Onewheel Trade In Program (Ending March 8th 2024)

Lia

Future motion have offered the opportunity to trade in your old XR or GT for store credit towards a Onewheel GT-S. Seems interesting for anyone that doesn't keep their collection of boards like me 😅

Simply send in your serial number and they'll offer a free shipping label (USA lower 48) to be checked over by their team to verify it's all there.
https://tradein.onewheel.com/

A Onewheel+ XR is worth $800. Onewheel GT is $1200.

Thoughts? I think this is pretty sweet if you're in the US.

NotSure

@lia said in Onewheel Trade In Program (Ending March 8th 2024):

Simply send in your serial number and they'll offer a free shipping label (USA lower 48) to be checked over by their team to verify it's all there.
https://tradein.onewheel.com/
A Onewheel+ XR is worth $800. Onewheel GT is $1200.
Thoughts? I think this is pretty sweet if you're in the US.

Yeah it's a good deal imo. A friend of mine is thinkin about it for his GT. Im not ready to part ways with the XR quite yet. Gonna VESC that eventually. 5" hub, big floppy tire!

Lia

@notsure It's a shame it only lasts till March 8th but I guess they need to FOMO us a little to jump on the chance.

At least the old boards are getting recycled correctly according to the video. That said I assume part of that might be to try reduce the number of FM parts getting VESC'd lol.

Hope your VESC build goes well! ^-^ The 5" hub looks pretty cool. I hope to do it on my GT one day.

OneDanGTS

@lia said in Onewheel Trade In Program (Ending March 8th 2024):

That said I assume part of that might be to try reduce the number of FM parts getting VESC'd lol.

Perhaps, but you don't need ANY XR parts to make a VESC board. About the only thing used is usually the rails (who wants to keep the straight ones for a custom board tho?) and maybe the XR bumpers, which are some of the lowest quality you can buy. The batteries from original XRs are most likely done or close to being done and the electronics, you're better off with after market, from what I've seen.

Of course, they put up this deal after I got my GT fixed a month ago for $300+, which with the extra $1200, puts MY potential savings at $1500+. I'm not too upset tho, I'll have a nice familiar GT (I've put on ~4000 miles already) to ride while at my home away from home.

Puzz360

Shame US only...
Would have been nice if the dealers in the respective countries could take them in for us.
After all, they sell them so they must have to ship 'em over in the first place.

OneDanGTS

@puzz360 said in Onewheel Trade In Program (Ending March 8th 2024):

Shame US only...

The video does show that you can still get the credit outside the US lower 48, but you have to pay the shipping. I wonder how cheap you could ship it for and, if it goes by boat, would it make it by the deadline? :)

When I shipped my Pint X to them for the battery wires issue, it took 10 days from Hawaii to get to them in CA.

LOAFFETTE

@onedangts The things that I've seen people keep are usually the footpad, the old wiring harness, motor and axle bolts

Sometimes the original BMS is reused but put into a charge-only state if they are running a 15S, though with the Pickle BMS being a drop-in replacement for the stock FM one, I'm not sure

LOAFFETTE

@lia Could be doing it to try and get everyone off of the XR/GT and onto the GTS which has enough horsepower that most riders probably wouldn't need to worry or even think about pushback/nosediving

MY best guess is it's trying to limit liability to trying to keep CSPS off their backs any way possible. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the case.

Franko

i wonder if they will extend this eventually to the Pint and PintX models, and if they do, what the trade in value will be. This seems like a fair deal, honestly.

Franko

Update from the comments section of the official YouTube announcement video. Someone made a rude comment about how "not even FM wants the Pints back" and they replied:

"This program doesn't include the Pint(X) platform but depending on how it goes and how useful folks find it, we could certainly see a Pint program in the future."

NotSure

@franko yeah i saw that one. Very intriguing.

Sirgu

@Franko & @NotSure I saw that too.
And to be fairly honest - my first thought was: Why is FM contradicting themselves on their statements??
At first Adam says: "... this will probably never happen again ... " and then in comments they reply:
@Franko said :

"... but depending on how it goes and how useful folks find it, we could certainly see a Pint program in the future."