baby and toddler.
Andie