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Originally Posted by Mary Lou
My cart, a 2005 Club Car Precedent, was fully charged and running what seemed like fine when I took it out the other day. Just drove it down the street for Mahjongg. Afterwards, I got in the cart, made a U-turn to head back home, and it stopped running. It seemed to move a little if I put my foot down on the accelerator just a bit, but if I pushed down all the way, I heard a clicking sound and it didn't move at all. I walked home and my husband came down and was able to "crawl" it home by just pushing lightly on the accelerator.
So, we have it towed to Cart World and after a short while they call back and tell us our batteries are over 5 years old and it will be $800+ to replace them. ???? OK, it is true that they are about 5 years old. It is also true that we hardly ever use this cart as we have 2 cars, but my husband takes meticulous care of the batteries, water, etc.
My question to you experts out there is: Do you really think the entire problem is due to the older batteries? My thought is to bring it back home and get a second opinion. I'm looking for recommendations for a good cart mechanic.
Thanks!
Mary Lou
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Here is a follow up on my original post. As it turns out, the problem really was the batteries. We weren't convinced at first, since there still was power if we just "crawled", but when we put our foot all the way down on the pedal, nothing. We have since become educated in how the computer onboard turns off the cart if the batteries are discharged greatly. We weren't sure that we wanted to spend over $800 for batteries as we were quoted by Cart World, so we had the cart brought home and called The Battery Boys. What a great company to work with. They replaced the batteries and saved us over $100. My husband was impressed with the technician, Brian. He did a very thorough job. Since the cart is 9 years old (I originally said it was a 2005, but after checking our records I find it actually is a 2004) and we were planning on replacing it with a new one, we didn't really want to spend a lot on it. But, we reasoned that we didn't have a new one yet and in order to sell it, it will need to run - - so we went ahead with the new batteries. Now, it is running so well, we may keep it longer than we originally planned.
