I can only tell you my experience. My golf cart came with my house. It is a 2002, 48 Volt Club Car and it has been modified. It has a custom front end and I believe that they lights and some other accessories have been added after market.
I began having some problems with one of tail lights / directional lights. I took it to the Villages Golf Cart Man. Big mistake.
I was told that among other things the entire cart was wired with speaker wire and the the headlights were running extremely hot. According to them the whole cart needed to be rewired and the headlights needed to be replaced.
Since they didn't know of any headlights that would fit my cart, they were going to have to "fabricate" some to make the headlights that they stock, fit. It was going to cost about $500.
I got a second opinion. It seems that the only speaker wire in the cart was to the charge gauge and that was not affecting anything. The headlights, which were perfectly fine were meant to run on 12 volts and the were wired to all six batteries. I had a choice of having them rewired to one of the batteries, which would wear down that one battery before the others. A battery pack is only as strong as it's weakest battery. Or have a 48 - 12 voltage reducer installed to run the lights.
I had
Todd Casey of Todd Casey Golf Cart Repair install the reducer and the cart is now fine.
When these batteries are worn out. I intend to have the cart converted to 8 six volt batteries.
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