Oddball off-brand golf carts/trucks, etc
 

I made the mistake of doing a bit of marketplace searching on golf carts.

I'm now getting a bit inundated with offers from all these off-brand, usually electric, golf carts and golf trucks, etc

Does anyone have any experience with these as I have not seen any around TV (not that I've looked, but some are pretty unique) ...?

IMHO I would stick with a gas cart, the villages is so large you [I]may[I] be approaching the limit of the typical battery pack. We just went from a little north of Brownwood to Fenny grill around 20 miles round trip.

Have you checked the web for those brands(since you don't mention them that's suspicious)and see how reliable they are...who will service them? who backs the warranty?

Personally I don't buy into your questions as you don't give us enough info about those brands...like their names. Don't trolls do this?

Make your life simple and easier, get yourself a gas Yamaha quiet-tech and don't look back.

I keep my stuff for quite awhile. I consider the brand for any parts I may need way down the road. Which IMO hard to bet Yamaha cart.

FYI....50 miles on a charge is no issue on either of our two electrics. Fenny to Orange Blossom and back is about 40 miles. I think eventually we will become too large to ride in gas or electric.

Here's a couple -and I don't know their names or brands...

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and this one that keeps showing up from Lady Lake...

Newer electric carts easily go 40 miles on a full charge. Please if you don't know what you are talking about, don't make Statements.

I had a Star electric golf cart. Easily 60 miles on a charge. Newer ones now get 80 miles. Never had a problem with service, always picked up and returned.

For us travel time and seat comfort are limiting factors more than range.

Stay away from electric. Just stick with a Yamaha gas. An electric cart in The Villages makes no sense.

You are so right, who wants to drive in a golf cart when it's 100° outside

The new atomic gas carts can go 90 miles without a charge and 60 miles with the air conditioning on.

Safer Wholesale is a scam! No local dealer to support. Want something reliable and local. Try Crown Carts, Star Dealer and Air Conditioned Carts. Family owned and operated.

The Chinese gas carts are using Chonda engines, honda clones. Extremely reliable. All the other parts reliability is the issue.

Maybe need to go on a diet? 🤣

Wall-e

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It's amazing how they are watching us. Everything we look at on the computer or phone they know about. Type in anything and you will get their results that day. Modern times.

This range you speak of is misleading. True you should be able to get that range with new batteries but you will never get close to that range, as I am sure you know as the batteries age.

Here is a thought. Why don't we all agree that electric cart people think they have the best mode of cart and gas cart people feel they have the best mode of propulsion. Stop debating who has the better cart. You will never convince the other that you are right!

True Jim, but what about those of us who just arrived in villages and last year bought a brand new decked out Club Car Envoy. I've been told if I go lithium batteries no problem. 60 to 80 plus miles. Anybody have experiences with lithium batteries ?

My opinion. You will need service AND PARTS. Off brand means no or very limited parts available and few or no people familiar with proper repair.

I would be lost without my computer. Nothing is free. The price of your computer is the fact that privacy is gone.

Yep, cookies will spy on you all the time.
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Golf Carts response - watching us!
 

If you do not want to be "watched" switch your search engine to DuckDuckGo. I have used it for about 4 years and no more watching!!!

In my opinion stick with EZ-GO. Club Car, Yamaha and EZ-GO dominate the market with similar market shares. All golf cart companies are subsidiaries of much larger companies. There are some differences, but not major. If you choose a quiet and odor-free electric cart, be sure to get the more expensive Lithium Ion batteries. Much, much longer life, no water required, and the kind of extended range you’ll need here in the expanding Villages. One other suggestion—specify radial tires. They provide a dramatically smoother ride than the cheaper standard tires.

I’ve had four EZ-GO carts, the latest with Li-Ion batteries and radial tires. No reason to change to another brand that I’ve been able to see.

Do you even have a golf cart? You live in Leesburg, right?

The range capabilities of electric golf carts are improving, however, the batteries have a limited life, and each year, their range decreases. Gasoline golf carts get great mileage, and their mileage gets better when they "break in".
Yamaha, is Japanese, EZGO and Club Car are American companies, and I think that the engines are Japanese (Subaru or Robyn).
All the other brands, Atomic, Crown etc. are Chinese manufactured. If you don't mind supporting the Chinese communist government, then you can get a good deal on one.

Oh yeah, it's the cookies in your computer that track everything you look at and send you those ads.

Period!!

Stick with the tried and good yamaha gas, club car gas. There is a reason there the most popular cart. This is not a corner you want to cut. Imo

Stick with Yamaha or Club Car or E-Z-Go gas cart

I have researched a couple different items online lately (for potential purchase). Suddenly the hubby and my brother (who lives with us) are both seeing ads in their browsers for those items -- probably because we are on the same IP address? Luckily, I wasn't hiding anything from hubs ha!

Be forewarned: If you are shopping for a gift for someone who lives with you maybe consider using a VPN to hide your activities!

kathy

I don't understand why people make blanket statements like this.

We have an electric cart with six month old batteries. I have no idea how far we can go because if it takes more than 30 minutes to get someplace by cart we use one of our cars. We bought electric because it is quiet and doesn't stink. And yes, we tried out a new Yamaha QuietTech which may be quieter than a similar non-QuietTech cart but is not my idea of "quiet". And when you drive through one of the tunnels behind a gas cart there is no question about whether it is gas or electric unless you had covid recently and lost your sense of smell.

I totally get why some people who drive their cart everywhere (and maybe don't even own a car) would buy a gas cart. One of these days we plan to rent one for a day to go exploring "down south" (we live near Spanish Springs). But we are happy to travel around in our thirty-minutes-from-our-house circle in our clean, quiet electric Yamaha.

If you see a redhead in a red cart who waves at every cart that goes by, that'll be me!

kathy

So you say. Smelly, high maintenance, noisy and dangerous when hopped up to do illegal, nongolf cart speeds. Good lithium powered electrics are the best.

You got it right. Frankly, I use my "street legal" electric cart for any trip that it is legal to use it. This is not because I do not have another, regular, car but because I like it and it is much cheaper. Street legal cars are great, not because you can "legally" drive a little faster but you do not have to go in and out of every circle to get where you are going. With lithium batteries, you can get 80 plus miles per charge in quiet comfort.

Electric carts, what the dealers don’t tell you.
 

Discharging any battery bank by 50% or more significantly reduces the overall service life of the batteries.

Really would not want a 50 mile bumpy ride in a cart, electric or gas, yipsters, good for short local rides, but get in a car and rent a cart when you get there.

The first “accessory” any new electric cart owner should buy is a TOW STRAP !!!! :popcorn:

And keep a small bottle of Grand Marnier with your tow strap to give to the person with the gas cart that tows you home : )

Next cart ... :)

k.