Weekly, we see or hear about “the great deal” supposedly of a good friend or neighbor that finally ends up not being such deal when discovering how a lot the repairs are going to value so as to have the ability to use the golf cart. One other sucker, I imply well-intentioned particular person joins the group of upset people who thought they have been getting a steal of a deal after buying an affordable golf cart. Their disappointment comes from the restore value of what it is going to take to get the golf automobile working so as to have the ability to use it. The unhappy factor is the deal was comprised of a good friend or a good friend of a good friend or a co-worker and a neighbor, you realize, “it is somebody they will belief”.

Here is piece of recommendation. If it sounds too good to be true, then it is in all probability too good to be true. We see this time after time. An individual or couple will buy groceries at a dealership and take a look at a few of their golf vehicles on the lot and are sticker shocked. variety of them simply cannot imagine they’re three thousand {dollars} and up. “For a golf cart?” shockingly they comment. Of their minds they’ve a perceived worth verses the life like market worth of what a golf automobile ought to value.

A really vital quantity have a price range between one to 2 thousand {dollars} that they wish to spend on their new toy. Looking for a deal like that’s like searching for a needle in a hay stack. “There on the market” exclaim some people speaking a few whole lot on an affordable golf cart. “Our neighbor discovered his on Craigslist”. Uh huh! Dealerships see these “good offers on an affordable cart” on a weekly foundation. They see the upset seems on the faces of people that spent fifteen hundred {dollars} on an older cart simply to search out out its going to value one other thousand to repair it to ensure that them to make use of it. And now, they’re going to have twenty–5 hundred {dollars} in an older yr mannequin golf automobile that they will by no means get again out of it. However… it was an affordable cart. “ deal we discovered on Craigslist“.

Let’s ponder one thing collectively for a second, we could? The common golf automobile charger prices about two to a few hundred {dollars}. Most batteries whether or not six or eight volt value round 100 {dollars} every instances six batteries within the custom upholstery design. Therefor, now we have a few thousand {dollars} simply within the batteries and battery charger. What do you assume you are getting once you purchase a cart for underneath two thousand {dollars}? If it really works in any respect I can virtually inform you it’ll want a brand new set of batteries. We had one the opposite day in our service division that wanted new batteries, battery cables, and an entire new entrance finish together with the steering field. The shopper paid 9 hundred {dollars} for the cart.

Yep, he purchased it from a good friend. He “received deal” did not he? What makes issues worse is it is an early 1980’s mannequin. The entire entrance finish together with tie rods and spindles, steering column and the steering field are shot, worn out. Hey of us, he drove it in. The golf cart works! We valued it at 4 hundred {dollars} for commerce in on a more recent mannequin cart. Sorry about that. If he would have purchased a top quality managed cart from a good vendor he would have a yr mannequin 2010 or newer with warrantable batteries and be driving his new funding. However a top quality automobile was over three thousand and the one he purchased was solely 9 hundred bucks. If it sounds too good to be true, then it is in all probability too good to be true.

Watch out for Craigslist. It is a double-edged sword. There are good offers after which there are the plentiful good steals the place they make the most of good hard-working people who do not know any higher. Once more, beware of buying issues from Craigslist listings. Particularly golf carts.

Watch out for a budget carts of us. They’re low-cost for a cause or expensive causes. When unsure, test it out. You might pay a dealership to examine your potential funding. Most dealerships have a valuation price the place they may examine the cart and record any repairs or elements alternative prices that must be carried out to the golf cart. The seventy {dollars} would possibly prevent from shopping for a type of “good offers” on an affordable cart and forestall you from becoming a member of the group of the upset who thought they have been getting deal. And bear in mind, If it sounds too good to be true, then it is in all probability too good to be true!