It's WHERESAFE not WARESAFE :) Definitely an option but at $110+ for the device and $110+/year for service a $29 Air Tag may be good enough for a golf cart. Also "The rechargeable battery can last 2 to 6 weeks depending on amount of daily travel." The air tag battery can go 2 years. So far my 2 have lasted over a year.

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Curious what people will do if they locate a stolen cart via an airtag. Most likely it was stolen by a heavily armed meth head. Will police respond based on an airtag?

All they have to do is make all golf cart shops pay a fine when ever a cart is stolen. When we lived in Vegas, power cables were stolen from large freeway lights, Clark County assessed every scrap dealer in Clark County a share of the amount stolen. Took 3 months and it ended!

There are such things as cart chop shops as well. They busted one in Fruitland Park a few years ago. Preferred cart is Yamaha for parts. Drug dealers...

No, not in a golf cart. It must be a street legal LSV.

466A is a county road, so no. Street legal is a different story. Already saw a clueless villager with his cart at Culvers.

Haven’t you heard
 

There is no punishment for criminals anymore.

I doubt that. If u live outside the villages it’s unlikely you’d be able to use a golf cart. You’d have to be on main roads and cart ti be road legal. Very few if any non villagers meet that criteria. Unless you’re trucking in a golf cart specifically to go in snd steal other carts. But why bother. Anyone can buzz thru gate.

Sorry for you. We had our cart stolen during the day while parked at Colony Recreation Center. No keys left in ignition and glove boxes locked. In trying to make an insurance claim, we called police and began the process. The most important thing I can suggest is take pictures of your NEW cart. We had trouble describing our 2 year old cart to the insurance company. We had items in the glove boxes that were supposed to be covered too. When we bought our new cart, we installed a kill switch and now we try not to worry. Ask your insurance agency what you need to provide for the claim. We had to send both sets of keys, a picture of the cart (which we did not have except from a model), and miscellaneous other items. Good luck!

How long ago was the Colony Cart theft?

If you lived in a village on the Wildwood border you would see them coming in. They ride on the grass and sidewalk and scoot across Powell Rd/ 462.

Golf cart companies can get these prices because there’s a big market for them in TV. But I do agree with you!

Are you sure it was a "Villager." There are a lot of homes back there and I have seen a cart at Starbucks a couple times and spoke to the driver. He said he was from the home development back there.

Yikes! I always park mine in the garage so in that sense I'm a little relieved. I always wondered if they were safe out in a store parking lot during the day while running errands. Obviously take your valuables with you or lock them up in glove compartment. The thefts are just something to be mindful about now after reading this.

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OY! It was a J O K E. Lighten up. If I insulted your paper back book collection I do apologize. And no, you can't find them EVERYWHERE. When I was a Jr High kid you'd find the erotic novels in "candy stores." Can't find Candy stores with erotic paperbacks anywhere. :1rotfl:

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On camera- is there a description of the criminals?

Can that be asked?

Bogie Shooter wrote "may" be a Villager.

May means possibly. Bogie Shooter did nothing wrong.

There are many articles of police responding to a owners report of a stolen vehicle of any type that was located with an airtag. Also reports of dummy owners getting severely beaten trying to retrieve their car/bike or whatever by themselves.

Just a few examples a simple Google would find:

AirTag used by Boston police to recover stolen bike | AppleInsider

Man uses Apple AirTag to guide police to his stolen vehicle

AirTag used by police to track down serial thief in North Carolina - 9to5Mac

and this for the dummy DIY'er: ;)

NYC man learns the hard way to not track down thieves with an AirTag

Robbery victim tracks thief with AirTag, gets broken nose | AppleInsider

If you have i phone buy air tags hide in cart will track locations of your cart battery is good for a year, and easy to change. I have been using this for a year now. And can see address where carts are.

Warm Springs
 

This technically makes it legal to drive a golf cart on Warm Springs road across the turnpike and circumvent the Water Lilly Crossing.

Collective punishment is the American Way!

Just curious, I thought there was a monthly charge on the AirTags?

Not a real smart idea. But if you feel compelled, remember, never bring a knife to a gun fight.

Does LoJack still exist? Back in the 1980's my company had it installed in the expensive construction equipment that was normally unguarded.

I know you like BIG FONTS so here:

"You" (referring to ME). Say what? Where did I say I would do that? Please review what you quoted and maybe actually read what I wrote. Here, I'll save you the time even using big fonts like you seem to enjoy:



:D :D :D

Yes, watched them go Southbound across 466A onto Pinellas. Unless they were from Beaumont and sneaking into TV.

Yes Home - LoJack

Except most late model cars have their own "equivalents" built in like OnStar (GM), Bluelink (Hyundai, Kia) and others.

Don’t seem to recall that I was referring to you. It was a generic comment directed at those who might be tempted to go and confront the thief. Chill out my friend 🙂

It's funny though. One can drive electric bikes across and even plain bikes but not a GC. Go figya!

No charge. Just the cost of the Air Tag ($30). Of course you need an iPhone as well.

A lot easier to pass a law that would require golf carts to be licensed and registered than a bicycle ridden by a 12 year old.

If the thieves only knew fully the risk that they take clipping anything in The Villages. I understand it's possible????? that many people carry guns???? Can you imagine coming up on someone stealing your property???? I imagine it would not be a very good ending.

You missed section (b) right below it:

(b)Operation on public county and state roads. Golf carts may not operate on or cross county roads unless authorized by Sumter County. Golf carts may not operate on or cross state highways unless authorized by the department of transportation pursuant to F.S. § 316.212(2).

RT 301 and 44 is a State Road going through Wildwood. I believe Warm Springs is a county road. One is SUPPOSED to be street legal to drive on or across it. However there is a STATE REGULATION that says if the STATE road SPLITS your actual development, you can cross at a light in a GC.

Huh, OK, your point? Was just stating the weirdness of the laws not trying to change them. Just to be clear: NOT THAT I WOULD WANT TO DO EITHER :) , but you **CAN** ride a bike on 466A, or 301 or 44 or Morse or BV or 466 or hundreds of others but you **CAN'T** ride a non-LSV golf cart on any of them. Just a "stranger than science" fact, not a complaint. :D

I think this sentence is pretty self explanatory, though the other section clarifies it more.
Public city road shall mean any thoroughfare maintained by the city that is commonly used for vehicular traffic.

Sounds like something that worked. Surprised that scrap yards(collectively) did not question this law. In other words if one shop was buying the cables and there were other 9 other shops that did this, all 10 would have to pay for the stolen cable.

There is punishment but thefts like this are not investigated by law enforcement like they should be investigated. They are more interested in catching speeders on Morse Blvd.

I am new to TV and am curious if anyone is using security/alarm systems on their golf carts? Seems like an inexpensive car/motorcycle motion sensor alarm would be a major deterrent to stop thefts via drive off, push onto trailer or even removing golf clubs? Anyone?