[littleCedar]

Originally Posted by lemkeml

My wife wants an electric cart with a hard enclosure. I am looking at buying a 2011 EZ-Go RXV with a Curtis Cab. My concern is that this cart has 4 12-volt Trojan batteries. The owner was only getting around 20 miles on a charge. The dealer, AGC, recently replaced one battery and gave them a new charger. Owner says cart runs find now. Do I need to be concerned? Would you buy this cart, or for that matter any EZGO? Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I am supposed do buy this cart this afternoon.

Sorry I skipped this.

You always need to be concerned with mis-matched batteries, like sticking a new one in with old ones. Batteries should always be aged-matched. You can google the reason for that.

E Z Go knows this, and when they replaced 117 batteries in our fleet, in the carts where a battery tested bad, they took all of the batteries out of those carts and put them on wooden pallets. So, before they started replacing the batteries with new ones, they had all of the old ones that had not tested bad sitting there on pallets and all of the bad ones on other pallets.

Yeah, I know, you're thinking this really sounds like an ordeal, and it was. This is the inside story of what most cart buyers/owners never see.

Anyway, when they put batteries back into the carts, it was either all new in a cart, or all old, with about the same age on them.

Then a guy came and took the pallets with the bad batteries. You get money at recycling for them, about nine bucks last I checked.

But, as it turns out, even that did not solve the problems that they had stonewalled themselves into, and they eventually took the carts back early and did a new lease with 2012s.

Which means 60 crappy carts, bad from the git-go, went somewhere, to someone.

[littleCedar]

Originally Posted by charliev

The only recall I can find was way back in 2008 for "hip restraints".

For RXVs, I agree, although I don't understand how they avoided recalls on the solenoid and battery autofills. Maybe cuz no one got killed because of them, like the accelerator pedal problem.

[George Bieniaszek]

I have an EZGO RXV also and in my opinion, it may be the gauge that is a little off. My gauge does the same. It stays around the Full-3/4 range then quickly drops to E and the light comes on. I was thinking of installing a digital gauge which displays the actual voltage instead of a gauge that acts like a gas gauge with an E---F range to get a more accurate reading of the voltage.