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Originally Posted by tjdmlhw
This is a question for those of you who have gas powered golf carts that are set to go over the legal 20 mph limit. Our cart was capable of doing up to 25 mph on a flat roadway, so we decided to have the governor set to 20 mph. But the cart now will only go about 16 going up hills. Is this what the rest of you are experiencing with your 20 mph carts?
Another issue is going down those same hills, it is almost impossible to keep it from going over 25 (if I give it half throttle, it will easily go up to 30), which by definition makes it an illegal vehicle. Our mechanic says there is nothing he can do about this.
I would just like to know if this is normal for a golf cart.
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My 2011 Gas Yamaha runs 22 mph on a flat surface. I just played with the governor until I got it to that point. It runs 18-20 uphill and faster downhill, but downhill I just back off the gas and feather the brake if needed. I tried it for awhile at 20 mph on a flat surface but found I had trouble keeping up with the neighborhood golf group when we headed out together to our course. 22 seems to work well and after 15 years in The Villages I have never gotten a ticket for excess speed.
One other item of note: You can have 5 automobiles, for example, and if you check the speedometer against GPS at a steady speed, it is rare that you will get the exact same reading on the speedometer. I owned 5 at one point so I checked this out, and it was true. The difference was only +/- 2 mph, but that tells me that the speedometer reading is not always reliable.
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