Agree with one of each
 

That's what we finally did. bought an electric in 2007, then a 2nd electric in 2010. We drive almost everywhere by cart, except for night and bad weather. At night, the one driving the furthest takes the car and the other the cart, usually once or twice a week. Probably only drive our car here about twice a week.

We still like the quietness of electric, but your range and worry will increase in the 3rd year of battery life. It is painful if you have to replace both carts' batteries in the same year. Finally decided that we did not want to put $600-700 batteries in a $2000 cart. If you use carts almost exclusively, and do more than just golf and go out to dinner, you will likely only get about 3 years from a set of batteries. We got 4 year on our 2nd cart last year, but really had to watch our range the last year and noticed the slow-down in mph. We live in the middle of The Villages (at the moment :).

We bought a newer EFI Yahama cart and do find it quieter that the older gas models. We leave for the summer and will, as always, have both carts serviced at our house when we return in September. The gas cart will be the one we use most. Nice to have the electric 4 seater, though, when we have company. They are quieter. As the batteries age, you do have to fill them more frequently, especially in hot weather. And, if you leave for the summer, you need to get a battery minder or have your home watch people monitor, charge, fill, and drive monthly.

LOL, well AJ, your probably the exception to the "it will happen" rule. I to have run my batteries for a long life. My 02 Club Car was just replaced and had 09 batteries and my 08 Yamaha has 2010 batteries and going strong. As that one is in a rental will replace them sometime soon.

However as I do, I recommend you carry a toe rope and never need to use it.

I've driven golf carts for over 50 years playing and coaching golf. So that it's new and fun to drive was not true for me.

When we rented here we had a gas cart. Compared to a Smart Car, that's roughing it. We were cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Rain meant zipping down, with smells, noise, no NPR to listen to. Now with a car, from Brownwood where I live I have 301 to get me on the other end of town in 20 minutes not an hour. Now I walk the execs, rent or share a cart on the champs. I'm never cold when I get to a course. If I get caught in a rainstorm on the course I can put on the heat in the car. When the sun beats you up in the Summer, the AC cools me off on the way home.

When we bought, before we sold, we couldn't buy a cart. We postponed the purchase. I leased a Smart Car and bought an e-bike. This combination turned out to be the best. My leased Smart Car cost me less than $1500 a year and I save quite a bit on gas compared to my old car, a Subaru wagon. The bike cost $1,600 and virtually nothing to charge.

The Smart Car is no bigger than a cart and I can get to 15 execs in less than 10 minutes anytime of the year. Now I don't want a cart.

My wife loves her reconditioned Yamaha gas cart she bought from Village Discount Golf Carts - the people there are super to work with. When she bought it, I didn't know how long I would be in KC and did not want her getting out and running out of juice; would probably have bought gas anyway. Mine will be gas and it definitely come from Village Discount Golf Carts.

Had 2 electric and 2 gas. Both have advantages/disadvantages. You have to decide which is best for you.

Go to PARCAR and ask them for a 2 day demo. They will bring one by your house and you can test it for a couple days and then decide for yourself

Hi tomwed:

I made that same observation on these pages more than once over the years. You could actually live here without owning a cart and not miss a thing. The only time I use my cart on executive is if the wife decides that she wants to ride on that particular day; albeit we both prefer to walk the executives. As to championships rental carts here are quite reasonable.

When you compare what you can buy a new car for these days vis a vis a cart it is somewhat staggering to find many people upgrading to a price that equates to the value of a car. But then we all have different priorities, needs and wants. I certain I am doing some sort of spending that others would not do.

Personal Best Regards:

Looks like all good posts for gas and electric. We have a gas and buy ethanol free gasoline at Gordon's Garage in Sumter Landing. I've found the difference in ethanol free, even paying a bit of a premium, is night and day as opposed to buying gasoline with ethanol.

What difference does ethanol free fuel do to improve your cart?

What brand of cart do you have? My wife put a tank full of ethanol free in our Yamaha about 6 months ago. I could not detect a difference. Yamaha does not recommend using fuel above 10% ethanol (yes, they make such stuff) so the 10% ethanol is fine. You can expect about 3% better gas mileage with ethanol free. We use regular, 10% ethanol.

My car also runs better after I change the oil and clean it [emoji106]🏻

As always, DeWilson gives sage advice.

We have one of each. One has a tow rope.



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