This will give you the best cart performance and
efficient charge for your cart. When charging
your cart, make sure you lift the seat up to insure
ventilation. Charging flooded batteries creates a
hydrogen gas that is explosive when concentrat-
ed under the seat in a garage. You can also buy
a solar panel for your golf cart that will keep a
charge flowing to your batteries so they do not
over discharge and go dead.
Miscellaneous
light package to your cart-it is easily done.
4. Rear axle grease - Make sure you check you
rear axle differential. It has oil in it just like a car.
Just take the plug out and put your finger in it and
see if you draw oil. Get a grease gun and fill it up.
5. Mirrors - Almost all carts have side mirrors
and wink mirrors on the windshield. Check out
the thumb screws to make sure they stay into
place.
1. Keep tires filled - Low tires contribute to less 6. Steering wheel - The steering wheel rack
range for your electric golf cart. Keep the tires
and pinion needs greasing each year. Check out
filled and you will not be walking home from the
the steering yoke system to make sure all bolts
15th hole or from the
are tight
grocery store. If you
CROWN BATTERY
use your cart mainly on
7. Gauges - State of
streets, purchase street
charge meters measure
legal tires with tread.
charge left in you bat-
To get the most out of your
Turf tires wear out
teries. As the batteries
battery this spring start-up
sooner and do not stop
get older, these gauges
well on wet roads. Tires
are less accurate. When
and rims can really jazz
you charge the cart the
your vehicle up and increase its value. There are
SOC meter sometimes resets itself to full after
hundreds of different rims for every golf cart out
being on for 20 minutes. The only accurate way
there. In addition, you might want to get an elec-
to check to to put a load on the cart by driving the
tric pump to pump tires up especially for us lazy
cart a ways and see it the meter drops. You can
guys that want technology to do our work for us.
also buy a battery load tester that will give you a
reading if one of your batteries is dieing. Bear in
2. Check brakes - Most golf carts now travel
mind, batteries are like eggs. Sometimes one is
at speeds between 20-25 mph. It is very import-
rotten and needs to be replaced sooner the the
ant to insure your brakes are checked to make
others.
sure cables, hydraulic brake fluid, and shoes are
in good condition. You do not want to be going
8. Battery replacement - When it is time to
down a hill and lose your brakes. Not too many
replace your batteries it is best to replace all of
golf carts have air bags.
them at the same time. If you put a new battery
in with an older pack of batteries, the old batter-
3. Check lights - Most street legal golf carts and ies will reduce the life of the new battery. What
Neighborhood Electric Vehicles have the street
happens is, the older batteries take a charge
legal light package on them. Check turn signals,
longer then the new battery and you end up over
brake lights and head lights. If all your lights are
charging to new battery and destroying it. Or if
not working, usually it is a 12-volt fuse that has
you put 5 new batteries in and leave one bad one
gone out. Just check the owners manual to find
in, that one bad battery tells the charger to keep
out where they are. They are the same as an au-
charging cause it never fully charges. In turn it
tomobiles fuses. If you want to add a street legal
kills the new batteries.
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