I would think weight would be a big issue. Rubber is a lot heavier than plastic. Would for sure slow it down and possible burn out the motors.

 

I'm sure we will burn up the motor but that is fine by me.

 

My brother stretched some scooter tires over the top of the plastic wheels for his son so it would have traction in his stone drive and it didn't take long for the plastic gears to strip out.

 

A buddy of mine took old bicycle tubes and wrapped em around the wheels of his kids power wheels. Seemed to work ok on the driveway and such.

 

I've seen some guys take the gears and whatnot out of them around here when they buy em not working from garage sales and coast them downhill or pull one of their drunk buddies along in one tied to a 4 wheeler....some funny shit, but never seen one with rubbers on it.

 

This is a real easy fix for traction, just use some duck tape on the surface of the plastic tires.

 

We do power wheels races at the local drag strip. Best we have seen is to take a bicycle tire and flatten it out and then cut it to length around the plastic tire. Then just rivet or screw the outer edge of the flattened bicycle tire to the plastic tire. Low weight and you get some rubber with tread on it.

 

We used to do powerwheel races at Mokan Dragway, we raced to the 60'. My son holds the record with a time of 2.30 at 33mph.

 

Google it, lots of people mod power wheels. My son has a Kid Trax brand, it came stock with strips of rubber wrapped around the plastic tires

 

We cut a tube sideways and stretched it over the plastic tires and hot glued it, worked great. Now we have go kart race tires now.

 

my kid actually has a blast with the hard tires on a paved driveway.At 7 years old he knows how to steer out of a skid,do a doughnut,do a burnout and slide to a sideways stop.I had to wait till 16 and buy a winter rat and learn all that in the snow!If i can get it to go faster in reverse we'll work on the Jim Rockford turnaround next.

 

Small bicycle tire,cut sidewalls out of tire and stretch it over the power wheel tires then put a couple screws in so it doesn't rotate

 

Spray Flex-Seal on them !!!

 

Hrtatck1 put rubber tires on his boys years ago. Worked well best of my knowledge. He used wheels / tires like on a 2 wheel dolly.

 

coat them with VHT

 

I cut and glued bicycle tires to my kid's power wheels. Works

 

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I picked up set for my kids jeep on Ebay ready to install for less than $10. worked great much quieter on concrete and better traction. Same Jeep is now with my god daughter kids! still going strong.

 

I was thinking about this the other day for my daughters car.


What are you guys doing to speed them up?

 

32v scooter motor and controller on a chain drive.

 

We've got a Ford Mustang and Jeep and been wanting to hop them up. Aside from traction what modifications have you done for speed, etc?

 

Be ready to drop some coin to get that Mustang to keep up with a kids Powerwheels.

 

I screwed bike tires to all 4 wheels and upgraded to 24v. It ripped the gears out very fast. So I removed the rear rubber and it helped. If staying 12v just install a resistor to make it brake softer.

 

Had a set of old wheels off a generator that i mounted to a trailer. Buddy welded them on his grandsons power wheels. Put a 18v dewalt battery on that thing and it would do wheel stands for days. Kid wouldn't drive it without the brake caliper on the hood to keep it down.

 

Power Wheels batteries don't have much run time. Grandson was always running out of battery and having me get my lil old four wheeler to tow him back. Since it is a Gator with room in the bed I screwed down a marine style battery box, the big one. Rewired the machine cause I'd heard about a recall for melting wires, and put a group 31 stud post battery in. He don't run out of battery now. Battery weight in the rear sort of helped traction but still just spun tires everywhere and on any kind of hill. This battery has amps.

I used my sawsall and cut the tread off the old four wheeler tires that I never got around to throwing away. Used most of a box of screws and wrapped the tread around both rear tires. It don't spin, anywhere.

I've had to replace a motor, the brush melted off, gone. Fortunately someone had tossed another Power Wheels in the Dumpster so of course I stripped out the motors and gearboxes. A Guy has to have spare parts.

G'son has already outgrown the toy, it's been years already. Someone in the family with a little one is about to get lucky.

 

My brother bought some big rubber bands years ago for his kids power wheels jeep. Maybee search eBay?