Rage Wii Wireless Guitar Peripherals Recalled for Safety Issues

If you are currently an owner of the Rage Wireless Guitar for your Wii you may wish to turn it off, put it down and run as far away from it as possible because it may just burn you, and not in the way Hendrix would have wanted.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall for the Rage Wireless Guitar in the States because the peripheral has a defective circuit board that can cause the AA batteries to leak, which could result in a nasty chemical burn from the battery acid.

Designed specifically for use on the Wii, the description provided by the CPSC states that the guitar is “blue or white, 31 inches long with battery operated LED-lighted fret buttons that go up the neck of the guitar”. It was sold at specialty stores and in mass merchandisers nationwide and would have cost anywhere from $40-60 each, were manufactured in China and it is estimated that 57,000 have been sold so far. One Consumer has already been harmed by the faulty device, so if you happen to own one of these peripherals you are being urged by the CPSC to return it to the store in which it was purchased immediately for a full refund.

The Rage Wireless Guitar is manufactured by Performance Designed Products (PDP) and if you purchased of of these and have any questions or concerns you are welcome to contact the company by phone at (800) 331-3844 between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or visit the firm’s Web site by hitting the link above.

PDP also make other guitar peripherals for the Wii, but at this point it is safe to say that if you purchased the Wii Wireless Ally & AJ Guitar, you are safe – even if you have zero taste in peripherals.