Hello everyone, I'm a new X7 plus(!
), and ebike/bike in general, owner since it looked like a good bike with most of the fixings my research told me I wanted for the price. I got the am100 plus for the rest of the family since they don't seem to have as good a taste in bikes as i thought. Those haven't arrived yet.
Unfortunately my bike arrived with a problem...
Assembled it with little issues besides garbage instructions and a missing a screw for the rear suspension that we thankfully had a replacement for but the ebike won't turn on. It only turns on if I plug the charger to the battery first but then it only does so for around a full second or less before shutting off while beeping at me twice. It responds to the remote lock and unlock while plugged in. If unplugged it does this sad half 2 beeps as if its lost all power and doesn't respond to anything until the battery is removed, replaced and then connected back to the charger. When connected to the outlet the charger refuses to turn red and simply stays green the entire time though I'm not sure if it's because the battery is fully charged or it has some other issue.
Now, my family and I are complete novices at this type of thing but we figured it was the battery. Contacted Eahora via the email/ticket contact us on their main site and they agreed, we didn't tell them what we thought was wrong only gave them details on what's happening and they came to the conclusion on their own. They promised to send a replacement battery and a way to ship our current one back. Days go by and no update on the battery so i called in to get one because i didn't want to fall through the cracks for an extended period of time since i've had that happen before. The guy i talked to didn't know what i was talking about with the battery replacement since he couldn't find anything and told me he'd talk to his coworkers and get to the bottom of the issue. This was on Wednesday and no contact. Tried calling on Saturday but not sure if anyone was there since no one picked up so planning to try again on Monday. Getting very leery since they seem to have a randomly good or bad reputation with customer support and missing/broken parts on arrival which i found out as i started looking in depth into the issue.
Found this site as an example.
I was always planning to get a second battery anyway since I was expecting to go for extended cruises so i wanted to ask you guys, do you know of anyway to buy a battery for the X7 Plus that doesn't go through their site? I've seen other bikes of the same make but when i measured it the measurements were slightly enough off that i don't think the battery would fit into the case. It's so maddening to finally have the bike here but to not be able to use it since i don't want to actually start taking it out as a regular bike only to have to return it if everything falls through and face issues due to that.
If things stay this way i'm planning to return all 4 bikes despite how much i don't want to do so, mainly because of extra wait time and the fact that i genuinely like my bike.
Any help would be appreciated.