Golf cart gas in Spanish Springs- Circle K on Buenos Aires?
 

Looking for the closest place to get gas for golf cart in Spanish Springs around El Camino Real…

The Villages GPS shows the Circle K on Buenos Aires is golf cart accessible, but it doesn’t show up as an option on the Villages App.

Is crossing Buenos Aires in a golf cart allowed?

Easiest is the ethanol free pumps at the SS Villages Golf Cart facility. Other options, go right at the four way golf cart intersection after going over the golf cart bridge into the historic section and follow path until it empties onto road that allows golf cart traffic and follow road to gas station. You can also take The Gate in the historic section (resident gate card required) and go to WaWa for either ethanol free or regular gas.

I use regular unleaded on mine. I've read, and talked to the tech at the golf cart store, and the general takeaway is that using regular unleaded can reduce your golf cart's life by as much as a year.

Considering that some golf carts can last over 15 years before they finally die, I'm okay with that. I plan on getting a new one before then anyway.

I once looked in the exact location that you are looking because the maps say there is a station but all I found was the The Village golf cart store pumps. You can’t cross the road.

Here's a link for fuel at the Golf Cars stores. Fuel - The Villages Golf Cars : The Villages Golf Cars

No, you can NOT cross Buenos Aires in a golf cart to get to the Circle K on the corner. It appears as if the Villages GPS is reading for a CAR and not a Golf Cart.

In a golf cart, you have a few options to get to a gas station in that area. They are: The Villages golf cart store in La Plaza Grande, what used to be SHELL at the corner of Griffin & 441 (get to it by the historic area golf cart bridge and going past the new post office), WaWa in front of BJ's (get to it by the historic area golf cart bridge and going out the special gate on Paradise Dr just north of the Boone Ct entrance) and BJ's (using the same special gate).

Other than that, your only options north of 466 are the two stations off of Wedgewood in the Southern Trace shopping plaza or the one station off of Mulberry Ln in the Mulberry shopping plaza

There is a tunnel underneath El Camino. Other choices are around. You can go across bridge over 27/441 and go to WaWa and BJ's. You will need a gate access card to get in and get out of TV property.

Agree you can not cross road, but there is a tunnel in this area.

No tunnel under 441 or under Buenos Aries. Can’t cross Buenos Aries. Only option go over golf cart bridge to other side Of 441 if don’t want buy high priced gas at villages golf cart.

IMO gas has nothing to do with it. It the oil and oil changes that make lawn mower engine last. Eventually they will become degraded regardless how religiously you maintain them. I have never worn any gasoline engine out where it stopped working.

I guess that also makes the Buenos Aires Professional Plaza (corner of El Camino and Buenos Aires) not reachable by golf carts as well.

Lawn mowers, tractors, motorcycles, motorscooters, and generators. Used regular gas for ages. Never had a fuel related problem.
Not to mention cars and golf carts.

Found this thread from 2007 that says you can. Is the speed limit on Buenos 30 mph ?

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...982/#post79190

and this, might not be legal.
https://www.sumtercountyfl.gov/Agend..._5809_7511.pdf

Might have been legal for awhile but was later revoked?

https://sumterclerk.granicus.com/Met...&meta_id=30687


From a 2020 thread: 4. You cannot drive on Buenos Aires, not even to cross.
https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...76/index2.html

I know about the golf cart stores but there is a map or something that says there is an Irving/circle K right near the store near Spanish Springs.

The tunnel does not get you on the side of Buenos Aries that the gas station is on, and you cannot legally cross that street in a golf cart.

Buenos Aires is not golf accessible… you need to go up and over the bridge to WaWa……

One can always fill up a gas can with the non ethanol and then fill your cart with it. Not ideal but an answer.

I live old historic section. I go to wawa to get my gas. After main gate on Paridise about 6 houses down on left heading north there is a golf cart cut thru to road. Need your key card to get thru gates. That road takes you to wawa and all the way to Walmart. You can also get gas at BJs too.

If not sure where it’s at just pull over and watch, you will see carts popping in and out of path.

If 15 yrs. is what they’re saying the life on cart is, well my first cart was a 2012 & traded it in 2018 for a quite tech & I had 25,000 miles on it, so if 15 yrs. is what they’re saying them should last, I disagree because that would mean I would of had 75,000 miles on my 2012. I know 15 yrs. is the average & not how long they’ll last.

You are correct. The golf cart tunnel at the corner of El Camino and Buenos Aires (near Freedom Pointe) takes you under El Comino but south of Buenos Aires. Therefore, you can reach the medical offices in Santa Barbara, the stores and restaurants in Spanish Plaines shopping center, and the hospital. But you cannot go across Buenos Aires in a non-street legal golf cart to the north from any of those locations. Therefore, you can't get to those medical buildings or the Circle K gas station which are on the north side of Buenos Aires.

Villages GPS golf cart directions should be edited to reflect that.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...3e5ffb9c8.jpeg

Street legal?

It would be nice to have the list of roads in the Villages or adjacent to the Villages with a speed limit of 30mph or less that have been disapproved for golf cart use.

Buenos Aires Blvd appears to be a road within the Villages. Buenos Aires Blvd is marked for a speed limit of 30mph. If golf carts within the Villages can travel on roadways marked at 30mph or less then this would seem to imply that golf carts can cross Buenos Aires Blvd.

According to some old information, Buenos Aires *used* to be marked with a golf cart crossing sign. Again, this would imply that golf carts were allowed to cross Buenos Aires Blvd. at one time.

If it is no longer legal to cross that roadway, where is the ordinance or ruling that made that change?

As I wrote above, it would be nice to have a list of disapproved roads.

Don’t rely on the villagegps! It is NOT affiliated with The Villages! Use the FREE Village gps app available.

My neighbor does this all the time. Never takes his golf cart to service station.

:ho::welcome::ho:

Go to the service stations past The Villages hospital.. Problem solved.
Also, I have seen several none street legal carts crossing 27/441 at different lights.

:police::22yikes: