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Old 12-31-2012, 07:40 AM
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I've had a par car lsv for about 2 1/2 years I love it. 2 things you have to be aware of though is lsv insurance is almost the cost of car ins. and battery life. They will tell you a well maintained battery will last 2 to 3 years. The warranty also includes "battery hour usage" and par car states a battery pack gets about 500 hrs. Im going to need my 3rd set of batteries soon, range has reduced drastically. I was upset about that until I sat down and figured I drive on a average 25 miles a day which over even 300 days a yr. equals 7500 miles if you take the avg. gas golf cart gets about 35 mpg and and use a low cost per gal. of $3.25 thats about $700.00 a yr. for gas. New batteries will cost me in the range of $800.00 and then I get a new 1 time warranty on them again for 2yrs...so battery cost breaks down to $400.00 a year. hope this helps