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I have the same cart, 2019. I never notice a raw gasoline smell. I use ethanol free gas from the Villages shop in Sumter Landing. I don't know if that makes a difference or not, but that's what I use.
However, I used to back the cart into the garage, so I could leave the garage "Batman" style in the morning and not have to use the back up beeper, hoping to be less annoying to my neighbors when I left early for golf. What I noticed was that when I backed in, typically slowly edging my way into the garage, I would create a significant amount of exhaust fumes, smelling of what I would describe as "incompleteley combusted" gasoline.

I have stopped the practice of backing in. I just nose in like a normal human being would, and I don't fill the garage with fumes.

BTW,I also have an electric cart, and it doesn't smell at all, until I charge it, then I smell a slight smell of "rotten eggs". When I charge my electric cart I have the seat up, a ceiling fan blowing, and the garage screen rolled down, and the door to the house closed, so the rotten egg smell doesn't go into the house.

Seems like there is a bit of stink associated either way, so I wouldn't be so "holier-than-thou" about driving electric vs. gas.

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Originally Posted by Laker14 (Post 2076126)

BTW,I also have an electric cart, and it doesn't smell at all, until I charge it, then I smell a slight smell of "rotten eggs". When I charge my electric cart I have the seat up, a ceiling fan blowing, and the garage screen rolled down, and the door to the house closed, so the rotten egg smell doesn't go into the house.

Seems like there is a bit of stink associated either way, so I wouldn't be so "holier-than-thou" about driving electric vs. gas.

Over-charging a lead acid battery can produce hydrogen sulfide. The gas is colorless, poisonous, flammable and has the odor of rotten eggs. As a simple guideline, hydrogen sulfide maybe harmful to health if the odor is noticeable.

No odor when charging Lithium batteries.

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Originally Posted by billethkid (Post 2070758)

There should be no smell of raw gas!

But Yet

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Originally Posted by Robbie0723 (Post 2076156)

But, they do get hot and when defective chance of catching fire as they age, odds are extremely low, but still not 100%.

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Originally Posted by Topspinmo (Post 2076110)

You’re not smelling gas from the exhaust pipe, what you are smelling is gas that was combusted. :)

And that smell is carbon monoxide I believe. TOXIC right?!

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Originally Posted by La lamy (Post 2076320)

And that smell is carbon monoxide I believe. TOXIC right?!

Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, colorless gas formed by the incomplete combustion of fuels. When people are exposed to CO gas, the CO molecules will displace the oxygen in their bodies and lead to poisoning. FROM GOOGLE.

I overfilled my gas tank once and an eyedropper amount of gas spilled onto the top of the tank. We smelled it for two weeks even though I wiped it up immediatly.

A cart that is that new, get it checked. Couldn't hurt. :pray:

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Originally Posted by La lamy (Post 2076320)

And that smell is carbon monoxide I believe. TOXIC right?!

Yes, if you’re in closed environment.