Golf cart questions

[Baron Von Crowder]

My boss lives in a gated community, and uses his to go to/from neighbor's parties, etc. But he bought it to avoid DWI on the way to/from the country club. His community has a cart path that leads to the club and golf course.

your boss?

[Sean88gt]

I don't get it. They are brutally slow as is, can't imagine with a lift kit.

[lowthreeohz]

Why not a gas cart?

[juiceweezl]

Most of the ones I'm somewhat interested in have batteries that are less than a year old. How long will a battery last in something like a golf cart? 5 years with moderate use? Ideally, I'd like to find someone with a cart under about $5K and that's interested some kind of full or partial trade of sort. I have a guy right now that has a nice looking one (haven't seen it in person yet) for $5,500 that's willing to do a partial trade for 2 AR-15's I have. The price he's given me for my guns is decent, but he's not willing to budge on the price of the cart. At first he low-balled me on the guns and said the cart was non-nego, which pissed me off and I told him it was a no-go. He sent me a text the next day and came up on the price of the guns, but still isn't nego on the price of the cart. I told him it still wasn't enough, but that I may respond with another counter. My theory is that if I'm negotiable on the item I have for trade, he needs to be nego on what he has.

Be patient. I bought mine used of CL for about $2400 if I remember correctly. Sure, it had some scratches and the flip seat on back was a fab job, but I sold my car hauler for $1400, collected $800 someone owed me, and voila -- golf cart. It had a lift, new tires and wheels, etc. The batteries were only a few months old too, BUT I only checked the date they were punched when installed. The mfg date was much older. I had to replace them this year, but they still lasted 2.5 years. I had to put lights on it and replace the windshield. I added the slow moving vehicle triangle and then some 6x9's and a bluetooth stereo for it. I can't complain about it. The wife is a teacher, and they use it to go to the pool. We also drive it in the spring and late fall around the neighborhood, and I'll even load it with baseball gear and take it to the fields for practice. We love our cart.

Batteries be 'spensive.

Truth. I just gave over $100 each for 6.

Why not a gas cart?

Because a ragged out POS was still $4500 or more when I was looking. I'd buy a Polaris for that.

I have one, have had it about a year. I got it from a guy that bought it new a year earlier from www.golfcarsforfun.net - a place up off of 380.

He listed it on CL at $4k and didn't want to budge. I paid him $3900 bc I told him I refused to pay his asking on principle. He paid $6500 and gave me the receipt. It was for running around his neighborhood, which is what I use it for.

We've gotten good use out of it. Picking up my daughter from daycare, dropping off and picking up from school, running to the parks, friends houses, etc. It's a lot of fun and if you get a good price on it you can sell for at or more what you paid.

I'd suggest scouring CL for them, and buy in the off-season from someone looking to sell. I haven't had to replace the batteries in mine, and they are two years old at this point...

For $5k you should be able to find something that has many upgrades, including flip up rear seat, wheels, lift, and possible stereo.

A neighbor of mine just bought one new from the same place, and has damn near every upgrade imaginable and spent over $8k, which is nuts, IMO...

Mine isn't quite this nice, but it has just about all the same features. I'll have to recover the flip seat in the back this winter, but otherwise the cart is great. I'll try to grab some pictures of it tonight if i think about it. All in all, I don't have $3K in my cart excluding the new batteries I bought after 2.5 years of owning it used.

[Sleeper]

You are only a baller when it has its own little garage door.

[soap]

They are fun to booze and cruise.

Yup. I've done some crazy shit with golf carts, and beer.

[BoostedD1]

So you can't get a DUI on a golf cart?! But you can on an atv?! Must be the gas operating motor. I dunno. Enlighten me please.


This was in regards to the post about going home from the golf course...

[Big A]

So you can't get a DUI on a golf cart?! But you can on an atv?! Must be the gas operating motor. I dunno. Enlighten me please.


This was in regards to the post about going home from the golf course...

Who said you can't get a DUI? You certainly can if/when you get caught.

[GrayStangGT]

So you can't get a DUI on a golf cart?! But you can on an atv?! Must be the gas operating motor. I dunno. Enlighten me please.


This was in regards to the post about going home from the golf course...

You don't get on the street, that's why he mentioned there were cart paths to the houses.

[bcoop]

You don't get on the street, that's why he mentioned there were cart paths to the houses.

Exactly. He's a few houses down from where the cart path comes in to the neighborhood.

You absolutely can get a DWI on a golf cart if you're driving on the street and get caught. A friend of mine got a DWI on a go kart once.

[aggie97]

Need moar info on this bad boy por favor!

[Big A]

Need moar info on this bad boy por favor!

Lots of options out there.

http://www.customgolfcartbody.com/

[Roscoe]

So you can't get a DUI on a golf cart?! But you can on an atv?! Must be the gas operating motor. I dunno. Enlighten me please.


This was in regards to the post about going home from the golf course...

Absolutely you can get a DWI a golf cart. Although most of them will let you go as long as you're not being stupid. Just the other day I was driving down the street with an open beer and a cop came up behind me and waved. They won't jack with you… Just don't be stupid.

[soap]

Needs this.

[Mach1Run]

I'd roll that if I had someplace to drive it. But I would get killed trying to get anywhere around here on one.