New Cart Owner Questions????

[Kahuna32162]

OK, we close on our new place just after labor day in the village of Woodbury. We are on about furthest most Northern street you can live on in TV. I will need to buy a golf cart shortly after arriving and I have some questions...

First, given our Northern location, should I be looking at Gas or Electric? My concern is the carting time to get from one are to another and running out of battery or gas.

Second, I'm a big guy, 6'8" & 340, so leg room is a must. Is it possible to have a cart modified to move the seats back?

Finally, I have seen carts online with both canvas and hard side doors. What is the advantage of one over the other?

Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated, very excited to becoming a Full Time FROG at TV.

[ajbrown]

I know folks in Calumet and Chatham. My only thought is that if you go electric go with a cart that 8-6v batteries.

An example is Par Car. I think they have adjustable seats....

[borjo]

The hard doors add weight which may translate to less mileage or speed. New electric carts can go over 35 miles, sometimes much further if 8 batteries like stated above. Do you think you'd ever go more than 35-60 miles in a day?

[asianthree]

gas is our choice so we can go anywhere and not worry...of course the solar could be our second

[Rickg]

I live far south near Evans Prairie and have electric (6-8v batteries) and go to Spanish springs and back with no problem. I like the quietness of electric, but you'll get many differing opinions.

[jimbo2012]

Go solar

[ajbrown]

My opinions are biased as I would never own a gas cart. Obviously gas will work for you, but IF you are interested in electric......

Try to figure out how you will use it. If I lived in Chatham, MY requirements would be to size a cart so that I could play Evans Prarie and make it home with plenty of charge left in case I wanted to whip over to Spanish Springs. That type of day will push a typical 6-8V configuration IMO. A big day for you may just be drive to Brownwood and back with no golf which is not such a big day.

***** - I have never done any testing in an AC cart, e.g., EZGO with 6-8V batteries, nor have I seen any real data posted here. AC driven carts are more efficient than their DC counterparts. By real data I mean I went this many miles and my ending voltage was xx.x.

[philnpat]

Go solar

When?

[Country Dreamer]

Par Car has carts with the charger and cables enclosed in the cart. Then you can recharge after a round of golf at Evans prairie or bonifay or a trip to Brownwood before your ride home. I have recharged at Palmer and I am sure any of the championship golf courses would be happy to help. You can scope out other places with outside electrical outlets, I know this has been discussed on TOTV in previous threads. I have been told my 8 6volt batteries would take me 60 miles, but I don't think I have tested that out yet. And of course you should consider solar on your cart. That would be the best!

[Redrok]

Kahuna,
I own a 2012 ParCar. I'm also a big guy and tried a lot of different carts before deciding on the ParCar. I'm also a big guy too and am 6'2".
One day when our daughter was visiting we decided to take a long golf cart tour. I had a load of over 750# between the 3 of us. have the 4 seat model with the stronger suspension. I have driven to Brownwood from our house in Charlotte, up to Nancy Lopez, then over to Spanish Springs to eat then went over 441 over the golf cart bridge. We toured the original area amazed at how great the older looked. We then went back over the bridge and down the golf cart path along 466 to Buena Vista then back to Charlotte. We were exhausted but the cart was still in the green. Cart was about 6 months old.

At 6'2" this cart had the longest leg room but I still feel cramped. ParCar will not modify the seats to get longer legroom but I am going to make some modifications myself to get a couple more inches. Make sure you try the exact model you are considering. Good luck and welcome to The Villages.

[jimbo2012]

the key component of any electric or solar cart is an accurate digital state of charge gauge on the dash,

One that shows an exact number of volts which equates to percent of charge left.

The ones that have red or green are not accurate enough IMO