Golf Carts Over Priced

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Old 09-21-2021, 05:10 AM
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It makes you wonder the least expensive car is around 16 -18 thousand dollars. Can travel 70mph A/C crash safety tested can carry 4 people fairly comfortably. Most golf carts start at $12,000, 20-25 mph meagerly equipped.
if you build on on the Yamaha site similarly equipped as Village GC it's roughly $2000 less than their base price which is over $12K ... the place on 441 is also $2k less but added options aka "the package" is also a bit different.

also as everyone already knows you are in T.V. if you want to pay less for practically anything you better shop far away from here.
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So many people have big egos and must buy new. The golf cart we have, we bought about 20 years ago used for $2,000 and is perfectly fine, of course we've gone through several sets of batteries and in today's market we could probably sell it for what we paid or more. If you go through a retailer in The villages they are going to make a 100% markup from their cost, if you travel down the road and buy something two or three years old you can probably say 50% and buy a two or three year old cart that was used as a golf cart and rental on a course. For a laugh, go to a farm store and check out an ATV price or what a tractor cost !
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Which is why I have taken steps to my the theft of our cart more difficult.
And, I advise others to do the same.
I would think extra steps would be taken for any property to be protected against theft
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Old 09-21-2021, 06:35 AM
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We bought an electric golf cart, new, about 7 years ago and paid about $8K. Runs like a dream and I got to pick the color! Never going for the high priced stuff.
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Buy out of the area save thousands
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Grossly overpriced ,as is the service on them , not a sin to make a profit .
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Old 09-21-2021, 06:43 AM
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I think The Villages should develop a drag strip and road course for golf carts.
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Old 09-21-2021, 07:03 AM
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I think The Villages should develop a drag strip and road course for golf carts.
Best idea I've read yet! All you'd need for the road course is a bunch of traffic cones and an empty parking lot! Cart-o-Cross anyone?
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Looking for suggestions for have radio/sound system installed on cart.

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Old 09-21-2021, 07:09 AM
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Buy away (out of state) and have it shipped here, we in TV are a captive audience, and everyone must have one, of course they know that, and can charge what they want.
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I bought a new Yamaha Drive from TV at LSL in 2011, I still have the cart and have never had any trouble, never needed repair. At the time I priced a new Yamaha gas with no extras at a dealer in Kentucky (Cunningham Carts) for $5,900, the only upgrade was it had headlights and tail lights. They would deliver I believe for $300. Then I would have to add Sunbrella curtains, a cooler, upgraded seats, 10" tires and nicer wheels, floor mats, sand bottle, pinstriping, rearview mirrors and I wanted a black roof.

I went to LSL Villages store and got all that brand new for $10,300, so you can see prices have gone up a lot in ten years. The Ultimate Seats ($1500), they're similar to the El Tigre they sell now, in fact they're made in the same factory. The black roof at that time they had to remove the roof and spray paint it on both sides ($300), now I believe they come from the factory with the plastic roofs already colored, not painted.

In the ten years I've owned the cart I've changed the folddown windshield to a tinted windshield that flips outward on the bottom ($199) a second sand bottle, an extra insulted 12 pack cooler ($100), a ball & club washer, a AM/FM/CD overhead radio console, a fan, a cigarette lighter which I use to plug in the fan and a dashcam, a solid rubber floor mat, Liquid LED lights over the headlights and tail lights and all along the side, an overhead shelf in the back I use to store towels. Just two weeks ago I added diamond plated rocker sills, diamond kick guard and diamond plate foot pedals.

At the prices they're asking within TV now, you can still check out of state, places in Alabama and Kentucky, all on the internet and ship the cart here. Also at I-4 Power Equipment in Webster about 20 miles south they're $2,000 cheaper. You don't have to buy from TV just because it's new.

PS - I almost forgot. In an effort to make the cart more quiet like the new Yamahas, I ordered a 25' roll of car engine hood insulation. It's 5/8" rubber that's very sticky on one side and silver foil on the other. I did as much of the engine compartment as I could and even put two layers on the bottom of my Ultimate Seats. It will never be as quiet as the new ones since the bottom is not enclosed. However, I'm not sure that's a good thing to have the engine completely sealed, I don't see how they can get any cooling. I heard it's pretty normal to reach 170 degrees and even higher in the newer carts. I've very happy with my 2011.



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Part of what makes the new carts quiet besides the exhaust being closed in is the spark arrester. When my new cart started bogging down or chugging on acceleration after it was restarted when hot. Service dept said it was because the spark arrester restricted the exhaust and made the engine run hotter causing the gas to vaporize in the fuel line, (called vapor lock) they also said eventually it would plug up and cause a loss of power, eventually to the point where it would barley move.
Mine was already losing power on the up hill grades after tunnels. They removed the arrester and that did cure the problems but the cart is noticeably louder now. I guess that is the trade off.
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Old 09-21-2021, 07:51 AM
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